Is that chain, which claims to be eighteen times faster than Solana, really a false proposition?
In recent days, I have been staring at the terminal window on the screen, watching the Fogo node logs refresh rapidly like a waterfall. To be honest, this long-lost geek thrill has gotten me a bit high, as if I were back a few years ago when I first synced a Bitcoin full node. But upon calmly examining this so-called forty milliseconds final confirmation time, I can't help but harbor a deep suspicion: do we really need such a fast blockchain, or is this just a carefully woven technological bubble by capital to tell a good story?
I set up a verification node, and the configuration requirements are absurdly high. This directly discourages the vast majority of retail investors, and even some small professional miners may not be able to afford such a level of server expenses. Everyone understands what this means; decentralization here may just be a beautiful vision, and real control will inevitably be in the hands of a few giants with top-notch hardware facilities. It's like discussing the traffic efficiency of a highway; Fogo's approach is to make the road extremely wide and only allow Ferraris on it, so the speed is certainly fast, but is this still the ideal Web3 world where everyone is equal?
Recently, the emergence of numerous 'AI public chains' in the market is simply laughable. When opening the whitepapers, it is clear that the vast majority have merely forked EVM code, then forcibly added a few so-called AI oracle interfaces. This kind of changing the soup but not the medicine approach does not solve the bottleneck of computational power for running models on-chain. Yesterday, I spent an entire night running the Vanar Chain testnet, and this sense of difference truly became apparent. It does not blindly pursue so-called full-chain AI but intelligently separates the computing layer and consensus layer to prevent every computation from occupying expensive on-chain resources.
In comparison to Fantom or Avalanche's subnet solutions, while they are also working on isolation, the configuration is incredibly cumbersome. Without two or three years of full-stack experience, it is simply impossible to manage, which is a nightmare for AI entrepreneurs looking to iterate quickly. The experience Vanar provided me felt more like AWS's Lambda service, where developers only need to focus on business logic, and the underlying resource allocation is dynamic. I deployed a simple semantic analysis script on it, and the response speed made me doubt whether I was connected to a centralized server. This 'unfeeling' experience is what the infrastructure of Web3 should look like, rather than forcing developers to continuously calculate whether the Gas Limit will overflow or worrying that services will crash if the chain becomes congested.
However, the current drawbacks of this thing are also quite obvious; the ecosystem is terrifyingly desolate. Although the underlying technical logic is sound, there are almost no decent native DeFi Legos on-chain to absorb funds. This has led to an awkward situation: you have the best runway, but what is running on it is still an old-fashioned horse-drawn carriage, and there are even very few carriages available. Moreover, the UI design of the official bridge is truly anti-human; transferring assets not only takes time but sometimes the state updates can have delays of several minutes, making people anxious, fearing their assets might be lost. If the project team cannot refine these basic user experiences, no matter how impressive the underlying architecture is, it will ultimately just become a ghost chain that only runs fast. This current bottleneck is not technical but rather related to operations and ecosystem construction. If these issues are not resolved, it will still be a long way from true explosion. We do not need more L2s to clean up after Ethereum; we need a chain that allows AI to exist like native life forms.
When we talk about on-chain AI, are we talking about computing power or that damn Gas fee bill?
This week is already the third time that my AI arbitrage bot missed the optimal execution window due to the congestion of Ethereum Layer 2. Watching that line of red timeout error on the terminal, my mouse almost flew out of my hand. This sense of despair led me to accidentally open the Vanar documentation at four in the morning. To be honest, I initially approached it with a critical mindset, as I've seen too many public chains claiming to be AI, with 99% being air projects diluted with water. But when I really took the time to finish their technical whitepaper and tried to migrate my core trading logic to the Vanar testnet, I found things got a bit interesting.
We've seen many EVM forks dressed in sheep's clothing, but this chain has a hint of native AI flavor.
