On the one-year anniversary of its public testnet launch, Pharos Network, an institutional-grade Layer 1 blockchain focused on RealFi and AI, announces a six-week global initiative to kick off the summer season for Alpha $PROS. The “Create Like a PRO · Agent Carnival” event, running from now until July 21, features a total prize pool of up to 150,000 $PROS.
Over the past two years, AI agents have crossed the gap from concept to product in traditional domains, but their on-chain presence remains largely at the demonstration stage. Most current agents lack reusable skill assets and have not established persistent social graphs or payment behaviors. Pharos believes the true value of AI agents lies in their ability to operate as native on-chain economic actors—autonomously holding assets, invoking tools, coordinating with peers, and representing themselves in value flows. This transformation requires a Layer 1 blockchain built for high-frequency, low-cost, and composable agent behaviors, as well as a seamless orchestration platform. This carnival marks Pharos’s first large-scale operational test of AI agents, aiming to move agents from demonstrations to sustained, production-grade economic activity and achieve the critical leap from narrative to scalable validation.
Wish Wu, Co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said: "Over the past two years, there has been far more talk than action around AI agents. This carnival is different—we’re taking real steps, offering real incentives, and getting down to work. This marks the first public stress test and developer evaluation of Pharos’ AI Agent layer, refocusing attention on actual implementation."
Anvita Flow will serve as the unified entry point for this Agent Carnival, connecting fragmented Agent behaviors into a single on-chain path that is observable and incentivized, encompassing Skill design, Agent creation, Agent socialization, Agent payments, and Agent co-creation.
The carnival consists of two closely connected phases. The opening phase, "Developer Season," advances through a dual hackathon structure of "Skill First, Agent Follow," achieving ecosystem consolidation of capability modules into complete agents within six weeks. On May 25, an internal pioneer workshop was launched ahead of schedule; today, the public hackathon for the Anvita Flow Skills Summit has officially begun on a large scale and will culminate in a高潮 at the Pharos Agent Arena on July 6.
This hackathon received support from industry sponsors including Alibaba Cloud, Goplus, and Certik. This incremental design requires Agents to invoke real Skills to accomplish complex tasks, encouraging builders to shift from creating one-off demos to building reusable tools and production-grade primitives, thereby establishing a value chain on-chain: “Skill Creator → Agent Developer → User Invocation.”
The "AI Carnival," following Developer Season, will run from June 23 to July 21. Building on developer assets, it features two core tracks: "Gravity Launch," focused on social connections, and "Resonance Creators," dedicated to AI Agent-generated content. Multi-dimensional leaderboards will guide users to gradually develop social interactions and payment habits mediated by Agents.
To support this end-to-end ecosystem loop, Pharos has allocated a total of 150,000 PROS as an incentive pool to reward assets that are actively used and retained over the long term. On the developer and infrastructure side, 100,000 PROS will be distributed to skill hackathons, developer Agent call competitions, Steward Agent initial deployment incentives, and call challenges. The remaining 50,000 PROS are dedicated to user participation, covering social and transfer tracks, leaderboards for most transfers and most friends, and the anniversary community co-creation track.
By closing the value loop between skill creators, agent developers, and AI users on the same chain, the network effects of the Pharos AI Agent layer are moving from zero to one, and now toward one to one hundred. Outstanding developers and teams will enter the Pharos incubator selection pool and have the opportunity to receive Pharos incubation support.
About Pharos
Pharos is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain focused on institutional assets, compliant finance, and global capital liquidity in real-world finance.
To enable coordinated on-chain real-world financial activities, Pharos deeply integrates parallel execution, modular Special Processing Networks, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, incorporating ZK-KYC/AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, and a dualVM (simultaneously compatible with EVM and WASM) to support RWA, stablecoins, cross-border settlements, on-chain yield markets, and programmable financial products at internet-scale capacity.
Pharos has established partnerships with leading institutions in the global financial system, including Circle, Chainlink, Anchorage Digital, Morpho, and Centrifuge, connecting regulated capital markets with on-chain liquidity venues to enable real-world assets to be effectively allocated into strategies that generate genuine returns.
Pharos was founded by former core management and technical teams from Ant Group, with investors including Hack VC, Faction VC, Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, SNZ, and other global financial institutions and infrastructure providers.