{"id":12487,"date":"2025-02-11T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:46:42","slug":"brevis-unveils-pico-the-next-generation-of-zkvms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12487","title":{"rendered":"Brevis Unveils Pico: The Next Generation of zkVMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 Singapore, Singapore, February 11th, 2025]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brevis.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">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<p>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<p>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<p>With Pico, developers create domain-specific proving structures that align proofs with specialized languages or <strong>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<blockquote>\n<p>\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<\/blockquote>\n<p>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<p>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<a href=\"https:\/\/kwenta.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Kwenta<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/celer.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usual.money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Usual<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/algebra.finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Algebra Labs<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/jojo.exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> JoJo Exchange<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustalabs.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Trusta<\/a>, with many others, such as<a href=\"https:\/\/pancakeswap.finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> PancakeSwap<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/celer.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Celer<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/frax.finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Frax<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamma.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Gamma<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/quickswap.exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Quickswap<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mask.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Mask Network<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/kerneldao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Kernel<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/thena.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Thena<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kim.exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Kim Protocol<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/0g.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> 0G<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedrock.technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Bedrock<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/mellow.finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Mellow Finance,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/zettablock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> ZettaBlock<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehemera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Hemera<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/mendi.finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> Mendi Finance<\/a>, building Brevis-powered next-generation products and features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Brevis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p class=\"ql-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brevis.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brevis.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Blog<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/brevisnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Telegram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brevis_zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/brevis-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Github<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/vNUY3AUcvt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Discord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/brevis-unveils-pico-the-next-generation-of-zkvms\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brevis Unveils Pico: The Next Generation of zkVMs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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. 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