Brevis closes $7.5M funding round to develop verifiable computing

Verifiable computing project Brevis announced the closing of its seed funding round led by  Polychain Capital and Binance Labs.

According to a Nov. 11 announcement, the funding round has also seen the participation of IOSG, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, and Hashkey, as well as a number of angel investors. A Polychain representative said:

"Brevis is pioneering a transformative approach to verifiable off-chain computation, creating unprecedented scalability and functionality for blockchain applications. [...] Brevis stands out with its innovative use of ZK Proofs to bring complex, data-driven computation to smart contracts in a trust-free way. [...] We believe Brevis’s vision will redefine what's possible for blockchain developers and unlock a new wave of advanced decentralized applications."

Brevis is developing a verifiable computing platform aiming to bring infinite scalability to existing blockchains without fragmenting their state or liquidity. With this protocol in place, decentralized applications (DApps) can offload computation off-chain while holding on to their trustless and verifiable nature at a low cost.

Brevis’ system also promises low-cost, with its plans to its employment of zero-knowledge proofs to render the computations verifiable. On-chain smart contracts can then verify these proofs, allowing the DApps to use off-chain computation without compromising their security and trustlessness.

Developers of the protocol launched a zero-knowledge coprocessor that allows smart contracts to access and run arbitrary computation on historical on-chain data including transactions, events and states. The platform’s software development kit allows quick deployment of data-driven and computation-intensive DApps without the need to understand zero-knowledge cryptography in-depth. Binance Labs investment director Andy Chang said:

“The current landscape of smart contracts offers very simple computation capabilities and limited data access. Brevis’ move to create a new asynchronous architecture expands the capability of blockchains without introducing any additional trust.”

Brevis already has a few launch partners including Kwenta, JoJo Exchange and Trusta. Other partners include PancakeSwap, Usual Money, Gamma, Quickswap, Tokemak, Algebra, Thena, 0G, and Hemera — all of those projects making use of the new verifiable computation platform.

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