In the beginning of 2026, the Web3 industry is undergoing structural changes with the comprehensive penetration of AI technology. The competition focus of the L1 public chain track has shifted from 'performance parameter comparison' to 'technology implementation efficiency' and 'commercial value conversion'. As a leader in AI-native L1 public chains, Vanar Chain has become one of the most关注d Web3 projects at the start of the year, thanks to the large-scale implementation of the V23 protocol, explosive growth in market data, and continuous expansion of ecological scenarios. From an ecological foundation of 9.06 million mainnet migration users to a trading peak of 48.3 million dollars within 24 hours; from innovative applications empowered by a dynamic contract engine to a liquidity layout covering 23 mainstream exchanges globally, Vanar is steadily advancing its grand vision of 'linking 3 billion Web3 users' with technology as its core and market as its wings, becoming the core benchmark that defines the value of AI Web3 in 2026.
I. Technology Landing: The V23 protocol moves from 'upgrade' to 'empowerment', activating full-scene automation value.
The V23 protocol upgrade completed at the end of 2025 is not just a technical concept innovation, but a key leap from 'protocol iteration' to 'ecological empowerment' achieved through three core breakthroughs, allowing the programmability and automation of Web3 to truly translate into actual application value.
The dynamic contract engine has completely broken the industry pain point of traditional smart contracts being 'fixed after deployment'. Through the innovative model of 'rule template library + dynamic parameter configuration', developers can flexibly adjust business logic without redeploying contracts. This technology has shown value in multiple scenarios: in the RWA field, real estate tokenization projects based on this engine can automatically adjust pledge rates according to market valuations without manual intervention to adapt to market fluctuations; in the gaming ecosystem, VGN network developers can optimize reward distribution rules in real-time, dynamically adjusting token output efficiency based on player behavior data, effectively avoiding the traditional chain game dilemmas of 'rapid inflation' or 'insufficient incentives'. Third-party testing data shows that applications developed based on the V23 dynamic contract engine have reduced scenario adaptation costs by 60% and improved iteration efficiency by 400%. As of January 2026, more than 50 development teams have accessed this engine, launching innovative applications such as cross-chain e-commerce automated settlement and decentralized insurance smart claims.
The cross-layer event response system has built a global event bus covering the basic layer, expansion layer, and application layer, achieving full-process automation and closed-loop of 'event-decision-execution'. Taking the brand cooperation scenario in the Virtua metaverse as an example, when users purchase co-branded digital collectibles in the virtual exhibition hall, the system can automatically trigger a triple linkage: the Neutron layer completes the semantic compression and on-chain storage of collectible data, the Kayon engine performs compliance verification and rights confirmation, and the basic layer synchronously completes asset transfer and NFT minting, with the entire process taking no more than 3 seconds, allowing users to complete the full-process interaction without multiple steps. This automation experience not only significantly improves user conversion rates but also allows brands' Web3 marketing to achieve 'zero operational threshold', becoming a core advantage in attracting traditional brands.
The launch of the visual programming interface truly brings programmable capabilities down to all participants in the ecosystem. Vanar's 'drag-and-drop contract editor' transforms complex code logic into modular components such as 'asset transfer', 'data verification', and 'conditional judgment', allowing even users without a technical background to quickly generate custom automation processes by stitching together components. For example, content creators can use this tool to build a system for 'automated distribution of paid content + real-time revenue settlement', while brands can quickly configure a mechanism for 'automatic conversion of user consumption points to NFT', greatly lowering the development threshold for Web3 applications. As of January 2026, this interface has generated over 2,000 custom automation processes, covering diverse scenarios such as content creation, e-commerce marketing, and community governance, becoming a 'catalyst' for ecological innovation.
II. Market performance: Data explosion verifies value, VANRY becomes a hot asset in AI Web3.
The results of technology implementation are directly reflected in the explosive growth of market data. The VANRY token has shown strong market vitality at the beginning of 2026, becoming the core barometer of the AI + Web3 track.
In terms of price and trading volume, VANRY saw a single-day increase of 18.52% on January 19, 2026, currently reported at $0.01, with a peak trading volume exceeding $48.3 million, a 300% increase compared to the monthly average. As of January 22, its circulating market value has stabilized around $23.7 million, with a cumulative increase of 20.19% over 30 days, strengthening against the backdrop of an overall sluggish cryptocurrency market. From the distribution of trading pairs, the VANRY/USDT trading pair accounts for 29.17%, and the VANRY/TRY trading pair accounts for 15.6%, covering mainstream fiat and stablecoin trading scenarios, with liquidity layout increasingly improving.
