Pharos Docs
  • Introduction
    • About Pharos Network
    • Vision & Mision
    • Why Pharos Network
    • Concepts
      • Degree of Parallelism (DP)
  • Architecture
    • Pharos Modular Stack
    • Node Architecture
      • About Pharos Nodes
  • Core Technologies
    • Pharos Consensus
    • Pharos Execution
      • Why A New Blockchain Compute Model
      • Pharos VM
    • Pharos Pipelining
    • Pharos Store
      • Why We Need a Blockchain-Native Store
    • Pharos SPNs
  • Network Overview
    • Devnet
    • Pharos Gas Model
    • FAQ
  • Node & Validator Guide
    • Validator Requirements
    • Validator Node Deployment
    • Node Management
    • Rapid Node Initialization
    • Pharos Network Snapshots
    • Node Debugging & Configuration
  • Developer Guide
    • Foundry
      • Write Your First dApp
      • Write Your First Token
      • Write Your First NFT
      • Write Your First Uniswap Contract
    • Hardhat
      • Write Your First dApp
      • Write Your First Token
      • Write Your First NFT
      • Write Your First Uniswap Contract
    • Rust
    • Interoperability
      • Call EVM From WASM
  • API & SDK
    • JSON-RPC API Methods
  • Resources
    • EVM
    • Solidity
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  1. Introduction

About Pharos Network

NextVision & Mision

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“We believe in: rough consensus and running code” - David Clark, 1992

Pharos Network Overview

Pharos has designed a Modular & Full-stack Parallel L1 Blockchain Network, structured into three primary layers: L1-Base, L1-Core, and L1-Extension.

  • L1-Base: Delivers industry-leading data availability and hardware acceleration.

  • L1-Core: A high-performance, globally distributed blockchain network powered by decentralized nodes. These nodes provide high-throughput and sub-second finality, enabling real-time Web3 user experiences.

  • L1-Extension: Built on top of L1-Core, this layer supports network expansion across three dimensions:

    2. Enables Native Restaking to support rapid SPN creation, shared security, staking rewards, and slashing mechanisms. SPNs utilize the excess computing power of validators, providing flexibility in resource use while incentivizing upgrades.

    3. Facilitates Cross-SPNs Interoperation, allowing infrastructure, middleware, and application-focused SPNs to communicate and collaborate effortlessly, fostering a highly modular and composable ecosystem.

Ecosystem Architecture

The Pharos ecosystem is structured across three key layers:

  1. Transaction Layer: Facilitates secure, confidential, and efficient cross-chain asset and account interactions via the secure and confidential cross-chain interoperability protocol.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Pharos Modular Stack

CommentA 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.CommentPerformance benchmarks have been demonstrated on Geth, and future collaborations with ecosystem partners will help drive the development of Web3 infrastructure.

Restaking Integration

Pharos supports a multi-asset protocols to enhance security and liquidity, allowing seamless integration with restaking protocols like Babylon and Eigenlayer. Future updates will include more protocols, expanding interoperability and security across the network.

Leverages heterogeneous computation to create custom , capable of running blockchain networks, sidechains, or non-blockchain applications like HFT, ZKML, and AI models.

Special Processing Networks (SPNs)
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