NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2025 — LightSolver's optical computing technology has been licensed by TNF Pharmaceuticals for exclusive use in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. TNF intends to change its name in accordance with its new direction.

LightSolver is the creator of a laser-based processing unit (LPU) to harness light for computation, offering an accelerated computation method designed to outpace conventional GPUs, quantum computing, and high-performance computing with greater speed and efficiency. The company has marketed its technology for uses cases in both business and industry, in sectors including finance, manufacturing, and logistics. Other applications include computer-assisted engineering, bioscience computations, and intractable optimization problems.

The company's LPU, it said, offers distinct advantages over quantum computing, operating in a highly parallel mode within an optical resonator with a clock-time of a few nanoseconds to execute complex computations. The technology also avoids the need for a vacuum as well as ultracold temperatures. 

Applied to cryptocurrency, the technology is anticipated to reduce energy costs by up to 90% and over a potential pathway to fully sustainable infrastructure, the companies said.

“With LightSolver’s LPUs, we believe compute-intensive combinatorial and physical problems can be solved at the speed of light — orders of magnitude faster than other methods," said Ruti Ben-Shlomi, CEO and co-founder of LightSolver. "At the same time, crypto infrastructure is still using outdated tools that aren’t tailored for crypto applications. We are excited to partner with TNF to develop what we believe to be the first light-based computing system to blockchain.” 

For cryptocurrency applications specifically, Ben-Shlomi said, laser-based computing is intended to reduce heat and power waste.  

Joshua Silverman, executive chairman of TNF, said that TNF is additionally in late-stage discussions with a tech infrastructure and crypto mining expert to lead the development and commercialization strategy for the company's licensed technology.

Lightsolver, founded in 2020, earned $13.7M in financing to advance its all-optical supercomputer technology last summer after it was selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator Program.

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