Original Article Title: "Ethereum Community Thumbs Up, ZK Tech Finally Moves from Lab to Production-Grade Tool?"

Original Article Author: 1912212.eth, Foresight News

Recently, the buzz around Brevis has spread from technical forums to social media, with the Ethereum official Twitter account and Ethereum's renowned researcher Justin Drake publishing lengthy articles in support, with Vitalik also retweeting. What exciting breakthrough does Brevis bring, suddenly propelling it to the center of the technical stage?

ZK Data Computation and Verification Platform

Brevis is a full-chain data computation and verification platform empowered by ZK technology, allowing smart contracts to access and utilize multi-chain historical data effortlessly as if reading an open encyclopedia.

To understand the core value of Brevis, we must start with Ethereum's fundamental challenge. As the world's largest smart contract platform, Ethereum has a massive on-chain data volume, yet developers often face the dilemma of how to efficiently and securely handle this data when building dApps. Traditional methods either rely on centralized oracles (such as Chainlink), introducing trust risks, or perform on-chain computation directly, consuming huge Gas fees and limiting scalability.

The emergence of Brevis fills this gap. Simply put, Brevis acts as an "intelligent assistant": it performs complex computations off-chain, then generates zero-knowledge proofs for on-chain contract verification of the results' accuracy. This design not only reduces costs but also ensures data integrity and availability.

Brevis's technology stack is built on top of advanced ZK frameworks. It supports multiple blockchains, including the Ethereum mainnet and its Layer 2 solutions, allowing users to read complete on-chain historical data—from transaction records to state changes. For example, a DeFi protocol can leverage Brevis to calculate a user's cross-chain credit score without manual data aggregation, while an NFT marketplace can real-time verify asset on-chain history, mitigating counterfeit risks.

The developer behind Brevis is Celer Network, founded by Dr. Mo Dong, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design, teaching a full-stack smart contract course. In November 2024, Brevis Network completed a $7.5 million seed round of funding, led by Polychain Capital and Binance Labs, with participants including IOSG Ventures, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, Hashkey, among others.

ZK Goes from Lab Tech to "Production-Ready Tool"

The Ethereum official Twitter handle retweeted below and gave it a high rating, stating, "This is a big step towards Ethereum's future. ZK technologies like Pico Prism will help Ethereum scale to meet global demand while still maintaining its trustworthiness and decentralization."

Pico Prism is a distributed multi-GPU zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) released by the Brevis team in October 2025. It is essentially an evolution of the Pico zkVM, optimized for real-time Ethereum block proofs.

In traditional ZK systems, proof generation is often time-consuming and resource-intensive, requiring high-end hardware and minutes of computation, limiting the implementation of real-time applications. Pico Prism breaks through this bottleneck: it achieves proof for 99.6% of Ethereum blocks within 12 seconds, with an average of only 6.9 seconds, using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Compared to competitors like SP1, Succinct Inc.'s SP1 Hypercube solution achieved a real-time proof coverage rate of 40.9% (latency less than 10 seconds) on a block with a 36 million gas limit, using 160 GPUs, with a hardware capital cost of approximately $256,000. Pico Prism is 32 times faster than SP1 while reducing GPU hardware costs by 50%.

This efficiency is due to its modular architecture: Pico Prism decomposes the proof process into parallel tasks, leveraging multiple GPUs working in concert to avoid single-machine bottlenecks.

Pico Prism's advantage also lies in the scalability to real-world use cases. It transitions Ethereum's validation mode from "re-execution" to "single validation," theoretically increasing network capacity by 100x. Imagine a real-time DeFi lending scenario: a user submits a transaction, Pico Prism instantly generates a ZK proof, confirming the borrower's on-chain credit history without requiring full node reprocessing. This not only reduces Gas fees but also enhances security—the proof process is entirely zero-knowledge, protecting user privacy.

In the past, each validator had to re-execute every transaction to validate a block. This required expensive hardware and created a fundamental bottleneck: the more transactions, the greater the workload for each validator. Real-time proofs disrupt this pattern. One prover generates a proof, and all others validate it within milliseconds. Pico Prism has proven that its technology is viable at a production scale.

Another highlight of Pico Prism is its compatibility: it supports custom computation, allowing users to adjust the proof logic according to dApp requirements, rather than being limited to a fixed template. This makes it highly versatile in Layer 2 Rollups or cross-chain bridges, for example, helping Optimism or Arbitrum achieve real-time verification of on-chain data, reducing latency risks.

Through Pico Prism, Brevis not only addresses the pain point of proof speed but also lowers the barrier to entry: what used to require specialized equipment with hundreds of GPUs can now be run on consumer-grade hardware. This is great news for small to mid-sized developers, as they can easily integrate Brevis to build smarter dApps. The parallel optimization and cost reduction of Pico Prism are pushing ZK from a lab experiment to a production-ready tool.

Of course, Brevis and Pico Prism are not perfect, as there is still a 2.2% gap to the target of achieving real-time proofs within 10 seconds. The official statement mentions that the next focus for Pico Prism is to concentrate on lowering proof costs. The plan is to achieve 99% real-time proofs using less than 16 RTX 5090 GPUs in the coming months.

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