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Cysic founder Leo Fan expressed concern over blockchain projects relying on hyperscalers such as Google Cloud, claiming it threatens decentralization. This came after Cardano's Charles Hoskinson presented Midnight, a privacy-oriented project set to launch its mainnet in March 2026, with Google among its infrastructure partners.

Hoskinson argued that leveraging major cloud providers is necessary for managing computational demands. In contrast, Fan warned that using a centralized data center could lead to single points of failure, contradicting blockchain's principles. He suggested a hybrid model that integrates big tech with decentralized systems, emphasizing the need for true decentralization in compute layers.