The current secondary market is a patchwork scene; just adding AI can be touted as a computing power revolution. After reviewing no less than fifty white papers, the vast majority of projects claiming to be AI-enhanced are merely patching the bloated EVM, and this AI-added approach only increases Gas fees without making any substantial contributions to computing power. What we need is AI-first infrastructure designed from the ground up for intelligent agents.
A few days ago, I deeply experienced the Vanar Chain testnet, and the differences are clear. Instead of opting for simple EVM compatibility, it has established a five-layer architecture. Particularly, the Neutron semantic memory layer hits the nail on the head. Today's AI agents fear being forgetful after a couple of exchanges. Traditional methods that rely on memory libraries calling Arweave are painfully slow, while Vanar supports semantic memory natively on-chain, which truly paves the way for AI.
It's even more interesting to make a horizontal comparison with Near or ICP. Near has decent data availability, but the native interaction for agents is a bit off. Trying out Vanar's Creator Pad, I found that the thresholds for issuing tokens and deployment were lowered too much. The advantage is that developers don't need to rewrite code to port Web2 logic, but the risk is that without proper filtering, junk projects may flood the platform.
The core of AI-first is not about running very large models, but whether the chain can understand the model's requirements. Kayon's decentralized intelligent engine attempts to solve verifiability of inference. Running AI models on-chain is a black box; how do we ensure that the results have not been tampered with? Vanar tries to solve this through underlying verification mechanisms, which elevates it above competitors that only focus on the application layer. However, the current experience has its drawbacks. Although the official announcement claims high TPS, there are occasional lags under high concurrency, and there is room for optimization in node synchronization. Moreover, the ecological framework is large, but killer applications haven't emerged; drawing a big pie doesn't compare to practical execution. It's like decorating a luxury shopping mall; if the merchants haven't fully settled in, it feels a bit empty when you shop around.
After reviewing Plasma's GitHub commit history, I found that these tech crazies don't care about the coin price at all; they only want to create a 'financial dedicated line' that never goes down.
After years of trading cryptocurrencies, I've developed a peculiar habit: in a market flooded with candlestick charts and hype, I prefer to dig into the GitHub repositories of the project teams. Candlestick charts can be manipulated, announcements can be exaggerated, but commit histories don't lie. Recently, although Plasma's coin price has been lukewarm and has even been mocked by many as a dead chain, I've noticed that its underlying code updates remarkably frequently. As someone with a bit of technical knowledge, I sense something unusual. These developers seem to have an almost obsessive pursuit of minimizing latency in the P2P network layer; most of their commits focus on refining the underlying transmission protocols rather than rushing to release a bunch of flashy application layer features like other public chains.
I See a 'Road Rights' Revolution in the Payment Track at Plasma
In the past two weeks, I have almost turned several mainstream L2s on the chain upside down. The reason is simple: the so-called Cancun upgrade has not completely alleviated my fee anxiety as promised. The night before last, in order to grab a popular meme token, my interaction cost on a certain star L2 skyrocketed to over a hundred dollars. At that moment, I looked at the congested mempool and the delayed confirmation of the hash value, and suddenly realized that we might have been deceived by the grand narrative of 'scalability' all along. All general-purpose L2s are trying to become the next Ethereum; they are crazily stacking EVM compatibility, introducing complex ZK proofs, and turning block space into a new arena. Amidst the entire network competing in TPS and the intricate DeFi Lego, I revisited Plasma, a somewhat 'retro' architecture that many have forgotten, and its current approach feels intriguingly wild.
