PICO PRISM: 99.6% REAL-TIME PROVING FOR ETHEREUM ON CONSUMER HARDWARE

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Brevis achieved 99.6% real-time proving coverage for 45M gas Ethereum blocks using 64 consumer-grade RTX 5090 GPUs across 8 servers, with 96.8% of blocks proven under the Ethereum Foundation's 10-second standard and 6.9-second average proving time. The system delivers 3.4x better performance efficiency than Succinct's SP1 Hypercube state-of-the-art, achieving 98.9% versus 40.9% coverage under 10 seconds for 36M gas blocks, 6.04-second versus 10.3-second average proving time, and $128k versus $256k GPU costs using half the hardware with 64 GPUs instead of 160. Pico Prism's breakthrough comes from completely redesigning the computational pipeline into embarrassingly parallel phases with computation-heavy workloads shifted to GPUs while setup tasks remain on CPUs, delivering near-linear acceleration when scaling across multi-machine, multi-GPU setups. The team's roadmap targets 99% real-time proving with fewer than 16 RTX 5090 GPUs in the coming months while maintaining the Ethereum Foundation's goals of sub-$100k hardware capex and sub-10kW power draw for on-premises proving.