Brevis Launches Pico Prism, Implementing Real-Time Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Ethereum Blockchains

PANews reported on October 15th that, according to Decrypt, Brevis announced that its zkVM "Pico Prism" can perform real-time proofs on Ethereum blocks, with 99.6% of blocks completed within 12 seconds, and an average time of 6.9 seconds on 64 RTX 5090 GPUs. The team claims this capability can expand Ethereum's capacity by approximately 100 times, transforming verification from "re-execution" to "one-time generation, fast verification." At a 36M gas benchmark, the system achieved a coverage rate of 98.9% (previously 40.9%) under 10 seconds, an average proof time of 6.04 seconds (previously 10.3 seconds), and reduced hardware costs to approximately $128,000 (previously $256,000). Brevis stated that the benchmark is reproducible and will continue to optimize it to a target price of less than $100,000 and a power consumption of 10kW.

Vitalik Buterin expressed his “excitement” about Brevis’ Pico Prism’s entry into the ZK-EVM proof space, calling it a key step toward improving proof speed and diversity.