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tag, under 100 characters, not repeated in the body. Plus, retain all images (though there are none here), add humor, sarcasm, and emojis. The challenge is blending Turgenev’s style with modern tech content and the requested elements like emojis and sarcasm. First, the title. Original is “Vitalik Buterin Cheers Brevis Breakthrough: Ethereum Blocks Now Proven in Seconds”. Needs to be clickbait, under 100 characters. Maybe something like “Ethereum’s Midnight: Vitalik’s Ecstasy Over 6-Second Blocks! 🚀” That’s 79 characters. Uses “Midnight” for a Turgenevian touch, “Ecstasy” adds drama, emoji for flair. Next, the body. Start with a melancholic tone about Vitalik’s excitement. Use phrases like “the restless spirit of innovation” or “the vast steppes of the Ethereum network”. Compare the technical aspects metaphorically-like likening block verification to a ballet or a storm. Use sarcasm when mentioning the old methods, maybe something about validators being “doomed to the Sisyphean task”. Include humor by exaggerating the efficiency, like validators using “grandmother’s sewing machine” instead of gaming rigs. Emojis should be sprinkled where they fit naturally, like 🎭 for drama, 🚀 for progress, 💡 for ideas. Check for Turgenev’s introspective style in the Why It Matters section, perhaps likening the network’s struggles to human endeavors. In the roadmap section, mention Ethereum’s aspirations as if they’re yearning for a better future, with Pico Prism as a beacon. Ensure all the technical details are retained but wrapped in more elaborate, descriptive language. Avoid markdown, use and as in the original. Keep quotes in blockquotes, but maybe add a touch of drama to them. Finally, wrap up with a reflection on the future, tying it back to Vitalik’s reaction with a nod to the inevitability of progress, Turgenev-style. Add an emoji there to meet the requirement. Make sure the title isn’t repeated in the body. Check for any color styles or span tags and avoid them. Ensure all images (though none here) are retained. Keep paragraphs in HTML with tags, headers with , and blockquotes as is. Use emojis sparingly but enough to satisfy the request. Add sarcasm where possible, like “truly a spectacle to behold” when talking about the validators’ old methods. Double-check the title length. Make sure the HTML structure is correct. Avoid any markdown in the response. Use < and > for HTML tags. Alright, time to put it all together.End of Thought (20.86s) Ethereum’s Midnight: Vitalik’s Ecstasy Over 6-Second Blocks! 🚀 Ah, the restless spirit of innovation! Vitalik Buterin, co-creator of Ethereum, has once again found himself entranced-not by a muse, but by the cold, unyielding logic of zero-knowledge proofs. The object of his affection? Brevis’s Pico Prism, a contraption so audacious it dares to prove Ethereum blocks in seconds. One might say the man has traded poetry for Python. 🎭 In a tweet that trembled with the weight of progress, he declared: “Behold, @brevis_zk’s Pico Prism gallops into the ZK-EVM proving arena! A steed of speed and diversity, this!” Buterin’s enthusiasm, though bordering on theatrical, is not misplaced. Pico Prism-a name as whimsical as a Tolstoy footnote-now proves 99.6% of Ethereum blocks in under 12 seconds. Imagine a world where validators, once doomed to the Sisyphean task of redundant calculations, might instead sip tea and ponder existence. 🌌 Pico Prism: A Ballet of Speed and Frugality Brevis, that enigmatic maestro of zero-knowledge alchemy, has orchestrated a marvel. Their zkVM, Pico Prism, performs real-time block proving with the grace of a ballerina on Red Bull. With 64 RTX 5090 GPUs-a machine that costs more than a Moscow dacha-it averages 6.9 seconds per block. Older methods? They’ve been unceremoniously tossed into the dustbin of inefficiency, their hardware costs halved, their performance outpaced 3.4-fold. Truly, the future is both dazzling and slightly terrifying. 😈 “We’ve built a colossus that bends to Ethereum’s whims,” proclaimed Mo Dong, CEO of Brevis, with the hubris of a man who’s clearly skipped too many philosophy classes. “It is faster, cheaper, and hungrier than your average bear.” Why It Matters (Or: How to Bore a Validator to Tears) Picture this: 800,000 Ethereum validators, each performing the same transactional pantomime. It’s Uniswap’s version of Groundhog Day. But Pico Prism? It reduces this farcical redundancy to a single prover, leaving the rest to verify proofs in milliseconds. Validators may now trade their gaming rigs for grandmother’s sewing machine-and still keep the lights on. 🧵 The implications? Gas limits soar like Soviet cosmonauts, fees plummet faster than a ruble in a currency crisis, and DeFi grows more complex than a Dostoevsky subplot. Even developers, those weary scribes of code, can now wield off-chain power without sacrificing trust. A revolution, if you’ll pardon the melodrama. 🚢 Ethereum’s 2025 Ballad: A Love Letter to Efficiency Ethereum’s roadmap reads like a Tolstoyan epic: 99% coverage, sub-10-second proving, hardware under $100K, and power consumption fit for a babushka’s home. Pico Prism, already at 96.8% real-time proving, winks at these goals like a flirtatious revolutionary. Integration with L1 zkEVM? A mere footnote in the annals of inevitability. 📜 Tomorrow’s Ether: PancakeSwap and Other Fantasies Protocols like PancakeSwap and Frax now frolic on Brevis’s infrastructure, their transactions as weightless as a Chekhovian sigh. Ethereum, once shackled by computational limits, now gazes upon a horizon where blocks are proven faster than a Moscow commuter can say “добрый день.” Vitalik’s reaction? A mixture of pride and existential dread. After all, what’s a prophet of blockchain without a little chaos to prophesy? 🌪️

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In a tweet that trembled with the weight of progress, he declared: “Behold, @brevis_zk’s Pico Prism gallops into the ZK-EVM proving arena! A steed of speed and diversity, this!”

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