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

According to a report from Deep Tide TechFlow on March 28, in response to the concerns raised by the founding team of Canton Network regarding zero-knowledge proofs being overly complex, having potential vulnerabilities, and being difficult to detect, which makes them unsuitable for institutional-level financial infrastructure, ZKsync founder Alex Gluchowski published a response stating that this logic essentially simplifies the deduction of “technical flaws” to “not usable,” ignoring the key design principles of “redundancy and isolation” commonly adopted by critical systems. Canton relies on trusted operators for data isolation, lacking cryptographic validation and independent verification mechanisms. Once a critical node is compromised, erroneous states may silently spread within the system, creating systemic risk.

Alex Gluchowski added that Ethereum, as a representative of open ecosystems, 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.