Brevis releases BREV token economic model, ZK co-processor ecosystem welcomes the "heart of value"?

Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) track core infrastructure Brevis officially releases its native ecosystem token BREV with a complete economic model. BREV has a total supply of 1 billion tokens and serves as the payment medium, staking asset, and governance credential for the Brevis ProverNet decentralized proof network. The token launch marks a significant step for Brevis toward an open proof market led by the community and aligned through economic incentives. The initial circulating supply is 25% of the total, with team and investor tokens locked for one year, demonstrating the project’s commitment to long-term development. With the launch of the mainnet testnet, BREV is expected to become a key value carrier connecting data, computation, and blockchain trust verification.

What is Brevis? An In-Depth Look at Its ZK Co-Processor Vision

Before diving into the BREV token, it’s essential to understand the core problem Brevis aims to solve. Currently, blockchain smart contracts are limited by their closed nature and limited computational capacity, making it difficult and costly to directly access and verify off-chain data and complex computations. Brevis aims to build a universal ZK Data Co-Processor using zero-knowledge proof technology, enabling any smart contract to trustlessly consume customized data from any blockchain and perform complex off-chain computations, ultimately submitting only verifiable proof results back on-chain.

This vision is realized through its core component, Brevis ProverNet. ProverNet is an open, decentralized marketplace of provers. In simple terms, when a developer (proof requester) needs to generate a zero-knowledge proof for an application, they can submit a task to ProverNet; professional prover nodes (Provers) in the network compete (via a dynamic auction mechanism) to take on these tasks, generate proofs, and earn rewards. This model not only professionalizes and scales the expensive ZK proof generation work to reduce costs but also ensures network security and reliability through a token economic model. Therefore, the launch of BREV tokens injects “fuel” and “lubricant” into this intricate economic flywheel.

The Three Core Roles of BREV: Payment, Staking, and Governance

BREV is not just a governance token but a practical asset deeply embedded in the operation of Brevis ProverNet. Its design reflects careful economic considerations aimed at aligning the interests of various network participants.

First, as a payment medium, BREV is the “hard currency” for settling all services within the Brevis ecosystem. Whether it’s developers paying for proof generation or data queries, or provers earning service fees, all transactions are settled in BREV. Its pricing is determined through dynamic auctions between requesters and provers, ensuring market efficiency. Notably, as the network develops, ProverNet plans to migrate from the current Base network to a dedicated Brevis Rollup. At that point, BREV will be upgraded to the native gas token of this Rollup, used to pay for all network transactions including staking, proof submission, and task settlement, significantly expanding its utility and demand scenarios.

Second, as a staking and incentive alignment tool, BREV acts as a “ticket” for participating in network security and earning rewards. Provers must stake a certain amount of BREV or receive delegated staking from others to qualify for proof bidding. This mechanism serves three purposes: resisting Sybil attacks, enforcing economic constraints via slashing risks, and allocating high-value workloads based on staking size. Ordinary token holders who do not run infrastructure can choose to delegate BREV to reputable professional provers, sharing in their proof fee income, similar to staking rewards in PoS networks. However, delegators also bear oversight responsibilities; if their delegated prover fails to meet service level agreements (e.g., timeout, proof overrun), their staked tokens are also subject to slashing, initially set at 1%.

Finally, as a governance credential, BREV holders have voting rights over key network parameters. Early governance parameters include: maximum acceptable proof size (currently under 1MB), minimum cryptographic security level (above 100 bits), slashing ratio, and auction market fee (currently 3% paid by requesters). This design entrusts the community with the long-term development direction of the network.

In-Depth Token Economics: Supply, Distribution, and Unlock Schedule

A project’s token economic model is fundamental to its long-term value. BREV’s design seeks a balance between incentivizing early participants and ensuring the network’s sustainable growth, with detailed distribution plans worth careful consideration.

BREV’s total supply is fixed at 1 billion tokens, allocated to ecosystem development, community incentives, team, and investors. The ecosystem development fund accounts for the largest share at 37%, used for ecosystem growth, R&D, strategic partnerships, and market making—key reserves for broad adoption. Community incentives make up 28.70%, rewarding provers, stakers, community contributors, and developers, driving network bootstrap and activity. The team and investors hold 20% and 10.80%, respectively, with an additional 3.5% reserved for airdrops to qualified contributors and community members.

