Brevis

• Brevis is a zero-knowledge coprocessor that lets smart contracts run computations off-chain and verify the result on-chain.

• Contracts can access historical and cross-chain data without trusting an oracle to report it honestly.

• BREV is used for proof fees, staking by provers and governance.

• Fixed supply of 1 billion BREV, allocated 37% to ecosystem development, 32.2% to community incentives, 20% to the team and 10.8% to investors.

• Provers stake BREV to participate in the network and earn proof fees.

Pros:

• Verifiable computation removes the trust assumption that oracles otherwise require.

• Used in production by trading and DeFi protocols rather than only demonstrated.

• Decentralised prover network rather than a single proving service.

Cons:

• Proof generation is computationally expensive, which limits which computations are economic.

• Demand depends on applications actually needing verifiable off-chain compute.

• Competes with several other proving networks for the same use cases.

• Exposure to zero-knowledge infrastructure with production usage.

• Prover staking gives the token a function beyond governance.

• Weigh whether verifiable compute demand grows enough to support multiple proving networks.

• Smart contracts can query historical and cross-chain state with a cryptographic proof of correctness rather than an oracle's assertion.

• Smart contracts cannot read their own chain's history cheaply or another chain's state at all.

• Proving the computation off-chain and verifying it on-chain gives access without a trusted reporter.

• Co-founded by Mo Dong, who also co-founded Celer Network.

• Backed by Polychain and IOSG.

• No public ICO. BREV launched in January 2026, distributed through airdrops to provers, stakers and contributors alongside ecosystem allocations.

• Proving cost limits the economic range of use cases.

• Demand for verifiable compute is still emerging.

• Several competing proving networks target the same market.

• Technical complexity raises implementation risk for integrators.