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The crypto culture is constructed based on an illusion. Even though we claim that decentralized finance (DeFi) is impossible to stop and cannot be censored, nearly every large dApp has a single vulnerable component, which is the frontend.
You are likely on a site on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Vercel when you sell of and buy on a decentralized exchange (DEX) or lend on a lending protocol. The blockchain contracts do not change and the site may change. In case the cloud provider receives cease-and-desist letter or somebody hacks the DNS, the so-called decentralized application may be blocked to nearly all the people.
This issue will be resolved in Walrus Protocol in 2026. It will have the capacity not only to store data, but entire websites, which are known as Walrus Sites. This will allow real stoppable apps to exist in the first place.
The Problem with IPFS
Walrus is not the first to make decentralized hosting an attempt. The IPFS is an ancient system, yet it is slow. IPFS has very slow small modern site loading, similar to dial-up. Also, in case nobody maintains a node, the website will go offline due to the lack of pinning in the network.

Due to this reason developers returned to central servers. Instead of being decentralized, they opted for speed and reliability which today constitutes the hybrid fake DeFi system.
Enter "Walrus Sites"
Walrus uses its own method. IPFS needs to store your file in the appropriate node, however Walrus will divide the data and write it on a large number of fast nodes with 2-D erasure coding. This accelerates the load speed of websites like the Web2 sites.
Developers can now place all their front-end files, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and photos on Walrus. This makes them Sui Objects to Walrus who is the owner of the site. They simply sign a transaction on Sui and all the changes are recorded in an immutable history to change the site.
The Sui Pro: Dynamic DNS.
The positive thing is that it does not use normal DNS. Walrus Sites is integrating SuiNS (Sui Name Service) rather than GoDaddy or Google Domains. One can enter the address app.walrus or defi.sui into the browser and the browser locates the address on the blockchain and directs the user to the storage.
The censorship is not possible in this design. One cannot shut down a single server, cripple a DNS database, and make the site go down by the power of a cloud provider. The place remains alive while Walrus stays.
The Investment Case for $WAL
Investors find new value into the WAL token. Had Walrus been nothing more than crypto storage service, it would only be as valuable as what you charge to store. However, since it will bring the unstoppable web, it will mean that the currency that data moves on the decentralized internet is $WAL.
Whenever a person opens a Walrus site, bandwidth is utilized. A developer also purchases storage when they modify the front -end. A more significant reduction in the cost of storage will make the users of the new aggressors avoid the AWS in favor of Walrus to place all the dApps on the client side (and comply with the strict regulatory system of the EU) and then the necessity to pay the price of the $WAL is based not on individual storage costs, but on a consistent flow of use.
Summary: AWS Web3 is over. It is no longer the case that decentralized hosting is too low-performing. Walrus provides the industry with the means to create applications as powerful as the blockchains they operate. The next wave will give emphasis on independence of apps rather than tokens alone.
#walrus $WAL @WalrusProtocol

Dusk Network had not spoken to the room in six years. Where other Layer-1s were pursuing meme coin seasons and NFT mania, the Dusk team was keeping their heads down and working on an apparently unglamorous issue regulatory compliance. It is, however, no longer silent as at January 2026. Having successfully launched its Mainnet on January 7, Dusk has shifted to being a hypothetical so-called privacy chain to an operational, industrial-level financial infrastructure.
It was not more accidental a time. With the MiCA regulations of the European Union fully operationalized, the crypto market is divided into two camps, the Wild West of permissionless DeFi, and the Walled Garden of institutional finance. The first blockchain that is, arguably, meant to bridge them is called Dusk, which is a blockchain, making its unique value proposition that retail investors seem to overlook, yet is in such (or more particularly, in desperate need of): Auditable Privacy.
Solving the “Privacy Paradox”
The gist of Dusk is that it finds a solution to the Privacy Paradox. Historically, there were two options available to blockchains: complete transparency (Ether) or anonymity (Monero). The former cannot be used in institutions as they cannot disclose valuable trade plans, and the latter cannot be employed as they should stay in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws.

