Pharos Network’s new builder program, Native to Pharos, aims to do something simple and ambitious at once: give early-stage teams the capital, tools and day-to-day support they need to ship financial products that connect real-world assets to decentralized finance. The program, announced today by the company, brings more than $10 million in backing and a roster of partners that reads like a who’s-who of RealFi and venture-stage infrastructure investors. Pharos Network.
The incubator is pitched as a full-spectrum builder program for projects working where tokenized assets, DeFi primitives and block-native infrastructure meet. Accepted teams will receive hands-on technical mentorship from Pharos’s core engineers, strategic go-to-market guidance, fundraising support and access to legal and financial advisors, plus developer tooling that the team says is AI-driven to help speed integration and cut down time spent on repetitive work. The program is explicitly designed for startups that need low latency, composability and scalable on-chain execution, the kinds of requirements that come with exchanges, yield infrastructure, vaults that include tokenized RWAs and prediction markets tied to real-world outcomes.
Pharos also named a deep list of backers and partners supporting the initiative, including Hack VC, Draper Dragon, Lightspeed Faction and Centrifuge, joining a broader set of ecosystem supporters. Draper Dragon, a cross-border venture fund with ties between Silicon Valley and Asia, is listed among the program’s strategic partners, and Lightspeed’s crypto arm has been a visible supporter of Pharos in earlier rounds as well. Draper Dragon Lightspeed Faction Hack VC Centrifuge.
“Pharos is committed to building a thriving RealFi ecosystem and empowering builders who share our vision,” said Wish Wu, describing the incubator as more than a short-term accelerator. “The Pharos Incubator is designed as a full-spectrum partnership, offering mentorship, technical resources, go-to-market support, fundraising guidance, and access to financial and legal expertise. Our goal is to help teams succeed while fostering collaboration across the broader Pharos community.” The language mirrors the program materials on Pharos’s developer hub, which emphasize long-term support and milestone-based funding.
RealFi Push
Pharos is staking its value proposition on technical features it says are built for RealFi: modular architecture, deep parallel execution and compliance primitives that make tokenized assets more manageable for institutions. Those architectural choices are meant to deliver the kind of sub-second finality and high throughput that financial primitives often require, while also allowing teams to layer on permissioning and regulatory tooling when needed. The network’s documentation and technical briefings highlight the stack and execution model as reasons why some RWA use cases are a natural fit for the chain. Ant Group.
To kick off recruitment, Pharos will take the first cohort on the road to Hong Kong, tying initial outreach to the Global Web3 Developer Conference’s hackathon and related builder activities produced with partners including Web3Labs and Consensus. The decision to launch in Hong Kong signals an appetite to court teams that want fast regulatory clarity and proximity to APAC institutional flows, and it will give applicants a chance to meet mentors and investors in person during the hackathon.
For startups and teams focused on real-world finance, the Native to Pharos incubator promises a stack of advantages beyond capital: direct engineering time with the core protocol team, access to partners across tokenization and custody, and introductions to an investor base that has already backed Pharos through earlier rounds. By aligning capital, tech and market access, Pharos is betting it can speed the path from prototype to production for protocols that require predictable performance and on-chain composability. Applications for the Native to Pharos program are open now on Pharos’s website.
Pharos positions itself as an inclusive financial Layer 1 where institutional-grade and real-world assets can circulate on-chain while remaining composable with decentralized liquidity. Built by engineers and leaders with industry experience and supported by ecosystem funds, the network is trying to make tokenization and regulated flows easier to build for teams that want to bring TradFi assets into programmable finance. For builders who want to marry low-latency execution with compliance-aware infrastructure, the incubator is being pitched as a rare, end-to-end on-ramp.
