Brevis' Pico Prism 2.1 achieves 99.9% block proof generation for Ethereum's 60M-gas blocks in under 10 seconds on 16 GPUs.
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Brevis released Pico Prism 2.1, a protocol update achieving proof generation for 99.9% of Ethereum's 60-megagas blocks in under 10 seconds using 16 GPUs, according to the project's blog. The system generates cryptographic proofs of blockchain state, enabling verification of Ethereum transactions and data without requiring full node validation. This performance metric indicates the mechanism can process near-all standard Ethereum blocks within a narrow time window, reducing latency in proof-based applications that rely on block confirmation.
The upgrade addresses a core challenge in blockchain scalability: generating proofs fast enough to maintain real-time settlement. Proof generation has historically been a bottleneck in systems that verify state cross-chain or compress transaction batches for rollups. By achieving sub-10-second proving on standard hardware configurations, Pico Prism 2.1 potentially shortens the window between block finality and proof availability.
Key unknowns remain around production deployment timelines, cost per proof, and which applications will integrate the system. The 0.1% of blocks not proven within the threshold and the conditions under which they fail are also unspecified. Whether this performance holds under network congestion or larger block sizes has not been detailed.