Brevis is on the verge of achieving the Ethereum Foundation’s ultimate proving goals with its latest milestone. The numbers speak for themselves, with 96.8% real-time coverage, positioning Brevis just shy of the sub-ten-second target that would revolutionize base-layer security.
Summary
- Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has achieved an impressive 99.6% proving coverage for Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, with 96.8% verified in real time under 10 seconds.
- This milestone not only slashes GPU hardware costs in half but also brings Brevis within 2.2% of the Ethereum Foundation’s 2025 proving benchmarks.
- By leveraging cryptographic proofs for verification, Brevis addresses Ethereum’s redundancy issue, paving the way for faster, more cost-effective, and highly secure base-layer validation.
As reported in a press release on Oct. 15, Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has become the first to achieve 99.6% proving coverage for current Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, with 96.8% of blocks proven in real time, under 10 seconds.
This remarkable performance, benchmarked against the mainnet’s current 45 million gas limit, was accompanied by a significant 50% reduction in GPU hardware costs previously associated with such operations.
CEO and co-founder Mo Dong expressed that the infrastructure now supports “what Ethereum is actually producing today,” marking a transition from research to a fully operational system.
“The numbers speak for themselves,” Dong stated. “We’ve built infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This is faster performance leading to economic efficiency that makes real-time proving viable for production deployment.”
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A step toward Ethereum’s zero-knowledge future
Brevis sees this performance breakthrough as a direct response to one of Ethereum’s core inefficiencies: the excessive computational redundancy of its consensus mechanism.
Currently, each transaction on platforms like Uniswap undergoes re-execution by over 800,000 validators worldwide, leading to significant waste. This redundancy is a key factor in keeping block gas limits artificially low, as validators require cost-effective hardware to keep up with re-execution demands.
Pico Prism demonstrates that verification can be scaled through cryptographic proofs rather than computational brute force. In this model, a single prover generates a mathematical proof of a block’s validity, which the entire network can verify in milliseconds, eliminating the need for redundant execution.
From Brevis’s perspective, this performance milestone also outlines the path to full Ethereum Layer-1 zkEVM integration. With only a 2.2% gap from the Ethereum Foundation’s ambitious July 2025 goals, Brevis positions Pico Prism as a nearly deployable layer for Ethereum’s base protocol, enhancing liveness and censorship resistance for validators, developers, and users alike.
Developers are already leveraging this infrastructure to create innovative dApps, with major protocols such as PancakeSwap, Usual, and Frax utilizing Brevis’s proving technology for advanced trading features, trustless reward distribution, and cross-chain verification.
These applications offer a glimpse into a future Ethereum ecosystem post-scaling, where developers can tap into virtually unlimited off-chain computing power while maintaining Ethereum L1’s robust security guarantees.
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