Princess Nisha

I keep coming back to a simple frustration with AI agents: they don’t really remember. My conversations with them can feel smooth in the moment, but the minute I start a new thread, switch tools, or restart an agent process, the “relationship” snaps back to zero. For a while I told myself this was just the price of working with probabilistic models, but lately it feels more like an avoidable design choice—and that’s where Vanar’s idea of “native memory” clicks for me.

I don’t mean “save the chat log somewhere and hope retrieval finds the right line.” I mean memory treated as infrastructure: a durable state the agent can rely on, with clear rules about what gets written, what gets recalled, and who owns it. What’s different now is that the big assistants are making that kind of persistence a mainstream expectation. OpenAI has described ChatGPT remembering details across chats, with controls to view, delete, or turn memory off. Anthropic has rolled out memory for Claude with an emphasis on being able to inspect and edit what’s remembered, and on keeping separate memories for separate projects so contexts don’t blur together. Google’s Gemini has also introduced a memory feature that can remember preferences and details across conversations for subscribers.

This matters now because we’re treating agents less like search boxes and more like ongoing collaborators. We want them to keep track of a project, move between tools without losing the plot, and feel like the same assistant from one moment to the next—even when the session resets or the environment changes. Big context windows can help, sure, but they’re a blunt instrument. They’re expensive, they’re not always reliable, and they don’t solve the deeper issue: the agent still doesn’t have a durable identity. I used to assume “just give it more context” would get us most of the way, but the more I see people trying to do real, multi-step work with agents, the clearer it gets. The bottleneck isn’t intelligence in the moment. It’s continuity over time. For an agent to feel like a real collaborator, it should remember what matters: your preferences, your rules, and the shared understanding you’ve developed, instead of making you repeat yourself in every new session.

Vanar is basically arguing that agents will stall out if memory stays retrofitted. Their pitch is that memory should be native enough to be portable across tools and durable across restarts. They frame MyNeutron as a universal memory that’s portable and private, with the idea that the user owns it, and with the option to keep it local or anchor it on their chain. Under that umbrella, they describe Neutron as taking raw files and turning them into compact, queryable knowledge objects they call “Seeds,” and they position Kayon as a reasoning layer that lets agents and smart contracts query and apply logic to that stored, compressed data inside the same environment.

I find it helpful to translate all of that into a simpler operational picture: make the agent instance disposable, but let the memory outlive it. If you can do that, then swapping models or moving execution stops being a reset button. The agent can pick up the thread without you having to restate your preferences, re-upload the same documents, or re-explain the context of a project. It also changes what “tool use” means. Instead of the agent grabbing whatever it can from a transient prompt window, it can pull from a stable library of what you’ve already agreed is relevant.

Of course, persistent memory isn’t automatically good. It can mix contexts you didn’t intend, store sensitive details, or “remember” something wrong with extra confidence because it keeps getting reused over time. That’s why I pay attention to the boring parts—controls, boundaries, and the ability to inspect what’s stored—more than the grand claims. I don’t think anyone has fully solved the question of how to make memory useful without making it risky. But I do think the direction is clear. If we want agents that behave less like one-off chat sessions and more like steady collaborators, memory has to stop being a hack and become part of the system’s core contract.

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I’ve been thinking about stablecoins in a different way lately. My default was to treat them like just another app riding on top of whatever general-purpose chain happened to be popular, because that’s where developers and liquidity already are. But the more stablecoins creep into ordinary money movement, the more it feels like the settlement layer underneath becomes its own product, with its own constraints. That’s the frame in which Plasma starts to look less like “yet another chain” and more like a system designed to do one job with fewer surprises.

