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Every other project suddenly became “AI-powered.” Every roadmap had the same shimmer. Every pitch deck slid the letters A and I into places where, a year ago, they didn’t exist. When I first looked at this wave, something didn’t add up. If AI was truly the core, why did so much of it feel like a feature toggle instead of a foundation?
That tension — AI-first or AI-added — is not a branding debate. It’s an infrastructure question. And infrastructure design matters more than whatever narrative sits on top.
On the surface, the difference seems simple. AI-added means you have an existing system — a marketplace, a chain, a social app — and you plug in an AI layer to automate support tickets, summarize content, maybe personalize feeds. It works. Users see something new. The metrics bump.
Underneath, though, nothing fundamental changes. The data architecture is the same. The incentive structure is the same. Latency assumptions are the same. The system was designed for deterministic computation — inputs, rules, outputs — and now probabilistic models are bolted on. That mismatch creates friction. You see it in response times, in unpredictable costs, in edge cases that quietly accumulate.
AI-first is harder to define, but you can feel it when you see it. It means the system assumes intelligence as a primitive. Not as an API call. Not as a plugin. As a baseline condition.
Understanding that helps explain why infrastructure design becomes the real battleground.
Take compute. Training a large model can cost tens of millions of dollars; inference at scale can cost millions per month depending on usage. Those numbers float around casually, but what they reveal is dependence. If your product relies on centralized GPU clusters owned by three or four providers, your margins and your roadmap are tethered to their pricing and allocation decisions. In 2023, when GPU shortages hit, startups literally couldn’t ship features because they couldn’t secure compute. That’s not a UX problem. That’s a structural dependency.
An AI-first infrastructure asks: where does compute live? Who controls it? How is it priced? In a decentralized context — and this is where networks like Vanar start to matter — the question becomes whether compute and data coordination can be embedded into the protocol layer rather than outsourced to a cloud oligopoly.
Surface level: you can run AI agents on top of a blockchain. Many already do. Underneath: most chains were designed for financial settlement, not for high-frequency AI interactions. They optimize for security and consensus, not for model inference latency. If you try to run AI-native logic directly on those rails, you hit throughput ceilings and cost spikes almost immediately.
That’s where infrastructure design quietly shapes outcomes. If a chain is architected with AI workloads in mind — modular execution, specialized compute layers, off-chain coordination anchored on-chain for trust — then AI isn’t an add-on. It’s assumed. The network can treat intelligent agents as first-class participants rather than exotic guests.
What struck me about the AI-first framing is that it forces you to reconsider data. AI runs on data. But data has texture. It’s messy, private, fragmented. In most Web2 systems, data sits in silos owned by platforms. In many Web3 systems, data is transparent but shallow — transactions, balances, metadata.
An AI-first network needs something else: programmable data access with verifiable provenance. Not just “here’s the data,” but “here’s proof this data is authentic, consented to, and usable for training or inference.” Without that, AI models trained on-chain signals are starved or contaminated.
This is where token design intersects with AI. If $VANRY or any similar token is positioned as fuel for AI-native infrastructure, its value isn’t in speculation. It’s in mediating access — to compute, to data, to coordination. If tokens incentivize data providers, compute nodes, and model developers in a steady loop, then AI becomes endogenous to the network. If the token is just a fee mechanism for transactions unrelated to AI workloads, then “AI-powered” becomes a narrative layer sitting on unrelated plumbing.
That momentum creates another effect. When AI is added on top, governance often lags. Decisions about model updates, training data, or agent behavior are made by a core team because the base protocol wasn’t designed to handle adaptive systems. But AI-first design anticipates change. Models evolve. Agents learn. Risks shift.
So governance has to account for non-determinism. Not just “did this transaction follow the rules?” but “did this model behave within acceptable bounds?” That requires auditability — logs, checkpoints, reproducibility — baked into the stack. It also requires economic guardrails. If an AI agent can transact autonomously, what prevents it from exploiting protocol loopholes faster than humans can react?
Critics will say this is overengineering. That users don’t care whether AI is native or layered. They just want features that work. There’s truth there. Most people won’t inspect the stack. They’ll judge by responsiveness and reliability.
But infrastructure choices surface eventually. If inference costs spike, subscriptions rise. If latency increases, engagement drops. If centralized AI providers change terms, features disappear. We’ve already seen APIs shift pricing overnight, turning profitable AI features into loss leaders. When AI is added, you inherit someone else’s constraints. When it’s first, you’re at least attempting to design your own.
Meanwhile, the regulatory backdrop is tightening. Governments are asking who is responsible for AI outputs, how data is sourced, how models are audited. An AI-added system often scrambles to retrofit compliance. An AI-first system, if designed thoughtfully, can embed traceability and consent from the start. On-chain attestations, cryptographic proofs of data origin — these aren’t buzzwords. They’re tools for surviving scrutiny.
Zoom out and a pattern emerges. In every technological wave — cloud, mobile, crypto — the winners weren’t the ones who stapled the new thing onto the old stack. They redesigned around it. Mobile-first companies didn’t just shrink websites; they rethought interfaces for touch and constant connectivity. Cloud-native companies didn’t just host servers remotely; they rebuilt architectures around elasticity.
AI is similar. If it’s truly foundational, then the base layer must assume probabilistic computation, dynamic agents, and data fluidity. That changes everything from fee models to consensus mechanisms to developer tooling.
Early signs suggest we’re still in the AI-added phase across much of crypto. Chatbots in wallets. AI-generated NFTs. Smart contract copilots. Useful, yes. Structural, not yet.
If networks like Vanar are serious about the AI-first claim, the proof won’t be in announcements. It will be in throughput under AI-heavy workloads, in predictable costs for inference, in developer ecosystems building agents that treat the chain as a native environment rather than a settlement backend. It will show up quietly — in stable performance, in earned trust, in the steady hum of systems that don’t buckle under intelligent load.
And that’s the part people miss. Narratives are loud. Infrastructure is quiet.
But the quiet layer is the one everything else stands on. @Vanarchain $VANRY #vanar

The loud launches. The paid threads. The timelines that feel coordinated down to the minute. Everyone looking left at the size of the marketing budget, the influencer roster, the trending hashtag.
Meanwhile, something quieter is happening off to the right.
Builders are just… showing up.
