{"id":43531,"date":"2025-02-11T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=43531"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:36:27","slug":"brevis-unveils-pico-the-next-generation-of-zkvms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=43531","title":{"rendered":"Brevis Unveils Pico: The Next Generation of zkVMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 Singapore, Singapore, February 11th, 2025]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brevis<\/a> has introduced Pico v1.0, a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) designed for modular and flexible verifiable computing. Pico is the first zkVM that allows developers to customize prime fields, proving systems, proving workflows, app-level coprocessor integrations, and access to historical on-chain data, giving applications full control over how zero-knowledge proofs are generated and optimized.<\/p>\n

Unlike traditional zkVM\u2019s one-size-fits-all approach, Pico constructs zkVMs modularly, a customizable design that achieves the world\u2019s fastest performance on CPU performing 84% to 155% faster than the next best solution, with GPU acceleration to be rolled out in future updates to Pico. This gives on-chain protocols and dApps a zkVM that allows for optimized efficiency, expressiveness, and trustlessness.<\/p>\n

Pico\u2019s modular \u201cglue-and-coprocessor\u201d architecture combines a general-purpose zkVM with high-performance specialized circuits, enabling flexible proving fields, systems, and workflows. Unlike traditional zkVMs reliant on low-level precompiles, Pico offers app-specific circuits tailored to diverse application needs. Developers can integrate custom circuits as coprocessors or precompiles, using built-in options or custom implementations. This design boosts performance 35X for historical blockchain data processing, significantly reducing proof generation time.<\/p>\n

With Pico, developers create domain-specific proving structures that align proofs with specialized languages or custom proof systems<\/strong>. For the first time, a zkVM supports customizable proving systems and prime fields without code modifications. This flexibility enhances zero-knowledge cryptography, optimizing speed, proof size, and efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cPico represents a shift in how zkVMs are designed and deployed,\u201d said Michael Dong, Co-founder of Brevis. \u201cBringing a modular, app-aware zkVM with built-in zkCoprocessors, we\u2019re optimizing performance and creating a never before seen level of customization in verifiable computation for Web3.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pico also institutes ProverChain, a customizable proving workflow. This customizable sequence generates a proof to verify a statement\u2019s validity, allowing developers to fine-tune proof generation for speed, memory, or size, adjust proving steps to optimize cost and scalability, and bypass unnecessary proof compression in the scenario of off-chain verification.<\/p>\n

Pico supports RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture with a modular design, and Rust, a systems programming language emphasizing safety and performance, enabling developers to build zk applications using familiar development setups. Web3 protocols and dApps have already launched Brevis-powered features on mainnet, including Kwenta<\/a>,<\/a> Usual<\/a>, Algebra Labs<\/a>, JoJo Exchange<\/a>, and Trusta<\/a>, with many others, such as PancakeSwap<\/a>, Celer<\/a>, Frax<\/a>, Gamma<\/a>, Quickswap<\/a>, Mask Network<\/a>, Kernel<\/a>, Thena<\/a>, Kim Protocol<\/a>, 0G<\/a>, Bedrock<\/a>, Mellow Finance,<\/a> ZettaBlock<\/a>, Hemera<\/a>, and Mendi Finance<\/a>, building Brevis-powered next-generation products and features.<\/p>\n

About Brevis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine that brings limitless computation capacity to existing smart contract blockchains. Utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, Brevis offloads data-intensive, costly computations from on-chain environments to a drastically lower-cost off-chain engine, and empowers Web3 applications to scale seamlessly while preserving the security of L1 trust assumptions.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a> | Blog<\/a> | Telegram<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | Github<\/a> | Discord<\/a><\/p>\n

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[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 Singapore, Singapore, February 11th, 2025] Brevis has introduced Pico v1.0, a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) designed for modular and flexible verifiable computing. Pico is the first zkVM that allows developers to customize prime fields, proving systems, proving workflows, app-level coprocessor integrations, and access to historical on-chain data, giving applications full control over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}