"Sphinx". That must be taken from the routing schema of BOLT4:
https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/Sphinx_Oakland09.pdf 
running in the cloud
Even if I haven't read a sentence yet, "running in the cloud" doesn't sound right for a Bitcoin wallet. Haven't we already accepted this? Cloud is just a bad word for this community.
As far as I understand, the game changer is this:
https://twitter.com/VLSProject. Stuff such as a Lightning signer seems necessary for the long term. Air-gapped lightning funds aren't possible with the current model.