Brevis is now knocking on the door of the Ethereum Foundation’s ultimate proof goals. The latest figures show a real-time coverage of 96.8%, just a fraction away from the sub-ten second goal that would redefine base layer security.
Summary
- Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has achieved 99.6% coverage for Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, with 96.8% verified in real time under 10 seconds.
- This milestone halves GPU hardware costs and positions Brevis within 2.2% of the Ethereum Foundation’s 2025 benchmarks.
- By scaling verification through cryptographic proofs, Brevis addresses Ethereum’s redundancy problem, enabling faster, cheaper, and more secure base layer validation.
According to a press release shared with crypto.news on October 15, Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has become the first to achieve 99.6% coverage for current Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, with 96.8% of blocks proven in what the industry considers real-time, under 10 seconds.
This achievement, compared to the current mainnet limit of 45 million gas, was achieved in addition to a 50% reduction in the GPU hardware costs previously required for such operations.
Brevis CEO and co-founder Mo Dong stated that the infrastructure now handles “what Ethereum actually produces today,” marking a transition from research to a production-ready system.
“The numbers speak for themselves,” Mo Dong said. “We have built an infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This is faster performance that leads to economic efficiency, making real-time proof feasible for production deployment.”
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Brevis describes this performance jump as a direct response to one of Ethereum’s most fundamental inefficiencies: the massive computational redundancy of its consensus mechanism.
Today, every transaction on a platform like Uniswap is re-executed by more than 800,000 validators worldwide, a design that ensures security at the cost of massive waste. This redundancy is the main reason why block gas limits have remained artificially low, as validators need affordable hardware to keep up with re-execution demands.
Pico Prism shows that verification can be scaled through 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, bypassing the need for redundant execution.
From Brevis’s perspective, this performance milestone also clarifies the roadmap to full Ethereum Layer-1 zkEVM integration. The Ethereum Foundation’s July 2025 goals set ambitious thresholds: 99% coverage, test in less than 10 seconds, and affordable hardware that can be validated at home level.
With a difference of only 2.2% on these metrics, Brevis positions Pico Prism as a near-ready layer for Ethereum’s base protocol. The result is an environment where validators, developers, and users all benefit from greater vibrancy and stronger resistance to censorship.
According to the statement, developers are already leveraging this infrastructure to build a new class of dApps. Major protocols including PancakeSwap, Usual and Frax use Brevis proof technology for advanced trading hooks, reliable reward distribution and cross-chain verification.
These applications provide a live preview of a post-scaling Ethereum, where developers can take advantage of what is effectively infinite off-chain computing power, while maintaining the rock-solid security guarantees of Ethereum L1.
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