Bitcoin’s bear market has been framed by a familiar prism: the traditional four-year cycle. Yet proponents argue that institutional demand, particularly via BTC-focused exchange-traded funds, has muted volatility and may shape the path of prices through the next cycle. In a recent discussion,

Bitcoin’s bear market has been framed by a familiar prism: the traditional four-year cycle. Yet proponents argue that institutional demand, particularly via BTC-focused exchange-traded funds, has muted volatility and may shape the path of prices through the next cycle. In a recent discussion,

SoftBank in talks to add $30 billion investment in OpenAI, having sold $5.8 billion worth of NVIDIA stock and reduced T-Mobile holdings for cash. OpenAI's valuation is expected to reach $750 billion, surpassing Arm to become SoftBank's largest holding (accounting for over 30%). S&P warns that BB+ credit rating faces downward pressure. Following the news, SoftBank's stock price rose 8.8%. OpenAI launches research tool Prism.

Brevis adopts the "off-chain computation on-chain verification" model, combining versatility and optimization, utilizing Pico zkVM to drop the development threshold for ZK applications, accelerating the verification speed of Ethereum L1 through Pico Prism, enhancing scalability, unlocking more application scenarios such as DeFi and on-chain games, and gradually deploying multiple collaborations and implementations.

Brevis has built an initial moat on both "performance reproducibility" and "business feasibility," constructing a general verifiable computing infrastructure centered around zero-knowledge computation. (Background: Ethereum was praised by Vitalik Buterin for Polygon in response to the recent controversy: significant contributions to ZK, not just boring finance) (Additional context: Vitalik Buterin wrote a lengthy article: the GKR cryptographic protocol can quickly prove Ethereum, zk-ML is accelerating AI LLM) Brevis has established an initial moat on both "performance reproducibility" and "business feasibility": Pico/Prism has firmly secured the top tier in the L1 RTP race, while zkCoprocessor opens up high-frequency, reusable commercial scenarios. "Off-chain computation + on-chain verification" for trusted computing (Verifiable

On October 15, 2025, Vitalik Buterin made a rare public statement for a specific project, and this time he chose the rising star in the ZK track — Brevis. This ZK computing layer, claimed to be the "greatest hope for Ethereum scalability x100," quickly became the market focus due to its astonishing performance, achieving an average proof time of 6.9 seconds with the zkVM Pico Prism under a cluster of 64 RTX 5090 GPUs. However, behind the halo of Vitalik's endorsement and the $7.5 million funding, its undisclosed Token economic model and highly hardware-dependent technical path pose core challenges that the project cannot avoid.

Author: Deng Tong, Golden Finance On October 15th, Brevis launched the "Pico Prism" technology product, which garnered a collective call from the Ethereum official team and sparked heated discussions within the community. On October 16, the official Ethereum account retweeted a tweet from Brevis about "Pico Prism" with the caption: "This is a significant step towards the future of Ethereum. Zero-knowledge proof technologies like Pico Prism will enable Ethereum to scale to meet global demand while still maintaining trust and decentralization." On October 15th, Vitalik retweeted and posted: "I am very pleased to see @brevis\_zk's Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM validation field! This is an important step forward in the speed and diversity of ZK-EVM validation." Ethereum core developer Justin Drake also joined the call.

The Brevis team released the distributed multi-GPU zkVM Pico Prism in October 2025, achieving a significant breakthrough in Ethereum block proof speed, with 99.6% of Ethereum blocks being proven in an average of 6.9 seconds, high compatibility, and halved costs. This technological innovation has moved ZK from laboratory technology to production-level tools, receiving high praise from Vitalik and the Ethereum official team. As a ZK data computation and verification platform, Brevis has completed $7.5 million in seed round financing and recently launched the Sparks points airdrop activity, where users can obtain future token airdrop eligibility through social and ecological interactions.

Pico Prism achieved 99.6% real-time proving under 12 seconds using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs on 45M gas blocks. Hardware costs dropped to $128K from $256K, making real-time proving more accessible to smaller operators. Upcoming upgrades and ZK proofs could let validators verify blocks on 16 GPUs using unde

Ethereum scaling company Brevis launched Pico Prism on October 15, a new type of Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) for instant proofs. The technology utilizes 64 Nvidia RTX 5090 consumer gaming GPUs, achieving 99.6% instant proofs in under 12 seconds during tests conducted in September, replacing previous solutions that required expensive supercomputers.