The debate is louder now than five years ago because the numbers are no longer hypothetical. Stablecoins aren’t a small experiment anymore. One payments guide put total supply at about $305B by September 2025, and estimated over $32T in stablecoin transaction volume during 2024. McKinsey’s view is that 2025 could be a turning point, especially for cross-border payments and treasury work where reliability and speed actually matter. Institutions are behaving like the back-end plumbing matters: Reuters reported Barclays taking a stake in U.S.-based Ubyx, a clearing system meant to facilitate settlement between stablecoins from different issuers. The Financial Times reported Swift developing a blockchain platform in response to the rise of stablecoins, which is about as clear a signal as you get that the incumbents feel pressure at the settlement layer.
Once you treat the problem as settlement, the requirements become almost boring, and I mean that as a compliment. Settlement isn’t the moment a wallet flashes “sent.” It’s the moment a merchant or finance team can treat value as final, reconcile it, and keep operating without holding extra buffers “just in case.” The DL News research report on Plasma describes today’s stablecoin activity as fragmented across chains, and it argues that general-purpose networks often treat stablecoins as secondary to their core design—showing up as high fees at the wrong times, fragmented liquidity, and inconsistent integration across scaling layers. Those issues are annoying for traders. For payments, they’re existential. If your cost to settle or your confidence in finality changes depending on what else is happening on the network, you don’t really have a settlement rail—you have a variable expense line and a risk management problem.
Plasma’s bet is that you win share by being narrow and dependable. It presents itself as purpose-built for stablecoins, embedding features like gasless USD₮ transfers, stablecoin-based gas options, and confidential payments aimed at ordinary financial flows rather than novelty. I find the “gasless” design especially clarifying. Plasma’s docs describe a dedicated paymaster that sponsors gas for USD₮ transfers, but it’s restricted to basic transfer and transferFrom calls and uses rate limits plus lightweight identity verification to keep spam from turning “free” into “unusable.” The same docs describe protocol-maintained paymasters that let approved ERC-20 tokens be used for gas, which is a small detail that matters a lot when you’re trying to make a stablecoin experience feel normal and not like a scavenger hunt for a separate gas token. And on the build side, Plasma leans into compatibility with Ethereum tooling, pairing a HotStuff-derived consensus (PlasmaBFT) with an Ethereum-compatible execution layer (Reth) so developers can reuse familiar tools while targeting fast, deterministic settlement.
I used to assume the “winner” would just be the chain with the lowest average fee. What surprises me now is how much the last mile matters: predictability, onboarding friction, and whether you can explain finality and costs to people who don’t want a crypto lesson. I don’t know that Plasma “wins” in an absolute sense, and I doubt the market crowns a single chain. But if stablecoin settlement is becoming its own category, specialization starts to look like a structural advantage rather than a marketing choice.

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I keep coming back to a simple question when I read about Plasma: if something goes wrong, where do you want the argument to end? My earlier instinct was that “finality” was whatever the fast chain said it was, as long as the app felt instant. These days I’m less satisfied with that. As stablecoins start behaving like payment rails instead of a trading convenience, I find it helpful to split two jobs we often blur together: updating balances quickly, and settling disputes with a reference point that most actors can’t rewrite.

Plasma’s design leans into that split. On the Plasma chain itself, the goal is rapid, deterministic confirmation using a HotStuff-style Byzantine fault tolerant consensus (their docs describe PlasmaBFT as a Fast HotStuff implementation) tuned for low-latency finality. For execution, Plasma stays close to the Ethereum world: it uses an EVM execution layer built on Reth so existing contracts and common tooling can run without a translation layer. In plain terms, Plasma tries to feel familiar to developers, while behaving more like a payments network when it comes to speed. It also experiments with fee abstraction, including protocol paymasters that can sponsor certain stablecoin transfers, which matters when you’re trying to mimic normal payments.

Anchored settlement is the other half of the story, and it’s where Bitcoin comes in. The idea is to periodically take a compact cryptographic fingerprint of Plasma’s recent state and record that fingerprint on Bitcoin, so there’s a public, timestamped checkpoint that’s extremely hard to revise later. Sources describing Plasma’s approach frame this as “state commitments” anchored to Bitcoin, with Bitcoin acting as the final settlement layer rather than the execution engine. I like thinking of it as notarization: Plasma does the day-to-day bookkeeping, but Bitcoin is where you pin a permanent “this is what we agreed happened” marker. It doesn’t make Plasma identical to Bitcoin, and it doesn’t eliminate the need for good operations, but it does narrow the room for quietly rewriting history after the fact.

