Let’s open April with a high-signal conversation on the future of global liquidity.
RWA: The Evolution of Global Liquidity
Hosted by @pharos_network , @Farooxyz , @HashKey_Global and @Bifrost
Co-organised by @LabsWeb368672
📆 April 19 | 09:30–12:00
📍 https://t.co/y7LinGp7CT
A closed-door leadership gathering during @festival_web3 bringing together policymakers, institutional capital, and fintech leaders to explore how RWAs are reshaping financial infrastructure.
Faroo Genesis Vanguard is live on @pharos_network Testnet.
Mint stPHRS, claim your Testnet role, and be among the first to experience hybrid liquid staking on Pharos before mainnet.
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🎙️ Faroo AMA: Navigating Pharos RealFi
Join us this Saturday to explore how RealFi is taking shape within the @pharos_network ecosystem and what it actually takes to unlock sustainable yield opportunities.
📅 Feb 28, 8PM SGT
🗣️ Language: Chinese
📍 Set your reminder: https://t.co/oJF6xF0NMM
🎯 Speakers:
- @weitingchentw , Growth Lead of TermMax
- Bridget Li, Co-Founder & CEO of @AssetoFinance
- @Tyronebrezzy , Co-Founder of Faroo
- @defioasis , Researcher & Investor
In this session, we’ll talk about:
- Core mechanics and how users can get involved
- How projects are building and collaborating within the Pharos ecosystem
- Cross-ecosystem campaigns, incentives, and reward opportunities
- Practical tips and strategies for new participants
- What’s next for RealFi
Bitcoin’s crash reminds us: blockchain is ultimately about finance.
Apps and hype may attract users, but lasting value comes from decentralized financial functionality.
Blockchains have always been and always will be tech for finance. Their core purpose is financialization.
That’s why architecting a chain to protect unification of liquidity is more important than practically anything else.
I am happy the misadventures around things like gaming in particular are fully dead and over.
More broadly, I felt the “read write own” / web3 articulation was too skeuomorphic and, frankly, intellectually lazy to transpire because new tech is never as simple as putting something on a blockchain and voila. You have to create new markets.
This narrative functioned more as a fig leaf for a reason to put VC dollars into more unnecessary infrastructure to rationalize a desire to create a private asset that could become magical internet money.
The more folks that launched projects to attract price based on selling a narrative to the wild Wild West of internet liquidity, the harder the legitimizing narrative machine worked to ascribe value to all this as the third coming of apps - “all the stuff you do today, but now it pays you”
In reality, the opportunity is immense, and bigger than our most creative minds can imagine, but not as it’s been articulated over the last few years.
This blockchain adventure has always been about finance: open financial rails for anyone and everyone on the internet.
This makes it newly possible for capital formation and internet formation to happen anywhere in the world, and for the ensuing innovation and progress to take hold. Open finance enables greater economic freedom and with it individual sovereignty and agency.
I have never been more bullish on crypto.
Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn’t matter.
As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war order breaks down, we’ll similarly need the post-internet order. States will fail, and the network will take their place.
We need internet capitalism, we need internet democracy, and we need internet privacy. So we need cryptocurrency.
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Join Pharos for Composing Real Yield: Protocols That Make RWA Work
⏰ Feb 5 | 1 PM UTC
🔗 https://t.co/RwljXAprCQ
Discover how the market is shifting toward sustainable, revenue- and asset-backed yields with RWAs at the forefront, powered by specialized protocols converting real-world cash flows into on-chain products. Learn what it takes to scale these yields institutionally while balancing open access with regulatory and risk considerations.
Hosted by: @jack_gk
Featuring:
@janesh_dani, @Tyronebrezzy, @KronosResearch, @Sumex_Labs, @fhenix, @useTria
Set your reminder!
Missed the PolkaWorld roundtable on @Polkadot Hub?
Here’s the TL;DR 👇
Smart contracts are live on Hub, but the real question discussed was: What can realistically drive adoption in 2026?
Key takeaways from @hydration_net, @Bifrost & @hyperbridge:
1️⃣ This is a deliberate “soft launch,” not a liquidity explosion
Smart contracts ≠ instant growth.
The current strategy is to let @paritytech ship real products on Hub first, then attract builders and apps.
2️⃣ Liquidity isn’t about attracting outsiders yet, it’s about using what @Polkadot already has
The real DeFi base layer is liquid staking assets, not stablecoins.
• Ethereum: ~30% of staked ETH is liquid
• Polkadot: ~1–2%
Until liquid staking flows into lending & DEXs, “external liquidity” won’t come.
3️⃣ @Bifrost has already proven a sustainable DeFi model on Polkadot
• $8M+ in protocol revenue
• ~25M DOT in liquid staking
• Revenue comes from real usage (staking fees + integrations like Hydration / HOLLAR)
• Partners like @subscan_io are already earning from it
4️⃣ The point of EVM on Hub is not “yet another EVM chain,” but lowering the barrier for developers
What is more likely to happen in 2026 is:
• Mature DeFi protocols, stablecoins, and tools migrating directly to Polkadot EVM.
• In the early stage, the focus won’t be on complex applications, but on lightweight, fun, and low-barrier products landing first.
5️⃣ Hydration’s perpetuals are not meant to “compete with Hyperliquid,” but to serve the entire DeFi stack.
The goal of perps is to:
• support HOLLAR, lending, and spot markets
• allow the same liquidity to generate more fees and yield
• prioritize integrated DeFi, not a single breakout product
6️⃣ Hyperbridge is infrastructure that only works because of @Polkadot
• Storage Query API: read any on-chain contract state directly
• Fully decentralized cross-chain intents (no black-box fillers)
• Requires fast finality, Ethereum L2s (30–60 min finality) simply can’t support this.
7️⃣ 2026 themes everyone aligned on:
AI agents · PayFi · app migration · Proof of Personhood · “invisible crypto UX”
Real adoption = people using it without caring that it’s crypto.
Join our first 2026 Roundtable livestream! 🎉
With Polkadot Hub smart contracts now live, let’s kick off the new year and explore what’s ahead together!
🗓 Date & Time: Jan 30, 2026 | 2 PM UTC
🎙 Guests:
💠Tyrone Pan – Head of Developer Relations, Bifrost
@Tyronebrezzy@Bifrost
💠Seun Lanlege – Founder, Polytope Labs
@hyperbridge@seunlanlege
💠Lolmcshizz – Ecosystem Lead, Hydration
@lolmcshizz@hydration_net
Set your reminder!
https://t.co/x4hKocC6eN
Introducing Faroo, a liquid staking protocol for @pharos_network Mainnet token.
Built for the next generation of RWA-Fi, Faroo delivers secure, composable, and capital-efficient staking powered by @Bifrost SLPx infrastructure.
Launching alongside Pharos Mainnet.
Here’s what we’re building.
🚨DeThings Podcast Vol.07:The Fastest Blockchain in History Is About to Be Born? A Breakdown of Solana Firedancer’s💃 Highlights
1 / Solana’s Firedancer upgrade could change everything! Solana is ramping up testing for Firedancer, a major software upgrade designed to boost blockchain speed & stability. Here's what you need to know.👇