ZKsync Founder Responds to Canton’s Criticism: ZK Proofs Are Not Systemic Risks; Single-Point Trust Is the Real Hazard

According to TechFlow news, on March 28, in response to the Canton Network founding team’s concerns that zero-knowledge proofs are overly complicated, have potential vulnerabilities, and are difficult to detect, thus not suitable for institutional-level financial infrastructure, ZKsync founder Alex Gluchowski published a response pointing out that this logic essentially simplifies the derivation of “technical flaws” to “not usable,” ignoring the critical design principles of “redundancy and isolation” widely adopted by key systems. Canton relies on trusted operators for data isolation, lacking cryptographic verification and independent validation mechanisms. Once a critical node is compromised, erroneous states may silently propagate within the system, creating systemic risks.

Alex Gluchowski added that Ethereum, as a representative of an open ecosystem, has undergone long-term high-intensity adversarial testing, and its security is far superior to that of closed systems. The real core issue is not whether vulnerabilities exist, but whether the system has redundancy protection and risk isolation capabilities.