Pharos Forms RealFi Alliance to Standardize Institutional RWA Execution Onchain
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, February 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Financial Layer 1 Pharos Network announced the formation of the RealFi Alliance, a strategic ecosystem initiative designed to unify institutional asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders. The Alliance aims to move the Real-World Asset (RWA) market beyond isolated pilots into a standardized, scalable, and operational execution framework. The inaugural cohort of the RealFi Alliance includes: Chainlink, Asseto Finance, Ember, Faroo, LayerZero, R25, Re7 Labs, TopNod, and Centrifuge.
The RealFi Alliance is designed to solve systemic frictions such as fragmented liquidity, inconsistent infrastructure standards, and regulatory silos by coordinating assets and capital under a shared framework. Rather than treating Real-World Assets as static tokens, the Alliance approaches RealFi as a foundational infrastructure layer where assets remain active, composable, and ready for institutional workflows. This initial group forms the core foundation for RealFi on Pharos, ensuring the network enters the market with real-world counterparts already building.
The Alliance operates across 4 critical pillars designed to ensure long-term network adoption and systemic integrity. Central to this initiative is asset enablement, which focuses on bringing real-world value onchain in secure, composable forms optimized for sustained participation. This foundation is reinforced by a rigorous infrastructure and compliance alignment, leveraging Pharos’ deep-parallel execution and built-in compliance modules to meet the highest institutional security standards. To bridge the gap between issuance and usage, the Alliance prioritizes liquidity and utility design, creating clear functional pathways for assets through staking, yield, and application integration. This is exemplified by the collaboration between Ember and Re7 Labs, where institutional-grade risk management and vault curation are integrated directly into the asset’s lifecycle. Finally, by establishing market transparency and clear benchmarks for risk and yield sources, the Alliance builds the necessary trust for sophisticated capital allocators to participate in the ecosystem at scale.
“The core challenge facing onchain finance today is not a lack of assets, but the absence of a unified environment where those assets can function at scale,” said Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Pharos Network. “The RealFi Alliance is our commitment to building that environment, aligning leaders like Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, with specialized asset operators to ensure that real value moves onchain with institutional-grade reliability.”
This strategic alignment ensures that the upcoming Pharos Mainnet will launch as a ready-to-use financial environment with integrated liquidity and compliance standards. Moving forward, the RealFi Alliance will expand in structured batches, with future members selected based on asset quality, technical readiness, and ecosystem alignment. This long-term approach ensures that as the Pharos ecosystem matures, the quality and utility of its underlying assets remain the highest in the industry.
About Pharos Network
Pharos is the inclusive financial Layer 1 for RealFi, where real value and institutional-grade assets circulate onchain and are composable with decentralized assets, becoming the new financial-grade infrastructure of global finance for all. Pharos combines modular architecture, deep-parallel execution, and built-in compliance to power asset-native ecosystems. Built by leadership and engineers from Ant Group, the project is backed by Hack VC, Faction VC, and other global investors.