Cysic founder challenges Charles Hoskinson over Google Cloud role in Midnight
Cysic founder Leo Fan challenged Cardano's Charles Hoskinson on using Google Cloud for the privacy-focused Midnight project, citing centralization risks.Summary
At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Cysic founder Leo Fan criticized Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson's plan to use hyperscalers like Google Cloud and Azure for the upcoming privacy-focused project, Midnight, arguing it undermines decentralization by creating infrastructure single points of failure.
Hoskinson defended the partnerships, stating that no single L1 can meet the global computational demands for privacy-preserving systems and that using existing, trillion-dollar data centers is more efficient, especially with confidential computing ensuring data privacy.
Fan, whose company Cysic runs a decentralized compute network, argued that relying on centralized compute layers concentrates power, even if the blockchain validators are decentralized. He advocated for a hybrid approach, combining limited use of big vendors with decentralized networks to maintain the community's core value of decentralization.
(Source：CoinDesk)