Pharos Blockchain Aims to Deliver Institutional-Grade Onchain Finance

Pharos is a high-performance modular Layer 1 public blockchain engineered to serve as global universal infrastructure for real-world assets (RWAs). The network delivers sub-second block finality and supports concurrent users at the billion-user scale. Its vision is to build an institutional-grade onchain finance anchored to real-world assets.

The Pharos Store is a chain-native storage engine built on the Log-structured Efficient Trusted Universal Storage (LETUS) principle, designed to eliminate the bottleneck of traditional Merkle Patricia Trie (MPT) disk reads. The core innovation of Pharos Store is native integration of authenticated data structures, reducing the I/O path from 8–10 disk reads down to just 1–3 reads.

Pharos introduces Specialized Processing Networks (SPNs) to enable modular, application-specific scaling. SPNs are essentially custom, independent execution layers that natively inherit Pharos security, operating semi-autonomously with customizable consensus parameters and logic. Developers can configure SPNs for compute-intensive workloads impractical or uneconomical on general-purpose L1s.