Centrifuge and Pharos Collaborate to Advance Onchain Distribution Infrastructure for Institutional Assets

On February 17, 2026, Centrifuge and Pharos announced a strategic collaboration to enable scalable onchain distribution and operations of institutional-grade assets—including tokenized U.S. Treasury securities (JTRSY) and AAA-rated structured credit products (JAAA)—through a shared infrastructure framework.

This collaboration addresses a critical challenge in institutional onchain finance: distribution. While asset tokenization has made significant progress, many institutional assets remain difficult to access, siloed across platforms, or become “static” post-issuance—lacking ongoing utility. This initiative aims to move beyond mere “onchain issuance,” ensuring institutional assets remain actively usable within live, operational onchain financial systems.

In numerous markets outside the U.S. and Western Europe, accessing dollar-denominated credit and Treasury products remains constrained by regulatory, onboarding, custody, and operational barriers. Even when such products are tokenized, their distribution often remains indirect and fragmented—limiting reach to new participants and hindering active deployment and usage after going onchain.

By integrating Centrifuge’s institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and asset standards with Pharos’s “inclusive, execution-first” Layer 1, this collaboration tackles those challenges at the system level. Pharos will serve as the strategic liquidity and distribution layer for assets issued via Centrifuge—providing high-performance infrastructure and ecosystem connectivity to attract broader capital inflows and establish deeper onchain liquidity pathways. This integrated environment spans wallet onboarding, platform and enterprise channels, and execution capabilities—enabling assets to be accessed, aggregated, allocated, and reused, rather than remaining idle post-issuance.

Bhaji Illuminati, CEO of Centrifuge Labs, stated: “Tokenization alone does not solve accessibility or usability. The focus of this collaboration is building the distribution and infrastructure layer that allows institutional assets to function meaningfully within real onchain financial environments.”

Pharos is positioned as an inclusive financial Layer 1, supporting high-throughput real-world financial workflows through native deep parallel execution and a modular architecture. The network is designed to host large-scale institutional asset activity and sustain continuous onchain operations.

Wish Wu, CEO of Pharos, stated: “The challenge is not demand—it’s infrastructure. This collaboration focuses on creating an environment where institutional assets can migrate onchain and remain active within open, composable financial systems.”

This partnership represents an early step toward “operational onchain finance”: institutional assets are not only mapped onto chains but also supported by infrastructure purpose-built for distribution, execution, and long-term participation.

Pharos Network

Pharos is an inclusive financial Layer 1 built for RealFi—where real-world value and institutional-grade assets circulate onchain and interoperate composably with decentralized assets, forming next-generation global financial infrastructure. Combining a modular architecture, deep parallel execution, and built-in compliance capabilities, Pharos advances the development of an “asset-native” ecosystem. The project was founded by executives and engineering teams from Ant Group and is backed by Hack VC, Faction VC, and other global traditional finance (TradFi) investors.

Website: https://www.pharos.xyz/