In this impatient market, often mentioning parallel EVM and millions of TPS, Plasma stands out as an outlier for its stubborn pursuit of payment settlement certainty. It has no intention of competing with Solana on speed, nor with Ethereum on the fanciness of its ecosystem; all its technology stack seems to be addressing one problem: how to ensure that the ledger remains orderly and costs are controllable under high concurrency. I flipped through their technical documentation, and this development team clearly comes from a traditional financial IT background; the ledger structure they created perfectly avoids the state conflicts of the account model in extreme market conditions. In simple terms, you transact your way, and I transact mine, without interference. This may not show any difference during normal times, but once faced with situations like inscription surges or chaotic transactions causing on-chain congestion, its resilience is definitely much steadier than those public chains that purely rely on hardware stacking. Just look at Tron now; during peak periods, it turns into a bidding ranking game, which is a disaster for commercial payments. A couple of days ago, I tried the official cross-chain bridge, and the UI design was so rudimentary that it made me think it was a bachelor's thesis from some university; the interaction logic was incredibly awkward, almost anti-human. Moreover, the confirmation time for assets crossing over was longer than expected. Since you are focusing on the payment experience, if you don’t optimize this superficial aspect well, it will be hard to retain the first batch of seed users attracted. Additionally, the native assets on-chain are currently too barren; besides simple transfers and staking, there are hardly any DeFi protocols to engage with, making capital stagnation a big issue. The coin price is still hovering at the bottom, and the trading volume is not large, indicating that major funds have not yet entered the market on a large scale. However, I actually think this is an opportunity for research-oriented investors. By the time the market realizes that the Paymaster mechanism is a necessity, or when USDT officially announces native support, the premium will have already left you behind. Instead of chasing those AI public chains that have already been elevated by capital, it's better to focus on studying this kind of infrastructure that genuinely addresses pain points. As long as it can capture even 5% of the market share from Tron, it would be a huge leap for a project of its current market value. Of course, the premise is that you must endure its currently difficult-to-use cross-chain bridge and the almost non-existent ecological entertainment value. @Plasma $XPL #plasma
Everyone is shouting AI + Web3, but I only understood why Google was willing to endorse it after browsing through Vanar's underlying code.
Staring blankly at the codebase at four in the morning, this feeling has occurred too many times in this past bull market, only this time the subject has changed to Vanar. To figure out whether these so-called AI public chains on the market are genuinely doing work or just making big promises, I forced myself to turn over every project I could find like a compulsive patient. To be honest, this process was quite nauseating. The more you see, the more you discover a pathological inertia in this circle. As soon as GPT updates a feature, ten so-called dog projects claiming to perfectly solve the AI computing power problem can pop up in the crypto space. When I first clicked on the Creator Pad link, I actually had a sarcastic mindset, intending to find a few bugs to criticize and then go to sleep. But after trying it, not only did I not sleep, but I also ended up staring at the screen all night.
Don't treat users like miners anymore; the approach of making blockchain a backend service like Vanar is the only solution for Mass Adoption. The current GameFi track is practically a compendium of user deterrence guidelines. Asking a player accustomed to one-click login on Steam to remember seed phrases and calculate Gas fees is in itself a form of arrogance. Recently, I deeply experienced several demos on the Vanar Chain, and it was clear that its ambition is not in the so-called coin circle's stock game but is focused on the huge cake of Web2. Its almost invisible account abstraction system is the closest I've seen to an internet product experience in public chains. Unlike the somewhat rigid second-layer packaging of IMX, Vanar feels more like a decentralized cloud service provider, where users hardly perceive the existence of the chain during interactions. The confirmation of asset rights and circulation happens silently in the backend, and this sense of invisibility is a prerequisite for Mass Adoption. Making a comparison with Solana is quite interesting; Solana relies on high performance to withstand challenges, but the development threshold is still too high for non-Rust programmers. Vanar clearly understands the pain points of application layer developers, as it directly incorporates many common game logics and metaverse components into the underlying chain, significantly enhancing development efficiency. However, this double-edged sword is also quite sharp; taking the B2B2C route means being extremely dependent on the landing capabilities of partners. I looked through its current ecosystem list, and although there are a lot of logos displayed, there are very few projects that can actually operate and have real daily active users. It's like building a top-tier F1 racetrack, only to have it occupied by old people-movers, which is an extreme waste of performance. Moreover, the cross-chain bridge experience still needs refinement; it's easy for assets to enter but difficult for them to exit, and this liquidity friction will directly deter large funds. Vanar's current state is that the infrastructure is already in place, but it lacks the kind of blockbuster that can make users' adrenaline surge. Without the stimulation of wealth effects, retaining early real users is a life-and-death question it must face next. @Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar
When AI agents start to meticulously calculate gas fees, the 'boring' infrastructure of Vanar reveals its fangs.
