Brevis is making notable progress toward Ethereum’s performance objectives. The latest results show an impressive 96.8% real-time coverage. Bringing Brevis closer to meeting the Ethereum Foundation’s goal of sub-ten-second proving times, marking a significant advancement for base-layer security.
Summary:
- Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM now offers 99.6% proving coverage for Ethereum blocks in under 12 seconds, with 96.8% verified in real-time (under 10 seconds).
- This achievement reduces GPU hardware costs by 50%, bringing Brevis within 2.2% of the Ethereum Foundation’s 2025 proving benchmarks.
- By scaling verification through cryptographic proofs, Brevis addresses Ethereum’s redundancy issue, enabling faster, cheaper, and more secure base-layer validation.
Brevis Sets a New Standard for Ethereum Proving
As reported by Brevis, their Pico Prism zkVM is the first system to achieve 99.6% proving coverage for Ethereum blocks in under 12 seconds, with 96.8% of blocks validated in real-time (under 10 seconds). This performance milestone was achieved while cutting GPU hardware costs by 50% compared to previous benchmarks.
Mo Dong, CEO of Brevis, mentioned that the technology now handles Ethereum’s current production load, signaling the transition from research to a production-ready system.
A Leap Toward Ethereum’s Zero-Knowledge Future
Brevis sees this milestone as a solution to one of Ethereum’s major inefficiencies:
The excessive computational redundancy in its consensus mechanism. Currently, each transaction on Ethereum platforms like Uniswap is re-executed by over 800,000 validators globally. Ensuring security but creating significant inefficiency.
This redundancy is a primary reason for Ethereum’s low gas limits, as validators need affordable hardware to handle the re-execution.
With Pico Prism, Brevis demonstrates that verification can be scaled through cryptographic proofs instead of heavy computational work. In this model, a single prover creates a mathematical proof of a block’s validity, and the network verifies it in milliseconds, removing the need for redundant executions.
This technological breakthrough brings Brevis’s system closer to the Ethereum Foundation’s 2025 goals. Which aim for 99% proving coverage, sub-10-second proving, and affordable hardware capable of validating blocks at the consumer level. With only 2.2% remaining to hit these targets, Brevis is positioning Pico Prism as a nearly ready solution for Ethereum’s base layer.
What’s Next for Ethereum and Brevis?
As Brevis approaches Ethereum’s 2025 targets, this achievement sets the stage for enhanced liveness and censorship resistance within Ethereum. Validators, developers, and users will all benefit from a faster and more secure blockchain environment.
Developers are already utilizing Brevis’s proving technology to create new decentralized applications (dApps). Leading protocols like PancakeSwap, Usual, and Frax are using this technology for advanced trading features, trustless reward distribution, and cross-chain verification.
These advancements offer a glimpse into the future of a fully-scaled Ethereum, where developers can access virtually unlimited off-chain computing power without sacrificing the security and reliability of Ethereum’s Layer 1.
