At three in the morning, when I finally finished crawling through the logs about the distribution of validation nodes on the Vanar chain, I stared blankly at the screen for a while. The city outside was already asleep, but my mind was clear as if I had just drunk two cans of Red Bull. The reason was simple: the day before, at some so-called Web3 high-end closed-door meeting, I heard a group boasting that RWA and AI would be the engines of the next bull market, and then someone mentioned Vanar. The reactions were quite subtle; half of the people thought it was just an old trick to ride on Google's hype, while the other half mysteriously said it was Wall Street's entry ticket. This extreme cognitive dissonance piqued my curiosity, and as a hardliner who only believes in code and on-chain data, I decided to dig into its fundamentals myself.
Many people do not really understand what the cooperation between Vanar and Google Cloud means. Having been in the cryptocurrency scene for a long time, we are accustomed to projects spending tens of thousands of dollars on cloud services and then boldly announcing strategic partnerships. But I dug deeper into Vanar's node architecture and found that this time was a bit different. Usually, public chain nodes rely on incentive mechanisms to attract retail investors or mining pools to maintain them; although this network is decentralized, it is extremely uncontrollable. You do not know in which country your transaction is being validated, nor do you know if that miner will unplug due to rising electricity costs. Vanar is clearly playing a very new game; it directly embeds Google Cloud's infrastructure into the consensus layer. When I tested its inter-regional node latency, the data was so beautiful that it did not look like a blockchain but more like Google's internal dedicated network. What does this indicate? It indicates that it is using centralized infrastructure to run a decentralized ledger.
Of course, this will be criticized by fundamentalists who think it is a betrayal of Satoshi's spirit. But we need to be realistic. If you are BlackRock or OpenAI, and you want to put your assets or data on-chain, which path would you choose? Would you choose that public chain which, although 'pure', might have your assets rolled back at any time due to a hard fork? Or would you choose this one, which, although a bit 'impure', has the backing of tech giants and a sound SLA guarantee? The answer is obvious. Vanar's Vanguard node mechanism is essentially building a compliant greenhouse. I looked at the current list of validators, and besides Google, there are several leading tech service providers in the Web2 space. This is a very obvious signal: Vanar is making a play, creating an environment that traditional capital can confidently invest in.
In terms of user experience, Vanar gives me an extremely strong sense of disconnection. On the one hand, its underlying stability is terrifying; I ran a high-frequency arbitrage strategy script on the mainnet for 48 hours without any slip caused by network congestion. This is unimaginable on Solana or Polygon. But on the other hand, its upper application ecosystem is indeed so rudimentary that it is heartbreaking. The Creator Pad, although friendly and very Web2-like in its operational logic, shows a roughness of a half-finished product when handling some complex metadata logic. Once, I tried to modify the description field of an already on-chain NFT series, but the front end kept throwing errors, and I ultimately resolved it by directly calling the contract interface. This disparity of 'the foundation being like a palace, while the house is like a thatched hut' precisely illustrates that Vanar is still at a very early stage of infrastructure development.
In terms of competitor comparison, I think the most important one to mention is Avalanche. The Avalanche protocol also focuses on enterprise-level subnets, but the cost of setup and maintenance has deterred 99% of small and medium developers. You need to maintain a complex validation logic yourself. Vanar, on the other hand, has taken the 'move-in ready' approach, handing over the most challenging consensus security layer to the giants for maintenance, allowing developers to just build on top of it. When I deployed contracts, the familiarity of the EVM environment made my migration costs almost nonexistent. This is crucial for capturing developer talent. Today's developers are quite lazy, and no one wants to learn a hair-pulling language like Rust for an uncertain future, unless you are lured by the high salaries from Solana.
Another point that many people overlook is the energy narrative. In our industry, talking about environmental protection is politically incorrect and can get you mocked as a 'white left'. But if you have seen the financial reports of those publicly listed companies, you know that ESG scores are their lifeline. Vanar is extremely clever in this regard; it uses PoS and cloud optimization to calculate the carbon footprint of every transaction clearly. This function is useless for retail investors like you and me, but for CEOs who need to explain to shareholders why they are using blockchain, this is the perfect shield. This once again confirms my judgment: Vanar has never intended to please us retail investors with just a few thousand dollars; its target audience is those institutions in suits and ties.
While reviewing the GitHub commit records, I found that the code submissions in recent months have mainly focused on cross-chain interoperability and privacy modules. This is interesting as it shows that the team realizes that future assets need not only to run on-chain but also to flow between different ecosystems. Today's chains are like isolated islands, and Vanar seems to want to be the most efficient port. Although liquidity is currently quite depleted and there are no hundredfold golden dogs that can make you rich overnight, if you are a tech-oriented investor who values long-term value, you will find that the risk-reward ratio here is actually quite attractive. The current price contains too many biases and neglects, and these biases are often the source of excess returns.
At the end of the test, I closed my laptop, and the morning light was already coming in outside. Vanar is definitely not perfect; its ecosystem is desolate, the toolchain has bugs, and the community is not enthusiastic enough. But it has shown me a possibility, a possibility where blockchain is no longer just a toy for geeks, but truly integrates into the modern industrial system. This integration process is destined to be boring, without grand narratives, only lines of tedious code and concrete business contracts. But it is precisely this boredom that may carry the trillion-level RWA and AI market. In this industry filled with air and bubbles, finding a practical project that can get things done may be much more reliable than gambling in a casino.