Last night, I originally wanted to change the environment for my quantitative trading bot to see how it would run, but the whole ordeal stretched until four in the morning. I had two empty Red Bull cans piled up beside me, and the cursor on the screen was still blinking. During this time, to find a suitable on-chain home for my AI Agent project, I’ve almost gone through all the public chains that I could name. Honestly, at first, I had no expectations for Vanar. After all, in this prelude to a bull market where everyone is shouting about AI, its overly 'serious' official website style, along with the Google Cloud partnership that is always mentioned, looked like a Web2 product packaged to please traditional VCs. But when I truly configured the coding environment and attempted to migrate a data indexing contract that originally ran on Polygon, this bias began to dissipate slowly, replaced by a complex emotion—both complaints about its 'mediocre' technology and unexpected surprises regarding its engineering implementation.
Stop feeding players private keys, Web3's mass adoption is stuck at the final step After mixing in this track for a few years, the most annoying phrase I've heard is Mass Adoption, shouted loudly, yet there isn't even a decent Web2 entry point. A couple of days ago, I tested a chain game claiming ten million users, and just getting friends to register a wallet and back up their mnemonic phrases drove them away. Looking back at the logic of Vanar Chain at this moment, I find its positioning as an 'invisible blockchain' has some merit. It doesn’t want to educate users on what private keys are but directly hides this stuff in the backend. Comparing it to Immutable X or Ronin, although they are also building game ecosystems, they are essentially still competing within this circle, fighting for existing users. Vanar has brought in so many traditional big brands; its ambition is clearly to pull in those who know nothing about Crypto. I went through the NFT minting process on it; the smoothness is comparable to placing an order on Taobao, and this seamless experience is the key to breaking the dimensional wall. It doesn't feel like it's building a public chain but more like creating a decentralized AWS, where brands use its underlying technology to issue assets, and users don’t need to know whether it's a blockchain or a database running underneath. However, to be honest, this B2B2C model has a hard flaw, which is that it starts extremely slowly. The current on-chain data doesn’t look good; after all, dealing with large B-end companies is much harder than just pulling a few small projects to issue tokens. Looking at that empty ecological list indeed makes one feel uncertain. Moreover, the official SDK documentation is written like a celestial book, with many parameters explained ambiguously, clearly indicating that the technical team has focused their energy on the underlying architecture, and their concern for developers is still lacking. If you're here for the hundredfold small projects, this place might disappoint you, but if you believe in traffic supremacy, Vanar's approach of widening the road might really produce the first application with tens of millions of daily active users. @Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar
Recently, I have been reviewing the public chain track and found that the Plasma project is quite interesting. It hasn't engaged in any high-performance computing or AI narratives, but instead focuses solely on stablecoin payments. This extremely vertical approach makes it stand out in the crowded L1 track.
Tron is indeed the king of U settlements, but its level of decentralization and security has always been criticized by institutions. Plasma feels more like a regular army to me, especially with the Bitfinex and Tether background that is subtly present behind it. I tested their pBTC cross-chain, and the security design is clearly aimed at large funds, unlike those projects that issue tokens just for the sake of issuing tokens. If future regulations tighten, Tron’s wild model may hit a ceiling, while Plasma, which focuses on compliant and transparent payments, is likely to absorb this overflow of funds.
After deeply experiencing it these past few days, I found that its network confirmation speed is indeed fast and very stable—not like some high-performance chains that crash during peak times. XPL, as the network's security staking token, has a very clear value capture logic: the busier the network, the more is burned. The current price hovers around 0.14 dollars, and I see its market value as severely underestimated. Everyone is hyping the AI concept while ignoring that the most practical application of Web3 is still payments.
