Pharos Modular Stack

Pharos Network is designed with a modular and highly parallel architecture, creating a flexible and scalable blockchain stack. At its core, the relationship between the primary network and Special Processing Networks (SPNs) enables seamless execution, enhanced security, and efficient interoperability across different layers of the network. This architecture is built to support high-throughput, trustless innovation at scale.

Key Features of Pharos Modular Architecture

• Customizable Consensus, Execution, Settlement, and Data Availability Layers: Developer-friendly architecture allows for rapid SPN, Rollup, and SideChain construction within the Pharos Extension Ecosystem.

• Adaptive Restaking Interaction Protocol: Through the Pharos Restaking Protocol, validators can securely restake across both SPNs and the Primary Network, enhancing liquidity, security, and rewards. This protocol supports native Pharos restaking as well as ETH and BTC restaking mechanisms.

• Cross-SPN Protocol: Pharos introduces cross-SPN interoperability, enabling seamless communication between SPNs and the primary network. This unified value network allows for smooth asset and data transfer across different execution layers.

Modular Blockchain Stack

Consensus Layer

Pharos supports multiple consensus models, including PBFT, PoS, and PoA, and ensures efficient communication and verification between SPNs and the primary network, allowing for robust and scalable blockchain consensus.

Execution Layer

Pharos offers a dual-execution model that integrates WasmVM & EVM environments. This layer supports standard transaction execution while incorporating advanced computation frameworks like ZK (Zero-Knowledge), TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), and FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption). These capabilities enable secure, privacy-preserving transaction processing, ideal for high-frequency trading (HFT), AI applications, ZK-powered dApps, and privacy-focused use cases.

Pharos SPNs are modular and lightweight, capable of acting as specialized networks for execution or as non-blockchain networks, such as for GPU computing, data storage, oracles, and AI infrastructure.

Settlement & Restaking Layer

Validators in the primary network can participate in restaking within SPNs, enhancing both the security and earning potential of the SPN and the Primary Network. SPNs can be quickly launched using the Pharos restaking protocol, ensuring shared security, resource pooling, and incentivizing validators. Restaking helps build enhanced liquidity and security across the ecosystem, forming the foundation for seamless communication between SPNs and the Primary Network.

Data Availability Layer

The Pharos primary network provides data integrity and fast finality, enabling ecosystem projects to enjoy lower costs and greater reliability. For SPNs, the Cross-SPN Protocol combined with native restaking enables second-level finality, a feature that far surpasses traditional subnets and ZK Rollups in efficiency and speed.