Pharos
Pharos builds a modular, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain with parallel execution, dual VMs, and protocol-level compliance primitives, serving institutional RWA issuers, DeFi protocols, cross-border payment firms, and on-chain AI agent developers through its PROS token and RealFi Alliance ecosystem.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2024
- HeadquartersMenlo Park, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Pharos does
Pharos is a developer of a modular, full-stack parallel Layer-1 blockchain headquartered in the United States (Menlo Park) with operational anchoring in Hong Kong. Founded in 2024 by former Ant Group leadership (co-founders Alex Zhang and Wish Wu), the platform combines a three-layer architecture (L1-Base, L1-Core, L1-Extension), dual virtual machines (EVM + WASM), speculative parallel execution, AsyncBFT consensus, and Special Processing Networks (SPNs) to deliver sub-second finality and reported throughput of 30,000 TPS / 2 Gigagas per second. Its Pacific Ocean Mainnet went live on April 28, 2026, alongside the $PROS native token (1 billion total supply), with over 50 dApps deployed at launch and a $50 million RWA vault committed.
The product portfolio extends beyond the core L1 into ecosystem and developer infrastructure, including the Pharos Portal, PharosScan block explorer, Native to Pharos ($10M+ Hong Kong incubator), RealFi Alliance partner program, AI Agent Carnival (Anvita-powered), Agent Center, Pharos Skill Engine, and ExVul security audit grants ($1.25M). Pharos integrates with Circle (USDC, CCTP), Centrifuge (tokenized treasuries), KUN (cross-border payments), Babylon and Eigenlayer (restaking), Anchorage Digital (regulated custody for the token generation event), and HTX (PROS/USDT spot listing from June 22, 2026). Notable commercial anchors include GCL New Energy (renewable energy tokenization, ~$1B valuation round), Ant Digital Technologies (incubating a $1.5B RWA exchange pipeline), Sumitomo Corporation (Series A co-lead), and KUN (supply chain credit and cross-border settlement).
Pharos operates a token-and-usage-based revenue model: gas is paid in PROS for transactions on the L1 and SPNs, validators earn via the Adaptive Restaking Interaction Protocol, and ecosystem economics are reinforced by an enterprise field-sales motion for institutional RWA partners, a developer- and product-led motion via the Pharos Portal and Agent Center, and a community-led motion across Discord, X, and LinkedIn (1.5M+ community followers, 174M reported testnet wallets, 3B testnet users). Its customer base spans institutional RWA issuers and fintechs (GCL New Energy, Ant Digital Technologies, Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, Tulipa Capital), developers and protocol builders (dApp, SPN, and AI-agent creators), DeFi lenders (R25/Axil, Avalon Labs, TermMax), cross-border payment enterprises (KUN), and AI-agent developers.
Pharos firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Pharos
- Legal name
- Pharos
- Website
- https://pharosnetwork.xyz
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2024
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Pharos builds a modular, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain with parallel execution, dual VMs, and protocol-level compliance primitives, serving institutional RWA issuers, DeFi protocols, cross-border payment firms, and on-chain AI agent developers through its PROS token and RealFi Alliance ecosystem.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Pharos industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Layer-1 Blockchain Infrastructure
- akta.pro primary industry
- Interoperability & Integration Middleware (ERP/core banking connectors, messaging, APIs, cross-chain to permissioned) (FSAPAIAL)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Compliance, Risk & RegTech for Tokenized Assets (KYC/AML, sanctions, travel rule, reporting) (FSAPAIAH), Cross-Chain Bridges & Interoperability Protocols (FSADAMAG), Testing, Simulation & Local Dev Environments (testnets, forks, fuzzing, CI) (FSAPABAG)
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Where Pharos is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Menlo Park
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Pharos business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- PROS Token & Native Asset Economics: Native token (PROS) with a 1 billion total supply launched at mainnet (May 1, 2026), enabling staking, gas, and ecosystem incentives. Token listed for spot trading on HTX (PROS/USDT) starting June 22, 2026.
- Onchain Gas Fees: Users and dApps pay gas in PROS for transactions executed on Pharos L1 and SPNs, including tokenization, settlement, and smart-contract execution use cases.
- Restaking & Validator Economics: Validators earn rewards via the Adaptive Restaking Interaction Protocol integrating Babylon and Eigenlayer; SPNs tap excess validator compute for additional yield.