However, this project has a flaw: the marketing is too poor. There is hardly any decent promotion on Twitter, and the community is quite quiet. This may be related to the team's technical geek attributes; after all, those who understand code may not necessarily know how to promote. For us retail investors, this is actually a good thing. When the world is filled with big V accounts promoting, that basically signals the entry of the bag holders. The current risk mainly lies in whether ecosystem development can keep up. If it is merely about fast transfers without DeFi mechanisms to lock in liquidity, the retention rate of funds will be an issue. I suggest treating XPL as a bullish option for allocating to the payment track, buying on dips and not chasing highs. @Plasma $XPL #plasma
While you are still chasing popular tokens, Plasma is reconstructing the iron laws of Web3 payments with the most straightforward logic.
In the past half month, I have almost turned the mainstream L2s on the chain upside down. The reason is simple: the so-called Cancun upgrade has not thoroughly resolved my fee anxiety as promised. The night before last, in order to grab a popular token, my interaction costs on a certain celebrity L2 actually skyrocketed to over ten dollars. At that moment, looking at the congested mempool and the delayed confirmation of the hash value, I suddenly realized that we may have been deceived by the grand narrative of scaling all along. All general-purpose L2s are trying to become the next Ethereum; they are frantically stacking EVM compatibility and introducing complex ZK proofs, turning block space into a new gladiatorial arena. While the entire network is competing for TPS and complicated DeFi Legos, I turned back to reassess Plasma, a seemingly retro architecture that many have forgotten. Its current path is wild enough to catch my interest. We must admit that the current public chain market is extremely distorted; everyone is building sports cars, yet no one wants to repair the smooth roads. Solana is fast, but when it crashes, you don’t even have the chance to cancel your orders. The Arbitrum ecosystem is rich, but once the mainnet gets congested, the centralization risk of the sequencer and fee fluctuations can make you doubt life. The biggest impact that Plasma has on me is not how beautifully its white paper is written, but how it has made an extremely restrained subtraction in product logic. It seems to have completely given up the vain battle for the title of world computer against Ethereum, instead defining itself as a pure value transmission bridge.
Plasma gives me the feeling of an outlier; it has no intention to compete with Solana on speed, nor with Ethereum on ecological richness. It is solely focused on one point: the certainty of payment settlement. I specifically went to look through their white paper and early technical documents and found that this group of developers is clearly the kind of seasoned professionals who have been through the traditional financial IT field. The structure of the ledger they designed is very interesting, avoiding the state conflict issues that the current account model faces under high concurrency. Simply put, it is like opening an independent channel for each transfer; you transfer yours, I transfer mine, without interfering with each other. This architecture does not show advantages in normal times, but once faced with congestion caused by inscriptions or dog coins, its pressure resistance is definitely stronger than that of public chains that simply stack hardware. The biggest hidden danger of Tron now is that once the network is busy, the fees become a bidding game, which is fatal for commercial payments. However, the project's current shortcomings are also extremely obvious, and it can even be said to be discouraging. I experienced the official cross-chain bridge, and the UI design was so simplistic that it made me think it was a college student's graduation project, with very stiff interaction logic. Moreover, the confirmation time after the assets cross over is longer than expected. Since it is focused on payments, if this entry experience is not well optimized, it will be hard to retain the first batch of seed users. Furthermore, there are currently too few native assets on the chain; apart from transfers and staking, there is almost nothing fun. Although payment chains do not need to be as diverse as Ethereum, at least there should be a few decent lending protocols to activate liquidity. The current coin price is still bottoming out, and the trading volume is not large, clearly indicating that major funds have not yet taken a liking to this piece of land. But I actually think this is a good thing. By the time everyone realizes that the Paymaster mechanism is a necessity, the premium will have long soared. Rather than chasing those AI public chains that have already been elevated by capital, it is better to take the time to study this foundational solution that truly addresses pain points. As long as it can capture even 5% of the market share from Tron, it would be a tremendous leap for the current market value of $XPL . @Plasma $XPL #plasma
Not aiming to be the world's computer, but rather its flowing blood vessels: A deep dive into Plasma's disruptive logic in the payment industry.
