Hong Kong
Financial & AI Layer-1 blockchain Pharos Network today announced its native coin $PROS and USDC will serve as the exclusive cryptocurrency payment methods on the new Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform powered by ZAN, an agentic-friendly platform with built-in support for x402 payments and Skills. This integration directly empowers developers in Pharos ecosystem, granting them cost-effective access to top-tier AI models, further expanding the use cases of $PROS and cementing its core position as a high-utility coin for real-world commercial applications.
This integration marks a pivotal breakthrough in the utility of $PROS, extending it to a RealFi payment tool and further into a core value medium for AI-integrated dApps. $PROS holders can now use $PROS to directly access top-tier Large Language Models (LLMs) including Gemini, Claude, Qwen, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT, while opening a new design space for developers on Pharos to seamlessly embed advanced AI capabilities into their dApps across DeFi, gaming, and social platforms at substantially lower costs. As one of the crypto settlement options in this scenario, $PROS not only delivers a distinct competitive edge to the Pharos ecosystem, but also creates a powerful incentive for projects to build and migrate to Pharos for native access to world-class AI resources.
More notably, this scenario expansion establishes a strong, utility-driven long-term demand for the $PROS coin. Users who opt to pay with $PROS will receive an exclusive launch-month discount of 20% which is a highly compelling incentive mechanism that will create a direct, rigid, and sustainable demand cycle for $PROS from the growing base of developers and users utilizing AI services. The $PROS’s tangible utility is deeply binding the coin’s value to real-world AI business scenarios.
Wish Wu, Co-founder and CEO of Pharos said: “Pharos has always been to provide our developers with the most powerful and accessible tools to innovate. Through this integration, we are not only opening a brand-new payment channel and use case for $PROS, but also exploring the immense potential of premier AI models for our entire ecosystem. This allows any project building on Pharos to embed world-class AI capabilities, showcasing our network’s unique ability to bridge the best of Web2 resources with the decentralized future.”
This move highlights Pharos’s unparalleled capability in ecosystem expansion, connecting the worlds of TradFi/Web2 and Web3. As $PROS continues to extend its use cases into high-value domains such as AI, Pharos solidifies its position as the go-to Layer-1 for building high-value, real-world applications.
About Pharos Network
Pharos is a financial and AI Layer 1 built for RealFi. It delivers the compliant infrastructure needed for institutional assets and internet-scale capital markets.
Designed to coordinate real-world financial activity onchain, Pharos combines deep-parallel execution (SALI engine), modular SPNs, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, integrating ZK-KYC / AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, native AI agent support (X402 protocol), and dualVM (EVM + WASM compatibility), to support RWAs, stablecoins, cross-border settlement, onchain yield markets, and agent-mediated commerce 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 and the agentic economy.