- Incubator Program ('Native to Pharos'): $10M+ Hong Kong-based incubator offering technical mentorship, AI-driven developer tools, fundraising support, and investor network access to early-stage RWA/DeFi teams. Strategic value includes equity-style upside and ecosystem stake.
- RWA Exchange Pipeline (with Ant Digital Technologies): Joint incubation of a $1.5B RWA exchange pipeline with Ant Digital Technologies, positioning Pharos to capture transaction- and settlement-related economics from tokenized real-world assets.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Public L1 with usage-based gas fees in PROS token and a fixed 1B total token supply |
| Other | Multi-year contract | $10M+ 'Native to Pharos' incubator program (application-based) |
Go-to-market motion7 records
Distribution channels6 records
Marketing channels7 records
Pharos product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Pharos develops and operates a modular, full-stack parallel Layer-1 blockchain (the Pacific Ocean Mainnet) with a dual EVM + WASM runtime, sub-second finality, and 30,000 TPS throughput, packaged with Special Processing Networks (SPNs) and protocol-level ZK-KYC/AML compliance primitives. Around this core, Pharos sells the PROS native token for gas and staking, the $10M+ "Native to Pharos" incubator program for RWA/DeFi builders, the AI Agent Carnival and Skill Engine for onchain AI agents, and grants for security audits and ecosystem development.
Product overview
Pharos is a platform-plus-modules Layer-1 blockchain architecture composed of the core Pharos Network (Pacific Ocean Mainnet) backed by the Pharos Modular Stack (L1-Base, L1-Core, L1-Extension) and extensible through SPNs (Special Processing Networks). At the product level, this is delivered as the EVM-compatible Pacific Ocean Mainnet, the underlying Pharos Testnet, the PharosPort ecosystem portal, PharosScan block explorer, and the Pharos Docs site. Wrapped around this core, Pharos offers the PROS native token, the RealFi Alliance partner program, the $10M+ Native to Pharos builder/incubator program, the AI Agent Carnival and Agent Center for on-chain AI agents, the Pharos Skill Engine for building agent skills, the Developer Center for Foundry/Hardhat/Rust tools, and a Community Center. Together these products deliver real-time, compliant onchain finance and AI-driven applications for tokenized real-world assets, payments, and intelligent agents.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Native to Pharos: $10+ million Hong Kong-based incubator/builder program offering technical mentorship, go-to-market guidance, fundraising support, and AI-driven developer tooling to early-stage teams building financial products that connect tokenized real-world assets to decentralized finance on the Pharos blockchain.
- RealFi Alliance
- Pacific Ocean
Products and services
- Pharos Network (Pacific Ocean Mainnet) A high-performance, EVM-compatible modular Layer-1 blockchain combining modular architecture, deep-parallel execution, and a dual VM (EVM + WASM) to deliver sub-second finality, 30,000 TPS, and 2 Gigagas/second throughput, with built-in ZK-KYC/AML compliance modules for real-world finance.
- Special Processing Networks (SPNs) Application-specific networks integrated tightly with the Pharos mainnet while operating independently, each with its own execution engine, validator set, restaking incentives, and governance, supporting HFT, ZKML, and AI model workloads.
- PROS Token Native utility token of the Pharos Network with a 1 billion total supply, used for gas, staking, and ecosystem incentives; listed for spot trading (PROS/USDT) on HTX from June 22, 2026.
- Native to Pharos Builder/Incubator Program $10M+ Hong Kong-based incubator offering technical mentorship, AI-driven developer tools, go-to-market guidance, fundraising support, and investor network access to early-stage teams building RWA, DeFi, and AI agent products on Pharos.
- AI Agent Carnival Program powered by Anvita for building AI-powered applications on Pharos: "Create Like a PRO. Build Skills. Launch Agents." Enables developers to create the next wave of AI-powered onchain applications.
- Pharos Skill Engine Developer framework that enables building skills and capabilities for on-chain agents operating on Pharos, supporting autonomous decision-making and onchain financial interactions.
- Cross-Chain Infrastructure Native support for cross-SPN and cross-chain communication enabling atomic execution, shared data, and multi-VM interactions, with x402 protocol support for interoperability across the Pharos ecosystem.