When I first looked at Plasma, it didn’t jump out because of a headline or a celebrity endorsement. It showed up in a different way. In the replies. In the GitHub commits. In Discord threads that ran long past the announcement cycle. No paid hype. No forced narratives. Just builders talking to other builders about how to make something work. $XPL #plasma
That texture matters more than people think.
Organic traction isn’t a spike. It’s a pattern. You see it in the shape of the community before you see it in the chart. On the surface, it looks like slow growth — a few hundred new members here, a steady rise in contributors there. But underneath, what’s forming is a foundation.
Take community growth. Anyone can inflate numbers with incentives. Airdrop campaigns can add ten thousand wallets in a week. That sounds impressive until you look at retention. If only 8% of those wallets interact again after the initial reward, you’re not looking at adoption — you’re looking at extraction.
With Plasma, what’s striking isn’t a sudden jump. It’s the consistency. A steady climb in Discord participation over months, not days. Daily active users increasing gradually, but with a retention curve that flattens instead of collapsing after week one. If 40% of new members are still engaging a month later, that tells you something different: they’re not here for a one-time payout. They’re here because something underneath feels worth building on.
That momentum creates another effect. Conversations start to deepen.
In many projects, discourse revolves around price targets and exchange listings. Scroll far enough and you’ll find it’s mostly speculation layered on top of speculation. But when the majority of conversation threads revolve around tooling, integrations, and documentation, you’re seeing a different center of gravity.
Surface level, it’s technical chatter. Pull requests. SDK updates. Roadmap clarifications. Underneath, it signals ownership. Contributors aren’t waiting for instructions; they’re proposing changes. When someone flags a bug and another community member opens a fix within 24 hours, that’s not marketing. That’s alignment.
Understanding that helps explain why builder density matters more than follower count. Ten thousand passive holders can create volatility. Five hundred active builders create direction.
You can see it in commit frequency. Not a burst of activity around launch, but sustained updates — weekly pushes, incremental improvements. Each commit is small. But in aggregate, they map progress. If a repo shows 300 commits over three months from 40 unique contributors, that’s not one core team sprinting. That’s distributed effort. The work is spreading.
There’s subtle social proof in that pattern, but it doesn’t look like endorsements. It looks like credible developers choosing to spend their time here instead of elsewhere. Time is the scarce asset. When engineers allocate nights and weekends to a protocol without being paid to tweet about it, that’s signal.
Meanwhile, the broader ecosystem starts to respond. Not with grand partnerships announced in bold graphics, but with quiet integrations. A wallet adds support. A tooling platform lists compatibility. Each one seems minor in isolation. But stack them together and you get infrastructure forming around Plasma instead of Plasma constantly reaching outward.
That layering is important.
On the surface, an integration is just a new feature. Underneath, it reduces friction. Lower friction increases experimentation. More experimentation leads to unexpected use cases. Those use cases attract niche communities that care less about hype and more about function.
And function is sticky.
There’s always the counterargument: organic growth is slow. In a market that rewards speed and spectacle, slow can look like stagnation. If a token isn’t trending, if influencers aren’t amplifying it, doesn’t that limit upside?
Maybe in the short term.
But speed without foundation tends to collapse under its own weight. We’ve seen projects scale to billion-dollar valuations before their documentation was finished. That works until something breaks. Then the absence of depth becomes obvious.
Plasma’s approach — whether intentional or emergent — seems different. Build first. Let the narrative catch up later. That doesn’t guarantee success. It does shift the risk profile. Instead of betting everything on momentum sustained by attention, it leans on momentum sustained by contribution.
There’s a psychological shift happening too.
When growth is earned rather than purchased, the community behaves differently. Members feel early not because they were told they are, but because they’ve seen the scaffolding go up piece by piece. They remember when the Discord had half the channels. They remember the first version of the docs. That memory creates loyalty you can’t fabricate with a campaign budget.
You can measure that in small ways. Response times to new member questions. If the median reply time drops from hours to minutes as the community grows, it suggests internal support systems are strengthening. Veterans are onboarding newcomers without being prompted. Culture is forming.
Culture is hard to quantify, but you feel it in tone. Less noise. More signal. Debates about trade-offs rather than slogans. Builders disagreeing in public threads and refining ideas instead of fragmenting into factions. That texture doesn’t show up on a price chart. It shows up in whether people stay when things get quiet.
And there will be quiet periods. Every cycle has them.
What early signs suggest is that Plasma’s traction isn’t dependent on constant stimulation. Activity persists even when the broader market cools. If weekly development output remains steady during down weeks, that’s resilience. It means the core participants aren’t here solely because number go up.
That steadiness connects to a bigger pattern I’m seeing across the space. The projects that endure aren’t always the ones that trend first. They’re the ones that accumulate capability underneath the noise. Community as infrastructure. Builders as moat.
In a landscape saturated with paid amplification, organic traction feels almost old-fashioned. But maybe that’s the edge. Attention can be rented. Alignment has to be earned.
If this holds, Plasma won’t need to shout. The signal will compound quietly through code, through conversation, through contributors who keep showing up whether anyone is watching or not.
Watch the organic traction.
It’s rarely dramatic. It’s usually steady. And when it’s real, you don’t have to force people to believe in it — you just have to notice who’s still building when the timeline moves on. @Plasma $XPL
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A new token launches, the timeline fills with threads about partnerships and narratives, price moves fast, and then six months later the excitement thins out. Everyone was looking left at the story. I started looking right at the plumbing.
That’s where VANRY stands out. Not because it has the loudest narrative, but because it’s positioned around readiness. And readiness is quieter. It doesn’t spike on headlines. It compounds underneath.
When I first looked at $VANRY , what struck me wasn’t a single announcement. It was the orientation. The language wasn’t about being “the future of AI” in abstract terms. It was about infrastructure built for AI-native agents, enterprise workflows, and real-world deployment. That difference sounds subtle. It isn’t.
There’s a surface layer to the current AI cycle. On the surface, we see chatbots, generative images, copilots writing code. These are interfaces. They’re the visible edge of AI. Underneath, something more structural is happening: agents acting autonomously, systems coordinating tasks, data moving across environments, enterprises needing verifiable execution, compliance, and control.
That underlying layer requires infrastructure that is stable, programmable, and ready before the narrative wave fully arrives. That’s where VANRY positioning itself.
