Trust Minimization
Trust minimization is the attempt to build systems where cooperation depends less on faith in particular people or institutions and more on rules that are legible, constrained, and difficult to bend.
The source value of the idea in this wiki is not abstract libertarian rhetoric. In art-of-trading-with-light-su-zhu-and-hasu, it is tied to a specific coordination question: why one digital monetary asset might become easier to converge around than many competing alternatives. The argument is that people coordinate more easily on assets whose rules feel harder to change, whose origin story feels cleaner, and whose social contract is easier to explain.
That is why trust minimization belongs next to shelling points. A shared monetary standard is partly a technical object, but also a social coordination object. If participants believe the rules are stable and hard to manipulate, they are more willing to treat the asset as common ground.
The deeper point is that restrictions can increase cooperation. A system that prevents too many arbitrary changes may feel less flexible in the short run, but it can become more credible in the long run because participants do not have to constantly renegotiate who is allowed to change what.