trustless

adjective

trust·​less ˈtrəst-ləs How to pronounce trustless (audio)
1
: not deserving of trust : faithless
2

Examples of trustless in a Sentence

with time the missionary doctor won the trust of even the most trustless villagers
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With on-chain smart contracts, fans can wager peer-to-peer using fan tokens: instant, trustless and secure. Julian La Picque, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 By offering a trustless, permanent ledger, blockchain lays the groundwork to challenge conventional centralized models. William Jones, USA Today, 10 June 2025 Bitcoin is not working very well at what it was intended to be, which is a trustless medium of exchange that does not involve any third-party intermediaries or central bank money. Allison Morrow, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025 Bitcoin’s Layer Zero Bitcoin ushered in a novel system to communicate monetary value and information in a trustless way without relying on intermediaries, and protecting and propagating the existence of this tool largely falls on its social layer. Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1550, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of trustless was circa 1550

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“Trustless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trustless. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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