The architecture of Dusk (Zero-Knowledge or ZK) can offer a third option. Dusk transactions are confidential in nature- balances and the amount of transfer is encrypted. However, as opposed to privacy coins in which everything is concealed to the rest of the world, Dusk can be selectively disclosed. A regulator would be given a view key in order to audit a particular transaction without making the data publicly known. This functionality makes the blockchain seem an acceptable settlement layer to banks, with whom they can trade on-chain without revealing their order books to their competitors.
The Real-World Asset (RWA) Engine.
Although the abbreviation RWA has turned into a buzzword in 2025, Dusk will be among the few chains that have a real engine behind it. The first product, DuskTrade, which was developed in collaboration with the Dutch regulated exchange NPEX, will transfer more than EUR300 million of tokenized assets on-chain. This is not an experiment of digital collectibles it is a market place where real securities, bonds, and equities are traded.
More so, the latest incorporation with Chainlink’s CCIP ( Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol ) makes sure that these assets do not end up suddenly isolated. Securities without a tokenized form can also be transferred to Dusk and be returned to another EVM chain and maintain their compliance metadata. This interoperatability is essential towards liquidity that does not occur as in other specialized chains.
Market Sentiment: The Trap of Sell the News.
In spite of such basic wins, in late January 2026, Dusk has been experiencing a volatile price action. A non-hypocrisical jump to 0.30 during the buildup up to the release of the mainnet has been followed by the correction of the token to the 0.1820 area. Retail traders, used to the mechanics of the situation of instant financiers have called this a sell the news event.
But, according to on-chain data, that is not the case. The positions of whale wallets (top 100 holders) have grown almost 14 per cent in this correction. It is an accumulation pattern that suggests that the smart money sees the post-launch dip as a repricing. They know that infrastructure projects such as Dusk have a longer time-span. It is not a hype cycle that gives the value but rather the gradual and gradual process of adopting the institutional capital into the network, which is only beginning.
Conclusion
Dusk is no longer a potential competitor, it is a real challenge to the legacy financial stack. It has created a moat that is hard to traverse by general-purpose chains by implementing compliance as a part of the Layer-1 protocol. To the investors, the present quiet period since the introduction of the mainnet is an uncommon purple view: the technology is functioning, the regulatory bodies are paying attention, and the institutions are sign-on. The boring compliance orientation of Dusk may represent the most exciting thesis proposition of the year in a 2026 market characterized by regulation.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk

There is a confusion in the field of applying the Artificial Intelligence in association with blockchain technology, which has brought out a reliable misconception, namely the distinction between the gimmick projects and the infrastructure builders. It is often admitted that the typical understanding of an AI Agent is a more intelligent chatbot or a trading bot writing better code. This is however a heinous restrictive perspective. It considers AI as a weapon of the human population, but not a participant in the economy.
Vanar Chain design refutes this fallacy by focusing on the most important missing element to the present-day AI market, Financial Agency.
The Forced Misconception: Intelligence/Autonomy.
The distinction between the terms of intelligence (intelligent) and autonomy is what people mostly misinterpret about AI agents. The creation of intelligence has been successful; LLMs can process data in large quantities and think rationally by referencing complicated problems. Because of the present-day environment of Web3, however, such agents are paralyzed economically.
They are able to propose a trade, however, they are not able to finance it, unless a human clicks upon the button that says approve.

