Key Highlights
- Brevis and AsterDEX have partnered to enhance speed, privacy, and security issues.
- A core part of this is ProverNet that enables decentralized ZK proof generation, real Ethereum block proving, and reduces hardware costs by up to 50%.
- Brevis’s ZK system supports cross-chain verification and on-chain rewards, making complex DeFi processes fully verifiable and automated.
Decentralized exchanges are addressing long-standing challenges in performance and privacy. Brevis, a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof provider, has partnered with AsterDEX to enhance security, privacy, and transaction speed simultaneously.
According to the announcement on X, Brevis’s system will work with AsterDEX’s trading engine to tackle common issues in speed, privacy, and security. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have long faced a dilemma: trading fast can reduce trust, while fully on-chain transactions are slower and can reveal user activity. Brevis’s technology seeks to address these problems.
According to their team, “Execution can happen at CEX speeds while cryptographic verification follows seconds later. Privacy layers can protect position data without sacrificing transparency on market-wide metrics.” Hence, traders no longer need to choose between centralization-grade experience and decentralized guarantees.
AsterDEX confirmed the partnership, stating, “We’re teaming up with brevis_zk to push on-chain trading past its current ceiling. Their ZK infrastructure and Aster’s trading engine bring CEX-grade performance, on-chain guarantees, and real privacy into one stack.” The collaboration promises faster and more secure on-chain trading without compromising user data.
Brevis proverNet: Enabling verifiable compute
A core element of this upgrade is Brevis ProverNet. Recently, the mainnet beta went live, allowing provers and applications to interact in a decentralized marketplace for ZK proof generation. Provers compete to validate tasks, and payments settle in USDC. “Applications can submit proof requests directly to ProverNet without running their own infrastructure,” the company explained.
Besides enhancing operational efficiency, ProverNet also supports Ethereum block execution proving. Real workloads are being processed from ETHProofs.org, ensuring provers handle genuine demand from day one.
Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has demonstrated 99.6% proving coverage under 12 seconds for Ethereum blocks with a 45 million gas limit. Moreover, real-time coverage reaches 96.8% in under 10 seconds, lowering hardware costs by roughly 50% and preparing Ethereum for future network demands.
CEO Mo Dong emphasized the practical impact: “We’ve built infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This is faster performance leading to economic efficiency that makes real-time proving viable for production deployment.” Consequently, Brevis is bridging the gap between research-level experiments and production-ready applications.
ZK rewards and cross-chain applications
Beyond trading, Brevis has expanded its ZK ecosystem into rewards and cross-chain verification. MetaMask Card users on Linea can earn time-weighted lending incentives, fully verified on-chain.
Similarly, Kernel DAO has used Brevis infrastructure to validate cross-chain validators. Holly, a Web3 analyst, highlighted the broader impact: “Brevis is turning impossible on-chain logic into live production features. The ecosystem is slowly waking up to the fact that brevis_zk is becoming the universal ZK compute layer.”
Brevis and AsterDEX are working together to improve decentralized trading. The update aims to make trades faster, protect user data, and ensure transaction verification across multiple blockchains.
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