Pharos (PROS) - Inclusive Financial Layer 1 Built for RealFi

Real-world assets are stuck behind walls Web3 cannot break#

Trillions of dollars in real-world assets sit locked inside legacy financial systems that move slowly, demand permission, and reward only those already inside the gate. Existing public blockchains promised to change this, but most still lack the throughput, sub-second finality, and protocol-level compliance that institutional capital actually requires. The result is a frustrating standstill: asset issuers cannot bring serious value onchain at scale, and everyday users remain blocked from the institutional-grade opportunities they were told Web3 would unlock.

A financial Layer 1 where institutional capital meets onchain liquidity#

Pharos rebuilds the foundation. It is an inclusive financial Layer 1 engineered to bridge real-world assets, institutional capital, and decentralized finance inside a single programmable, borderless economy. With deep-parallel execution, dual-VM design, and built-in compliance, Pharos delivers the speed of traditional payment rails with the openness of public blockchains. Real value circulates freely. Stablecoins settle in under a second. Builders, users, and institutions all move within the same programmable financial network, finally on equal terms.

What is Pharos coin?#

What does Pharos do?#

🏦 RealFi Infrastructure: Pharos is purpose-built for RealFi, a new financial paradigm where tokenized real-world assets like bonds, energy, commodities, and real estate flow onchain alongside crypto-native liquidity, opening institutional-grade opportunities to everyday users at internet scale.

⚡ Deep-Parallel Execution: The network targets the entire block lifecycle, including consensus, execution, storage, and data availability, as concurrent processes, sustaining 30,000 transactions per second with under one second of block finality and capacity for one billion concurrent users.

🛡️ Built-in Compliance: ZK-KYC, AML, and digital ID modules are integrated directly at the protocol layer, allowing banks and asset issuers to meet regulatory requirements while preserving the openness and composability of public blockchain infrastructure.

🔗 Dual VM Architecture: Pharos unifies EVM and WebAssembly under a single deterministic runtime, letting Solidity contracts call Rust contracts natively without bridges or cross-VM overhead, dramatically simplifying multi-language development.

🌐 Special Processing Networks (SPNs): Application-specific subnets run independently with their own validator sets, execution engines, and governance while remaining tightly integrated with the Pharos mainnet, enabling institutions to deploy private or permissioned environments without fragmenting liquidity.

💱 Cross-Chain Interoperability: Native support for cross-SPN and cross-chain communication enables atomic execution, shared data, and multi-VM interactions, connecting Pharos to Ethereum, Base, and the broader DeFi ecosystem from day one.

🏛️ Instant Stablecoin Settlement: Cross-border payments confirm in under a second on Pharos, with USDC and CCTP integration powering global stablecoin flows for both individuals and enterprises seeking compliant, real-time settlement.

Who are behind Pharos?#

Wish Wu - Co-Founder & CEO

• Formerly Chief Security Officer at ZAN, Ant Group’s Web3 arm, where he specialized in security architecture and vulnerability management
• Research background from Microsoft Research Asia, with advanced degrees from the University of Southern California and Virginia Tech, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems and network security
• Helped develop consortium blockchains at Ant that pressure-tested infrastructure against over a billion users, including supporting the largest NFT platform in China during Chinese New Year peak loads
• Currently leads the development of Pharos’s decentralized protocol stack and drives strategic industry partnerships across Asia and the United States

Alex Zhang - Co-Founder

• Former CEO of ZAN, the Web3 subsidiary of Ant Group Digital Technologies
• Previously served as Chief Technology Officer of AntChain, leading institutional blockchain infrastructure for one of the world’s largest fintech ecosystems
• Co-founded Pharos in November 2024 as a spin-out designed to transform Ant’s institutional infrastructure into a decentralized public Layer 1
• Brings deep technological expertise in formal verification, ZK systems, and high-throughput payment networks built for billion-user scale

The broader Pharos team includes pioneers from Ant Group, Microsoft Research, PayPal, Stanford, and Ripple, with backgrounds in blockchain infrastructure, formal verification, and zero-knowledge systems.

Why This Team Inspires Confidence#

Ant Group Pedigree: The founding team built and operated infrastructure that serves over a billion users at Alipay scale, giving Pharos the rare advantage of TradFi-grade engineering experience that almost no other Layer 1 founding team can match.