- RealFi Alliance Alliance for scaling onchain finance beyond stablecoin yield loops, bringing together Circle, Avalon Labs, TermMax Finance, Primus, and Tulipa Capital to build productive capital infrastructure and co-distribute RealFi products on Pharos.
Quantifiable outcome
- 30,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality and 2 Gigagas per second throughput
- +7 more outcomes
Companies that use Pharos
Customer profileNamed customers14 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Pharos technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration10 records
AI capability7 records
Feature7 records
Pharos partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and flagship.
- HTXcoreGlobal cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013 listing PROS (Pharos Network) for spot trading with the PROS/USDT trading pair from June 22, 2026, providing market access to HTX's user base and trading infrastructure.
- Avalon LabscoreRealFi Alliance member contributing Bitcoin-backed lending infrastructure to scale productive capital across onchain finance beyond stablecoin yield loops.
- TermMax FinancecoreRealFi Alliance member contributing onchain fixed-income products within the Pharos productive-capital stack.
- PrimuscoreRealFi Alliance member contributing zkTLS trust and compliance layers to the Pharos onchain finance stack.
- Tulipa CapitalcoreRealFi Alliance member contributing institutional capital allocation frameworks to the Pharos productive-capital infrastructure.
- KUNcoreStrategic partnership to tokenize supply chain credit assets (trade invoices, receivables) and enable compliant on-chain cross-border payment settlement. Initial focus includes supply chain credit tokenization, native on-chain settlement of digital assets, crypto-backed virtual cards, and compliant payment rails for commodities, B2B e-commerce, and service trade.
- CertiKminorCo-hosting an exclusive invitation-only sunset networking event at Consensus 2026 in Miami Beach (May 5, 2026), with a panel discussion focused on trust, transparency, and collaborative security in blockchain infrastructure.
- ImmunefiminorCo-hosting the Consensus 2026 sunset networking event with Pharos and other Web3 security organizations in Miami Beach.
- Crystal IntelligenceminorCo-hosting the Consensus 2026 sunset networking event with Pharos and other Web3 security organizations in Miami Beach.
- BeInCryptominorCo-hosting the Consensus 2026 sunset networking event with Pharos and other Web3 security organizations in Miami Beach.
- CircleflagshipDeployed USDC stablecoin and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) on Pharos Mainnet to power a RealFi settlement layer with trusted dollar-denominated settlement assets and seamless cross-chain transactions. Circle is also a RealFi Alliance member (announced June 24, 2026).
- Anchorage DigitalcoreFederally chartered digital assets bank providing end-to-end infrastructure for Pharos Network's token generation event, including token minting, secure distribution to venture investors, and ongoing custody services within a fully regulated environment.
- CentrifugecorePartnership to develop infrastructure for distribution and operation of tokenized U.S. Treasuries and AAA-rated structured credit, leveraging Centrifuge's asset tokenization standards and Pharos's high-performance Layer 1 to enhance transaction speed and compliance. Centrifuge is also an inaugural strategic partner of the $10M+ Native to Pharos incubator.
- Ant Digital Technologies (Ant Group)flagshipPharos is partnered with Ant Digital Technologies to incubate a $1.5B RWA exchange pipeline. Ant Group's R25 protocol has deployed the Axil Consumer Credit Vault on the Pharos blockchain, raising $50M in pre-deposits. Pharos itself was founded by former Ant Group leadership.
- R25 ProtocolcoreRealFi Alliance member collaborating on real-yield product designs. Ant Group-backed R25 launched the Axil Consumer Credit Vault on Pharos blockchain, raising $50M in pre-deposits within 48 hours.
- Ember ProtocolcoreRealFi Alliance member collaborating on real-yield product designs to scale productive capital on Pharos.
- Draper DragoncoreInaugural strategic partner of the $10M+ 'Native to Pharos' incubator program in Hong Kong, supporting go-to-market and fundraising mentorship for early-stage RWA/DeFi teams.
- Web3LabsminorPartnered with Pharos and Consensus to run the Global Web3 Developer Conference (GWDC) hackathon in Hong Kong, where the inaugural 'Native to Pharos' incubator cohort was recruited.
Scale indicators16 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights7 records
Pharos competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Sei Network: Sei is a high-performance Layer-1 optimized for trading and DeFi, with parallel execution and EVM compatibility. Like Pharos, it targets sub-second finality and institutional-grade finance workloads on a fast L1.