A couple of days ago, I wanted to perform an on-chain interaction, but it happened to coincide with the launch of a certain gold dog (a cryptocurrency exchange), causing gas fees to skyrocket to hundreds of dollars, and the transaction failed. At that moment, I really thought that after more than a decade of development in blockchain, if even the most basic transfer and payment still depends on unpredictable factors, then the so-called Mass Adoption is simply a joke. Just as I was grumbling, I noticed Plasma. To be honest, when I first saw its "Stablecoin-First" slogan, I thought it was just another marketing gimmick created by some project team. But after delving into their technical documentation and GitHub repository, I felt a long-lost sense of excitement. This might be the only project on the market that is truly simplifying public blockchains. We need to talk about why we started paying attention to it. Current public blockchains are all adding features, not only aiming for high TPS, but also EVM compatibility, and privacy computing, trying to cram all functions into a single block. The result is an increasingly bloated network, sacrificing the most basic transfer experience to serve those complex DeFi protocols. Plasma takes the opposite approach, explicitly stating that it is dedicated to providing stablecoin payment services. This extreme restraint is a breath of fresh air in the current industry. It clearly understands that for 99% of ordinary users, their purpose in joining Web3 is either to stake and borrow or to securely and quickly transfer their money to another person.
Peeling Back the Layers of Vanar and Google Cloud Cooperation: Who's Business Are We Really Talking About When We Discuss RWA and AI Infrastructure?
At three in the morning, when I finally finished crawling through the logs about the distribution of validation nodes on the Vanar chain, I stared blankly at the screen for a while. The city outside was already asleep, but my mind was clear as if I had just drunk two cans of Red Bull. The reason was simple: the day before, at some so-called Web3 high-end closed-door meeting, I heard a group boasting that RWA and AI would be the engines of the next bull market, and then someone mentioned Vanar. The reactions were quite subtle; half of the people thought it was just an old trick to ride on Google's hype, while the other half mysteriously said it was Wall Street's entry ticket. This extreme cognitive dissonance piqued my curiosity, and as a hardliner who only believes in code and on-chain data, I decided to dig into its fundamentals myself.
Why do I have high hopes for Vanar? Because it is 'murdering' the concept of 'blockchain'. In recent days, I've played around with Sui and Aptos; the Move language is indeed secure, but for the vast majority of Web2 developers, the learning curve is as steep as rock climbing. In contrast, Vanar Chain's ambition is clearly not to fight Ethereum to the death in the existing market, but to directly swallow the large group of Web2 developers. Its focus on entertainment and the metaverse essentially does one thing: making blockchain invisible. The biggest problem with our current DApps is that they are too 'heavy'; users have to install wallets, remember mnemonic phrases, and buy Gas before they can use the app, leading to a 90% drop-off rate. Vanar excels in this area by utilizing underlying account abstraction and Gas payment mechanisms, allowing users to experience using NFTs or in-game items similarly to recharging skins in Honor of Kings. When I tested its Google login integration, I was genuinely shocked by the seamlessness; this is the only solution to break through the heavy barriers between Web2 and Web3. Compared to Polygon, which is also doing similar things, Polygon's technical baggage is too heavy. As a sidechain to Ethereum, it is difficult to completely escape the inherent flaws of the EVM. Vanar's architecture, designed from scratch for high-frequency consumption scenarios, shows a significantly higher level of composure when handling large-scale concurrency. Of course, the drawbacks are also quite obvious; the current liquidity is really poor, and attempting to make large exchanges on-chain can lead to painful slippage. Moreover, the entire DeFi Lego has yet to be built, and there is insufficient capital accumulation. However, in the long run, when AI and the metaverse truly explode, what we need is not an expensive and slow noble chain, but a cheap, easy-to-use, and inconspicuous underlying pipeline. Vanar is like Android when it first came out; although it is rudimentary and has many bugs, its direction of openness and compatibility is correct. Don't always focus on the current coin prices; technology often iterates quietly in corners where no one pays attention. @Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar
Those who mock Dusk for lacking an ecosystem simply do not understand; it is intentionally keeping speculators at bay.
