The blockchain trilemma—scalability, security, and decentralization—has long been a core challenge for the industry’s development. As one of the most promising technologies to address this dilemma, zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) significantly enhance network scalability while ensuring security and decentralization.
Recently, the ZK full-chain data proof platform Brevis Network announced the completion of a $7.5 million seed round financing, which was co-led by Polychain Capital and Binance Labs.
Notable investment institutions such as IOSG Ventures, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, and HashKey Capital also participated in this round of financing.
01 Technological Breakthrough: Brevis’s ZK Co-Processor Innovation
Brevis is essentially a ZK co-processor or computing network dedicated to enhancing blockchain scalability through ZK proofs.
Its core innovation lies in allowing complex data processing tasks to be completed off-chain, only returning verified proofs to the blockchain, thereby reducing the workload on the blockchain, increasing transaction speed, and lowering costs.
Traditional blockchain operations require each node to execute and verify every transaction, resulting in a significant amount of redundant computation and severely limiting network throughput. Brevis breaks this bottleneck by migrating data-intensive, high-cost computations off-chain to a high-performance, low-cost off-chain engine.
02 Real-time Proof: An Industry-First Technological Milestone
In October 2025, Brevis achieved a breakthrough in the industry, as its Pico Prism zkVM became the world’s first product to achieve 99.6% proof coverage on the current Ethereum mainnet blocks, while reducing hardware costs by 50%.
This breakthrough means that Brevis has moved from the theoretical research phase to the production-ready infrastructure phase, eliminating the key bottleneck in the transition of Ethereum to the zero-knowledge verification base layer.
Specifically, Pico Prism is capable of averaging the proof of 45 million gas blocks in 6.9 seconds, far exceeding the competitors’ proof coverage rate of 40.9% for 36 million gas blocks.
The implementation of real-time proof lays a solid foundation for the future scalability of Ethereum. The Ethereum Foundation clearly outlined its goals in its roadmap for July 2025: 99% coverage, proof time within 10 seconds, and hardware costs below $100,000.
Brevis is currently only 2.2 percentage points away from this goal.
03 Ecological Applications: From Concept to Large-Scale Implementation
Brevis is not just a technical concept; it is an infrastructure that has already been put into actual production. The platform has generated over 147 million zero-knowledge proofs and distributed $238 million in rewards through a trustless verification mechanism, serving over 195,000 users.
Currently, Brevis has integrated more than 20 mainstream protocols, including BNB Chain, PancakeSwap, Linea, Uniswap, Usual, Euler, MetaMask, etc.
These integrations demonstrate the diverse applications of Brevis in real-world scenarios:
- Personalized DeFi Experience: Decentralized exchanges (DEX) can now offer volume-based discounts and loyalty reward programs, which are nearly impossible to achieve in traditional on-chain environments.
- Trustless reward system: The protocol mathematically guarantees fairness and securely distributes hundreds of millions in rewards.
- Historical data access capability: Smart contracts can now query and verify historical blockchain data without trust, greatly expanding the possibilities of applications.
04 Community Incentives: The Proving Grounds Event Launch
To showcase the achievements of ZK technology in practical applications, Brevis officially launched the "The Proving Grounds" community incentive program on October 13, 2025, which is a comprehensive community event covering more than 20 blockchain protocols.
Brevis co-founder and CEO Michael emphasized: "The Proving Grounds is not a virtual interactive testnet event. This event allows users to directly participate in real applications that are already operational."
The event is divided into two independent phases:
- Phase 1: Basic Training (October 13, 2025 to November 2, 2025): The three-week Basic Training focuses on building community through social interaction tasks.
- Phase 2: Field Operations (Launch on November 3, 2025): The second phase introduces on-chain interactions with Brevis-driven multi-chain applications, based on real application protocols, serving real users.
The Brevis Sparks earned by participants through the activity will determine their eligibility and allocation amount for the airdrop at TGE. The activity also implements a strict anti-witch mechanism to ensure that rewards are only distributed to genuine and active community members.
05 Market Response: Gate Ecosystem and Institutional Dynamics
While infrastructure projects like Brevis have made breakthroughs, Gate and its platform token GT have also shown positive development trends.
The GT one-year consensus price target has been raised to 30.0084 USD, an increase of 6.29% from the previous estimate of 28.2336 USD.
This positive adjustment is closely related to the recent launch of a series of new products in the Gate ecosystem, including Gate Layer, Gate Perp DEX, and Gate Fun. These new products have driven a continuous increase in the ecological demand for GT, which serves as the only Gas token for Gate Layer.
The interest of institutions in GT is also steadily increasing, with 236 institutional entities reporting holdings of GT, an increase of 8 institutions compared to the previous quarter, a growth of 3.51%.
It is worth noting that the Crypto Index Fund (CIF) - Global Digital Asset Index Fund holds 5.269 million GT, accounting for 1.27% of the circulating supply.
06 Future Outlook: The Broad Prospects of ZK Co-processors
The breakthrough of Brevis is just the beginning of the vast prospects for trustless off-chain computation. As Ethereum and other blockchain networks continue to evolve, the infrastructure role of ZK co-processors will become increasingly important.
Web3 applications can achieve seamless scaling while maintaining L1 security and trust assumptions through platforms like Brevis.
In the future, with the further optimization of proof technology and the continuous decline in hardware costs, we have reason to believe that:
- The blockchain gas limit can be safely increased, exceeding the current limit of 45 million gas per block;
- Average transaction fees will decrease significantly.
- Complex DeFi operations will become economically viable;
- Smart contracts can access historical data without restrictions.
- The privacy protection agreement can be deployed without exceeding the user’s budget.
Future Outlook
As Pico Prism successfully transitions real-time proof from theoretical research to production environments, Brevis is quietly paving the way for a fundamental transformation of blockchain infrastructure. As hundreds of developers have deployed next-generation applications using Brevis’s infrastructure, the era of ZK co-processors has arrived—this is not a technology of tomorrow, but a reality happening today.