This angle is getting attention now because stablecoins themselves are getting attention now. Research over the last year has been pretty direct that stablecoins are turning into infrastructure for payments, remittances, and onchain finance, and that a new class of networks is emerging that specializes around stablecoin flows rather than treating them as a side feature. Once you accept that premise, the boring questions—settlement, auditability, dispute resolution, operational risk—suddenly feel like the whole point.

None of this removes tradeoffs, and I don’t think it should be described as risk-free. Between anchors, you still rely on Plasma’s validator set and the chain being well run. And whenever you bring Bitcoin into an EVM environment, you add bridge risk by definition. Plasma’s bridge design relies on a verifier network and threshold signing, and the docs are explicit that parts of it are still under active development. Still, I come away thinking anchored settlement is a pretty grounded way to connect speed with credibility.

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I keep noticing how quickly “PayFi + AI” conversations drift into futuristic demos, so I’ve been forcing myself to start with a boring question: what would make this feel like ordinary economic life? My hunch is that it becomes real when the system behaves predictably under dull, repetitive pressure—lots of small payments, lots of refunds, and plenty of moments where the rules matter more than the tech. PayFi, in the cleanest definition I’ve seen, is about integrating payments with on-chain financing and blockchain technology so value can move more freely, often by turning real-world claims like receivables into something that can be funded and settled quickly.

The timing feels different now than it did five years ago because stablecoin settlement is being treated more seriously in the payments world, and AI has made it feel plausible for software to handle messier decision-making instead of only following rigid instructions. Payments are full of judgment calls—what to check, what to block, what to report, and what to store so disputes can be resolved without guesswork. I used to assume the ledger itself would do most of the trust work just by being transparent, but transparency doesn’t create judgment; it just makes the trail easier to audit later. Vanar’s bet is that more of that context can live inside the infrastructure layer instead of being rebuilt by every application. Vanar describes itself as an AI-powered blockchain stack designed for PayFi and tokenized real-world assets, and it positions the base chain as built for AI workloads rather than retrofitted later.

What I find interesting is that they talk about both a reasoning layer (Kayon), aimed at natural-language interaction and compliance automation, and a data layer (Neutron) that compresses and restructures files into on-chain “Seeds” so applications and agents can work with verifiable records instead of orphaned attachments.

The most concrete “demo versus economy” test, though, is pricing. If fees swing wildly, you can’t price a coffee, you can’t forecast operating costs, and you can’t confidently automate thousands of tiny settlements. Vanar’s documentation leans into fixed fees, including a mechanism intended to keep a constant fiat-denominated transaction cost—described as $0.0005 per transaction—by updating protocol-level fee parameters using token price feeds.

Finally, there’s the bridge to the existing payments world. Worldpay has written about running validator nodes to test payment innovation in real-world environments, and it names Vanar as one of the networks it uses to explore low-cost microtransactions and merchant settlement flows involving agentic payments and on-chain logic. Vanar and Worldpay have also appeared together publicly around that theme.

I don’t think any of this comes with a promise. Software that makes decisions can make the wrong ones, regulators and risk teams change their expectations, and moving money always brings edge cases you can’t fully simulate in a demo. What helps me is watching the unglamorous signals over time: do costs stay stable, can the decision trail be inspected, does settlement stay reliable when things get messy, and do people begin using it the way they use utilities—quietly, without needing to think about it?

