Pharos Builder Base Camp

Pharos Builder Base Camp is a global initiative designed to empower developers, startups, and institutions to build the next generation of Real-World Asset (RWA) applications, decentralized payments, and financial innovations on Pharos Network—a modular and full-stack parallel Layer 1 blockchain.

By leveraging the high-performance blockchain architecture, advanced modular stack, and cross-chain interoperability of Pharos, this program bridges the gap between Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), unlocking new opportunities for financial inclusion, scalability, and market expansion.

Participants will gain hands-on experience, expert mentorship, and access to Pharos’ ecosystem of SPNs (Special Processing Networks), native restaking, and high-speed parallel execution frameworks. Whether you're working on tokenized assets, decentralized payment rails, or cross-chain financial infrastructures, the Builder Base Camp provides the ideal platform to turn ideas into reality.

What's Pharos Builder Base Camp?

🏆 300K prize pool

🙌 4 Phases covering every step of the way

🎫 5 IRL/virtual events across 3 countries

🌟 Guidance from teamleaders in Pharos

How's Builder Base Camp gonna roll out?

Phase 1: Onboarding and Kick-Off

📞 On boarding call - Mar 29

🌱 Weekly office hours - every Friday starting Mar 21

Phase 2: Lecture Series & Hand-On Workshop

⌨️ Explore Pharos technical architecture and core tech

Phase 3: Building & Testing

🗺️ Explore contract standards for RWA, TradFi and DeFi

🫶 Support builders by IRL Base Camps in India, China and Vietnam

💻 Prepare teams for Demo Day

Phase 4: Project Submission & Demo Day Pitches

📺 Show your project to the world

Why join?

🌍 Global Reach: meet participants from across the world both online and IRL

💡 Break Boundaries: bridging TradFi with DeFi to unlock future of RWA, payments, and beyond

⚡ High Performance Infrastructure: explore how Pharos ensure real-world financial applications in scalable, efficient, and user-friendly way

🌱 Startup & Entrepreneurial Spirit: empower startups to showcase their vision and turn ideas into products

Consider this as a launchpad for startups and developers, offering resources like grants, incubation, and strategic ecosystem partnerships ✨

About Prize Pool & Tracks

Go to Prize & Judge session for more details

Disclaimer

Pharos reserves the discretion to determine if a team qualifies for prizes. Prizes may not be awarded to teams whose projects lack feasible business implications.

How Pharos Empowers Builders:

Pharos Network is uniquely designed to support complex financial applications and real-world assets with the following features:

Modular & Scalable Infrastructure

• L1-Base: High-performance data availability with hardware acceleration.

• L1-Core: A decentralized, high-throughput blockchain with subsecond finality for real-time transactions.

• L1-Extension: Enables Special Processing Networks (SPNs), cross-SPN interoperability, and native restaking to expand financial applications seamlessly.

High-Speed Parallel Execution & Data Processing

• Pharos Virtual Machine (PVM): Optimized for parallel transaction execution, reducing congestion and latency.

• Parallel Merklization & Indexing: Enables high-speed asset transactions, real-time verification, and seamless integration with external TradFi systems.

• Full Life Cycle Asynchronous Pipelining: Enhances efficiency by processing transactions independently, ensuring uninterrupted performance.

Prize Distribution

• 70% stablecoin, 30% Pharos token, final 30% distribution only approved for production stage on Mainnet

• Token distribution subject to token launching schedule