Tropic Square, part of the Satoshi Labs group, is a growing startup with 25 employees that operates as a fabless semiconductor supplier. The company has the ambitious goal of redefining secure hardware standards by adopting an open architecture approach. It specialises in secure elements, offering robust, audit-ready chips for all industries where security is a top priority. Transparency is the cornerstone of its design philosophy. The company makes transparency a core value, actively inviting customers, industry experts, and the open source community to review and verify the integrity of its security implementations. This radical opening triggers essential collaboration while ensuring that the benchmark for future secure hardware solutions is defined jointly.