Ponos Technology

Ponos Technology AG is a Swiss deep-tech semiconductor company building high-performance cryptographic processors for zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The company's flagship product, CryptoCPU, is a RISC-V-based processor with custom vector extensions purpose-built to make ZK proving fast, cost-efficient, and scalable without migration overhead. Ponos also offers post-quantum cryptographic IP components covering hash functions and NTT-based lattice arithmetic optimized for FPGAs and ASICs. The company provides proving infrastructure services and conducts foundational cryptography research, including grants from the Ethereum Foundation. Ponos has collaborated with Polygon zkEVM and Telos on hardware-accelerated Layer 2 Ethereum networks, and is positioned as the 'NVIDIA of modern cryptography' for the post-quantum era.