Today we’re publishing more details of $BREV, the native token powering the Brevis ecosystem.
BREV is the core utility and governance asset of Brevis, serving multiple functions within Brevis ProverNet, as detailed in the announcement and whitepaper. To recap, $BREV serves as:
Payment Medium
All fees in Brevis ProverNet are paid in BREV. This covers proof generation, verification, and settlement across zkVM execution, ZK Data Coprocessor queries, and recursive aggregation.
Pricing is determined through a dynamic auction process between proof requesters and provers. Developers pay BREV for compute, provers earn BREV as revenue for delivering verified results.
ProverNet is initially deployed on Base. As network activity grows and reaches sufficient scale, ProverNet will migrate to a dedicated Brevis rollup. At that point, BREV becomes the native gas token for all network transactions including staking, proof submissions, and job settlements.
Staking and Incentive Alignment
Provers must stake BREV or receive delegated stake to qualify for jobs. Staking serves three purposes: Sybil resistance, economic alignment through slashing risk, and capacity signaling where larger stakes unlock access to higher-value workloads.
Token holders who do not run infrastructure can delegate BREV to professional provers and share in proving fee revenue. Delegators earn based on prover performance and must monitor reliability, as delegated stakes are subject to slashing if service-level agreements are breached.
Slashable violations include missing deadlines, exceeding proof size limits, or failing to meet agreed security levels. The slashing rate starts low at 1% and will be adjusted through governance.
Governance
BREV holders vote on critical network parameters. Initial governed parameters include maximum acceptable proof size (under 1 MB), minimum cryptographic security level (above 100-bit), slashing percentage (starting at 1%), and auction market fee (3% of requester payments).
Supply Distribution
Total supply: 1,000,000,000 BREV
| Allocation | Description | Percentage |
| Ecosystem Development | Funds ecosystem growth, research and development, strategic partners, initial market making, and long-term protocol expansion. | 37% |
| Community Incentives | Covers rewards for provers, stakers, and community contributors and developer integrations. | 28.70% |
| Team | Allocated to current and future core developers and contributors of Brevis. | 20% |
| Investors | Seed investors. | 10.80% |
| Airdrops | Initial airdrops allocations of different categories to qualifying contributors and community members. | 3.5% |
Ecosystem Development and Community Incentives vest linearly over 24 months after an initial unlock at TGE, with 14.50% and 7.50% circulating at launch respectively. 3% of the airdrops will be unlocked at TGE with the remaining 0.5% released at the 6th month after TGE. Team and Investor allocations are fully locked for the first year with no initial unlock, followed by 24-month linear vesting. At TGE, the circulating supply is 25% of the total supply.
Stay tuned for our airdrop registration portal, launching soon.
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