They are able to locate a valuable dataset, but they are not able to purchase it.
They are able to negotiate a service, but settle not the invoice.
An AI agent cannot control this on his/her own and is just a consultant. It is brain in a jar-intelligent, but not connected with the physical and economic reality. To be a really autonomous agent, an agent should be capable of creating the loop: to think, see, make a choice, and compensate.
The reason why Payments Are the Last Mile of Infrastructure.
It is here that AI-First infrastructure at Vanar Chain is no longer all about compute or storage. Though other layers such as Neutron (semantic memory) and Kayon (reasoning verification), supply the brain and memory, the payment layer serves as the hands.
In Vanar, it is not the money that they move that is important but the Settlement as a Primitive. A wallet in a traditional blockchain is created with a human in mind having a private key. PayFi (Payment Finance) code infrastructure is used in the ecosystem of Vanar. Here, the agents have the opportunity to have their own wallets, run their own P&L (Profit and Loss), and do transactions with verifiable logic.
Given a working example, an autonomous specialized agent is assigned the duty of maximizing a supply chain.
Perception: It detects that there is a delay in shipping data (stored through Neutron).
Rationalization: It computes the cost of re-routing the shipment as lower than the penalty of delay (confirmed by Kayon).
Action (The Missing Link): It gives an on-the-spot payment to the logistics provider to re-ship the cargo.
Without the payment layer the agent halts at step 2, and makes notification to a sleeping human manager, which has lost the opportunity before it can happen. The economic action is made instant with Vanar payment infrastructure.
The "Economic Actor" Paradigm
Vanar Chain assumes that the billion falsehoods of blockchain will not be human beings but agents. Millions of illegal micro-transactions that are either too minor or frequency cannot be done by human beings will be done by these agents. They will spend on API decisions, buy temporary storage, lease computing power, and cover yield farming locations.
This changes the meaning of infrastructural. A company can not be just EVM compatible or high speed. Authentic AI infrastructure should provide Stateful Economic Identity. Any agent on Vanar is more than a script; it is a verifiable identity with a reputation, its credit history (on-chain) and the liquidity to support the decisions of that agent.
Conclusion: The Closed Loop
The circle on AI infrastructure is finally made complete with the integration of autonomous payments. It takes the blockchain to make it a living, breathing environment of machine-to-machine trade rather than a static record of human activity.
The simple yet deep bet of Vanar Chain is plain as follows: Intelligent people are plentiful, whereas there are few trusted people to execute. Vanar is minting crypto-certainty, but by allowing AI agents to pay and settle, it is enabling much more than app hosting, it is hosting the machine economy. Once an agent is able to think, remember, and pay it is no longer software (but a sovereign economic force).
@Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar

In the decentralized crypto-world, technical analysis explains not everything, but part of everything. At present, the technical specifics of Plasma (XPL) are not easy to understand. Supertrend indicator is used by most traders to observe the direction in which the market is moving though the signal has declined. Prices remain below the major resistance levels on a daily basis. The fact that we are not staking until we hit Q1 2026 meant that many short-term traders have sold.
Although the chart may indicate that the only candles are red, another game is being played. Onchain records indicate that small traders are panicking and liquidating, whereas large wallets (more than 100,000 XPL and one year old) are purchasing in large quantities. The failure of the price to equal the buyers does not mean that the fall is their death sentence; it is a chance to the analysts who see further than the charts.
Trap Supertrend Trap: Leading vs. Lagging.
The Supertrend follows a trend well and substantiates previous actions. It occupationally demonstrated the postponement of the sell-off, once it was staked. Yet the large traders do not even rely on the lagging information; they gamble on the next move.
The panic selling of the small traders by the larger players is an opportunity to buy at a low cost. To institutions, bearish Supertrend conceals large purchases that do not raise the price, known as accumulation and distribution. They will purchase not due to the chart, but due to Q1 2026 roadmap.

The Foundational Thesis: Why Buy Now?
Big investors do not tend to use options much, they are betting on the past. In the case of XPL there are three reasons why not to be able to see because of looking at the price.
The NEAR Intents Liquidity Engine.
The collaboration of Plasma and NEAR Protocol might transform everything, but the market is not ready to realize it completely. Plasma will integrate into a $63b cross-chain liquidity network, due to a 1billion-dollar investment that links XPL to NEAR system. XPL will not be an intermediate layer but a convenient, easy to access liquidity centre. Companies assume that when the connection is established, they can leverage on XPL at a speedy rate, adding value to the aggregate value locked.
[The Yield Magnet]: Pendle on Plasma.
The trust in DeFi boon came as sPENDLE staking on Plasma was introduced at the end of January. Pendle is the first to speculate on turning returns on trades in the form of tokens, and on XPL, it is possible to create intricate yield-farms. Big money investors prefer predictable returns, which means that Plasma can contribute to advanced DeFi and not simple remittances.
The “Plasma One” Expansion
Although traders fear even a minor downturn, a neobank called Plasma One was started in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Money circulation in such regions is giant, and the free of charge stablecoin created by Plasma assists banks significantly. XPL is not just a token, but it is the transportation line of new financial technology of new markets to big investors.
The Staking Supply Shock
Lastly, postponing staking is an ambiguous transformation that benefits the waiters until 2026 in Q1. Upon the launch of staking, the user will have the option to lock XPL and receive rewards through delegation. This will lower the supply of XPL.
This supply cut includes the sale of XPL by big investors. Million units of XPL being locked will reduce the supply to sell. As long as demand remains constant or increases in the presence of NEAR and Pendle, and supply declines, the price will be corrected.
Conclusion
The pessimistic Supertrend on the XPL chart indicates the current mood of the people, but it does not guarantee the future value. There is a large opportunity in the price variations of small and big sales that contrarian traders can take. By the time most individuals buy when the chart is green, which will be likely by a 2030 percent increase, large investors will have already placed their bets that the new infrastructure will make the price tomorrow. The hardest markets to trade in manifest as crypto markets: the best trades are made when the chart is red and the fundamentals are excellent.
$XPL #Plasma @Plasma