Readiness, in this context, means being able to support AI agents that don’t just respond to prompts but execute tasks, transact, interact with real systems, and do so in ways enterprises can trust. On the surface, an AI agent booking travel or managing inventory looks simple. Underneath, it requires identity management, secure execution environments, data validation, and economic rails that make machine-to-machine interaction viable.
If the infrastructure isn’t prepared for that, the agents remain demos.
What VANRY expects is exposure to that deeper layer. Instead of riding a short-lived narrative—“AI gaming,” “AI memes,” “AI companions”—it aligns with the infrastructure layer that agents need to operate at scale. And scale is where value settles.
Look at how enterprise AI adoption is actually unfolding. Large firms are not rushing to plug experimental models into critical workflows. They are piloting, sandboxing, layering compliance and auditability. Recent surveys show that while a majority of enterprises are experimenting with AI, a much smaller percentage have moved to full production deployments. That gap—between experimentation and production—is the opportunity zone.
Production requires readiness.
It requires systems that can handle throughput, identity, permissions, cost management, and integration with legacy stacks. A token aligned with that layer isn’t dependent on whether a specific AI trend stays hot on social media. It’s exposed to whether AI moves from novelty to operational backbone.
Understanding that helps explain why positioning matters more than narrative momentum. Narratives create volatility. Readiness creates durability.
There’s also a structural shift happening with AI agents themselves. The first wave of AI was about human-in-the-loop tools. The next wave is about agents interacting with each other and with systems. That changes the economic layer. If agents are transacting—buying compute, accessing APIs, paying for data—you need programmable value exchange.
On the surface, that sounds like a blockchain use case. Underneath, it’s about machine-native coordination. Humans tolerate friction. Machines don’t. If an agent needs to verify identity, execute a micro-transaction, and record an action, the infrastructure must be fast, deterministic, and economically viable at small scales.
That’s the environment VANRY ning into: AI-native infrastructure built for agents and enterprises, not just retail-facing features.
Of course, there are counterarguments. One is that infrastructure tokens often lag narratives. They don’t capture speculative energy the same way. That’s true. They can look quiet while capital rotates elsewhere. But quiet can also mean accumulation. It means valuation isn’t solely anchored to hype cycles.
Another counterpoint is competition. The infrastructure layer is crowded. Many projects claim to support AI. The question then becomes differentiation. What makes $VANRY isn’t a single feature—it’s the orientation toward readiness for enterprise-grade use and agent coordination rather than consumer-facing experimentation.
You can see it in the emphasis on real integrations, tooling, and compatibility with existing workflows. When numbers are cited—transaction throughput, active integrations, ecosystem growth—they matter only if they signal usage rather than speculation. A network processing increasing transactions tied to application logic tells a different story than one driven by token transfers alone.
Early signs suggest that the market is beginning to separate these layers. Tokens that were purely narrative-driven have shown sharp cycles: rapid appreciation followed by steep drawdowns once attention shifts. Meanwhile, infrastructure-aligned assets tend to move more steadily, often underperforming in peak euphoria but retaining relative strength when narratives fade.
That texture matters if you’re thinking beyond the next month.
There’s also a broader macro pattern. As AI models commoditize—open-source alternatives narrowing performance gaps, inference costs gradually declining—the differentiation shifts to orchestration and deployment. The value moves from the model itself to how it’s integrated, governed, and monetized.
If this holds, then infrastructure that enables that orchestration becomes more central. Not flashy. Central.
Meanwhile, enterprises are increasingly exploring hybrid architectures—on-chain components for verification and coordination layered with off-chain compute for efficiency. That hybrid model demands systems designed with interoperability in mind. A token positioned at that intersection isn’t betting on one application. It’s betting on a direction of travel.
What I find compelling about $VANRY doesn’t need every AI narrative to succeed. It needs AI agents to become more autonomous, enterprises to push AI into production, and machine-to-machine transactions to increase. Those trends are slower than meme cycles, but they’re steadier.
And steadiness creates room for growth.
Room for growth doesn’t just mean price appreciation. It means ecosystem expansion, developer adoption, deeper integration into workflows. If agent-based systems multiply across industries—logistics, finance, gaming, media—the infrastructure supporting them accrues usage. Usage creates fee flows. Fee flows create economic grounding.
That grounding reduces dependency on sentiment alone.
None of this guarantees outcome. Infrastructure bets take time. Adoption curves can stall. Regulatory frameworks can complicate deployment. But if AI continues embedding itself into enterprise operations—and early deployment data suggests it is—then readiness becomes a competitive advantage.
We’re at a stage where everyone is talking about what AI can do. Fewer are focused on what needs to be in place for AI to do it reliably at scale. That gap between aspiration and implementation is where infrastructure lives.
And that’s where $VANRY positioned.
The market often chases what is loudest. But the real shift usually happens underneath, in the systems that make the visible layer possible. If the next phase of AI is defined not by chat interfaces but by autonomous agents operating in production environments, then exposure to AI-native infrastructure built for that reality isn’t a narrative trade.
It’s a readiness trade.
And readiness, when the cycle matures, is what the market eventually rotates toward.
@Vanarchain #vanar

Every cycle, the loudest projects promise to rebuild the internet, fix finance, and onboard the next billion users — all before they’ve shipped something stable. The timelines stretch. The roadmaps expand. The token charts move faster than the code. And somewhere underneath all that noise, a smaller group just keeps building.
When I first looked at Plasma, what struck me wasn’t what it claimed. It was what it wasn’t claiming.
Plasma isn’t promising the world. It isn’t positioning itself as the final layer, the universal hub, the everything chain. It isn’t dangling futuristic integrations that depend on three other protocols shipping first. It’s not running a marketing cycle disguised as product development.
It’s shipping what matters. Quietly. That’s rare in crypto.
To understand why that matters, you have to look at what most projects are doing. The typical playbook is familiar: announce a grand vision, bootstrap a community with narrative momentum, release partial features, and rely on market excitement to fill the gaps. The token often precedes the infrastructure. Speculation becomes the product.
That approach can generate attention, but it also creates structural pressure. When a protocol promises scale before it proves reliability, every bug becomes existential. When it frames itself as foundational to the future of finance, every delay feels like failure. The narrative outruns the foundation.
Plasma has taken a different path. On the surface, it looks less dramatic. Incremental updates. Technical releases. Documentation that focuses on implementation details rather than ideology. But underneath, that signals discipline.
