DeepSeek Innovation and Endogenous Dilemmas: Navigating Crypto in the Fog
DeepSeek's success has proven to us that innovation remains the most effective path to break through seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Why AI is DeFi’s Next Milestone?
As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...
Surpassing Grass? Nexus Raises $27.2 Million and Ends Testnet, with Updated Roadmap Gaining Traction
Nexus Updates Nexus is set to launch the Nexus L1 blockchain. The testnet, Nexus Testnet II, was open from 1:00 AM Beijing time on February 19th to 8:00 AM on February 22nd. In the coming weeks, more details regarding the Layer 1 architecture, roadmap, and technical elements will be shared. This morning, Nexus announced the end of the testnet. Founder Daniel Marin declared that the Devnet is now live, with activities that may not be trackable. It is intended to serve as an experimental sandbo...
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ZK Isn’t Rocket Science Anymore—Brevis Is Turning It into a Plug-and-Play Tool
DeepSeek Innovation and Endogenous Dilemmas: Navigating Crypto in the Fog
DeepSeek's success has proven to us that innovation remains the most effective path to break through seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Why AI is DeFi’s Next Milestone?
As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...
Surpassing Grass? Nexus Raises $27.2 Million and Ends Testnet, with Updated Roadmap Gaining Traction
Nexus Updates Nexus is set to launch the Nexus L1 blockchain. The testnet, Nexus Testnet II, was open from 1:00 AM Beijing time on February 19th to 8:00 AM on February 22nd. In the coming weeks, more details regarding the Layer 1 architecture, roadmap, and technical elements will be shared. This morning, Nexus announced the end of the testnet. Founder Daniel Marin declared that the Devnet is now live, with activities that may not be trackable. It is intended to serve as an experimental sandbo...
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The Problem: Blockchains Are Slow Calculators
Think of a blockchain as a shared ledger where every node re-checks every line. That works for simple transfers, but ask it to crunch big data, AI inference, or multi-year trading histories and it chokes—slow and ruinously expensive.
Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs were supposed to be the pocket calculator: outsource the heavy math, get a tiny receipt that anyone can verify. The catch? Until now, building that calculator required a PhD in cryptography.
Brevis: The “ZK Calculator” for Web3
Brevis is an infrastructure platform whose sole mission is to make ZK boring—i.e., invisible, reliable and easy. It ships two core products that abstract away all the gnarly math.
Product 1: Pico zkVM – A Universal ZK Engine
What it is: A general-purpose zero-knowledge virtual machine written in Rust.
Performance: 70-155 % faster on CPU than RISC0 / SP1; single-GPU record holder.
Flexibility: plug-and-play proof systems (STARK, CircleSTARK, etc.) and custom “co-processor” modules.
Developer UX: write business logic in Rust—no cryptography degree required.
Product 2: ZK Data Coprocessor – One-Click Complex Analytics
If Pico is the scientific calculator, the Coprocessor is the graphing one with all the advanced functions pre-loaded.
Out-of-the-box APIs let dApps:
Auto-calculate user trading scores, loyalty tiers, gas rebates.
Aggregate balances & histories across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon.
Generate proofs for reward distributions, identity claims, cross-chain incentives.
Headline integrations: PancakeSwap, Thena, OpenEden, Euler, Kernel, Vana. No custom circuits, no infra headaches—just call the API and drop the proof on-chain.
Live Numbers & Traction
8 k DAU
50 M proofs generated
70 k+ total users
5 chains supported (BNB, ETH, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon)
In the BNB ecosystem alone, Brevis already underpins millions of daily interactions through PancakeSwap and Kernel. Ethereum’s “giga-gas” roadmap has also adopted Pico zkVM as a scaling workhorse.
Beyond Crypto: AI & Web2 Use-Cases
AI: cryptographically prove every model inference—critical for DeFi credit scoring or medical diagnostics.
Cloud: verify that AWS really ran the job you paid for.
Supply-chain: generate tamper-proof compliance reports at API speed.
Bottom Line
ZK used to feel like the final boss of a math Olympiad. Brevis turned it into a utility library. Whether you’re a DeFi dev, an AI engineer or a TradFi auditor, you can now “just add ZK” the same way you’d add Stripe—no moon-math required.
The Problem: Blockchains Are Slow Calculators
Think of a blockchain as a shared ledger where every node re-checks every line. That works for simple transfers, but ask it to crunch big data, AI inference, or multi-year trading histories and it chokes—slow and ruinously expensive.
Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs were supposed to be the pocket calculator: outsource the heavy math, get a tiny receipt that anyone can verify. The catch? Until now, building that calculator required a PhD in cryptography.
Brevis: The “ZK Calculator” for Web3
Brevis is an infrastructure platform whose sole mission is to make ZK boring—i.e., invisible, reliable and easy. It ships two core products that abstract away all the gnarly math.
Product 1: Pico zkVM – A Universal ZK Engine
What it is: A general-purpose zero-knowledge virtual machine written in Rust.
Performance: 70-155 % faster on CPU than RISC0 / SP1; single-GPU record holder.
Flexibility: plug-and-play proof systems (STARK, CircleSTARK, etc.) and custom “co-processor” modules.
Developer UX: write business logic in Rust—no cryptography degree required.
Product 2: ZK Data Coprocessor – One-Click Complex Analytics
If Pico is the scientific calculator, the Coprocessor is the graphing one with all the advanced functions pre-loaded.
Out-of-the-box APIs let dApps:
Auto-calculate user trading scores, loyalty tiers, gas rebates.
Aggregate balances & histories across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon.
Generate proofs for reward distributions, identity claims, cross-chain incentives.
Headline integrations: PancakeSwap, Thena, OpenEden, Euler, Kernel, Vana. No custom circuits, no infra headaches—just call the API and drop the proof on-chain.
Live Numbers & Traction
8 k DAU
50 M proofs generated
70 k+ total users
5 chains supported (BNB, ETH, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon)
In the BNB ecosystem alone, Brevis already underpins millions of daily interactions through PancakeSwap and Kernel. Ethereum’s “giga-gas” roadmap has also adopted Pico zkVM as a scaling workhorse.
Beyond Crypto: AI & Web2 Use-Cases
AI: cryptographically prove every model inference—critical for DeFi credit scoring or medical diagnostics.
Cloud: verify that AWS really ran the job you paid for.
Supply-chain: generate tamper-proof compliance reports at API speed.
Bottom Line
ZK used to feel like the final boss of a math Olympiad. Brevis turned it into a utility library. Whether you’re a DeFi dev, an AI engineer or a TradFi auditor, you can now “just add ZK” the same way you’d add Stripe—no moon-math required.
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