Kusama shield is Governed by a 2/3 multi Sig proxy wallet created on behalf of all token holders, all funding and major discussions needs to pass throw Kusama's opengov
Third-party dependency
YES
Technical dependency
We are decentralized the only single point of failure is the UI but with ipfs it's not a problem for us, client side ZK proof generation, on-chain ZK and asset pool, no middleman