Brevis released Pico Prism, achieving real-time proof of Ethereum on consumer-grade hardware.

Pico Prism (zkVM) achieves a performance efficiency improvement of 3.4 times on the RTX 5090 GPU.

Leading zero-knowledge proof infrastructure provider Brevis announced on October 15 that its Pico Prism has achieved 99.6% real-time proof coverage (within 12 seconds) and 96.8% coverage within 10 seconds on consumer-grade hardware for the current Ethereum mainnet block (45M Gas limit).

This breakthrough indicates that real-time proof can be achieved using the accessible RTX 5090 GPU without the need for expensive data center equipment, making the technology economically viable for broader deployment while supporting Ethereum's decentralization goals.

Performance surpasses previous solutions

When tested under the same 36M Gas limit as previous benchmarks, Pico Prism significantly outperformed in all metrics:

10-second coverage: 98.9% compared to 40.9% (an increase of 141%)
Hardware cost: $128K compared to $256K (a reduction of 50%)
Average proof time: 6.04 seconds compared to 10.3 seconds (71% faster)
GPU requirement: 64 RTX 5090 compared to 160 RTX 4090 (a reduction of 60%)
Performance efficiency (speed and cost combined): improved by 3.4 times

For the Ethereum 45M Gas Limit, Pico Prism achieved:

99.6% coverage (within 12 seconds)
96.8% coverage (within 10 seconds)
Average proof time of 6.9 seconds

Brevis co-founder and CEO Michael stated, “The data speaks for itself. We have built infrastructure capable of handling the current Ethereum block production volume, using consumer-grade hardware accessible to a wide range of users. This performance perfectly aligns with Ethereum's decentralization goals.”

Technical innovation: Distributed architecture

The outstanding performance of Pico Prism stems from a complete architectural reconstruction from single-machine proof to a distributed multi-GPU cluster. The system utilizes Pico's modular design to allocate compute-intensive tasks for parallel processing by GPUs, while the CPU is responsible for task setup. By achieving maximum utilization of GPUs in the cluster through highly parallelized pipelines, multi-machine scaling accelerates almost linearly, thus achieving excellent hardware efficiency on RTX 5090 consumer-grade hardware, offering advantages over solutions that require expensive or dedicated data center equipment.

Advancing Ethereum's scalability vision

Traditional Ethereum transactions require over 800,000 validators worldwide to independently recompute, while Pico Prism achieves verification scalability through cryptographic proofs—generated by a single prover, with the remaining validators completing verification in milliseconds.

In July 2025, the Ethereum Foundation proposed a real-time proof goal in its roadmap: 99% coverage, completion within 10 seconds, hardware costs below $100,000, and power consumption below 10kW. Pico Prism's achievements on consumer hardware represent an important step toward this goal; although the hardware cost of $128K is slightly above $100K, the widely available consumer-grade GPUs significantly enhance accessibility.

Reproducible benchmarks

Brevis conducted benchmarks of Pico Prism on 8 servers (each equipped with 8 RTX 5090 GPUs, totaling 64 GPUs) and compared them with previous state-of-the-art solutions. All tests are reproducible, and all parties are welcome to verify the experimental results. Brevis is committed to promoting open, reproducible benchmarks to support Ethereum's transparency and technical excellence.

Production-ready infrastructure

Pico Prism is the distributed, multi-GPU evolution of the Brevis Pico zkVM architecture. Brevis has validated its zero-knowledge infrastructure in production environments through ZK Data Coprocessor technology, currently providing verifiable computing support for major DeFi protocols such as PancakeSwap, Usual, Frax, Linea, and MetaMask. In the coming months, Pico Prism plans to achieve 99% real-time proof on fewer than 16 RTX 5090 GPUs, further approaching the Ethereum Foundation's goals.

About Brevis

Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computing engine that provides unlimited computing power for existing smart contract blockchains. Through zero-knowledge proofs, Brevis offloads data-intensive, high-cost computations from on-chain to a low-cost off-chain engine, enabling Web3 applications to scale seamlessly while maintaining L1 security and trust.

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