Brevis is now knocking on the door of the Ethereum Foundation’s ultimate proof-of-concept goal. The latest numbers show 96.8% real-time coverage, putting us just shy of the sub-10 second goal that will redefine base-layer security.
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- Brevis’ Pico Prism zkVM reached 99.6% proof coverage of an Ethereum block within 12 seconds and verified 96.8% in real-time within 10 seconds.
- This milestone cuts the cost of GPU hardware in half and puts Brevis within 2.2% of the Ethereum Foundation’s 2025 Proof Benchmark.
- Brevis addresses Ethereum’s redundancy problem by extending verification with cryptographic proofs, enabling faster, cheaper, and more secure base layer verification.
According to a press release shared with crypto.news on October 15th, Brevis’ Pico Prism zkVM became the first to achieve 99.6% proof coverage of current Ethereum blocks in less than 12 seconds, with 96.8% of blocks proven within 10 seconds, which the industry considers real-time.
This performance was benchmarked against mainnet’s current 45 million gas limit, and was achieved simultaneously with a 50% reduction in GPU hardware costs previously required for such operations.
Brevis CEO and co-founder Mo Dong said the infrastructure now handles “what Ethereum is actually producing today,” marking a transition from research to production-ready systems.
“The numbers speak for themselves,” Mo Dong said. “We have built an infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This will result in faster performance, greater economic efficiency, and the ability to prove real-time in production.”
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Brevis believes this performance jump is a direct answer to one of Ethereum’s most fundamental inefficiencies: the massive computational redundancy of the consensus mechanism.
Every transaction on a platform like Uniswap is now re-executed by over 800,000 validators around the world, designed to ensure security at the cost of massive waste. This redundancy is the main reason why block gas limits remain artificially low, as validators require affordable hardware to keep up with rerun demands.
Pico Prism shows that verification can be extended by cryptographic proofs rather than computational brute force. In this model, a single prover generates a mathematical proof of a block’s validity, and the entire network can verify that proof in milliseconds, avoiding the need for redundant executions.
From a Brevis perspective, this performance milestone also clarifies the roadmap towards full integration of Ethereum Layer 1 zkEVM. The Ethereum Foundation’s July 2025 goal sets ambitious thresholds of 99% coverage, sub-10 second proofs, and affordable hardware capable of home-level verification.
Although the difference between these metrics is only 2.2%, Brevis positions Pico Prism as a near-ready layer of Ethereum’s base protocol. The result is an environment where validators, developers, and users all benefit from higher survivability and stronger censorship resistance.
According to the statement, developers are already leveraging this infrastructure to build a new class of dApps. Leading protocols such as PancakeSwap, Usual, and Frax use Brevis proof technology for advanced trading hooks, trustless reward distribution, and cross-chain validation.
These applications provide a live preview of Ethereum after scaling, allowing developers to leverage virtually limitless off-chain computing power while maintaining the ironclad security guarantees of Ethereum L1.
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