You do the thing. In Virtua. Or VGN. Somewhere on Vanar where they made the gas disappear so normies don't panic. You click. Or you don't click, maybe you tap, maybe you signed something three seconds ago and you're waiting for the world to agree it happened.
And... nothing.
Not "error" nothing. Just... continuation. The avatar keeps breathing. The background keeps being background. You did a thing, the vanar chain did a thing, and nobody threw confetti.
I keep refreshing. I know I do. Same panel. Same buttons. There's this specific way you check, casual, like you're not worried, like you totally trust it worked. You don't. Nobody does. The gap between "finished on-chain" and "felt real" is where Vanar lives, and it's a weird neighborhood.
Someone in vanar support asks "did it go?" and three people answer three different things. Not because they're lying. Because their screens haven't agreed yet. State advanced. It definitely advanced. But advancement doesn't look like anything when the environment was already moving.
This is what completion means here. Not a signal. A private fact. The vanar chain knows. You don't. Not until you catch up, and catching up feels like catching smoke because there's no "submitted" spinner to chase. No little animation that buys you time to believe.
I tapped twice. I know I did. The second time because the first felt too quiet, and quiet on Vanar doesn't register as success, it registers as maybe. Gas abstraction made the second tap free. No cost to doubt. No friction to stop me from asking again.
Now I have two receipts. Or I have one receipt and one ghost. Or I have nothing and I'm imagining the first one. Vanar Support tickets from this don't say "it broke." They say "I think...?" They say "it didn't feel like..." They say "can you check if..."
There's nothing to check. It worked. It always worked. The state is correct. The state has been correct since block whatever, timestamp something-ago. But correct and noticed split apart somewhere in the compression, in the speed, in the removal of all the little rituals that used to tell us "yes, this counted."
Vanar Virtua keeps rendering. VGN keeps running. The brand activation in the corner keeps being a brand activation. Nobody pauses to sync up your feelings with the ledger.
I want to say this is a problem. It probably is. But it's also the point, right? Three billion people aren't going to wait for block confirmations. They want it to work like any social platform, tap, done, keep scrolling. Vanar gives them that. Gives them almost that. Gives them the action without the echo, and trusts them to... what? Trust back?
I'm still refreshing. I know I am.
