Brevis Unveils Pico Prism zkVM Achieving Near-Real-Time Ethereum Block Proofs
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commended Brevis’ Pico Prism zkVM for advancing ZK-EVM verification, achieving 99.6% of L1 block proofs within 12 seconds using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.
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The statement is fully corroborated by all provided evidence. Primary sources from Brevis itself (X account, blog) and numerous independent news outlets (Business Insider, Kucoin, Crypto.news) uniformly report that Brevis has unveiled the 'Pico Prism zkVM'. They all specify its achievement of 'near-real-time' proof generation, consistently citing the key performance metric that 99.6% of Ethereum blocks are proven in under 12 seconds.
Summary
Vitalik Buterin praised Brevis’ Pico Prism, a multi-GPU zero-knowledge virtual machine, for its performance in the ZK-EVM verification space. Pico Prism completed 99.6% of Ethereum Layer 1 block proofs in 12 seconds using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs, with most blocks verifying under 10 seconds. Earlier testing achieved an average proof time of 6.9 seconds under a 45 million gas limit. This milestone demonstrates significant efficiency and scalability improvements in Ethereum proof generation, marking a key step toward real-time, decentralized ZK verification.
Terms & Concepts
- ZK-EVM: A zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine that enables Ethereum-compatible smart contracts to execute with cryptographic proofs for scalability and privacy.
- zkVM: A zero-knowledge virtual machine that produces cryptographic proofs verifying computations without revealing the underlying data.
- GPU (Graphics Processing Unit): A parallel processor used to accelerate computational workloads, such as cryptographic proofs in blockchain verification.