In terms of exchange layout, VANRY has launched on 23 mainstream exchanges such as Gate.io and Kraken, including several leading platforms, providing users with convenient trading channels. More notably, on the eve of the V23 protocol upgrade, over 20 mainstream exchanges completed 'pre-war deployment' in advance, synchronously optimizing trading depth and staking services. For example, Binance's VANRY staking plan offers an APR as high as 100%, attracting over 12,000 nodes to participate in network maintenance, forming a positive cycle of 'exchange-project-user'.
In terms of user base, Vanar's mainnet migration users exceeded 9.06 million in December 2025, just one step away from the 10 million user target, a figure that far exceeds the user growth rate of similar L1 public chains. From the geographical distribution of users, users from South Korea and Southeast Asia account for 40%, while users from Europe and the Middle East account for 35%, forming a global user layout—this distribution aligns highly with Vanar's ecological landing strategy, as it has onboarded 500 offline merchants in South Korea and promoted unbanked payment services in Southeast Asia, effectively driving regional user growth.
In terms of market sentiment, the technical innovation and ecological implementation of VANRY have received widespread recognition in the industry. Multiple crypto analysis institutions have listed it as the 'most noteworthy project' in the AI Web3 track for 2026, believing that the automation capabilities and AI-native architecture of its V23 protocol are scarce. At the community level, the number of VANRY holding addresses has surpassed 210,000, including 27 institutional addresses holding more than 10,000 tokens, including several crypto funds focused on AI and blockchain, with the institutional holding ratio rising to 18%, and the long-term investment value being recognized by professional investors.
III. Ecological expansion: From C-end to B-end, constructing a full-scene value closed loop.
Vanar's ecological layout achieved comprehensive expansion in 2026, constructing a full-scene value closed loop from C-end user entertainment consumption scenarios to B-end enterprises' digital transformation needs, integrating 'game entertainment + financial services + physical integration', with ecological inclusiveness and commercial value continuously improving.
C-end ecosystem: Driven by entertainment and tools, lowering the entry threshold for Web3. In the gaming and entertainment sector, the benchmark product of the VGN gaming network (Jetpack Hyperleague) leverages the dynamic contract engine of the V23 protocol to achieve intelligent optimization of the in-game economic system, dynamically adjusting the output rate of NFT props based on player activity levels. The total transaction amount of in-game assets has surpassed $1 billion, with developers' revenue sharing reaching 30%, forming a win-win model of 'player-developer-ecosystem'. In the tool application sector, Vanar's myNeutron product allows users to store personal data as 'semantic memory' and interact through an AI assistant. As of January 2026, the cumulative number of registered users has exceeded 8 million, with 30% of users generating on-chain verifiable data certificates using this tool for Web3 application logins and rights exchanges, becoming an important entry point connecting Web2 and Web3.
B-end ecosystem: Empowering traditional enterprises, opening up new commercial landing spaces. Vanar, leveraging the compliance characteristics and automation capabilities of the V23 protocol, has become the preferred partner for traditional enterprises' Web3 transformation. In the payment sector, its collaboration with Worldpay continues to deepen, supporting direct purchases of on-chain assets in 150 fiat currencies through credit cards, achieving a transaction success rate of 99.5%. After 500 merchants in South Korea were onboarded, user scan payments took only 0.02 seconds, realizing the 'essential need' for Web3 payments. In the supply chain sector, a multinational pharmaceutical company has paid 10 million VANRY for anonymous health data for R&D, ensuring data privacy through zero-knowledge proof technology while providing additional benefits to users, pioneering a new model of 'data assetization'.
Cross-border and inclusive finance: Practicing technological inclusivity and expanding the global market. Vanar focuses on the financial needs of the unbanked population, launching cross-border payment and micro-loan services in regions such as the Philippines and Brazil, reducing the traditional bank's 7% remittance cost to 0.3%, saving users 6.7% in fees per transaction. Farmers in the Philippines can purchase agricultural supplies through Vanar, and youth in Brazilian slums can use VANRY to pay for mobile recharges, allowing blockchain technology to truly serve the real economy. As of January 2026, Vanar's cross-border payment transaction volume has exceeded $500 million, serving 140 countries and regions, becoming an important practitioner of financial inclusivity.
IV. Value Logic: Technical Scarcity + Commercial Landing, Laying the Foundation for Long-Term Growth.
Vanar's core value lies in its dual barriers of 'technical scarcity + commercial landing', which is becoming increasingly prominent in the market competition of 2026, laying a solid foundation for long-term growth.
