We are excited to announce OpenVM 2.0 and the SWIRL proof system.
On 16 5090 GPUs, OpenVM 2.0 proves Ethereum mainnet blocks in real time at a p99 level and reaches 139 MHz on general RISC-V workloads. It supports 100 bits of provable security and < 300 kB proofs.
Jan 29, 2026 · 5:00 PM UTC
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1/ OpenVM 2.0 is powered by SWIRL, a new multilinear proof system with provable post-quantum security and no trusted setup. SWIRL stacks multilinear polynomials with sumcheck and uses the WHIR polynomial commitment scheme.
Learn more at the whitepaper: openvm.dev/swirl.pdf
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2/ We are also introducing a new blazing fast recursion for SWIRL enabled by cheap verification of WHIR. This uses Write-Once Memory (WOM) to preserve the performance of fixed circuits while aggregating a dynamic number of proofs.
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3/ On execution, OpenVM 2.0 introduces a new Ahead of Time (AOT) compiler-based approach that runs RISC-V assembly at a near-native 3.8 GHz by translating it to x86 assembly. On benchmarks, this leads to substantial improvements over an optimized interpreter.
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4/ When evaluated on 1000 mainnet blocks starting from block 24,000,000, OpenVM 2.0 achieves:
* P99 proving time: 11.8s
* Average proving time: 6.7s
* Proof size: 298 kB
with 100 bits of provable security on a cluster of 16 5090 GPUs. This officially meets the L1 zkEVM performance targets set by the Ethereum Foundation.
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5/ On the industry standard CoreMark benchmark for embedded CPUs, OpenVM 2.0 scales from proving speeds of 11.4 MHz on a single 5090 GPU to 139 MHz on 16 5090 GPUs, reaching speeds near those of physical processors.
Learn more about CoreMark here: github.com/eembc/coremark
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6/ OpenVM 2.0 will be supported shortly in preview on the @axiom_xyz Proving API. To learn more about OpenVM 2.0 and SWIRL, check out:
* SWIRL Whitepaper: openvm.dev/swirl.pdf
* Technical developer chat: t.me/openvm
or read the announcement:
blog.openvm.dev/2.0
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