TL;DR: Pico 3.0 brings real-time Ethereum proving down to a single machine with just 4 GPUs. On the same 7,200 mainnet blocks we used for Pico Prism 2.1, it proves 99% of them within 9.10 seconds, against 9.14 seconds on 2.1’s 16 GPUs. It runs on a completely new proving core and reaches 100 bits… Read more

This summer, AutoEng, an autonomous optimization agent, significantly reduced costs associated with quantum attacks on ECDSA cryptography, achieving an 86.1% improvement. The results, led by engineer Zhao Huang, demonstrate the effectiveness of AI-human collaboration in tackling complex, open research problems, with findings published on arXiv and acknowledged publicly. Read more

Pico Prism 2.1 achieves a significant milestone by proving 99.9% of Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds at a 60M gas limit. This new version averages 4.87 seconds for proving time, reduced by more than 20% from its predecessor. The improvements stemmed largely from AutoEng, an autonomous AI engineering agent, showcasing advancements in real-time… Read more