TechFlow News, March 28: In response to criticisms from the Canton Network founding team—claiming zero-knowledge proofs are overly complex, contain potential vulnerabilities difficult to detect, and thus unsuitable for institutional-grade financial infrastructure—ZKsync founder Alex Gluchowski published a rebuttal. He argued that their reasoning essentially equates “a technology having flaws” with “it being unusable,” overlooking the critical system design principle of “redundancy and isolation.” Canton relies on trusted operators for data isolation but lacks cryptographic verification and independent validation mechanisms; once a critical node is compromised, erroneous states may propagate silently throughout the system, creating systemic risk.
Alex Gluchowski added that Ethereum, as a representative of open ecosystems, has undergone prolonged, high-intensity adversarial testing, rendering its security significantly higher than that of closed systems. The true core issue is not whether vulnerabilities exist, but whether the system possesses redundancy-based protections and risk-isolation capabilities.