Shipping in crypto is not trivial. Even small upgrades — optimizing transaction throughput, tightening consensus performance, reducing latency — require coordination across nodes, developers, and infrastructure providers. A change that improves performance by 10% might not sound impressive on social media, but in a distributed system that processes thousands of transactions per hour, that 10% compounds. It lowers operational strain. It reduces costs. It makes the system more predictable.
That predictability is the texture of real infrastructure.
And that’s the part most people miss. Plasma isn’t chasing the headline feature. It’s refining the engine. On the surface, that means fewer flashy announcements. Underneath, it means a tighter codebase, fewer attack vectors, and clearer upgrade paths. What that enables is trust — not the speculative kind, but the earned kind that comes from watching something function consistently over time.
Of course, the obvious counterargument is visibility. In crypto, attention often precedes adoption. If you don’t market aggressively, don’t you risk irrelevance?
Maybe. But attention without substance creates a different risk: fragility. We’ve seen ecosystems inflate rapidly on expectations alone, only to stall when real usage tests the system. High TVL numbers look impressive until you realize they’re mercenary liquidity cycling through incentives. Massive community counts sound powerful until participation drops off when token emissions slow.
Plasma appears to be avoiding that trap. Rather than engineering incentives to manufacture activity, it seems focused on organic throughput — usage that persists because the system works, not because rewards are temporarily attractive. That choice slows visible growth. It also makes the growth that does occur more durable.
There’s a deeper layer here. By not overpromising, Plasma limits narrative volatility. When a protocol frames itself as modest, each successful release slightly exceeds expectations. That creates a different psychological arc. Instead of oscillating between hype and disappointment, you get steady credibility.
And credibility compounds.
Look at developer behavior across ecosystems. Developers gravitate toward environments that are stable, well-documented, and predictable. Not necessarily the loudest. Not necessarily the fastest-growing in token price. But the ones where APIs don’t break unexpectedly, where tooling improves steadily, where roadmap commitments are met.
That kind of environment isn’t glamorous. It’s quiet. It feels almost boring compared to speculative cycles. But boring infrastructure is exactly what supports complex systems.
Underneath the surface of Plasma’s steady releases is a signal about governance philosophy too. Discipline over speculation suggests internal alignment. It implies that decisions are filtered through long-term viability rather than short-term price impact. That doesn’t guarantee success. It does reduce chaos.
There’s also risk in this approach. If the market continues to reward narrative over substance, disciplined projects can be overlooked. Liquidity might flow elsewhere. Partnerships may gravitate toward louder ecosystems. Early signs suggest, however, that parts of the market are maturing. After repeated cycles of overpromising and underdelivering, participants are starting to look for durability.
Meanwhile, regulatory scrutiny is tightening globally. In that environment, projects built on exaggerated claims face higher exposure. A protocol that focuses on incremental technical progress rather than sweeping promises is structurally less vulnerable. It has less narrative surface area to attack.
Understanding that helps explain why Plasma’s restraint matters beyond its own ecosystem. It reflects a broader shift from experimentation to consolidation. The early era of crypto rewarded bold declarations. The emerging phase seems to reward systems that function.
On the surface, this looks like lower volatility in communication. Underneath, it’s an investment in institutional credibility. What that enables is different types of participants — developers building serious applications, enterprises exploring integrations, long-term holders assessing sustainability rather than momentum.
And then there’s the token. $XPL isn’t being marketed as a ticket to immediate exponential returns. It’s positioned, implicitly, as exposure to a network that is gradually strengthening its foundation. That reframes expectations. Price action tied to steady ecosystem growth behaves differently than price action driven by narrative spikes. It tends to be less explosive. It also tends to be less fragile.
If this holds, Plasma’s strategy may age well. Markets eventually differentiate between attention and execution. They may not do so quickly, but they do so eventually. When liquidity tightens and speculation cools, the projects still shipping are the ones that remain relevant.
What struck me most after sitting with this is how unusual restraint has become in crypto. Saying less. Building more. Avoiding grand predictions. Letting shipped code speak.
That’s not flashy. It doesn’t dominate timelines. It doesn’t generate daily dopamine hits.
But underneath the noise, it builds something else — a steady, earned signal in a market addicted to amplification.
And in a cycle defined by volume, the projects that last may be the ones that learned to stay quiet.
@Plasma $XPL #Plasma

Every crypto cycle, the spotlight chases the flashy layer-1s, the token launches, the meme-driven hype. Meanwhile, something quieter builds underneath. I first saw it when I was tracking transaction throughput versus real adoption. Numbers didn’t lie: networks with the most chatter often struggled under real-world usage. That’s when I looked to Plasma, not because it was loud, but because it was solving a problem that the cycle kept ignoring.
Plasma isn’t trying to be noticed by Twitter feeds. Its vision lives in what most people overlook: infrastructure that actually scales. On the surface, it’s a scaling solution for Ethereum, a “layer-2” in a crowded market. But underneath, it’s more than that. It’s about creating a foundation where decentralized applications can run without compromise, where users don’t have to choose between security, speed, or cost. That trade-off, baked into Ethereum’s core, hasn’t gone away. Plasma quietly addresses it, letting throughput grow while keeping Ethereum’s security intact. When I first modeled the transaction data, it struck me: networks claiming “instant” speeds often left security dangling. Plasma keeps it steady underneath, even if that steadiness feels invisible.
The future state Plasma is aiming for isn’t just more transactions per second. It’s composability at scale. Think of it like a city expanding not by stretching roads thinner, but by adding parallel streets that connect seamlessly. Developers can build, users can move value, contracts interact, all without each action slowing the system to a crawl. That’s the difference between hype and infrastructure. Ethereum’s base layer is precious, and Plasma wants to relieve the pressure without undermining it. That momentum creates another effect: as base-layer congestion eases, transaction fees stabilize, and the ecosystem can explore more complex financial instruments and user experiences. Early signs suggest that applications built with Plasma in mind handle demand spikes with far less friction. That’s subtle, but it matters. It’s the texture of adoption that’s sustainable, not the glitter of a 24-hour price jump.
Why does this project exist now? The timing isn’t accidental. Ethereum is past its infancy but still wrestling with the consequences of growth. Layer-1s have shown impressive innovation, yet they all hit bottlenecks as usage scales. If you trace network fees over the last three years, the pattern is clear: spikes aren’t anomalies, they’re structural stress tests. Plasma emerges in that context, not as a marketing stunt but as a response. There’s a real economic pressure—developers can’t build if costs are unpredictable, and users leave if experiences frustrate. Plasma is a foundation before the next wave of applications—NFTs, DeFi composability, on-chain gaming—hits its stride. That foundational approach means its value isn’t in the immediate headline, but in what it enables months and years down the line.
