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Fabric
Fabric Cryptography designs the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU), a custom chip built specifically to accelerate advanced cryptographic operations such as zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption. The company serves cryptographers, blockchain protocol teams, and zkVM/rollup developers, with disclosed collaborations including Polygon Labs and RISC Zero.
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Fabric Cryptography is a deep-tech hardware company that has designed a new class of processor, the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU), which combines GPU-like programmability with ASIC-like performance to accelerate core cryptographic primitives (finite-field arithmetic, NTTs, hash functions, and more) used in zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption. Alongside the chip, Fabric provides an LLVM-based compiler, acceleration libraries, and a cloud platform intended to make high-performance cryptographic computation accessible without dedicated hardware. Its clients and collaborators are primarily blockchain infrastructure and ZK protocol teams, including publicly announced partnerships with Polygon Labs (to accelerate Plonky2/Plonky3 and the AggLayer) and RISC Zero (to accelerate the Boundless zkVM proof marketplace). The company, founded by Michael Gao and Tina, has raised Series A funding covered by Forbes and has a team of 60+ hardware and cryptography engineers from companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Intel, and AMD.Grant Funding
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2024
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$66M