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Prism advancing Bitcoin payments with Nostr and eCash. The API can be used to enable users to send and receive payments from third-party wallets as well as query payment history and data.
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United Texas Bank Converts to National Bank Charter and Launches Crypto Payment Network
Odaily, Dallas-based United Texas Bank has converted from a Texas state-chartered bank to a national bank approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, positioning itself as an institution connecting global crypto companies with the U.S. banking system. United Texas Bank stated that it now holds the same federal license as major money center banks and has direct access to the Federal Reserve. The bank currently clears approximately $10 billion in monthly USD transaction volume for global crypto companies. The bank is launching UTB Atomic, a 24/7 AI-driven payment network, paired with its compliance platform UTB Prism Sentinel, to restore around-the-clock crypto liquidity and meet emerging federal rules related to digital assets and stablecoins.
Brevis Launches Pico Prism 2.0, Boosting Ethereum Real-Time Proof Efficiency by ~5.3x
According to official announcements, Brevis—a ZK-powered intelligent verifiable computation platform—has launched Pico Prism 2.0, now live on Ethereum’s mainnet under the current 60-million-Gas block limit. Benchmarking results show that, under Ethereum’s current 60-million-Gas block limit, Pico Prism 2.0 achieves an average proof time of 6.1 seconds per block, with 99.9% of blocks completing final proofs within 12 seconds. The entire system runs on just two machines equipped with a total of 16 RTX 5090 GPUs, at an aggregate hardware cost of approximately $100,000. Compared to Pico Prism 1.0, Pico Prism 2.0 delivers roughly a 5.3× improvement in per-block proof efficiency—even while using only one-quarter of the hardware configuration—further fulfilling the Ethereum Foundation’s two primary objectives for real-time proving: “average proof latency under 10 seconds” and “on-premises hardware cost under $100,000.” Previously, Brevis was selected for the Ethereum Foundation’s “On-Prem Proving Initiative,” a program launched in May 2026 to test whether ZK proofs can scale as decentralized infrastructure without reliance on a handful of cloud service providers—the most L1 zkEVM-integration-ready rehearsal to date. Moving forward, Brevis will continue focusing on robustness.