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I’ve been thinking about why Plasma keeps describing its strategy as an ecosystem thesis instead of a “faster chain” story, and it’s made me rethink what drives adoption in payments. My first instinct was that this is mostly a throughput problem: if transfers get cheap and quick enough, usage follows. The more I watch how money moves in real life, the less I buy that. Payments are a bundle of trust, habit, compliance, and user experience, and if any one piece feels odd, people treat it as a curiosity and move on. Plasma’s bet starts with the rail. It describes itself as a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins, emphasizing near-instant transfers and fee-free stablecoin payments, alongside security to satisfy institutions. I read that focus as an admission that payments don’t need endless features; they need predictable behavior under load. When Plasma explains stablecoin payments, the examples are deliberately ordinary—cross-border transfers, retail checkout, payroll, and business-to-business settlement. But the rail doesn’t create a payment experience on its own, and the wallet layer becomes decisive. I used to think wallets were just a thin wrapper—like a nicer screen on top of crypto rails. Now I think they’re the distribution layer for normality. If a wallet makes people stop and puzzle over fees, which network to use, or whether a payment can be reversed, stablecoins will stay “crypto stuff.” But if paying feels like sending a message—tap, confirm, done—stablecoins suddenly compete like real money: on convenience, reliability, and whether a merchant can take it without hassle. The third leg is institutions, and I’ve come to see it as the gatekeeper for scale. Institutions aren’t just ramps; they’re custody policies, treasury approvals, audit trails, fraud controls, and legal confidence across jurisdictions. Two outside shifts make this ecosystem framing feel more relevant now. First, stablecoins have grown large enough that mainstream research puts them around the hundreds of billions in circulation and forecasts a path toward the trillions. Second, rules have started to harden. In Europe, MiCA created a uniform framework for crypto-assets, which pushes service providers toward clearer licensing and disclosure expectations. In the U.S., the GENIUS Act established a federal framework for “payment stablecoins,” with reserve and oversight requirements. That doesn’t eliminate uncertainty, but it changes the risk calculus for large payment operators. In that context, compliance isn’t window dressing; it’s part of the product. Plasma’s partnership with Elliptic is explicitly about monitoring and compliance capabilities meant to help regulated exchanges and payment providers onboard safely. I also notice the wider industry converging on the same constraints: Coinbase waived fees on PayPal’s stablecoin and enabled direct redemptions as part of a push toward real payment flows, and Fiserv has said it plans to add a stablecoin for integration across its existing banking and merchant network. None of this proves Plasma’s thesis, and I’m wary of treating any single chain as inevitable, but the argument feels grounded: rails, wallets, and institutions have to mature together, or stablecoin “payments” stays stuck as a demo instead of becoming boring infrastructure.

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I’ve been thinking about “reward contracts” on Vanar as a way to make token distribution feel less like a back-office favor and more like a rule anyone can inspect. My instinct is to be cautious, because rewards can turn into fuzzy promises, but the clean version is straightforward: put VANRY into a smart contract, define how it accrues, and let people claim it without needing a person to approve anything. Vanar’s whitepaper even describes a rewards contract for block-reward distribution, explicitly tying it to transparency and automation. Once I picture that, it’s easy to imagine similar contracts for staking incentives, liquidity incentives, or app-level payouts where users earn VANRY for activity an application can prove onchain. DeFi has already normalized a cousin, a “rewarder” contract that allocates incentive tokens to participants based on what they’ve locked.

This is where EVM-compatibility turns into something you can actually feel. Vanar calls itself EVM-compatible, meaning it can run the same kind of smart contracts Ethereum runs, so developers can often use Solidity and familiar tooling instead of learning everything from scratch. For wallets, it’s usually just a matter of adding a network via an RPC and then interacting with it using the same address style and transaction patterns people already recognize. That familiarity matters because reward contracts aren’t useful on their own—they need apps and interfaces that let users check eligibility, see what’s accruing, and claim without friction. EVM compatibility doesn’t guarantee adoption, but it does remove a lot of the basic obstacles that slow ecosystems down.
And for bridges and liquidity, the EVM angle matters because incentives rarely live on an island; they collide with where assets already trade and where users already have capital. Vanar’s docs describe VANRY as the native gas token for transaction fees and smart-contract operations, and they also describe an ERC-20 wrapped VANRY on Ethereum and Polygon with a bridge to move between native and wrapped forms. That doesn’t guarantee liquidity, but it makes it technically easier for VANRY to plug into existing EVM rails if integrations and adoption show up. If claiming a reward costs gas, then VANRY is both the prize and part of the mechanism. If staking and validator support earn VANRY, then reward contracts also brush up against governance, because communities care about rates, eligibility rules, and who can change parameters.

What feels different today than five years ago is that multichain behavior is normal, and even core developer environments talk about being built for a multichain world. So the attention has shifted from “can we distribute tokens?” to “can we distribute them in a way people can verify, integrate, and live with over time?” There’s still uncertainty, and I think it’s healthier to admit it: a reward contract can be buggy, underfunded, or gamed, and adoption depends on real applications and real demand. But if rewards are going to exist at all, making the rules inspectable and the payouts automated is a more honest starting point.