The problem of blockchains being too successful is quietly disrupting our infrastructure, in 2026. Very fast chains like Sui, Solana, and Monad can accomplish tens of thousands of transactions per second, and they generate several terabytes of information every month. This is referred to as State Bloat and it is the greatest threat to decentralization at the moment.
It requires 50 petabytes of storage memory to remain in sync with the network of a validator node, which only large data centers can afford. Permissionless computing dies, and great server farms are built. State Expiry, proposed by the industry, will allow the active ledger to be cleared automatically to keep the chain small and fast.
But this brings about a frightening new problem Digital Alzheimer. Without a record of your transactions in 2024 to save space on the blockchain, how do you know that you own your home? Walrus solves this problem. It is not merely a stora system, but also an all-purpose repository of several chains.

The “Forever 18” Blockchain
The new story by Walrus is that it behaves as an external hard drive in the execution of the main chain.
Consider a high-speed blockchain such as an F1 car. It must remain light to hasten. A ten years history of transactions is a trailer to that car.
By transferring old data to new locations, Walrus can leave chains like Sui Forever 18, always light and fast. Upon the expiry of an object on the main chain it is not erased; it is written to Walrus. Walrus operates with a feature known as Red Stuff (a 2-dimensional erasure coding process) which allows it to maintain massive archives with the promise that the information remains, at just a fraction of the cost as it would in the main-chain.
The reason why Red Stuff Alters the Economics.
Why use Filecoin or Arweave? It all depends on the nature of redundancy.
Regular decentralization of storage multiplies a file numerous times, such as 10 to 50 times, which is expensive. Red Stuff allows Walrus to partition data into 2D grids that consist of minute components known as slivers and blobs. This requires but five times the normal replication to ensure that everything is safe even in case two thirds of the network fail.
This efficiency can be the difference between profitability and bankruptcy of a main-chain that wants to off-load petabytes of history. Walrus is the sole protocol that is inexpensive enough to be the “trash can? of the speediest chains and preserve all the bytes.
The Emergence of Stateless Clients.
The greatest advantage of this design is that it is now possible to have real stateless clients.
It will not take too long until you will not need a massive node to check the chain. Instead, you will have a light client that you can use in your phone. You want a transaction three years old, or something, take out a little fragment, known as a “sliver” out of Walrus, match its evidence to the present main-chain state, and display the outcome immediately.
The design that will bring mass use is to separate execution on the main chain and history stored in Walrus. It allows the chain to span very fast and Walrus continues expanding its memory endlessly.
The 2026 Investment Thesis
People are putting their emphasis on AI agents and gaming when the actual investment money is being invested in data availability and archival.
Walrus now owns state offloading. Each big chain is aware that it cannot store everything of history indefinitely and therefore must have a place to do so. Walrus is that place. It is a simple, technical and necessary foundation upon which the Web3 economy risks losing its own record.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #walrus

