Live fra TOKEN2049: Telos annoncerer Ethereum Layer 2-partnerskab med Ponos Technology

• Telos has revealed the details of a new partnership with Ponos Technology to develop a hardware-accelerated Ethereum L2 zkEVM network
• Planerne for det nye netværk blev officielt afsløret live i dag på TOKEN2049 i Dubai, hvor Telos er titelsponsor
• TOKEN2049 is one of the world’s top crypto events, bringing together 10,000 attendees from more than 4,000 companies and 100 countries to explore the future of crypto

The Telos Foundation has revealed the details of a new partnership with Ponos Technology, the leading Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) research and development firm, which will see the two companies work together develop an end-to-end optimized, hardware-accelerated Ethereum Layer 2 network featuring SNARKtor, the Telos-developed decentralized recursive proof aggregator.

The new partnership was announced today at TOKEN2049 in Dubai, one of the world’s premier crypto conferences.

Teams from Telos and Ponos Technology will take a hardware-software co-design approach that will help unlock new possibilities in terms of massive scalability, greater data protection and trustless interoperability for Ethereum users globally.

Ponos Technology leverer end-to-end-optimerede løsninger til ZK-testning, hvilket i det væsentlige opnås ved at udnytte FPGA-acceleration og dermed maksimere forretningsværdistrømmene gennem omkostnings-ydelsesoptimeret beregning ved at matche hardware-software co-designede moduler og dedikerede eksekveringsmiljøer. Holdet omfatter en unik blanding af erfarne videnskabsmænd og højtuddannede industrieksperter, der har akkumuleret dyb teknisk viden om alle aspekter af ZKP'er.

Slobodan Lukovic, CEO and co-founder, Ponos Technology, said:

“Zero Knowledge technology is going to become increasingly mainstream and can open the door to increased efficiency and security across so many industries.

“Similarly to AI, steady enhancements in algorithms coupled with advancements in underlying hardware infrastructures will enable commoditization of ZKPs and result in the technology being widely adopted in the near future.”

Telos vil også arbejde sammen med flere andre nye partnere under udviklingscyklussen, herunder:

• Digital MOB – Et af de stærkeste Ethereum-udviklerteams i verden, der har arbejdet på projekter, herunder MetaMask, MakerDAO og Gnosis, blandt andre. 
• ATKA – A Paris-based end-to-end web3 incubator who helped incubate world class projects such as Morpho and Mangrove, and whom Telos announced a strategic partnership with in March 2024. 
• Cometh – Et prisvindende udviklerteam ledet af ETH Frankrigs præsident Jerome de Tychey, som også kom til Telos som teknisk EVM-rådgiver i marts 2024.

Telos Executive Director John Lilic, who helped lead pioneering teams at ConsenSys and Polygon in addition to being a Top 50 Web3 angel investor, will help coordinate and support the transformation. He will work closely with Alberto Garoffolo, Head of ZK technology at Telos and co-author of the SNARKtor whitepaper, og Jesse Schulman, CTO og Head of Engineering hos Telos. 

Announcing the new partnership, John Lilic said:

“Fundamentally, Ethereum will need to take a hardware-software co-design approach in order to realize zkEVM performance at tremendous scale.

“That’s the approach we’re taking with Ponos Technology and our growing partner network as we build a hardware-accelerated zkEVM L2. We believe that this formula, alongside the exciting work our team is doing with recursive proofs via SNARKtor, is going to offer compelling services to the Ethereum community and beyond.”

Telos blev oprettet i 2018 gennem en "fair drop" netværkslancering, der ikke inkluderede en ICO eller token-salg. I løbet af de sidste seks år har Telos Foundation hjulpet med at varetage udviklingen af ​​to primære netværk – Telos EVM og Telos Zero – og vil nu også fokusere på at opbygge en yderst performant og kortfattet beviselig L2 zkEVM.

Following TOKEN2049, additional details on the Telos L2 are expected to be announced in the lead up to EthCC in July, for which Telos is a primary sponsor. Live in Brussels from EthCC, the Telos team plans to broadcast its first-ever demo of SNARKtor to the world as a precursor to the official launch of the Telos L2.