Looking under the hood, Plasma’s mechanics show why it’s suited for this era. It partitions Ethereum into smaller “child chains,” where transactions happen off the main chain but can always settle back on it. That keeps the security of Ethereum while drastically reducing congestion. But the nuance is in the exit and dispute mechanisms: every step is verifiable, meaning users can trust that even if a child chain misbehaves, funds remain secure. That’s the difference between a clever hack and a reliable tool. On the surface, the architecture sounds like a workaround. Dig deeper, and it’s a disciplined orchestration of decentralization, economic incentives, and technical rigor. Risks remain—delays in dispute resolution, coordination challenges—but the design anticipates them. Plasma is structured to err quietly rather than catastrophically. That earned reliability builds a foundation that applications can layer on top of without constantly monitoring the chain.
This infrastructure-first approach is different from the hype-driven projects that dominate news cycles. It doesn’t promise to make you rich overnight, and it doesn’t need to. Its worth is measured in uptime, predictable costs, and composability. Those metrics don’t trend on social feeds, but they do show in adoption charts over time. That perspective explains why some developers are quietly choosing Plasma for production workloads even while the broader market is distracted by splashy launches. The choice isn’t emotional; it’s functional. When systems scale without compromise, users barely notice—but they benefit. That quiet utility is exactly what tells you Plasma is aiming to be essential, not ephemeral.
Understanding this helps explain why Plasma fits in the bigger crypto story. Every cycle has winners in infrastructure, and those winners often don’t announce themselves with fanfare. They earn relevance by quietly absorbing growth pressures that would otherwise break systems. When Ethereum finally reaches the mass adoption phase—if DeFi, NFTs, and cross-chain activity continue expanding—the projects that anticipate bottlenecks will matter most. Plasma’s approach, with steady scaling, verifiable security, and composable child chains, positions it as a linchpin. The cycles of hype pass, but infrastructure accrues value over time, compounding silently in a way that speculative trends never can.
Meanwhile, there’s an economic layer often overlooked. Reduced congestion and predictable transaction costs aren’t just technical wins—they’re a market signal. They allow new business models to emerge: microtransactions, trustless gaming economies, fractionalized ownership structures. Each of these depends on the underlying scalability and security that Plasma provides. Without it, base-layer congestion would choke innovation, slowing the adoption curve for the next wave of decentralized applications. In that sense, Plasma doesn’t just fit into the story—it scaffolds the story, creating the space where imagination meets reality. Early usage data shows transaction fees drop noticeably when workloads move off the main chain, and applications that adopt the architecture report fewer complaints about latency. Those are incremental improvements, but in aggregate, they define whether the next generation of crypto experiences feels usable—or frustrating.
What’s striking is how unassuming Plasma is about its role. It doesn’t try to be the loudest chain, the shiniest token, or the most viral narrative. Its ambition is quieter, yet more enduring: to be the plumbing that works when everyone else is congested, to create predictability in a space defined by volatility, to ensure that the next wave of users can onboard without hitting systemic friction. That’s not flashy. That’s essential.
Taken together, Plasma reveals a broader pattern: crypto’s next phase is less about headline-grabbing protocols and more about infrastructure that can handle real-world scale. It’s a reminder that utility compounds quietly and that the projects shaping the ecosystem’s foundation often do so out of sight. Plasma isn’t aiming to be celebrated; it’s aiming to be used, and that use will determine its legacy. That distinction matters more than any token price in the short term.
So, if you look at the cycles, the congestion, the economic signals, and the technical architecture, one truth emerges: Plasma is less about spectacle and more about survival. Not survival of the fittest, but survival of the scalable. And when adoption finally accelerates beyond the early enthusiasts, those foundations will matter. That’s why, even if it’s quiet now, Plasma is staking a claim in crypto’s long game. $XPL #plasma. Every cycle has its loud stories—but some winners earn relevance beneath the surface, and that’s exactly where Plasma sits. @Plasma $XPL
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Maybe something didn’t add up. Everyone seemed obsessed with speed, tracking milliseconds like they were the only thing that mattered, and I kept thinking: why are we still measuring AI by the same metrics we used for databases in 2019? TPS — transactions per second — is a metric that once made sense. It rewarded sheer throughput and efficiency. It measured how fast a system could push data from point A to point B. But speed alone doesn’t capture the complexity of modern AI workloads. And the more I looked, the more I realized the industry’s fixation on TPS was not just outdated; it was actively misleading.
When you focus only on raw speed, you miss the subtle requirements that make a system AI-ready. TPS assumes that every request is independent, that every query lives and dies in isolation. That model works perfectly for banking ledgers or payment processors where each transaction is discrete, atomic, and must settle immediately. But AI doesn’t work that way. AI thrives on context, on memory, on reasoning that builds on itself. You can push thousands of transactions per second, but if your system forgets what happened a moment ago, if it can’t hold a thought or draw a connection between events, speed is meaningless.
What does AI-ready even mean? It’s more than fast CPUs or dense networking. At the surface, you need semantic memory — the ability to remember and link concepts across sessions. Imagine asking a model about a conversation you had yesterday, and it can reference it accurately, not just a snippet from the last API call. That memory allows AI to maintain coherence and continuity. Underneath, semantic memory depends on data structures that support persistent context, not ephemeral caches that vanish when a request ends. If a system only optimizes for TPS, that memory gets neglected, because remembering is slower than forgetting — and speed-centric design punishes slowness.
Persistent context naturally leads to reasoning. If the system can recall past information reliably, it can start drawing inferences, connecting dots, predicting consequences. Reasoning isn’t linear; it’s combinatorial. Every remembered fact multiplies the possible insights you can generate. But TPS-focused architectures treat requests as bullets, not threads. They prioritize firepower over thoughtfulness. That’s why a system can hit 100,000 TPS and still fail at anything resembling reasoning. You can have raw throughput, yet produce outputs that feel shallow or inconsistent because the underlying architecture wasn’t designed for persistent, interwoven knowledge.
