ZK didn’t just “arrive” it leveled up. a16z’s new State of Crypto lays out the 40-year arc; Brevis is already writing the next page with Pico Prism. @brevis_zk ❯ Context: a16z’s 2025 report frames a mainstream, scaled, multi-chain world useful lens for what “real-time proving” needs to look like in production. ❯ Receipt #1: Brevis’s Pico Prism proved 99.6% of Ethereum L1 blocks under 12s (avg 6.9s) on consumer-grade hardware (64× RTX 5090). That’s validator-grade speed, today. ❯ Receipt #2: Earlier Pico-GPU work already beat SP1 by ~25% on a single 4090 and was proving every 100th mainnet block via EthProofs evidence the curve is real, not a one-off. ❯ Near horizon: Brevis’s own AMA line “months, not years” to sub-10s on home-friendly rigs tracks with these numbers. Phone-native proving is a stretch goal, but momentum is unmistakable. --- What it unlocks: wallets and dApps that prove, not re-execute private rewards, on-chain credit, fraud-proof oracles, even consumer UX that verifies locally then syncs. The gap between “passive holders” and daily on-chain users shrinks when proofs fit the devices people already own. Claim check: a16z shows crypto grown-up; Prism’s timings say the infra is catching up. If Brevis can keep cutting hardware requirements while holding sub-10s, mobile-first proving goes from “someday” to ship day. I’m tracking proof latency vs. hardware classes next if you’re testing Prism on mid-tier GPUs, DM me results.