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For a long time, stablecoins felt like an internal crypto convenience, mostly used by traders who wanted to step out of volatility without leaving the market. But the spotlight has moved. Payment providers and even big card networks have been running pilots and experiments with stablecoin settlement, and Wharton’s Blockchain and Digital Asset Project has pointed out two things happening at once: more institutions are getting involved, and regulation is starting to take clearer shape compared with the earlier “anything goes” period. Most of the activity is still tied to trading, sure, but payments keep creeping in at the edges, then sticking around. And when you picture stablecoins in that role, “security” becomes less of a buzzword and more of a personal concern. Finality matters. The real question is whether a transfer is actually done, or whether someone, somewhere, can still reach in and change it. More stablecoin volume is still trading, but payments use keeps inching upward in practice. In that setting, “security” stops being a slogan and becomes a basic question: if a transfer is final, who can undo it, and under what pressure? Plasma is one attempt to answer that question by separating speed from deep settlement confidence. In Plasma’s docs, the chain uses a Byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus layer aimed at deterministic finality within seconds, paired with an EVM execution environment so existing Ethereum tooling still works.
The interesting move is where it borrows its sense of “can’t be changed.” Plasma does most of its work on its own chain, but it regularly writes a kind of stamp onto Bitcoin. Plasma calls itself a Bitcoin sidechain and says it posts checkpoints of its state to Bitcoin through a bridge designed to reduce how much trust you need to place in any one party. The idea is that once that checkpoint is recorded on Bitcoin, changing what happened would mean changing Bitcoin’s history too, which is about as hard as these systems get. I think of it like a receipt: do the high-volume work on the fast chain, then pin a compact proof of that work onto the most stubborn ledger you can find. Bitcoin isn’t doing the day-to-day execution here; it’s being used as the long-run reference point for “this really happened.”
The contrast with today’s main stablecoin rails helps explain why this framing is getting attention. An Axios profile of Plasma’s 2025 funding round pointed to Ethereum’s cost and congestion issues, and to trust questions around cheaper venues like Tron, including how issuer support has shifted over time. If you’re trying to build payment infrastructure that can survive scrutiny, those tradeoffs don’t stay theoretical for long. Anchoring, though, is not a free pass, and the bridge is the sharp edge. Pinning chain state to Bitcoin is different from moving Bitcoin safely in and out, and that boundary is where many systems have failed. A DL News research report describes Plasma’s planned native Bitcoin bridge as relying on independent verifiers running Bitcoin nodes and MPC-based signing for withdrawals, with a roadmap toward broader decentralization.
To me, that’s the honest part of the story: the design is trying to minimize trust, but it still has to earn trust while it decentralizes and while the bridge proves itself under real load. Plasma also notes that some features, including the Bitcoin bridge, roll out incrementally as the network matures. What makes Plasma worth watching right now is that the market seems to reward this kind of narrow focus when demand is real. A LayerZero case study says Plasma’s October launch drew billions in deposits within weeks. That doesn’t prove the security model is finished, but it does suggest the problem it’s aiming at has become urgent, and that people are willing to test new settlement plumbing if it speaks plainly to risk.

