Pharos establishes RealFi Alliance to advance institutional RWA activity onchain

Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, has announced the formation of the RealFi Alliance, a strategic initiative aimed at bringing greater standardization and coordination to institutional real-world asset (RWA) activity onchain, according to an announcement shared with Finbold on February 23.

The alliance brings together asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders to help move the RWA market beyond isolated pilot programs toward a more scalable and operational framework. The inaugural cohort includes Chainlink, Asseto Finance, Ember, Faroo, LayerZero, R25, Re7 Labs, TopNod, and Centrifuge.

Coordinating infrastructure, liquidity, and compliance

Pharos said the RealFi Alliance is structured to address challenges such as fragmented liquidity, inconsistent infrastructure standards, and regulatory silos. Instead of viewing RWAs as static tokenized assets, the initiative positions RealFi as an infrastructure layer where assets remain active and composable for institutional use cases.

The alliance is built around four core pillars. These include enabling real-world assets to be brought onchain in secure and composable formats, aligning infrastructure and compliance standards using Pharos’ deep-parallel execution and built-in compliance modules, and designing liquidity and utility pathways such as staking, yield strategies, and application integration.

As part of this framework, Ember and Re7 Labs are collaborating to integrate institutional-grade risk management and vault curation directly into the asset lifecycle. The alliance also aims to establish clearer transparency and benchmarking standards for risk and yield sources to support participation from institutional capital.

“The core challenge facing onchain finance today is not a lack of assets, but the absence of a unified environment where those assets can function at scale,” said Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Pharos Network. “The RealFi Alliance is our commitment to building that environment, aligning leaders like Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, with specialized asset operators to ensure that real value moves onchain with institutional-grade reliability.”

Pharos added that the initiative is intended to ensure its upcoming mainnet launches with integrated liquidity and compliance standards already in place. The RealFi Alliance is expected to expand over time, with future members selected based on asset quality, technical readiness, and ecosystem alignment.

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