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race to mainnet-grade L1 zkEVMs
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| zkVM | guest | cluster | soundcalc | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Axiom Axiom 16x5090 | OpenVM 2.0 | revm | 16 x 16x NVIDIA 5090s | 95.06% | 95.06% | $0.0118 | |
ZisK ZisK Sevilla Cloud Cluster | ZisK | revm | 24 GPU | 90.42% | 100.00% | $0.0346 | |
Brevis Pico 16x5090 | Pico | revm | 16 x 16x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 9355 32-Core Processor | 75.28% | 100.00% | $0.0255 |
evaluated vs. eligible provers
weekly eligibility for all evaluated 1:1 multi-GPU provers
evaluated7 provers
eligible3 provers
ZisK Sevilla Cloud Cluster
82%
Airbender 8x5090
18%
Axiom 16x5090
9%
Pico 16x5090
9%
ZKsync Airbender 2 GPU
0%
Zilkworm Airbender ZKsync 2GPU
0%
zilkworm-airbender-2-gpus
0%
eligible
not eligible
Key insight: Each segment is one weekly snapshot. a filled segment means the prover met eligibility thresholds that week. Gaps reveal weeks where performance or liveness dropped below requirements.
RTP prover performance
aggregated success rate for all evaluated provers
251,335proofs
≤10 secs
67.9%stunned
10.2%paralyzed
0.03%offline
21.9%current:67.9% sub-10s
target:≥70%
Key insight: Green shows sub-10s successes (the goal). Yellow (stunners) and red (paralyzers) should be minimized. A healthy cohort is ≥70% green.
proof time distribution
timing across blocks for all evaluated provers
total proofs196,207
eligible170,657
eligible rate87%
≤10s (RTP eligible)
>10s (stunners)
Key insight: Green bars above the threshold are RTP-eligible. Most proofs should cluster in the 8-10s bucket. If 0-5s grows, proving is getting faster. If gray bars grow, investigate the cause.