Pharos Builder Base Camp
Bridging TradFi with DeFi to unlock future of RWA, payments, and beyond
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300,000 USD
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Description
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
RWA + Payment Track
125,000 USD
RWA + Payment Track
RWA + Payment Track
Judging Criteria

DeFi Track
100,000 USD
DeFi Track
DeFi Track
Judging Criteria

Innovative Track
50,000 USD
Innovative Track
Tooling & Infra Track
Judging Criteria

Tooling & Infra Track
25,000 USD
Tooling & Infra Track
Innovative Track
Judging Criteria

Schedule
Resource
Learn About Pharos:
Pharos is an Ultra-fast, EVM-compatible, Internet Scale Blockchain, elevating payments and applications with trustless and decentralization.
Learn About Pharos Ecosystem Architecture
The Pharos ecosystem is structured across three key layers:
Transaction Layer: Facilitates secure, confidential, and efficient cross-chain asset and account interactions via the secure and confidential cross-chain interoperability protocol.
Consensus Layer: Integrates with external restaking protocols through the Adaptive Restaking Interaction Protocol, enabling shared security and liquidity. This includes circulating assets like stBTC and stETH within the Pharos DeFi ecosystem.
Data Layer: Uses the Decentralized Data Exchange Protocol to synchronize and collaborate with external data centers, promoting innovative on-chain use cases like AI, FHE.
Learn About Pharos Modular Stack
A modular stack is provided to support SPNs, Pharos L2/L3 systems. Each modular component is open-sourced and available to partners and developers for scaling and customization.
Performance benchmarks have been demonstrated on Geth, and future collaborations with ecosystem partners will help drive the development of Web3 infrastructure.
Foundry Guides on How to Write Your First Transcation / dApp / Token / NFT / UniSwap Contract
Rust Guides for developers who want to start building dApps using Pharos and Rust WASM toolchains
Join Pharos Telegram Group: https://t.me/pharobuilders
RWA & Payments Track
Key Areas:
Institutional-Grade RWA Tokenization Platforms
RWA-backed Stablecoins
Yield-bearing Stablecoins
RWA Trading and Marketplaces
RWA-Backed Lending & Borrowing Protocols
Real Estate & REIT Trading Platforms
Stock & Commodities Exchange Platforms
Payment & Payroll protocol
Remittance and cross-border payment
PayFi/RWAFi
DeFi Track
Key Areas:
DEXs
Smart Wallets
Lending and borrowing protocols
Liquid Staking/Restaking Platform
Perpetual trading platforms
Yield farming and trading platform
Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) Exchanges
Liquidity Optimization Toolset (RFQ/Intent)
Token launchpad and distribution platform
Tooling & Infra Track
Building next-generation tooling and infrastructure tailored for Pharos’s unique high performance Dual-VM architecture and RWA deployment pipeline.
Key Areas
RWA Data Oracles, Indexing, Data Aggregation Services
Dual-VM Smart Contract SDK & Deployment Pipelines
Wallet SDK & Developer Tooling (exp, RWA, Payment, AA enabled)
ZK, Privacy, Compliance Middleware and Infrastructure
Chain Abstraction & Liquidity Bridging
DID & Verifiable Credentials
High-Throughput Validator Optimization Toolkit
Innovation Track
Key Areas:
AI + Blockchain (DeFAI) and AI Agent Kit
Decentralized Science (DeSci)
DePIN
SocialFi, GameFi etc
Any disruptive Ideas

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HackQuest
Mentor
Ethan
Engineering Head at Pharos
Aliu
Europe Ecosystem Lead at Pharos
Wilguish
APAC Ecosystem Lead at Pharos
Alex Zhang
CEO at Pharos (Cofounder)
Janesh
Developer Relation Lead at Pharos
Wishlonger
CTO at Pharos (CoFounder)
Walker
Clara
Jenifer