Topos is the first zkEcosystem, allowing developers to deploy sovereign execution layers and dApps with native interoperability and cryptographic security. We are headquartered in Boston, MA, and are a group of passionate computer scientists, cryptographers and engineers from all over the world. The team is coming from many places such as CERN, École Normale Supérieure, Telecom Paris, UCL, Ubisoft and InfoSec. We have remote teams in places such as the US, France, Canada and Japan. Our team is creating the technical groundwork for a new standard for web3 while solving some of the hardest problems in cryptography and distributed systems. Research and development is done in-house as well as in collaboration with technological research institutes and academic research groups.