The world runs on insecure hardware.
The world runs on insecure hardware. Electronic devices were built for function. Security? An afterthought. At best, just bolted on with a legacy secure chip, leaving most electronic devices exposed to fast-evolving adversaries, tampering, exploits, back-doors. Now, as we flood homes and industries with electronics, IoT, and soon autonomous robots, the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place.
Enter Tropic Square the first future-proof secure chip.
What makes Tropic Square uniquely future-proof? Maximum verifiability. And the fact that, even as you’re reading these lines, our chip is under attack, scrutiny, and audit by customers’ engineers and independent security researchers.
Auditable.
Attackable.
Unbreakable.
Tropic Square was born from a simple truth: you can’t trust what you can’t inspect. Instead of locking flaws behind NDAs, we built a secure chip that anyone can inspect. We don’t just tolerate scrutiny. We invite it. We encourage independent researchers, academics, and engineers to probe our chips, break them if they can, and push us to continuously improve. Every attempted exploit drives faster patches, smarter defenses, and stronger hardware. Because security isn’t a static certificate. It’s a living process. One that must evolve as fast as the threats themselves.
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Trusted by industry leaders.
“Integrating Tropic Square’s open secure element into our new Trezor Safe 7 marks a defining moment, not just for our company, but for the entire hardware security industry. For more than a decade, we’ve worked to build trust through transparency. With Tropic Square, that vision becomes silicon-deep. For the first time, the cryptographic foundation of a hardware wallet is auditable, verifiable, and open to the community. This milestone embodies our shared belief that true security can’t depend on secrecy, it must be built on openness, peer review, and collective trust."
“Our single-board computers are built with a clear philosophy: security by design, not by afterthought. Building on top of OpenWRT Linux and integrating Arm Secure Boot and Tropic Square’s TROPIC01 secure element, we deliver systems where security is the foundation. What we truly appreciate about TROPIC01 is the great documentation and transparency. Because if I can’t verify it, I can’t trust it. And if I can’t trust it, how can my clients?"
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“Hardware roots of trust should follow Kerckhoffs’s principle — they must stay secure even when everything about them is public. That’s why Tropic Square’s TROPIC01 is the only real option for us. It’s an auditable, open-source RISC-V secure element that replaces obscurity with transparency featured PUF-derived keys, flexible secure storage, and multi-vendor pairing support. Built to resist glitches and physical attacks, it hardens everything from industrial to IoT devices. I use it because it’s genuinely future-proof.”
TROPIC01 Deployed in Trezor’s Latest Crypto Hardware Wallet
The world’s first transparent, auditable secure element sets a new benchmark for open hardware security and verifiable trust. It brings auditable protection with MAC&Destroy PIN verification, supply chain authenticity, and true randomness, marking a shift toward transparent and adaptable security across industries.
TROPIC01 Now in Full Production - Open Security Available Worldwide
The industry’s first open, auditable secure element is now shipping globally - next-day delivery, no NDAs, no barriers. Available on development boards like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mikroe, and a new USB-C version, it empowers startups and global companies to build transparent, future-proof security faster than ever.
Elektra Awards 2025 Finalists!
We are thrilled to be a finalist in the Start-up of the Year category for at the Elektra Awards 2025! This prominent global event celebrates innovation and excellence in electronics, and we can’t wait to join on 9 December, 2025 at Hilton Bankside, London.
TROPIC01 Wins Nápad Roku (Idea of the Year) 2025
We are honoured to have won the Nápad Roku 2025 (Idea of the Year), one of the Czech Republic’s oldest and most respected startup competitions. Selected from 127 startups, our TROPIC01 chip was celebrated for its transparent design and innovative approach to hardware security.
Forbes Czech interview - Jan Pleskač
"Thanks to its open approach and auditability, Tropic Square is among the world leaders in security electronics." (Forbes)
TROPIC01 Wins Embedded Award for Safety and Security
We are the proud winners of the Embedded Award for Safety and Security presented at Embedded World 2025! TROPIC01 the first open and auditable secure element was recognized as an outstanding innovation by the expert panel of judges.
TROPIC01 Now Available
Integrate our tamper resistant, RISC-V based secure element into your hardware. Contact us for engineering samples and development kit.
Security Through Open Hardware
Tropic Square, a SatoshiLabs company, is a semiconductor provider that develops auditable, tamper-resistant secure elements for IoT, hardware crypto wallets, digital identity, and secure decentralized infrastructure.
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Tropic Square Secures Double Win at Embedded World 2025, Receiving the Embedded Award for Safety & Security and the Best in Show Award
Tropic Square proudly announces that its flagship product, TROPIC01, has been honored with two awards at this year’s Embedded World Exhibition & Conference held in Nuremberg, Germany from March 11 to 13.
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Tropic Square's secure elements are built with tamper-proof technology and advanced attack countermeasures to ensure robust asset protection.
Secure your electronic assets across applications from IoT devices to crypto wallets and digital identity to decentralized systems.
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