At three in the morning, I finally compiled the latest node client for Dusk successfully. Looking at the green 'Success' on the screen, I slumped in my chair, feeling completely drained. This is already the third time this month that I have reinstalled the system, just to adapt to its extremely picky operating environment. Today's public chains are all about one-click deployment and idiot-proof nodes, practically wanting even a mom with just a phone to participate. But Dusk is different; the threshold is ridiculously high, not only high hardware requirements but also demanding operational capabilities that practically require a professional system architect. This arrogant attitude has doomed it to have no good reputation in the retail circle, where everyone complains about it being hard to use, lacking an ecosystem, and being a zombie chain with only technology and no market.
Don't be fooled by the current low TPS; Dusk's SBA consensus is designed to eliminate MEV bots. Last night, while placing orders on the testnet, I specifically observed the state of the transaction pool's memory. On Ethereum, our transactions feel like running naked in a dark forest, with MEV bots watching every slip, waiting to pounce like vampires. But within the Dusk network, the blind bidding mechanism truly opened my eyes. The moment I issued a transaction, although it was broadcasted, all key information was securely wrapped in zero-knowledge proofs. Validation nodes can only see that this transaction is valid but have no idea what I'm buying or how much. This design, which cuts off the possibility of front-running at the consensus layer, might just help retail investors lose a little less, but for institutions dealing with billions, this is the confidence that allows them to stake their fortunes. However, the price of this technology is an extremely poor user experience. The current official wallet is practically a half-finished product, with a UI that resembles an early Linux terminal, and the operational logic is extremely user-unfriendly. Transfers often lag, and sometimes they fail due to timeout in proof generation. If this experience were to occur at the beginning of a bull market, users would absolutely tear it apart. But this precisely indicates that the project team has no intention of pleasing the existing users. They know very well that the small amount of funds from retail investors cannot support the valuation of a privacy public chain; only by addressing the compliance needs and privacy anxieties of those on Wall Street can they truly reach the stars and the sea. I see many people comparing it to Monero, thinking Dusk is not pure enough. In fact, Monero's absolute anonymity is viewed by regulators as a money laundering tool, and it will eventually be delisted by major exchanges. Dusk's programmable privacy, equipped with compliance interfaces, represents the limit that regulators can tolerate. It's walking a tightrope, with decentralization ideals on the left and regulatory iron fists on the right, attempting to build a bridge in the middle with code. It may look shaky now, and the ecosystem hasn't improved, but as long as this SBA consensus logic works, it will be the only safe haven for compliant DeFi in the future. The technical bugs and interaction struggles we endure now are, quite frankly, a way to buy call options on this future. #Dusk @Dusk $DUSK
Don't be fooled by the AI concept: After three days of digging data on the Vanar chain, I saw the real intentions of big companies entering the market.
To figure out whether Vanar is genuinely building infrastructure or just riding the AI hype, I spent the last three days diving into its block explorer and GitHub repository, even turning down two potentially profitable outsourcing gigs for this. In this impatient era where anyone can claim to be part of the AI computing revolution with just a PPT, I am extremely cautious about all projects claiming to be AI-Ready. Initially, I thought Vanar was just another EVM shell project, merely with a nicer logo and sophisticated marketing jargon. But as I audited their smart contract interfaces line by line and traced the raw data of on-chain interactions, I realized my previous arrogance might have been hasty.