Brevis Unveils Pico Prism zkVM, Enabling Real-Time Ethereum Proofs

In Brief

• Pico Prism proves 99.6% of Ethereum blocks under 12s with 6.9s average latency.
• Brevis outperforms SP1 Hypercube with 71% faster proving and 50% lower GPU costs.
• Pico Prism achieves 96.8% sub-10s proving for 45M gas blocks using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Brevis has introduced Pico Prism, a distributed zkVM system that achieves real-time proving for Ethereum L1 blocks. The system proved 99.6% of 45 million gas limit blocks under 12 seconds, with an average latency of 6.9 seconds.

Most proofs completed between 5 and 7 seconds, with 96.8% finalized under the 10-second threshold set by the Ethereum Foundation. This performance meets Ethereum’s real-time proving standard and marks a new benchmark for proving speed at scale.

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Brevis deployed Pico Prism using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs, highlighting the ability to meet performance targets with consumer-grade hardware. This breakthrough addresses Ethereum’s current proving bottleneck, where each validator must re-execute all transactions.

Real-time proving replaces redundant computation by allowing one prover to generate a proof that others can verify instantly. This dramatically improves scalability while reducing infrastructure requirements across the network.

Pico Prism Outperforms SP1 Hypercube with Faster Speed and Lower Cost

Brevis benchmarked Pico Prism against SP1 Hypercube on 36M gas blocks and achieved 98.9% under 10 seconds, compared to SP1’s 40.9%. Pico Prism proved blocks in 6.04 seconds on average, 71% faster than SP1’s 10.3 seconds.

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Pico Prism used fewer GPUs—64 RTX 5090s compared to SP1’s 160 RTX 4090s cutting hardware costs by 50% to $128,000. Combined, these improvements result in a 3.4× gain in performance efficiency when accounting for both speed and cost.

Brevis also demonstrated real-time proving for full 45M gas limit blocks, which SP1 had not achieved. The system maintained 96.8% sub-10-second proving coverage for those larger blocks, validating its scalability.

The upgrade to a multi-machine, multi-GPU architecture allowed extreme parallelisation across phases like emulation and recursion. Brevis confirmed that Pico Prism’s pipeline can scale linearly, offering consistent performance across distributed setups.

With open-source benchmarks and reproducible results, Pico Prism presents a major milestone for Ethereum scalability using transparent, cost-effective zkVM infrastructure.