Brevis представил революционную zkEVM-технологию, приближающую Ethereum к 10 000 TPS Translation: Brevis unveils revolutionary zkEVM technology, bringing Ethereum closer to 10,000 TPS

The Ethereum scaling project Brevis has unveiled a new technology called Pico Prism, based on zkEVM. This innovation verifies the correctness of network operations almost instantly using gaming GPUs.

In one test, Pico Prism validated 99.6% of blocks in under 12 seconds, with 96.8% meeting the Ethereum Foundation’s standard of 10 seconds. The average proof time was 6.9 seconds for blocks with a gas limit of 45 million units.

“Ethereum will be one hundred times faster, and soon even your phone could become a full-fledged network node,” noted Brevis representatives.

In the second-largest cryptocurrency network, every validator is compelled to duplicate computational work—re-executing all transactions in a block for its verification. This method demands significant and continuously increasing computing power from every participant.

Pico Prism allows a single node to generate zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs for the correctness of a block. All other nodes can verify this proof in mere fractions of a second without repeating the computations.

The Brevis developers utilized a cluster of 64 Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs, totaling $128,000. This is almost half the cost of the SP1 Hypercube system from Succinct, which was valued at $256,000 and renowned as the premier solution for transaction verification in the second-largest cryptocurrency’s blockchain.

In the upcoming months, the project aims to achieve similar block verification rates using just 16 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Representatives from the Ethereum Foundation have described the development as “a significant achievement.”

“Technologies like Pico Prism will enable the network to scale in alignment with global demand while maintaining decentralization and security,” they added.

The development roadmap for Ethereum envisions a gradual transition for validators from re-executing transactions to simply verifying ZK proofs. This will allow the base layer of the network to reach 10,000 transactions per second (TPS).

Ryan Sean Adams from Bankless anticipates that, if the current pace of development continues, a threefold annual increase in throughput could achieve the target figure by 2029.

“Aggressive, but feasible in our zkEVM world,” he commented.

The upcoming Fusaka update planned for December is expected to simplify the block verification process through EIP-7825, which will set a gas limit of 30 million per transaction. This change will enhance network reliability and reduce the risk of Ethereum becoming overloaded due to resource-intensive operations.

Adams emphasized that the second-largest cryptocurrency network is evolving into a ZK blockchain: the base layer will serve global DeFi with large blocks and smartphone nodes, while a secondary layer will handle all other transactions.

“No other blockchain is following this strategy—using ZK technologies to achieve maximum scalability and decentralization. Bitcoin remains conservative with first-generation cryptography, while Ethereum is actively transitioning to second-generation cryptography. Others scale with node requirements that demand data centers,” he concluded.

It’s worth noting that Vitalik Buterin has identified PeerDAS—a component of Fusaka—as a key element for scaling the network.