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If you’ve used blockchains for anything beyond a one-off experiment, you know the moment when fees stop being a background detail and start shaping your behavior. You hesitate before clicking. You check a wallet like it’s a weather report and wonder whether now is a good time to do something ordinary. That anxious pause is part of why fee fairness is getting attention again. As more teams ship apps that behave like services—games with constant actions, payment flows, automated tools—a sudden spike in cost is not quirky, it’s a failure. Vanar’s approach starts with a plain promise: anchor transaction costs to a dollar value instead of letting them be set by a bidding war. Users still pay in VANRY, but the protocol adjusts the amount of VANRY required so the fee stays near a fixed USD target as the token price moves. In Vanar’s documentation, the Vanar Foundation is described as calculating a VANRY market price from multiple on-chain and off-chain sources, validating it, and feeding it into the protocol so charges update while the user-facing dollar cost stays steady. The docs describe updates happening on a regular cadence, and a security audit also describes the chain updating its fee price from an external system after every 100 blocks. Vanar ties this pricing choice to a second idea of fairness: who gets served first. The docs and whitepaper describe a first-in, first-out ordering model where validators include transactions in the order they reach the mempool, rather than prioritizing whoever pays more. I find that instinctively legible. It feels closer to taking a numbered ticket than entering a bidding room. Stable micro-fees do raise an obvious worry, though: if it’s cheap for me, isn’t it cheap to spam the chain too? Vanar’s answer is tiered fixed fees. Everyday actions like transfers, swaps, NFT mints, staking, and bridging are described as staying in the lowest tier, around $0.0005 worth of VANRY, while larger, block-hungry transactions become progressively more expensive. It’s basically a fairness filter. Everyday actions remain smooth, but if someone tries to flood the system, the cost ramps up until it’s not worth it. What users get out of that isn’t some big discount—it’s the relief of knowing the price won’t jump around when they’re just trying to do something routine. Predictable fees remove the background stress where every action feels like a wager, and they let developers budget and price products without building a whole strategy around sudden fee spikes. For VANRY, it clarifies the token’s job as gas, but measured against a fiat yardstick, so the quantity paid flexes to hit a target value. There are tradeoffs worth naming. A model that depends on a price signal makes that signal an attack surface, and it raises governance questions when a foundation is part of the pricing loop. If the price input is wrong or manipulated, users could overpay or underpay, and the anti-spam balance could wobble. That risk deserves real scrutiny. Still, I understand why this design is resonating now. It’s an attempt to make blockchain costs behave like something adults can plan around.

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If you’ve been watching both AI and crypto, the tone has changed. It’s less about whether a chatbot can write a decent email, and less about whether a chain can squeeze out a few more transactions per second. The sharper question is what happens when software starts taking actions for us: paying an invoice, moving funds, checking a policy, then leaving something behind someone else can verify. Useful, yes. Comfortable, not always. That’s the overlap the AI-and-blockchain world keeps circling. A blockchain is basically a shared record that’s hard to rewrite. AI is good at turning messy information into something you can search and act on. Vanar is trying to fuse those roles. In its own description, Vanar Chain is built to support AI agents and tokenized real-world infrastructure, with a five-layer design where the base chain supports higher layers for memory and reasoning. The part that matters in practice is context, because agents run on context the way old software ran on inputs. Vanar’s Neutron layer is presented as a way to turn documents, emails, and images into compact “Seeds” that can be searched by meaning. In the documentation, Seeds are stored off-chain by default for speed, but can be anchored on-chain when you need verification, ownership, and long-term integrity. On the Neutron product page, Vanar offers a concrete claim: compressing a 25MB file into about 50KB as a verifiable Seed. Above that sits Kayon, described as the layer that indexes connected data into Seeds and answers questions in ordinary language, so a human can ask “what changed?” without translating everything into database queries and dashboards. This is getting attention now because the outside world is converging on the same problem. Payments players are building standards for agent-driven commerce, like Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Protocol and Mastercard’s Agent Pay, which admits that autonomous software is moving into everyday spending. At the same time, tokenized assets are creeping toward operational use, where onboarding, dispute handling, and compliance can’t be hand-waved. Vanar’s appearance with Worldpay at Abu Dhabi Finance Week leaned into that direction, talking about agentic payments inside institutional constraints. None of this guarantees success, and it’s worth keeping your feet on the ground. Gartner has warned that a large share of agentic AI projects may be canceled as costs rise and business value stays fuzzy. Vanar itself has to do the unglamorous work of making the system reliable and affordable; its whitepaper points to fixed, very low transaction fees, and exchanges like Binance completed the earlier TVK-to-VANRY rebrand at a 1:1 swap. Still, the direction is real. If agents are going to act, we’ll need ways to prove what they saw, what rules they followed, and what they changed. A ledger alone can’t supply judgment, and a model alone can’t supply accountability. The question is whether systems like Vanar can make those two needs meet in the middle, without pretending the hard parts aren’t hard. That’s a harder goal than it sounds.

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