Hong Kong — June 24, 2026 (PinionNewswire) — Financial & AI Layer 1 Pharos Network today welcomed Circle, Avalon Labs, TermMax Finance, Primus and Tulipa Capital as the newest strategic partners of the RealFi Alliance led by Pharos Network. This expansion directly tackles one of the most consequential challenges facing onchain finance today, that is expanding productive capital beyond stablecoin yield loops to include the largest pools of onchain liquidity, the deepest asset class in traditional finance, and the trust infrastructure required for institutional scale.
Bitcoin, the largest pool of onchain capital, sits largely passive. Fixed income, the deepest asset class in global finance, remains underserved onchain. Institutional capital stays on the sidelines without verifiable trust and compliance frameworks. The industry has the assets, but not yet the productive infrastructure around them.
This cohort is designed when Circle anchors the stack with USDC and CCTP, the regulated settlement layer that moves dollar liquidity natively across chains and into RealFi applications. Avalon Labs activates Bitcoin as working capital, enabling BTC-backed lending, borrowing, and structured yield strategies that connect the largest onchain asset to real-world opportunities. TermMax brings fixed-income and maturity-based products backed by real-world assets onchain, introducing the predictable, institutional-grade yield curve that traditional capital expects. Primus establishes the verification and trust layer through zkTLS and verifiable credentials, enabling compliance-friendly onboarding, reputation systems, and trusted interactions, including for AI agent–driven finance. Tulipa brings institutional capital expertise and professional asset allocation frameworks, channeling sophisticated capital into onchain RealFi opportunities. They extend the RealFi yield layer from stablecoin deposits into a complete productive capital stack covering dollars, Bitcoin, fixed-income, trust, and institutional allocation.
These collaborations among alliance members are already in motion, and deepening. More than 10 alliance members have jointly published an industry perspective report on the state and future of RealFi, setting a shared framework for how onchain finance can move from fragmented tokenization to productive capital at scale. On the product side, R25 Protocol, TopNod, and Ember Protocol (from previous cohorts) are advancing real yield product designs, translating institutional-grade strategies into accessible onchain experiences for users. TermMax is working with Ember Protocol to channel fixed-income strategies into accessible onchain yield products, while Tulipa Capital is leveraging Circle’s USDC for its settlement strategies. These efforts reflect a deliberate shift, that is alliance members are no longer operating as parallel partners, but converging into a tightly coordinated network where research, products, and infrastructure compound on one another. More integrations across alliance members are underway, with additional product launches to come.
“Tokenization without utility is just a database entry.” said Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Pharos. “What the industry needs now is the productive capital infrastructure around those assets like settlement, Bitcoin liquidity, fixed-income, trust, and institutional allocation working as one stack. That is exactly what this cohort of partners is building together.”
The RealFi Alliance continues to expand as a coalition of the infrastructure providers, asset issuers, and financial applications shaping the future of onchain finance. Previous cohorts include Chainlink, Centrifuge, Faroo, Amber Group, LI.FI Protocol, Vishwa, Agra, Dune Analytics, Anchorage Digital, and others, bringing institutional assets, DeFi players, cross-chain infrastructure, intelligence and data access that established the foundational layer of the RealFi ecosystem. Explore the full RealFi Alliance and the growing list of partners at https://www.pharos.xyz/realfi-alliance.
About Pharos Network
Pharos is a financial and AI Layer 1 built for RealFi. It delivers the compliant infrastructure needed for institutional assets and internet-scale capital markets.
Designed to coordinate real-world financial activity onchain, Pharos combines deep-parallel execution (SALI engine), modular SPNs, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, integrating ZK-KYC / AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, native AI agent support (X402 protocol), and dualVM (EVM + WASM compatibility), to support RWAs, stablecoins, cross-border settlement, onchain yield markets, and agent-mediated commerce at internet scale.
The network is supported by strategic partners across the global financial stack, including Circle, Chainlink, Anchorage Digital, Morpho, and Centrifuge, connecting regulated capital markets with onchain liquidity venues where real-world assets can be actively deployed into real-yield-generating strategies.
Built by former Ant Group leadership and engineers, backed by leading global investors across TradFi and crypto, including Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, SNZ, Hack VC, and Faction VC, Pharos is developing the infrastructure layer for the next era of programmable finance and the agentic economy.
