SoftBank in talks to add $30 billion investment in OpenAI, having sold $5.8 billion worth of NVIDIA stock and reduced T-Mobile holdings for cash. OpenAI's valuation is expected to reach $750 billion, surpassing Arm to become SoftBank's largest holding (accounting for over 30%). S&P warns that BB+ credit rating faces downward pressure. Following the news, SoftBank's stock price rose 8.8%. OpenAI launches research tool Prism.

In brief OpenAI launched Prism, a free LaTeX-based research platform with GPT-5.2 integrated into scientific workflows. The launch follows OpenAI statements signaling future outcome-based pricing in research and drug discovery. Experts warn of privacy, hallucination, and intellectual

Author: XY Translation: Tim, PANews Entering the bear market for a year It took me some time to convince myself: we are in a bear market, and it has been ongoing for about a year. November 2024 will be a period of market excitement, and the issuance of $TRUMP pushed the market to extreme euphoria, marking the final狂欢 that no one wants to believe. Below, I will explain my perspective. It all started with that old cliché: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This silly phrase has caused huge misconceptions in market analysis, essentially doing more harm than good. It led us to develop path dependence and also caused us to lose the ability to question. Yes, this reliance on historical patterns for prediction is like looking at the world through a prism engraved with old patterns, inevitably leading to misreading the current new reality, and ultimately causing us to overlook the latest driving factors of the market. This is precisely the dangerous root

Brevis adopts the "off-chain computation on-chain verification" model, combining versatility and optimization, utilizing Pico zkVM to drop the development threshold for ZK applications, accelerating the verification speed of Ethereum L1 through Pico Prism, enhancing scalability, unlocking more application scenarios such as DeFi and on-chain games, and gradually deploying multiple collaborations and implementations.

Brevis has built an initial moat on both "performance reproducibility" and "business feasibility," constructing a general verifiable computing infrastructure centered around zero-knowledge computation. (Background: Ethereum was praised by Vitalik Buterin for Polygon in response to the recent controversy: significant contributions to ZK, not just boring finance) (Additional context: Vitalik Buterin wrote a lengthy article: the GKR cryptographic protocol can quickly prove Ethereum, zk-ML is accelerating AI LLM) Brevis has established an initial moat on both "performance reproducibility" and "business feasibility": Pico/Prism has firmly secured the top tier in the L1 RTP race, while zkCoprocessor opens up high-frequency, reusable commercial scenarios. "Off-chain computation + on-chain verification" for trusted computing (Verifiable

On October 15, 2025, Vitalik Buterin made a rare public statement for a specific project, and this time he chose the rising star in the ZK track — Brevis. This ZK computing layer, claimed to be the "greatest hope for Ethereum scalability x100," quickly became the market focus due to its astonishing performance, achieving an average proof time of 6.9 seconds with the zkVM Pico Prism under a cluster of 64 RTX 5090 GPUs. However, behind the halo of Vitalik's endorsement and the $7.5 million funding, its undisclosed Token economic model and highly hardware-dependent technical path pose core challenges that the project cannot avoid.

Author: Deng Tong, Golden Finance On October 15th, Brevis launched the "Pico Prism" technology product, which garnered a collective call from the Ethereum official team and sparked heated discussions within the community. On October 16, the official Ethereum account retweeted a tweet from Brevis about "Pico Prism" with the caption: "This is a significant step towards the future of Ethereum. Zero-knowledge proof technologies like Pico Prism will enable Ethereum to scale to meet global demand while still maintaining trust and decentralization." On October 15th, Vitalik retweeted and posted: "I am very pleased to see @brevis\_zk's Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM validation field! This is an important step forward in the speed and diversity of ZK-EVM validation." Ethereum core developer Justin Drake also joined the call.

Brevis, a ZK full-chain data attestation platform, has exploded in popularity on X recently, fueled by Binance Labs investment and Vitalik Buterin's endorsement of its Pico Prism zkVM for advancing ZK-EVM verification.