In terms of technical scarcity, Vanar is the first blockchain infrastructure stack specifically designed for AI workloads. Its five-layer architecture realizes full-link on-chain processing of 'data storage-semantic processing-intelligent reasoning', rather than simply treating AI as an additional feature. Compared to other L1 public chains, Vanar's Kayon on-chain inference engine can directly query and process on-chain verifiable data without relying on external oracles, achieving an on-chain closed loop of 'data-reasoning-execution'; the Neutron semantic compression layer transforms unstructured data into AI-readable formats, with data compression efficiency reaching 800 times, significantly reducing on-chain storage costs. This technological advantage is irreplaceable in scenarios like RWA and PayFi.
In terms of commercial landing, Vanar always focuses on 'real-world landing' as the core goal, avoiding technological stagnation. Its ecological layout closely aligns with the real needs of users and enterprises: for C-end users, it addresses the pain points of 'complex operations and high entry barriers' in Web3; for developers, it provides low-code, highly flexible development tools; for traditional enterprises, it has created compliant and efficient Web3 transformation solutions. This 'demand-driven' ecological construction model enables it to continuously attract users and partners, forming a self-reinforcing growth flywheel—by January 2026, Vanar's ecosystem has generated over 30 million on-chain transactions, covering diverse scenarios such as gaming, payments, and supply chains, with commercial value continuously realized.
In terms of token economy, the value support of VANRY is becoming increasingly diversified. As transaction fuel, with the explosive growth of ecological applications, the average daily on-chain transaction count has surpassed 9 million, and the destruction volume of VANRY continues to rise. As a staking asset, its flexible lock-up period and high staking returns attract a large amount of long-term capital. As a governance credential, holders can participate in protocol upgrades, parameter adjustments, and other core decisions, enhancing the community-led governance model's cohesion. More importantly, the 20-year gradual release cycle of VANRY and the design of no team token distribution completely eliminate short-term speculative behavior, providing institutional guarantees for long-term value growth.
V. Future Outlook: Technological Deepening + Market Expansion, Leading the New Wave of AI Web3.
Looking ahead to 2026, Vanar's development blueprint is clear. It will continue to exert efforts in both the dimensions of technological deepening and market expansion, consolidating its leading position in the AI Web3 track.
On the technical level, Vanar plans to deepen cooperation with Nvidia to access the powerful computing power of its latest Vera Rubin platform, enhancing the processing speed of the Kayon inference engine and supporting the lightweight operation of trillion-parameter-level AI models on-chain. At the same time, it will advance the development and implementation of the Axon intelligent automation layer and the Flows industry application layer, achieving autonomous optimization of on-chain processes and deep adaptation to vertical scenarios, further reducing the development costs of AI-native DApps.
At the market level, Vanar will focus on expanding into the European and Middle Eastern markets, replicating its successful experience in South Korea and Southeast Asia: in Europe, it will leverage local friendly policies towards Web3 to promote metaverse cooperation with traditional brands, building virtual exhibition halls and digital marketing scenarios; in the Middle East, it will deepen cooperation with local financial institutions using platforms like Abu Dhabi Finance Week, expanding RWA tokenization and cross-border payment businesses. By the end of 2026, Vanar's global user scale is expected to exceed 50 million, with the number of ecological applications surpassing 1,000.
At the industry impact level, Vanar is establishing industry standards through the 'automated ecological alliance', promoting the standardized development of AI-native blockchain. The technical architecture and application model of its V23 protocol have become important references for similar projects and are expected to lead the Web3 industry from 'programmable' to 'intelligent automation', allowing blockchain technology to truly integrate into daily life and achieve the grand vision of '3 billion users entering Web3'.
From the VR content platform in 2018 to the AI-native L1 public chain in 2026, Vanar's development trajectory is a true reflection of the Web3 industry's transition from 'concept hype' to 'value landing'. It uses the V23 protocol to break down the barriers between technology and application, using market data to verify commercial value, and connecting online and offline through ecological layout, proving that the core value of blockchain technology lies in creating tangible convenience and benefits for users and enterprises.
In 2026, the wave of integration between AI and Web3 has already surged. Vanar Chain is carving out a differentiated development path based on technology, market, and community in the fierce industry competition, becoming the core benchmark for defining AI Web3 value. This pragmatic and determined path will eventually lead Vanar to a broader stage, writing a new chapter in the mainstreaming of Web3.