Enterprise blockchains have not been effective in the first part of 2020s. Hyperledger was an example of the private ledger that big companies attempted to make as public chains were not appropriate. It was not intended that Ethereum and Solana would conceal information, it was an after-effect. When a manufacturer placed its supply chain on a public chain, the competitors would be able to know whom it paid, the amount of money and at what time.
The Dusk Network solved the problem in 2026. Dusk is a privacy-protective layer that gives businesses the option to work with keeping secrets. Dusk concentrates on business secrets as opposed to mere financial standards.
Beyond Money - the secret of the secret sauce.
Dusk mostly modifies business logic, whereas people talk about tokenized stocks. On the side of every business, there is trade secret, or pricing formula or even a deal with suppliers.
The Piecrust virtual machine of Dusk is based on zero-knowledge computation. It conceals not only the sender and receiver as most privacy coins, but the logic that is running.

Consider a logistics company which conducts a secret auction on shipping contracts. Bids are on display on a public chain and this may cause price fixing. Bids remain anonymous with Dusk; it displays the winner, however, it only discloses the winning bid. Such combination of evidence and confidentiality is the best fit with businesses.
Diffusion issue that excluded big firms out of blockchains is addressed.
Payroll on chain: Organizations may make an immediate payment of salary using Dusk and keep the entire payroll private with recruiters.
Inventory control: Retailers are able to keep an inventory in open book without revealing sales rates to other companies.
Dusk transforms the blockchain into a tower of broadcasting to everyone it becomes a secure room into something that can be discussed without leaving any trace.
Citadel: the Corporate Identification badge.
In Business, one deals with people. B2B reputation is also provided by the identity protocol used by Dusk, Citadel. Corporate Dao can issue credentials with Citadel without submitting sensitive documents. One such zero-knowledge evidence provided by Citadel can be used to demonstrate that a supplier is ISO 9001 certified and within the EU. Customers are able to approve and pay on the spot and the entire certification remains in the server of the supplier. This accelerates B2B business by weeks and milliseconds.
The hybrid future.
The novel concept of Dusk is the demise of the private blockchains. Instead of having to spend money on creating such expensive personal chain, you can take advantage of the public network that Dusk offers, along with personal records.
Dusk combines the security and reliability of one of the public networks and the privacy of a private server. By mid-2026, the champions will not just apply blockchain; their technologies will partially automate the work and still have a competitive advantage. Dusk does not have any competitors.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk

In 2026, Bitcoin and Ethereum will not be competing over the control of payments, it will be Plasma (XPL) vs. the traditional credit card firms. Merchants have been forced to pay a 3% per card swipe fee secretly over the decades. The new emphasis of plasma this year is not so much about being crypto friendly, but on saving money to merchants.
Whilst other blockchains are fighting to attract traders, Plasma is all about the Rebellion of the Merchant. By inverting the payment fee, Plasma is inventing a machine in which digital payment is cheaper than cash.
The “Negative Fee” Economy
The most significant effect of plasma in the year 2026 is the manner in which this invention will attract merchants. Normally, when you purchase a 5 dollar coffee, the store retains 4.85 dollars and the remainder is retained by banks and card firms. This is changed with Fee Abstraction and Validator Subsidies by Plasma. The network fees are virtually zero and as such, Plasma can pay merchants to accept XPL stablecoin payments. Plasma Zones are used in southeast Asia and the Middle East, where the merchant offers a discount of 2-3% on purchases made with Plasma One since they no longer need to calculate a 3% discount to a card processor. The Gasless aspect does not just make it easy to use, the Gasless feature elevates the profit margin among small businesses.

