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Pharos
Parallel Layer-1 blockchain network for real-time global payments
About Pharos
Pharos is a Web3 infrastructure company building an ultra-fast, full-stack parallel Layer-1 blockchain network. The company is driven by a mission to bridge existing traditional financial technologies with trustless Web3 innovations, creating a robust decentralized infrastructure. Its core offering is a scalable blockchain protocol designed specifically to overcome historical performance barriers, providing developers with advanced tools to create high-throughput, interoperable decentralized applications.
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The company serves a diverse market spanning individual consumers, decentralized application developers, and large-scale enterprise institutions. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cryptocurrency, Pharos focuses extensively on real-time global payments and the tokenization of real-world assets. Its business model centers on network participation and transaction facilitation, capturing value through network utilization, validator operations, and strategic partnerships with major fintech ecosystems to drive institutional capital on-chain.
A key differentiator for Pharos is its hyper-parallelism architecture, which optimizes processing across consensus, execution, storage, and hardware levels to achieve unparalleled transaction speeds and one-second finality. The platform ensures full compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine and WebAssembly, allowing developers to seamlessly migrate and scale existing projects without performance trade-offs. By integrating advanced infrastructure features and collaborating with industry leaders, Pharos establishes a secure, high-capacity foundation for the next generation of decentralized finance.
At a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Road Town, British Virgin Islands
- Employees
- 19
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 91.4/100
- Industry
- Fintech
- Sub-industry
- Crypto and DeFi
- Sector
- Fintech, Fintech Related, Rumoured $1B, Crypto Exchange, Crypto and Web3, DT and LS
- Technology
- Blockchain, Hardware, Deep Tech
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b, b2c
- Investment activity
- 1 company, latest Jul 2026
- Capital deployed
- $10M
- Preferred round
- EARLY VC
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES AOther financing | Apr 2026 | $44M | $1B | Sumitomo · SNZ Holding · Flow Traders · Chainlink | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Mar 2026 | $0 | $1B | GCL New Energy Holdings | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Pharos is 46K monthly website visits, down 71.3% over the last three months. Pharos's team grew 850% over the past year.
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Investments and acquisitions
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed10 investors entered at this stage
Faction
Hack VC
Legend Star
Chorus One
SNZ Holding
MH Ventures
Dispersion Capital
Generative Ventures
Hash Global
Yunfeng Financial Group
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
GCL New Energy Holdings
Sumitomo
Flow Traders
Chainlink
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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