Token Distribution Overview

• Ecosystem Development: 37% – linear release over 24 months, with an initial unlock of 14.50% at TGE.
• Community Incentives: 28.70% – linear release over 24 months, initial unlock of 7.50% at TGE.
• Team: 20% – locked for 12 months, then linear release over 24 months, no initial unlock at TGE.
• Investors: 10.80% – locked for 12 months, then linear release over 24 months, no initial unlock at TGE.
• Airdrops: 3.5% – 3% unlocked at TGE, remaining 0.5% released after 6 months.

At the token generation event, the initial circulating supply is approximately 25% of the total supply, mainly from the ecosystem fund, initial unlocks for community incentives, and the first round of airdrops. This relatively restrained initial circulation, combined with a full one-year lock-up for team and investors, helps reduce early sell pressure and demonstrates a strong commitment to long-term interests. The subsequent two-year linear unlock further ensures gradual market entry of tokens, avoiding supply shocks that could impact price.

Unlock Schedule and Market Impact: Short-term Pressure and Long-term Narrative

The token unlock schedule significantly influences short-term market prices and long-term value realization. BREV’s design reflects the project’s consideration of market sentiment and focus on ecosystem development.

In the short term, the 25% circulating supply at TGE mainly comes from the ecosystem fund and community incentives, which may include market makers and early contributors. Some of these holders might take profits early, exerting initial downward pressure on the price. However, the 30.80% of tokens held by the team and investors are fully locked for the first year, removing a major potential sell pressure source and providing a “quiet window” for market recognition, technological deployment, and ecosystem growth.

Long-term, the 24-month linear unlock means new tokens will enter the market monthly over the next two years. This requires the project to continuously deliver milestones, expand ecosystem applications, and generate real token demand (e.g., paying for proof services, staking) to absorb these inflows. The good news is that the Brevis mainnet testnet is live, and the narrative of an open proof market is gradually becoming reality. If ProverNet successfully attracts developers and sustains proof service demand, BREV’s utility will help offset some of the unlock-induced selling pressure and potentially drive value discovery.

For potential investors and airdrop recipients, understanding this timeline is crucial. Market focus will shift from initial “airdrop expectations” and “token listing” to “mainnet activity data,” “ecosystem partner growth,” and “proof service revenue.” The ability to translate these long-term narratives into practical products and a thriving ecosystem will be decisive for BREV’s value trajectory.

Brevis Ecosystem: Pioneering a New ZK Paradigm for Smart Contracts

Issuing tokens is a means, not an end. The ultimate value of BREV will depend on the value created by the entire Brevis ecosystem. Brevis has already taken key steps from concept to practice.

According to the project’s official blog, the Brevis ProverNet mainnet testnet has recently launched. This milestone means developers can now start experiencing and integrating Brevis’s ZK co-processor services. Prior to this, Brevis positioned its concept as “an open market for zero-knowledge proofs,” aiming to aggregate decentralized proof computation resources worldwide into an efficient, trustworthy computing power market.

The ecosystem’s potential lies in its broad application scenarios: from DeFi protocols needing verifiable use of on-chain price data, to gaming or social apps wishing to put off-chain complex logic results (like leaderboards, achievement systems) on-chain in a trusted manner, and insurance or prediction markets requiring large-scale data verification. Brevis essentially builds a universal, programmable “trusted computing layer” on top of blockchain.

As ProverNet matures from the testnet and eventually migrates to a dedicated Brevis Rollup, its performance, costs, and economic model will be further optimized. A complete economic cycle involving data providers, proof compute providers, application developers, and end users will form. In this vision, BREV is not only a governance token but also the fundamental currency of this emerging “trusted computing economy.” Its performance will serve as the most direct vote on the prospects of the ZK co-processor track. For industry observers and investors, closely monitoring subsequent integrations and on-chain activity data within the Brevis ecosystem will be key to assessing its success or failure.