sphinx intends to develop cryotographic primitives
https://nymtech.net/about/ second message sent, no response yet, escalating in case of spam filtering https://twitter.com/lkcl/status/1469787497106391059
third followup https://twitter.com/lkcl/status/1514206039721316359 the bitmanip page is underway and has an NLnet Grant to back it. https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/bitmanip/ currently investigating big-integer math (big-mul and big-div) as well as GF operations used for Elliptic Curve.
contact was made but the person assigned to the task is, very unfortunately, inappropriate for the long-term goals of Libre-SOC (a U.S. military court martial and criminal record), which is a great pity.