- Monad: Monad is a parallel-execution, EVM-compatible Layer-1 emphasizing high throughput and low fees. It competes head-on with Pharos for high-performance EVM L1 mindshare and developer adoption.
- Aptos: Aptos is a Layer-1 using Block-STM parallel execution and the Move language to deliver high throughput. It is one of the closest architectural comparables to Pharos's parallel-execution, modular L1 thesis.
- Sui: Sui is a high-throughput Layer-1 with parallel transaction execution and an object-centric model. It competes for institutional and DeFi workloads where low-latency, high-TPS execution is critical.
- Berachain: Berachain is an EVM Layer-1 focused on DeFi liquidity and novel token-incentive models. Like Pharos, it is positioning around real-yield DeFi and institutional-grade onchain finance.
- Initia: Initia is a modular Layer-1 with an intertwined L2 ecosystem (Minitias) and EVM compatibility. Its modular architecture and focus on app-specific chains are closely analogous to Pharos's SPN design.
- Plume Network: Plume is a modular L1/L2 purpose-built for real-world asset tokenization. It directly overlaps Pharos's RWA thesis and compliance-friendly infrastructure positioning.
- Manta Network: Manta is a modular L1/L2 focused on programmable privacy, ZK identity, and RWA/DeFi applications. Its modular stack and ZK-based compliance primitives overlap with Pharos's architecture and RealFi use cases.
- Hyperliquid: Hyperliquid is a high-performance L1 tailored for perpetual and spot trading with onchain order books. It competes for the same latency-sensitive, institutional-DeFi workloads that Pharos targets with its parallel-execution L1.
Broad incumbents
- Solana: Solana is the dominant high-throughput, EVM-compatible-adjacent Layer-1 with a mature validator set, deep liquidity, and institutional adoption. It is the broad incumbent Pharos must differentiate against on performance, RWA focus, and compliance.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Pharos social profiles
Digital presencePharos compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance2 records
Pharos financial estimates
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Pharos leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
Pharos funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors15 records
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Frequently asked questions about Pharos
What does Pharos do?
Pharos develops and operates a modular, full-stack parallel Layer-1 blockchain (the Pacific Ocean Mainnet) with a dual EVM + WASM runtime, sub-second finality, and 30,000 TPS throughput, packaged with Special Processing Networks (SPNs) and protocol-level ZK-KYC/AML compliance primitives. Around this core, Pharos sells the PROS native token for gas and staking, the $10M+ "Native to Pharos" incubator program for RWA/DeFi builders, the AI Agent Carnival and Skill Engine for onchain AI agents, and grants for security audits and ecosystem development.
Is Pharos a public or private company?
Pharos is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Pharos founded?
Pharos was founded in 2024. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Pharos based?
Pharos is headquartered in Menlo Park, United States, in the North America region.
How does Pharos make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. PROS Token & Native Asset Economics are the primary driver. The others are onchain Gas Fees, restaking & Validator Economics, incubator Program ('Native to Pharos') and RWA Exchange Pipeline (with Ant Digital Technologies).
Who are Pharos's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Sei Network, Monad, Aptos, Sui, Berachain, Initia, Plume Network, Manta Network and Hyperliquid. Solana is listed as a broad incumbent.
Does Pharos have an API?
Yes. Pharos exposes a public, EVM-compatible JSON-RPC API (standard Ethereum-style RPC methods plus chain-specific methods such as eth_getProof for storage state verification / SPV). The developer tooling page lists dedicated sections for RPC Infrastructure, Indexer, Oracle, and Cross-Chain Infrastructure, indicating developers can build and automate blockchain applications, deploy smart contracts via Foundry/Hardhat, build in Rust, and integrate cross-chain interoperability (including the x402 protocol). Documentation is publicly available. Developer documentation is at docs.pharos.xyz.
What industry is Pharos in?
Pharos's product category is Layer-1 Blockchain Infrastructure. Its primary akta.pro industry code is FSAPAIAL, Interoperability & Integration Middleware (ERP/core banking connectors, messaging, APIs, cross-chain to permissioned), with a secondary code of FSAPAIAH, Compliance, Risk & RegTech for Tokenized Assets (KYC/AML, sanctions, travel rule, reporting).