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- Aster partners with Brevis to integrate ZK proofs for faster, cost-effective, and private trading.
- Brevis enhances Aster’s multi-chain infrastructure, cutting gas fees and network congestion.
- Shield Mode ensures privacy by hiding individual trade details while displaying market data.
Aster DEX has partnered with Brevis, a zero-knowledge computing platform, to integrate ZK proofs into its multi-chain trading infrastructure. This collaboration is aimed at improving execution speeds, lowering transaction costs, and providing selective privacy for on-chain positions. Aster intends to offer the speed of centralized exchanges combined with the transparency of decentralized finance (DeFi).
Brevis will perform off-chain computation on behalf of Aster and will create ZK proofs, which will ensure verification of transaction outcomes without exposing sensitive data. Instead of transaction details, lightweight proofs will be processed using the blockchain. This will minimize gas charges and network overload, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
Aster and Brevis Enhance On-Chain Privacy with ZK Technology
The integration is aimed at helping users display the position sizes, profit-and-loss number, or eligibility without showing their entire balances. Brevis’s zkFabric and zkQueryNet layers also enable developers to create decentralized applications (dApps) that request historical information across chains. These dApps will connect to the accrued block headers, which Brevis will certify on, facilitating a safe database.
Aster puts this partnership on the border of the speed of centralized exchanges and the clarity of DeFi. The testnet results indicate a block time of 50 milliseconds and a maximum transaction rate of 150,000 transactions per second with the ZK proofs developed by Brevis. Nevertheless, the performance of the mainnet has not been fully tested.
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A key feature is that it keeps individual trade information private while still showing overall market information like liquidity pools and price feeds. Traders can demonstrate their compliance with leverage requirements and verify without showing their strategies to the public mempool.
Ensuring Privacy and Speed in Decentralized Trading Systems
For institutional users, the cryptography method ensures that they can easily prove their wallet status, like whether it’s not sanctioned, without showing any KYC information.
These features will be launched early, before the Aster Layer-1 chain becomes functional in Q1 2026. The combination with Brevis will drive native order books and fiat ramps. The alliance supports the aim of Aster to develop a high-performance, privacy-native system, which has focused volume in decentralized trading.
Though ZK proofs present important advantages, they are not without their challenges, such as circuit complexity and delays in developing the proofs during changeable times. In order to win confidence in the market, Aster and Brevis will need to prove their reliability and scalability. This cooperation reflects a move in favor of verifiable computations of decentralized exchanges.
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