Accseal was founded in December 2021, formed by the transformation of scientific research results of Tsinghua University's Institute of Cross-Information, with core members gathering world-renowned scientists in computer systems, chip design and cryptography from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Stanford University, as well as industry elites from major central enterprises, with an average of more than 15 years of industry experience, dedicated to blockchain.
We are committed to the research of key core technologies of blockchain and privacy computing, the research and development of privacy computing acceleration chips and the promotion and application of system products, providing comprehensive solutions for government management, digital finance, intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet and other related industries, and accelerating the development of national blockchain and privacy computing technology and industrial innovation.
Category
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP)
Timeline
2023 Q3: Completion of Pre-Series A funding.
2023 Q3: Completion of specialized ZKP chip design and tape-out.
2023 Q3: Initiation of second-generation ASIC chip design.
2024 Q1: Small-scale production of ZKP acceleration devices implemented.
Project Plan
Accseal provides hardware acceleration solutions for Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). Its products include semi-programmable ASIC chips and computational acceleration cards, offering significantly improved performance over existing solutions while greatly enhancing cost-effectiveness and ecological friendliness.
Accseal is committed to driving the advancement of ZK technology through hardware acceleration and is the world's first company to complete the design and development of ZK ASIC chips. In addition to ZK technology, Accseal also possesses the capability to develop other high-performance privacy computing chips. The company's future products will revolve around various aspects of privacy computation.
Project Impact
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) is an infrastructure-level technology that holds paramount importance for blockchain. Leading ZKP projects have reached significant fundraising milestones and are poised to launch their mainnets, which will drive substantial demand for ZK hardware acceleration, creating a market worth billions of dollars.
However, challenges exist: ZK Rollup solutions are technically complex, requiring extensive computations, which can lead to increased transaction latency and higher computational costs. Nevertheless, they offer lower transaction fees and significantly reduced verification costs, contributing to scalability.
Accseal is committed to advancing the technological development of blockchain hardware acceleration and is the world's first company to complete the design and development of ZK ASIC chips. Accseal's products include semi-programmable ASIC chips and integrated hardware devices, offering significantly improved performance over existing solutions and enhancing cost-effectiveness and ecological friendliness by an order of magnitude.
In addition to ZK technology, Accseal's semi-programmable ASIC chips are applicable to other privacy computing fields such as finance, communications, government affairs, energy, automotive, and healthcare. This will provide support for privacy computing in various scenarios including financial risk control, intelligent marketing, smart governance, intelligent energy, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and intelligent healthcare.
Team Information
Heqing Hong: Co-founder & CEO
15 years in corporate investment, ASIC design, and system development
Graduated from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University
Mingyu Gao: Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Assistant professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University; Fellow of ACM and IEEE
Research on high-efficiency cloud computing, high-performance computing and storage systems, and scalable operating systems
Xingzhong Mao: Founding Shareholder & CTO
15+ years in ASIC/Soc Design, trusted computing, fingerprint security, multimedia compression and storage master control
Chip architecture design and product development at Lenovo Research Institute
Yifeng Shao: COO
Large-scale SoC and FPGA chip design and system development; experience in hosting national projects, managing in large-scale central enterprises and M&A
Point of Contact
ziyi.zhai@accseal.com
Previous Work
Patents Obtained by the Team:
Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Elliptic Curve Multi-Scalar Point Multiplication Calculations
Model Deployment Method, Model Deployment Apparatus, Terminal Device, and Readable Storage Medium
Zero-Knowledge Proof Hardware Accelerator and Generation Method, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium
Team's Software Copyrights:
Hybrid Programming Implementation Software V1.0 for iiisct Fortanix-SGX and FPGA
Memory Access Simulation Demonstration System V1.0 for Recursive Decomposition NTT Algorithm
Journals Articles Published by the Team：
Ye Zhang, Shuo Wang, Xian Zhang, Jiangbin Dong, Xingzhong Mao, Fan Long, Cong Wang, Dong Zhou, Mingyu Gao, and Guangyu Sun, "PipeZK: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proof with a Pipelined Architecture," in Proceeding of the 48th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 416-428, Virtual, Jun 2021.
Mark Zhao, Mingyu Gao, and Christos Kozyrakis, "ShEF: Shielded Enclaves for Cloud FPGAs," in Proceeding of the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 1070-1085, Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb 2022.
Xing Zhou, Zhilei Xu, Cong Wang, and Mingyu Gao, "PPMLAC: High Performance Chipset Architecture for Secure Multi-Party Computation," in Proceeding of the 49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 87-101, New York, NY, USA, Jun 2022.
Project Description
Accseal was founded in December 2021, formed by the transformation of scientific research results of Tsinghua University's Institute of Cross-Information, with core members gathering world-renowned scientists in computer systems, chip design and cryptography from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Stanford University, as well as industry elites from major central enterprises, with an average of more than 15 years of industry experience, dedicated to blockchain. We are committed to the research of key core technologies of blockchain and privacy computing, the research and development of privacy computing acceleration chips and the promotion and application of system products, providing comprehensive solutions for government management, digital finance, intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet and other related industries, and accelerating the development of national blockchain and privacy computing technology and industrial innovation.
Category
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP)
Timeline
2023 Q3: Completion of Pre-Series A funding. 2023 Q3: Completion of specialized ZKP chip design and tape-out. 2023 Q3: Initiation of second-generation ASIC chip design. 2024 Q1: Small-scale production of ZKP acceleration devices implemented.
Project Plan
Accseal provides hardware acceleration solutions for Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). Its products include semi-programmable ASIC chips and computational acceleration cards, offering significantly improved performance over existing solutions while greatly enhancing cost-effectiveness and ecological friendliness.
Accseal is committed to driving the advancement of ZK technology through hardware acceleration and is the world's first company to complete the design and development of ZK ASIC chips. In addition to ZK technology, Accseal also possesses the capability to develop other high-performance privacy computing chips. The company's future products will revolve around various aspects of privacy computation.
Project Impact
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) is an infrastructure-level technology that holds paramount importance for blockchain. Leading ZKP projects have reached significant fundraising milestones and are poised to launch their mainnets, which will drive substantial demand for ZK hardware acceleration, creating a market worth billions of dollars.
However, challenges exist: ZK Rollup solutions are technically complex, requiring extensive computations, which can lead to increased transaction latency and higher computational costs. Nevertheless, they offer lower transaction fees and significantly reduced verification costs, contributing to scalability.
Accseal is committed to advancing the technological development of blockchain hardware acceleration and is the world's first company to complete the design and development of ZK ASIC chips. Accseal's products include semi-programmable ASIC chips and integrated hardware devices, offering significantly improved performance over existing solutions and enhancing cost-effectiveness and ecological friendliness by an order of magnitude.
In addition to ZK technology, Accseal's semi-programmable ASIC chips are applicable to other privacy computing fields such as finance, communications, government affairs, energy, automotive, and healthcare. This will provide support for privacy computing in various scenarios including financial risk control, intelligent marketing, smart governance, intelligent energy, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and intelligent healthcare.
Team Information
Heqing Hong: Co-founder & CEO
Mingyu Gao: Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Christos Kozyrakis: Founding Shareholder & Science Advisor
Xingzhong Mao: Founding Shareholder & CTO
Yifeng Shao: COO
Point of Contact
ziyi.zhai@accseal.com
Previous Work
Patents Obtained by the Team:
Team's Software Copyrights:
Journals Articles Published by the Team：
Additional Information
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