Automation emerges when reasoning is coupled with memory. An AI that can remember, infer, and act doesn’t need a human to guide every step. You can automate workflows end-to-end, not just delegate repetitive tasks. Here’s an example: consider a claims processing AI in insurance. A TPS-centric system could input forms, validate fields, and flag anomalies rapidly, but each operation is isolated. An AI-ready system with semantic memory and reasoning could follow a claim from submission to resolution, flagging edge cases, asking clarifying questions, or preemptively updating records without constant human intervention. The difference isn’t incremental; it’s structural.
Settlement matters too. In TPS, settlement is often assumed instant — the transaction is complete when it’s recorded. In AI, settlement is more nuanced. Decisions are probabilistic, layered, sometimes delayed until more context is available. AI doesn’t just execute; it interprets, deliberates, and sometimes recalibrates. That requires an architecture designed to handle partial states, multi-step reasoning, and eventual consistency. A high TPS metric might indicate speed, but it tells you nothing about how reliably the system can settle complex operations. In other words, TPS measures a superficial rhythm, not the depth of understanding.
That’s where Vanar’s stack becomes relevant. What struck me is how natively it addresses all these AI requirements without forcing a tradeoff against speed. Its architecture isn’t just high-throughput; it integrates semantic memory, persistent context, reasoning, automation, and settlement from the foundation up. That means when an AI interacts with Vanar, every input isn’t just processed; it’s contextualized, linked, and stored. Every output is informed not just by the immediate prompt but by the cumulative state the system has built. And because this isn’t bolted on after the fact, latency isn’t inflated artificially — the system balances speed with intelligence, not speed at the expense of understanding.
Some might argue that TPS still matters. After all, no one wants an AI that can reason beautifully but responds slower than a human. That’s fair. But what the data shows is revealing: beyond a certain point, incremental gains in TPS produce diminishing returns for AI workloads. In practical terms, doubling TPS from 10,000 to 20,000 may feel impressive on paper, but it doesn’t make a reasoning AI any smarter. What actually moves the needle is the system’s ability to retain context, chain thoughts, and execute multi-step processes. You can think of TPS as the pulse of a machine; necessary, but insufficient. The real work happens in the nervous system, not the heartbeat.
This perspective helps explain why so many AI implementations underperform despite “high-performance” infrastructure. Teams chase low-latency benchmarks, microseconds, hardware flops, but their AI outputs remain brittle. They lack persistent context. They forget the past. They cannot reason beyond the immediate query. That gap isn’t a hardware problem; it’s an architectural one. It reflects a mismatch between what TPS measures and what AI actually requires. And the momentum of chasing TPS alone has created blind spots — expensive blind spots — in design, expectations, and evaluation.
Understanding this also sheds light on broader industry patterns. The obsession with speed is a holdover from the last decade, from a world dominated by batch processing and microservices. Now we’re entering a phase where intelligence, memory, and reasoning define value, not throughput. Systems that integrate these qualities at their core, rather than as add-ons, will have a strategic advantage. It’s not just about doing things faster; it’s about doing things smarter, and sustainably. That shift is quiet but steady, and if you watch closely, the companies that grasp it early are building foundations that TPS-focused competitors cannot easily replicate.
Early signs suggest that AI-ready architectures are already influencing adjacent fields. Knowledge management, automated decision-making, even logistics and finance are evolving to favor persistent reasoning over raw speed. In a sense, the metric that matters most is not how fast you process, but how well you handle complexity over time. Vanar’s stack exemplifies that principle. By designing for memory, context, reasoning, automation, and settlement first, it demonstrates that an AI system can be simultaneously fast, thoughtful, and reliable — not by chasing milliseconds, but by embracing the deeper logic of intelligence.
And that leads to one observation that sticks: in AI, speed is a surface feature; intelligence is structural. TPS might have defined the past, but the future is defined by systems that remember, reason, and act in context. If we keep measuring AI by yesterday’s metric, we’re measuring the wrong thing. What really counts is not how quickly a machine can execute, but how well it can think, learn, and settle. Everything else — including TPS — becomes secondary.
@Vanarchain $VANRY #vanar

Everyone was talking about traction, partnerships, price, timelines. Meanwhile Plasma was quiet. Almost stubbornly so. No fireworks. Just a steady drip of technical decisions that didn’t seem optimized for applause.
When I first looked at this, I expected another chain story dressed up as infrastructure. What struck me instead was how little Plasma seemed to care whether anyone was watching yet.
That tells you a lot.
Plasma isn’t trying to win attention. It’s trying to remove friction that most people don’t notice until it breaks. The work lives underneath the user experience, in architecture choices that only matter once scale shows up. And if this holds, that’s exactly where its leverage comes from.
On the surface, Plasma looks like a system designed to move value cheaply and reliably without drama. Transactions go through. State updates stay predictable. Tooling behaves the same way on a quiet Tuesday as it does under load. That’s the part most people see.
Underneath, the design choices are more interesting.
Plasma is built around the idea that execution should be boring and settlement should be unquestionable. That sounds simple, but most systems blur those two things together. They execute, validate, store, and finalize all in the same place, then wonder why costs spike or reliability drops when usage grows.
Plasma pulls those layers apart.
Execution happens where speed matters. Settlement happens where security matters. Data availability is treated as a first-class constraint rather than an afterthought. Each layer does one job, and does it consistently. That separation is what lets the system scale without rewriting itself every time demand changes.
Translated: Plasma doesn’t assume it knows what the future workload looks like. It assumes it doesn’t. So it builds in room to adapt.
That momentum creates another effect. Because the architecture is modular, tooling doesn’t have to guess either. Developers can reason locally. A wallet interacts with execution logic without needing to understand settlement mechanics. Indexers don’t need special-case logic for congestion events. Monitoring tools see the same patterns repeat, which is exactly what you want when something goes wrong at scale.
Most chains optimize for the first thousand users. Plasma is quietly optimizing for the millionth.
Scalability here isn’t about headline throughput. It’s about failure modes. What happens when traffic spikes unevenly? What breaks first? Who pays for it?
Plasma’s answer seems to be: isolate the blast radius.
If execution slows, settlement doesn’t stall. If data availability becomes expensive, it doesn’t corrupt state. That doesn’t eliminate risk, but it reshapes it into something operators can plan around instead of react to.
There’s a tradeoff hiding in that choice. Modular systems are harder to explain. They feel slower early because nothing is over-optimized for demos. That’s usually where critics step in. Why not move faster? Why not bundle more together while things are small?
