Brevis launches Pico Prism, achieving real-time Ethereum proofs on consumer-grade hardware
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Brevis launches Pico Prism, achieving real-time Ethereum proofs on consumer-grade hardware
Pico Prism (zkVM) achieves a 3.4x performance efficiency improvement on the RTX 5090 GPU.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsLeading 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 for current Ethereum mainnet blocks (45M gas limit) on consumer-grade hardware.
This breakthrough demonstrates that real-time proving can be achieved using accessible RTX 5090 GPUs, eliminating the need for expensive data center equipment. This makes the technology economically viable for broader deployment while supporting Ethereum's decentralization goals.
Performance Outperforms Previous Solutions
When tested under the same 36M gas limit as previous benchmarks, Pico Prism significantly outperformed across all metrics:
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<10 second coverage: 98.9% vs. 40.9% (141% improvement)
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Hardware cost: $128K vs. $256K (50% reduction)
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Average proof time: 6.04 seconds vs. 10.3 seconds (71% faster)
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GPU requirement: 64 RTX 5090 vs. 160 RTX 4090 (60% reduction)
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Performance efficiency (speed and cost combined): 3.4x improvement
For Ethereum’s 45M gas limit, Pico Prism achieves:
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99.6% coverage (within 12 seconds)
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96.8% coverage (within 10 seconds)
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Average proof time of 6.9 seconds
Michael, co-founder and CEO of Brevis, said: “The data speaks for itself. We’ve built infrastructure capable of handling today’s Ethereum block production using widely available consumer-grade hardware. This performance aligns perfectly with Ethereum’s decentralization goals.”
Technical Innovation: Distributed Architecture
Pico Prism’s outstanding performance stems from a complete architectural overhaul—from single-machine proving to a distributed multi-GPU cluster design. The system leverages Pico’s modular architecture to offload compute-intensive tasks to GPUs for parallel processing, while CPUs manage task setup. A highly parallelized pipeline maximizes GPU utilization across clusters, enabling near-linear acceleration when scaling across multiple machines. This delivers superior hardware efficiency on RTX 5090 consumer-grade hardware, offering a significant advantage over solutions requiring costly or specialized data center equipment.
Advancing Ethereum’s Scaling Vision
Traditional Ethereum transactions require independent recomputation by more than 800,000 validators worldwide. Pico Prism enables scalable validation through cryptographic proofs—where a single prover generates a mathematical proof that others can verify in milliseconds.
In July 2025, the Ethereum Foundation outlined real-time proving targets in its roadmap: 99% coverage, completion within 10 seconds, hardware cost under $100K, and power consumption below 10kW. Pico Prism’s achievement on consumer hardware marks a major step toward this goal. While the $128K hardware cost slightly exceeds $100K, the widespread availability of consumer-grade GPUs greatly enhances accessibility.
Reproducible Benchmarking
Brevis conducted benchmarking of Pico Prism across 8 servers (each equipped with 8 RTX 5090 GPUs, totaling 64 GPUs), comparing results against prior state-of-the-art solutions. All tests are fully reproducible, and third parties are welcome to validate the experimental results. Brevis is committed to advancing open, reproducible benchmarking to support transparency and technical excellence in Ethereum.
Production-Ready Infrastructure
Pico Prism is a distributed, multi-GPU evolution of Brevis’ Pico zkVM architecture. Through its ZK Data Coprocessor technology, Brevis has already validated zero-knowledge infrastructure in production environments, currently providing verifiable computing support for major DeFi protocols including PancakeSwap, Usual, Frax, Linea, and MetaMask. In the coming months, Pico Prism aims to achieve 99% real-time proving with fewer than 16 RTX 5090 GPUs, bringing it even closer to the Ethereum Foundation’s targets.
About Brevis
Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computing engine that provides infinite computational capacity for existing smart contract blockchains. Using zero-knowledge proofs, Brevis offloads data-intensive, high-cost computations from on-chain to low-cost off-chain engines, enabling Web3 applications to scale seamlessly while maintaining L1 security and trust guarantees.
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