Plasma One: Biometrics Is the New Private Key.
In 2017, the concept of Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins was successful and did not receive many users. Most people will not be able to store a 12-word seed phrase safely, Plasma One realizes. The update of 2026 delivers complete Biometric Enclaves. Your face or fingerprint serves as your private key in the Plasma One application, and your phone has secure hardware that secures your key. This eliminates the largest concern of first time users; the loss of money due to a lost paper phrase. It provides a Venmo-like experience of recovery, with the system remaining a non-custodial system.
The NEAR Connection The Intents Upgrade.
Plasma also merged with NEAR Intents in January 2026. This is a large engineering move that causes Plasma to be less of a closed system. Previously, it was difficult to transfer 1 Ethereum to Plasma to pay for a lunch. Using Intents, a customer types a request such as I want to pay this merchant 10 USDT on Plasma, and the backend servers are used to bridge, swap, and settle that transaction immediately. This makes Plasma the liquidity sink of the entire crypto-space- regardless of where you keep your money, Plasma is the place that you pay it.
The Unlock that involves July 2026.
The tokenomics should be mentioned in a complete analysis. The July 2026 cliff is being monitored by investors when approximately 2.5 billion XPL ( Reserved to early investors and team) will enter circulation.
This possible market pressure is a spike in supply. One has to push high volumes of transactions before July so as to absorb that supply. This was the reason why they drive Yield-Bearing Stablecoins and collaborate with protocols, such as Pendle. They would have XPL become a necessary instrument of generating yield, a demand wall to offset the supply of the impending supply.
The Decision: It is a Payment Rail, Not a Technological Demo.
The plasma is unadorned and this is its great power. It is not trying to be the next Metaverse or AI swarm. It is concerned with transferring USDT between individuals with zero friction.
Plasma takes the space between overpriced Infrastructure and underpriced Apps in 2026. It is not more of a blockchain but rather a neobank that has finally ceased to seek permission.
@Plasma $XPL #Plasma

All block chains proclaim themselves as AI Chain by 2026. That is marketing. In actual sense, marketing is not code as perceived by developers and big companies. At this point, the industry desires a test named Proof of AI Readiness. The test will enable whatever an actual network can support AI agents or breaks down when provided with machine-generated information.
Evidence of AI Readiness is not such as is the case of Proof of Stake. It is an infrastructure check. It poses three difficult questions:
1) Does your chain read code (or see sense)?
2) Does your chain remember yet not injure the users?
3) Does it use your chain to explain to regulators your decisions?
The majority of Layer-1 chains pass none of the three. Numbers are no trouble to them but they disregard human foibles. Vanar Chain is the first chain to possess this audit as it is going to construct a new design rather than repair the old technology.
Semantic Density: The 47 Character Seed. The goal is efficient data. The AI agents require much video, audio, and legal documents. It is too expensive to store them in a regular blockchain. Vanar demonstrates that it is prepared with Neutron, which is its semantic memory layer. It looks at Semantic Density. On Vanar, a 4K video or huge legal PDF (25MB) is not stored as raw data. It is converted to a miniaturized image-semantic item referred to as Seed-47 features.

Not only can a server connection fail. It is a cryptographic document of the material, which is embedded on the chain. This allows an AI to read and comprehend the file without downloading the huge file. A 500 -to-1 compression makes on-chain high-speed AI trading and content creation affordable.
Was It Verifiable Inference: Why? The second pillar is explainability. In case an AI sells your stocks or refuses you a loan, then you need to know the logic. An AI on Ethereum or Solana is a black box: you do not know how and why it works, just that you can input and get output.
Vanar manages this through reason engine Kayon. The evidence of inference is demonstrated by Kayon. It leaves a trail of chain-on logic of the AI. It does not just indicate that a choice has been made, but it captures those thoughts which have followed down to the choice. This distinction is important in licensed industries such as health, or finance (PayFi sector of Vanar): it will never be the difference between an illegal bot and a legitimate employee.
Hardware Reality: Google/NVIDIA. Lastly, it requires physical strength. 2020 hardware can not support 2026 AI models.
Vanar demonstrates this by enhancing its physical infrastructure, which most crypto projects do not take into consideration. Through the NVIDIA Inception program, Vanar included CUDA-X AI libraries on its tools that also allows developers to build applications with real GPU throughput. The validator nodes that it uses operate on the Google Cloud and they are powered by recycled energy.
It is not only a green story, but also an action plan. Connections to the largest compute vendors allow Vanar to avoid network congestion when the AI demand rises.
Findings of Verdict: Speed (TPS) is important in the Intelligence Economy, but context is the value. The fact that Vanar does not only transfer tokens but substantial transactions allows it to be referred to as Proof of AI Readiness. It is where AI has the ability to read, comprehend, and sign a contract and pay in one block.
@Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar