We have spent years treating blockchains as digital record-keepers, but Vanar’s approach suggests they should be treated as living platforms. Instead of seeing a series of isolated, stateless events, this model allows for long-running environments that hold onto context. It changes the design philosophy from just processing payments to hosting systems that evolve based on their own history.
This shift feels necessary for more complex applications like AI or gaming, where you need a persistent state to make the experience feel seamless. If chains start acting more like persistent environments and less like static ledgers, we are going to see a whole new category of apps that just were not possible on legacy tech.