Understanding that helps explain why Plasma has been content to move deliberately. Rebundling later is expensive. Unbundling later is worse.
The problem Plasma is trying to solve isn’t that blockchains can’t process transactions. It’s that most of them can’t do it predictably under real economic pressure. Fees spike. Finality assumptions wobble. Tooling degrades just when it’s most needed.
Plasma aims to make the boring path the reliable one.
Take developer experience. On the surface, it looks like familiar tooling, familiar abstractions. Nothing flashy. Underneath, the goal is stability over cleverness. APIs that don’t change every quarter. Execution semantics that don’t surprise you. Infra that treats backward compatibility as a cost worth paying.
What that enables is compounding adoption. Teams don’t have to rewrite their mental model every six months. Infra providers can invest in optimization because the ground isn’t shifting under them. That’s not exciting in a tweet, but it’s earned trust over time.
There are risks here. A foundation-first approach can lag narratives. Liquidity follows stories faster than architecture. If Plasma stays too quiet for too long, it may find others defining the category for it.
And modularity has its own complexity tax. More moving parts means more coordination. If interfaces aren’t nailed down early, flexibility turns into ambiguity. That remains to be seen.
But early signs suggest the team understands that tension. Decisions seem biased toward constraints rather than shortcuts. You see it in how they talk about scaling as an operational problem, not a marketing one.
Zooming out, Plasma fits a larger pattern. Infrastructure cycles tend to overcorrect. First comes monoliths that do everything until they can’t. Then comes fragmentation that promises infinite flexibility and delivers confusion. Eventually, systems settle into layered stacks that look obvious in hindsight.
We’re somewhere in that middle stretch now.
What Plasma reveals is a shift in priorities. Less obsession with peak performance numbers. More attention to steady behavior over time. Less emphasis on novelty. More on repeatability.
If this direction holds, the winners won’t be the loudest chains. They’ll be the ones that feel dull in the best possible way. The ones that let other people build stories on top without worrying about what’s underneath.
$XPL , if it succeeds, won’t be about fireworks. It’ll be about foundations that were poured before anyone showed up.
The sharp observation that sticks with me is this: Plasma isn’t betting that users will forgive broken infrastructure. It’s betting they won’t notice it at all.
@Plasma $XPL #Plasma

Somewhere between the roadmap slides and the demo clips, there was always a line about “AI integration.” It was usually vague. A plugin here. An SDK there. Something bolted on late in the process. What struck me wasn’t that AI was everywhere — it was that almost no one seemed to be asking what AI actually needs underneath.
Everyone was looking left, chasing features. I kept looking right, at foundations.
Most blockchains today are AI-added. They were designed for transactions between humans, then later extended to support intelligence as an application layer. Vanar took the opposite path. It was designed for AI from day one. That difference sounds subtle. It isn’t. It creates a fork in the road that compounds over time.
On the surface, “adding AI” looks reasonable. You take an existing chain, deploy models off-chain, connect them with oracles, maybe store some outputs on-chain. It works, in the same way spreadsheets “worked” as databases for a while. But underneath, the system still assumes short-lived transactions, stateless execution, and users who click buttons. AI doesn’t behave like that.
AI systems don’t just compute. They remember. They reason across time. They act repeatedly with partial information. That creates a very different load on infrastructure.
Memory is the first stress point. In most chains, memory is either ephemeral (cleared every transaction) or externalized to off-chain databases. That’s fine for DeFi. It breaks down for agents that need persistent context. When an AI assistant has to rehydrate its entire state every time it acts, latency increases, costs rise, and subtle errors creep in. Over time, those errors compound.
Vanar approached this differently. With systems like myNeutron, memory exists at the infrastructure layer. Not as raw storage, but as semantic memory — meaning preserved context, not just data blobs. On the surface, this looks like better state management. Underneath, it means agents can build continuity. They can learn from prior actions without rebuilding themselves each time. That continuity is what makes intelligence feel steady instead of brittle.
Understanding that helps explain why retrofitting memory is so hard. Once a chain is designed around stateless execution, adding long-lived context means fighting the architecture at every layer. You can simulate it, but you can’t make it native without rewriting the base assumptions.
Reasoning introduces the second fracture. Most AI today reasons off-chain. The blockchain only sees the output. That keeps things fast, but it also keeps them opaque. If an agent makes a decision that moves value, the chain has no idea why it did so. For enterprises or regulated environments, that’s a quiet dealbreaker.
Vanar’s approach with Kayon brings reasoning and explainability closer to the chain itself. On the surface, this looks like better auditability. Underneath, it changes trust dynamics. Decisions aren’t just recorded; they’re inspectable. That enables accountability without requiring blind faith in off-chain systems. It also introduces risk — reasoning on-chain is harder and slower — but the tradeoff is intentional. It prioritizes clarity over raw throughput.
Which brings up the obvious counterargument: speed. Critics will say that all of this sounds expensive and slow, that AI workloads should stay off-chain and blockchains should stick to settlement. There’s truth there. TPS still matters. But it’s old news.
AI systems don’t fail because they’re slow in isolation. They fail because coordination breaks. Because memory desyncs. Because actions trigger without sufficient context. Early signs suggest that as agents become more autonomous, these coordination failures become the dominant risk, not transaction speed. Infrastructure that reduces those failures quietly accrues value.
Automation is where these threads converge. Intelligence that can’t act is just analysis. Acting safely, however, requires guardrails. In AI-added systems, automation is typically bolted on through scripts or bots that sit outside the chain. They work until they don’t. When something breaks, it’s often unclear where responsibility lies.
Vanar’s Flows system treats automation as a first-class primitive. On the surface, it enables agents to execute tasks. Underneath, it encodes constraints directly into the infrastructure. Actions are not just possible; they are bounded. That creates a texture of safety that’s difficult to replicate after the fact.
Meanwhile, this design choice has economic consequences. $VANRY isn’t just a speculative asset layered on top of narratives. It underpins usage across memory, reasoning, automation, and settlement. As more intelligence runs through the system, demand for the token is tied to activity, not hype. That doesn’t guarantee appreciation — nothing does — but it aligns incentives toward real usage rather than attention cycles.
Another common argument is that any chain can copy these ideas later. Maybe. But copying features isn’t the same as copying foundations. Retrofitting AI primitives into an existing chain is like trying to add plumbing after the walls are sealed. You can route pipes around the edges, but pressure builds in strange places. Complexity grows. Costs rise. At some point, teams start making compromises that erode the original vision.