Institutional Capital Backing: Pharos has raised approximately $52 million in total funding, including an $8 million seed round co-led by Hack VC and Lightspeed Faction in November 2024, followed by a $44 million Series A with participation from global investors including Sumitomo, signaling deep institutional conviction.

Strategic Ant Digital Partnership: Pharos has partnered with Ant Digital Technologies on an incubation pipeline targeting $1.5 billion in real-world asset issuance, providing a direct on-ramp for tokenized RWAs and access to Asia’s largest enterprise networks.

Live Mainnet with Day-One Ecosystem: The Pharos Pacific Ocean Mainnet launched on April 28, 2026 with more than 50 dApps already operational across trading, lending, RWAs, and yield infrastructure, demonstrating execution rather than promises.

Top-Tier Exchange Coverage: PROS launched simultaneously across Kraken, KuCoin, Bitget, MEXC, BitMart, LBank, and OKX Wallet, with expansion to Coinbase confirmed, providing immediate global liquidity and accessibility for retail and institutional participants.

USDC and CCTP Integration: Circle’s USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol are live on Pharos from day one, anchoring the network with the world’s largest regulated stablecoin and validating its position as a premier destination for compliant onchain finance.

Strategic GCL Energy Partnership: Pharos has secured a capital partnership with global solar and energy storage giant GCL to pilot energy-backed real-world assets, opening direct pathways for tokenizing infrastructure-grade collateral that traditional DeFi cannot reach.

What to Know Before You Buy Pharos#

1. First-mover RealFi infrastructure

Pharos is among the very first Layer 1 networks designed from the ground up specifically for tokenized real-world assets and institutional finance, positioning it ahead of general-purpose chains that retrofit RWA support.

2. Performance built for global finance

The network sustains 30,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality, matching the throughput needs of major payment networks and unlocking use cases that slower blockchains simply cannot serve.

3. Compliance is a feature, not an afterthought

ZK-KYC, AML, and programmable identity modules built directly into the protocol mean institutions can onboard without forcing the network to compromise on openness, a balance that few Layer 1s have solved credibly.

4. Founders with billion-user execution history

The team behind Pharos previously built and operated the blockchain infrastructure powering Alipay and AntChain, giving the network engineering DNA that mirrors what TradFi institutions already trust.

5. Strong institutional capital and partnerships

Backers include Hack VC, Lightspeed Faction, Sumitomo, and Ant Digital Technologies, with $52 million raised across funding rounds and a $1.5 billion RWA pipeline already in motion.

6. Live mainnet with active ecosystem from day one

More than 50 dApps spanning trading, lending, RWAs, and structured yield went live alongside the Pacific Ocean Mainnet launch, giving early holders immediate utility rather than a roadmap of unfulfilled promises.

7. Multi-chain accessibility

Wrapped PROS is available on both Ethereum and Base in addition to the native Pharos chain, allowing holders to participate from whichever ecosystem they already operate in without bridging friction.

How to buy Pharos?#

Pharos can be purchased on Binance Alpha, the discovery section of one of the world’s largest centralized exchanges. Binance Alpha highlights promising early-stage tokens directly inside the Binance Wallet and exchange interface, letting users swap into PROS without leaving the Binance ecosystem and benefiting from the deep liquidity and trusted security infrastructure that Binance is known for globally.

Buy Pharos on Binance

Pharos is also listed on MEXC, where the PROS/USDT and PROS/USDC pairs are available in the Innovation Zone. If you plan to trade through MEXC, it would be worth having some USDT or USDC ready in your account so you can pick up PROS smoothly through whichever pair suits you best.

Buy Pharos on MEXC

For users who prefer to swap directly onchain, you can move your Ethereum from a centralized exchange like Binance to your GMGN Ethereum wallet, since Base runs on top of Ethereum and uses ETH as its gas token, and then swap that ETH for Pharos directly through GMGN. GMGN is a fast, lightweight onchain trading terminal trusted by traders for its real-time price tracking, low-friction swaps, and built-in safety features such as contract risk scanning and holder analytics, making it an excellent destination for picking up tokens like Pharos as soon as they go live across multiple chains.

Buy Pharos on GMGN