Brevis adopts the "off-chain computation and on-chain verification" model, combining versatility and optimization, utilizing Pico zkVM to drop the development threshold for ZK applications, accelerating the verification speed of Ethereum L1 through Pico Prism, enhancing scalability, unlocking more application scenarios such as DeFi and on-chain games, with multiple collaborations and applications already deployed gradually.

The Brevis team released the distributed multi-GPU zkVM Pico Prism in October 2025, achieving a significant breakthrough in Ethereum block proof speed, with 99.6% of Ethereum blocks being proven in an average of 6.9 seconds, high compatibility, and halved costs. This technological innovation has moved ZK from laboratory technology to production-level tools, receiving high praise from Vitalik and the Ethereum official team. As a ZK data computation and verification platform, Brevis has completed $7.5 million in seed round financing and recently launched the Sparks points airdrop activity, where users can obtain future token airdrop eligibility through social and ecological interactions.

Pico Prism achieved 99.6% real-time proving under 12 seconds using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs on 45M gas blocks. Hardware costs dropped to $128K from $256K, making real-time proving more accessible to smaller operators. Upcoming upgrades and ZK proofs could let validators verify blocks on 16 GPUs using unde

Recently, the Ethereum technology community has been discussing "Real-time Proving" (RTP for short). Simply put, it means: we no longer need all Ethereum nodes to spend a lot of resources to "re-execute" every transaction, but instead use a cheaper and faster way to verify a small proof. However, achieving this is very difficult. Previously, even the best-performing technology could only verify about 40% of blocks within 10 seconds, and the hardware costs amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, the Brevis team's new technology Pico Prism has broken the bottleneck: they have achieved for the first time the latest specifications of Ethereum (45M) using consumer-grade graphics cards (64 RTX 5090) that ordinary people can buy.

Ethereum scaling company Brevis launched Pico Prism on October 15, a new type of Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) for instant proofs. The technology utilizes 64 Nvidia RTX 5090 consumer gaming GPUs, achieving 99.6% instant proofs in under 12 seconds during tests conducted in September, replacing previous solutions that required expensive supercomputers.

Brevis is an off-chain data computation and verification platform based on ZK technology, aimed at addressing the challenges of data processing in Ethereum smart contracts. By executing computations off-chain and generating zk-SNARKs, Brevis significantly drops Gas fees and enhances data integrity. Its sub-project, Pico Prism, achieves real-time block proofs at a higher speed and lower cost, aiding Ethereum's scalability while raising the barrier for developers, pushing ZK technology from the laboratory to production-grade applications.

Brevis announced that its Pico Prism zkVM has made breakthrough progress in the field of zk-SNARKs: for the current Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, the proof coverage has reached 99.6%, with 96.8% of the blocks being verifiable under the industry-recognized "real-time" standard of less than 10 seconds. This milestone halves the GPU hardware costs and places Brevis's performance metrics just 2.2% behind the Ethereum Foundation's 2025 proof benchmark. By leveraging encryption proof to extend verification, Brevis is working to solve Ethereum's redundant computation problem, laying the foundation for faster, cheaper, and safer base layer verification.

Brevis’ Pico Prism enhances Ethereum block proving to 99.6% in real-time, slashing hardware costs by 50%. Vitalik Buterin endorses it as essential for scalability and ZK-EVM adoption, enabling cheaper verification and greater decentralization.

A zkVM, or zero-knowledge virtual machine, generates cryptographic proof of proper execution of a program without re-running the computation, opening the door to trustless verification, greater throughput, and more scalable applications. Verifiable computation’s long-term goal is to become the

In Brief Brevis’ Pico Prism zkVM achieves record real-time Ethereum proving, enabling scalable, cost-efficient blockchain verification with reduced hardware requirements. Infrastructure company specializing in smart, verifiable applications using zero-knowledge proofs, Brevis announced that

Written by: Oliver, Mars Finance In the world of cryptocurrency, numbers often hold more power than words. On October 5, 2025, a number shocked the entire market: $200,963,519. This is the total subscription amount received during the community presale of Limitless, a prediction market based on the Base ecosystem. Even more astonishing is that the target financing amount for this presale was only $1 million, meaning the oversubscription multiple reached an incredible 200 times. This is not a simple successful financing event, but a landmark occurrence. It acts like a prism, clearly refracting the convergence of the three strongest narrative forces in the current crypto market: the rapid rise of the Base ecosystem backed by Coinbase, the evolution of prediction markets towards high-frequency "GambleFi", and the emergence of a new community-driven project issuance led by platforms like Kaito AI.