That momentum creates another effect. Developers build where assumptions feel stable. If AI-first primitives are native, teams don’t have to reinvent scaffolding for every application. Over time, that attracts a different class of builder — less focused on demos, more focused on durability.
Zooming out, this mirrors a broader pattern in tech. Early platforms optimize for what’s easy. Later platforms optimize for what’s inevitable. AI agents interacting with each other, transacting autonomously, and operating over long time horizons feel less like a trend and more like gravity. Infrastructure either accommodates that pull or resists it.
If this holds, we’ll likely see fewer flashy launches and more quiet accumulation of systems that just work. Chains that treated AI as a marketing layer may continue to ship features, but they’ll struggle to host intelligence that persists. Chains that treated AI as a design constraint from the beginning may move slower, but their progress is earned.
When I first looked at Vanar through this lens, what stood out wasn’t any single product. It was the consistency of the underlying assumptions. Memory matters. Reasoning matters. Automation matters. Settlement matters. And they matter together.
The fork in the road isn’t about who adds AI faster. It’s about who builds infrastructure that intelligence can actually live on. And the longer this space matures, the more that quiet difference shows up in the results.
@Vanarchain $VANRY #vanar

Every cycle has its slogans, its mascots, its charts that look convincing right up until they don’t. When I first looked at $VANRY , what struck me wasn’t a story that wanted to be told loudly. It was the opposite. Something quiet. Something already in motion while most people were still arguing about narratives.
The market is very good at rewarding things that sound right. It’s less consistent at rewarding things that are ready. That difference matters more now than it did a few years ago. Back then, being early mostly meant being speculative. Today, being early often means missing what’s already been built underneath the noise.
$VANRY sits in that uncomfortable middle ground. Not flashy enough to dominate timelines. Not abstract enough to be pure narrative fuel. Instead, it’s positioned around readiness—actual infrastructure that supports usage across what people loosely call the “intelligent stack.” AI agents, autonomous systems, data coordination, on-chain logic. All the stuff that breaks if the base layer isn’t boringly reliable.
Understanding that helps explain why $V$VANRY s felt underpriced relative to its surface-level visibility. It’s not competing for attention. It’s competing for relevance when things start running at scale.
On the surface, Vanar looks like a familiar L1/L2-style platform conversation: throughput, cost efficiency, tooling. But underneath, the design choices lean toward a different problem. How do you support systems that don’t just execute transactions, but make decisions, coordinate actions, and respond to real-time inputs? That’s a different texture of demand than DeFi yield loops or NFT mint storms.
The data points start to matter when you read them in that context. For example, when you see sustained developer activity that isn’t tied to hype cycles, that’s not just “growth.” It suggests teams are building things that require stability over time. When transaction patterns skew toward machine-to-machine interactions rather than purely human-triggered events, that tells you what kind of usage is being tested. Not speculation-heavy. Utility-heavy.
Translate that technically, and it becomes clearer. Intelligent systems need predictable execution. They need low-latency finality, yes, but more importantly they need consistency. If an AI agent is coordinating supply chains, media pipelines, or autonomous services, it can’t tolerate erratic fee spikes or fragile dependencies. Vanar’s architecture leans into that constraint rather than pretending it doesn’t exist.
That’s what readiness looks like. Not peak TPS screenshots, but systems that don’t degrade under quiet, steady load.
Meanwhile, $VANRY ’s role as the economic layer underneath this stack matters more than people realize. Tokens that underpin actual usage behave differently over time than tokens that exist mainly to represent belief. Usage creates gravity. Fees, staking, access rights, and coordination incentives slowly tie the asset to activity that doesn’t disappear when sentiment shifts.
This is where the obvious counterargument shows up. If it’s so ready, why isn’t it everywhere already? Why isn’t the market pricing that in?
The uncomfortable answer is that markets don’t price readiness well until it’s forced into view. They price narratives quickly. Readiness only becomes visible when systems are stressed, when new categories of applications actually need the infrastructure they claim to need.
We’ve seen this before. Storage networks didn’t matter until data volumes became real. Oracles didn’t matter until composability broke without them. Rollups didn’t matter until L1 congestion stopped being theoretical. Each time, the infrastructure existed before the consensus caught up.
Early signs suggest intelligent systems are heading toward that same inflection. AI agents coordinating on-chain actions, decentralized inference, autonomous content pipelines—these aren’t demos anymore. They’re brittle today because most stacks weren’t designed for them. That brittleness creates demand for platforms that are.
Underneath the buzzwords, the intelligent stack has three basic needs: compute, coordination, and trust. Compute can happen off-chain or specialized. Trust is still cheapest when it’s shared. Coordination is where things usually break. Vanar’s positioning focuses right there, providing a foundation where logic can execute predictably and systems can interact without constant human babysitting.
That foundation creates another effect. When builders know the ground won’t shift under them, they build differently. They design for longevity instead of short-term optimization. That attracts a different class of projects, which in turn reinforces the network’s usage profile. It’s a slow feedback loop, but it’s earned.
Of course, readiness carries risk too. Building ahead of demand means carrying cost. It means waiting while louder projects capture attention. It means the possibility that assumptions about adoption timelines are wrong. If intelligent systems take longer to mature, infrastructure-first platforms can feel early for an uncomfortably long time.
That risk is real. It’s also the same risk that produced the most durable networks last cycle. The ones that survived weren’t the loudest. They were the ones that worked when conditions changed.
What struck me when zooming out is how $VAN$VANRY a broader pattern. Crypto is slowly moving from human speculation to machine coordination. From wallets clicking buttons to systems triggering each other. From narratives to workflows. That shift doesn’t eliminate hype, but it changes what compounds underneath it.
If this holds, tokens that anchor themselves to real usage across intelligent systems won’t need constant storytelling. Their story will show up in block space consumption, in persistent demand, in developers who don’t leave when incentives rotate.
We’re still early enough that this isn’t obvious. It remains to be seen how fast intelligent stacks actually scale, and which architectures prove resilient. But the direction feels steady. And in that direction, readiness matters more than being first to trend.
The sharp observation I keep coming back to is this: narratives move markets, but readiness decides who’s still standing when the market stops listening. VANRY trying to be heard over the noise. It’s making sure it works when the noise fades.
@Vanarchain #vanar