Telos is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem launched in 2018 that includes Telos EVM (the world's fastest EVM) and Telos Zero (a high-speed native consensus layer). The upcoming hardware-accelerated zkEVM Layer 2 on Ethereum is also in development and will be powered by SNARKtor, a scalable and powerful decentralized recursive proof aggregation protocol designed to enhance data protection and scalability for global use cases. Telos launched its mainnet in December 2018.