Written by: Oliver, Mars Finance On July 9, 2025, the Hong Kong stock market was enveloped in a strange atmosphere of extremes. On the previous trading day, Jinyong Investment (01328.HK) was like a runaway wild horse, with its stock price soaring from less than 2 HKD to 15 HKD, a surge of more than 6 times, driven by a memorandum of cooperation regarding "stablecoins," pushing its market value to exceed 10 billion HKD at one point. However, just 24 hours later, the dazzling fireworks turned into a cold waterfall, with the stock price plummeting over 40%, trapping countless latecomers at the summit. This thrilling capital roller coaster, like a thunderclap, has shattered the noisy curtain of Hong Kong's "stablecoin concept". It is not only a classic case of speculation and bubbles, but also a prism that reflects the desire, anxiety, and confusion of capital under the grand narrative of Hong Kong's move towards becoming a global Web3 hub. As everyone turns their attention to that claimed number of only "individuals".

A transaction that affects global geopolitical and financial landscapes reveals a glimpse of the hidden power of asset giant BlackRock. This article is sourced from an article by Tencent Prism, organized, translated, and written by wublockchain. (Background summary: Full text of BlackRock CEO's investor letter: Bitcoin is eroding the dollar's reserve status, tokenization will lead the capital revolution) (Background supplement: BlackRock CEO: Asset tokenization is the biggest revolution in finance's future, optimistic about DeFi but concerned about the dollar) In early March, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (00001.HK), controlled by the Li Ka-shing family, announced that it has reached a principle agreement with a consortium led by BlackRock to engage in "exclusive negotiations" to sell 80% of its assets in Hutchison Port Holdings and 90% of its equity in the Panama port company under Hutchison Port. The announcement stated that this transaction would bring CK Hutchison 19 billion USD in cash. This is

A top-ranking investor has purchased $PRISM tokens worth 203.92 $SOL, which has boosted $PRISM to be the fifth-largest asset in their portfolio, valued at $33.43 million. The investor's holdings are now heavily focused on the Swarms ecosystem, with $SWARMS yielding a floating profit of $27.07 million. This strategic shift could have significant implications for the token’s trajectory in the market. 

As AI crypto-tokens continue to gain market attention, a whale has spent massive thousands of dollars to buy these new tokens. ZAILGO, MAX, and PRISM are increasingly getting the market spotlight, an indicator that they may see a massive bull run in 2025. Whale buys new AI tokens Today, January

This interview is Central Bank from Nicolai Tangen, Chief Investment Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, on the podcast In Good Company. Norges Central Bank Investment Management manages the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, which has reached 16 trillion Norwegian kroner (10.78 trillion yuan coins) as of the beginning of this year, and according to Prism statistics, its return will reach 16% in 2023, and the annual floating profit will be 2,222 billion Norwegian kroner (1.5 trillion yuan coins), a record high. From a more intuitive point of view, it is equivalent to giving 5.534 million people in Norway, each earning 27

As the key entrance to the Crypto/Web3 ecosystem, wallets have always been the focus of competition among entrepreneurial teams. In addition to wallet products that support new public chains, there are also many teams hoping to completely improve the MetaMask experience (such as Rabby). While the wallet team is still focusing on account abstraction, the narrative of higher-dimensional chain abstraction has gradually attracted the attention of the community. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin recently wrote an article to discuss the concept of chain abstraction and expressed NEAR's vision in realizing chain abstraction. In addition, projects such as ZetaChain, modular L1 Particle Network, and full-chain ledger Cycle Network, which were launched on the main network last month, are all exploring the realization of chain abstraction.