Brevis says its zkVM prover achieves 6.1-second average Ethereum block verification

Brevis (BREV) announced that its proprietary zkVM-based proving system, Pico Prism 2.0, has recorded an average proof time of 6.1 seconds per block based on the Ethereum mainnet's current gas limit of 60 million. The company reported that 99.9% of all blocks were proven within Ethereum's 12-second block generation cycle. The tests were conducted on two servers equipped with 16 RTX 5090 GPUs each, with the total hardware cost amounting to approximately $100,000. Brevis emphasized that despite reducing the number of GPUs to one-quarter of the previous Pico Prism 1.0 setup, the proof efficiency per block improved by approximately 5.3 times. The 2.0 version features a full-stack upgrade, including a transition to RISC-V 64IM, a distributed proof architecture, ahead-of-time (AOT) emulation, and a redesigned CUDA backend.