Pharos Network launches 150,000 $PROS AI agent carnival

On the first anniversary of the Testnet launch, Pharos Network, the financial Layer 1 blockchain for RealFi, announced a six-week global initiative to mark the PROS Summer.

The “Create Like a PRO · Agent Carnival” runs from today through July 21 and deploys a total prize pool of 150,000 PROS.

Over the past two years, AI Agents have crossed the chasm from concept to product within Web2, yet their on-chain presence has remained largely demonstrative.

Most agents today possess neither reusable Skill assets nor durable social graphs and payment behaviors.

Pharos believes that the genuine value of an AI Agent lies in its capacity to operate as a native on-chain economic actor, one that holds assets, invokes tools, coordinates with peers, and participates in value flow on its own behalf.

This shift requires both a Layer 1 purpose-built for high-frequency, low-cost, composable agent behavior, and an entry-point platform for seamless orchestration.

Serving as the first large-scale operational test of the Pharos AI Agent Layer to move agents beyond demos and into sustained, production-scale economic activity.

“AI Agents have generated more narrative than substance over the past two years,” said Wish Wu, Co-founder & CEO of Pharos. “This Carnival is where we put the thesis into production. It is the first time the Pharos AI Agent Layer is being measured publicly, under load, against the outcomes that actually matter.”

With Anvita Flow positioned as the unified gateway, the campaign threads previously fragmented agent behaviors into a single, observable, and incentivizable on-chain pathway encompassing Skill design, Agent creation, Agent social, Agent payment, and Agent co-creation.

The campaign unfolds across two interlocking phases to systematically build this ecosystem.

The first phase, the Builder Season, began with an internal Pioneer Workshop on May 25 and officially scales up today with the Anvita Skill Summit open hackathon, culminating in the Pharos Agent Arena by July 6.

The hackathon is supported by industry sponsors including Alibaba Cloud, Certik, and Goplus.

This progressive design forces builders to construct reusable tools and production-grade primitives rather than one-off demonstrations.

The second phase, the AI Carnival running from June 23 to July 21, inherits these developer assets and shifts focus to end-user acquisition.

Through the Gravity Launch track for social connections and the Resonance Creators hub for agent-generated content, users are guided by multi-dimensional leaderboards into forming durable habits of social interaction and payment mediated by agents.

To underwrite this end-to-end ecosystem loop, Pharos has allocated a total campaign pool of 150,000 PROS, strategically weighted toward genuine usage and long-term asset retention rather than temporary acquisition.

On the developer and infrastructure side, 100,000 PROS is distributed across the Skill Hackathon, the Developer-side Agent Invocation Race, the Steward Agent First-Deployment Incentive, and the Caller Invocation Race.

The remaining 50,000 PROS is dedicated to user engagement, allocated across the Social and Transfer Track, the Top Transfer and Top Connector leaderboards, and the Anniversary Community Co-Creation Track. 

By closing the value loop among Skill creators, Agent builders, and end users on the same chain, the network effect of the Pharos AI Agent Layer transitions from zero-to-one into one-to-many, proving that while subsidizing attention is a temporary means, accruing real on-chain usage is the ultimate end.

About Pharos Network

Pharos is a RealFi-native, EVM-compatible Layer 1 built for institutional-grade assets, compliant finance, and internet-scale capital markets.

Designed to coordinate real-world financial activity onchain, Pharos combines deep-parallel execution, modular SPNs, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, integrating ZK-KYC / AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, and dualVM (EVM + WASM compatibility), to support RWAs, stablecoins, cross-border settlement, onchain yield markets, and programmable financial products at internet scale.

The network is supported by strategic partners across the global financial stack, including Circle, Chainlink, Anchorage Digital, Morpho, and Centrifuge, connecting regulated capital markets with onchain liquidity venues where real-world assets can be actively deployed into real-yield-generating strategies.

Built by former Ant Group leadership and engineers, backed by leading global investors across TradFi and crypto, including Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, SNZ, Hack VC, and Faction VC, Pharos is developing the infrastructure layer for the next era of programmable finance.