Brevis’ Pico Prism Hits New Heights with 99.6% zk-Proving Coverage for Ethereum Blocks

Brevis’ Pico Prism Achieves Record 99.6% zk-Proving Coverage for Ethereum Blocks

In an effort to meet Ethereum's future demands, Pico Prism has successfully transitioned from research to a production-ready system. This development significantly alleviates a major challenge in the network's shift towards base-layer zero-knowledge verification. The performance improvements have also resulted in a 50% drop in GPU hardware costs, making real-time capabilities financially viable for widespread adoption.

Pico Prism offers impressive advancements across all crucial performance indicators when compared to existing solutions.

Key Advancements for Ethereum

Currently, when users trade tokens on platforms like Uniswap, over 800,000 validators around the world independently verify each transaction. They execute the same calculations, analyze identical states, and ultimately reach the same conclusions. As Ethereum continues to grow, this results in increasing computational inefficiencies. This situation contributes to Ethereum's primary scaling bottleneck: the block capacity remains artificially limited because validators require cost-effective hardware to handle re-execution requests.

Pico Prism illustrates that blockchains can enhance verification through cryptographic proofs rather than relying on brute-force calculations. With one prover generating a mathematical proof, other validators can confirm it in mere milliseconds, eliminating the necessity for thousands of validators to repeat the same process.

The zkEVM's capability to validate Ethereum blocks in real time is vital for Ethereum's future scalability. The network plans to adopt ZK proofs across all layers of its architecture, from on-chain privacy with client-side proving to consensus layer signature aggregation. The integration of L1 zkEVM marks the initial phase of this strategy.

To ensure optimal levels of liveness and resistance to censorship, the Ethereum Foundation has set clear goals in its roadmap for July 2025: achieving 99% coverage, proving times under 10 seconds, hardware costs below $100,000, and energy consumption under 10kW for home-based proving solutions.

With Pico Prism, the path to Ethereum L1 zkEVM integration has become significantly clearer. Although it is still just 2.2 percentage points away from reaching the revised objective of real-time proving under 10 seconds, Brevis is exploring additional features to exceed this target.

Enhanced Verification Capabilities

Pico Prism greatly minimizes constraints involved in the verification process. With this advancement, existing smart contract blockchains can achieve virtually limitless processing capacity, thanks to Brevis, which functions as an effective and verifiable off-chain computation engine. Utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, Brevis shifts costly, data-heavy computations from on-chain environments to a more affordable off-chain system. This allows Web3 applications to expand seamlessly while still adhering to the security principles of L1 trust assumptions.

In summary, Brevis' Pico Prism has achieved outstanding zk-proving coverage, marking a significant milestone for Ethereum's scalability. By reducing the reliance on excessive validator re-executions and implementing off-chain computations, it paves the way for more efficient blockchain applications. The future of Ethereum looks promising as it aims for enhanced performance and broader adoption of zero-knowledge technologies.