Vitalik Buterin Cheers Brevis Breakthrough: Ethereum Blocks Now Proven in Seconds

Story Highlights

• Brevis’ Pico Prism achieves 99.6% real-time Ethereum block proving, cutting hardware costs by 50%.

• Vitalik Buterin praises the breakthrough as a key step for faster, scalable Ethereum and ZK-EVM adoption.

• The system enables cheaper, faster verification, higher gas limits, and more decentralized network participation.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has voiced excitement over a major technical breakthrough from Brevis.

On Twitter, he said: “Excited to see @brevis_zk’s Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM proving arena! An important step forward in ZK-EVM proving speed and diversity.”

And he’s right to be impressed – Brevis’s Pico Prism is moving Ethereum closer to real-time block verification.

Pico Prism: Faster, Cheaper, Smarter

Brevis, a company building infrastructure for zero-knowledge proofs, unveiled Pico Prism, a zkVM designed for real-time Ethereum block proving. The results are eye-catching: 99.6% of current Ethereum blocks are proven in under 12 seconds, averaging just 6.9 seconds using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Compared to older methods, this is a huge jump. Hardware costs are cut by half, performance is 3.4 times better, and the system handles almost every block immediately.

“We’ve built infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This is faster performance leading to economic efficiency that makes real-time proving viable for production deployment,” said Mo Dong, CEO of Brevis.