Brevis and AsterDEX Turbocharge On-Chain Trading Security in Major Infrastructure Upgrade

On-chain trading just got a serious security upgrade. Two key players in the decentralized finance (DeFi) stack, Brevis and AsterDEX, have joined forces to harden the infrastructure underpinning billions in daily crypto transactions. This isn't just a patch—it's a fundamental rethinking of how data integrity and execution security work together.

From Trust to Verification

The core of the upgrade hinges on Brevis's co-processor technology. Instead of trusting that off-chain data is correct, AsterDEX can now verify it cryptographically on-chain. This cuts out a major attack vector—manipulated or incorrect data feeds that have led to millions in losses across DeFi. Think of it as moving from a handshake agreement to a notarized, blockchain-verified contract for every piece of information a trade depends on.

Execution Gets an Armored Vest

For AsterDEX, this integration means its automated market maker (AMM) and order book models operate with a new layer of armor. Trade execution, liquidity provisioning, and settlement now leverage verified data, making manipulation exponentially harder. It's a direct shot at the 'garbage in, garbage out' problem that plagues many algorithmic systems—even the smartest contract can't save you from bad data.

The New Standard for DeFi Primitives

This move signals a maturation phase for DeFi infrastructure. Security is no longer just about bug-free code; it's about verifiable data integrity across the entire stack. The partnership sets a new benchmark, forcing other protocols to ask: if your trading engine can't cryptographically prove its data is sound, are you really building for the future or just replicating the opaque risks of traditional finance with a crypto coat of paint? After all, in TradFi, they call unverified data 'research,' and charge you a 2% management fee for the privilege.

The upgrade is live. The bar for secure on-chain trading has been raised, and the industry's laggards are now on the clock.

Brevis proverNet: Enabling verifiable compute

A Core element of this upgrade is Brevis ProverNet. Recently, the mainnet beta went live, allowing provers and applications to interact in a decentralized marketplace for ZK proof generation. Provers compete to validate tasks, and payments settle in USDC. “Applications can submit proof requests directly to ProverNet without running their own infrastructure,” the company explained.

A few weeks ago we revealed the ProverNet whitepaper for the first time.

Today, Brevis ProverNet mainnet beta is live!

Our decentralized marketplace for ZK proof generation is now open to provers & applications🧵 pic.twitter.com/58PmwAUsvb

Besides enhancing operational efficiency, ProverNet also supports ethereum block execution proving. Real workloads are being processed from ETHProofs.org, ensuring provers handle genuine demand from day one. 

Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has demonstrated 99.6% proving coverage under 12 seconds for Ethereum blocks with a 45 million gas limit. Moreover, real-time coverage reaches 96.8% in under 10 seconds, lowering hardware costs by roughly 50% and preparing Ethereum for future network demands.

CEO Mo Dong emphasized the practical impact: “We’ve built infrastructure that can handle what Ethereum is actually producing today. This is faster performance leading to economic efficiency that makes real-time proving viable for production deployment.” Consequently, Brevis is bridging the gap between research-level experiments and production-ready applications.

ZK rewards and cross-chain applications

Beyond trading, Brevis has expanded its ZK ecosystem into rewards and cross-chain verification. MetaMask Card users on Linea can earn time-weighted lending incentives, fully verified on-chain. 

Similarly, Kernel DAO has used Brevis infrastructure to validate cross-chain validators. Holly, a Web3 analyst, highlighted the broader impact: “Brevis is turning impossible on-chain logic into live production features. The ecosystem is slowly waking up to the fact that brevis_zk is becoming the universal ZK compute layer.”

people still underestimate what @brevis_zk is actually unlocking

most think it’s just zk rewards, but Brevis is turning impossible onchain logic into live production features:

➥ Personalized DEX fees, time-weighted lending incentives, cross-chain validator checks, and… pic.twitter.com/jlqjRV8FVh

Brevis and AsterDEX are working together to improve decentralized trading. The update aims to make trades faster, protect user data, and ensure transaction verification across multiple blockchains.

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