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I researched Fogo’s design notes and one detail stood out: rather than minting a new token standard, they modified SPL Token and layered session-based authorization on top of the SVM delegation model. That choice reads less like deference to Solana’s ecosystem and more like an operator’s preference for predictable surfaces.”
I’ve watched this debate play out enough times that it feels predictable. A team says, “Let’s own the standard,” and for a moment it sounds clean: fewer legacy constraints, better primitives, tighter fit with the new feature they want to ship. Then reality shows up. The first wallet integration takes longer than expected. Indexers don’t know what to track. Auditors start listing edge cases you didn’t even model. Someone on the ops side asks a simple question like, “What happens if a user revokes approval halfway through?” That’s when the excitement turns into a quiet bill. A new standard isn’t just code. In the context of #Fogo , it’s a compatibility tax across the entire stack, and most teams only internalize that cost after something snaps in production.
What I took away from @Fogo Official approach is that they’re thinking like people who’ve had to live with the consequences. When your token behavior looks familiar to the existing tooling stack, you can feel the integration surface shrink. Wallets don’t need special handling. Indexers don’t need custom logic. Audits don’t balloon just because the standard is new. Then, instead of rewriting the whole substrate to get new capabilities, they add scoped sessions on top, tightening authority without changing what everyone already understands. To me, that reads like maturity. It’s choosing controllability over novelty at the exact layer where mistakes are most expensive: user funds and app reliability.

Lately it’s felt like watching the same sprint on repeat. A team rushes out a new token program, adds a bespoke permission system, bolts on a custom signing flow, and calls it momentum. Then the second phase begins. Wallet support is behind because nobody wants to carry special cases. The audit scope quietly expands because every custom path creates new edge conditions. App teams end up burning weeks on glue code just to make basic workflows behave. I’ve seen people mistake that pace for progress, but it’s usually just relocating the risk. The real failures don’t show up in the launch thread. They show up later in the integration layer, where the problems are less visible and the fixes are more expensive.
The Discipline Behind Scoped Permissions.
Fogo is effectively warning against reinventing the most widely touched surface area in the stack. The discipline they are building is: keep token semantics familiar, then enforce authority through explicit guardrails. Sessions can be scoped by time, program allow lists, and spending limits, with a clear audit trail of what was permitted and when. That gives apps “delegation with controls” instead of blanket approvals that live forever.

How Competing L1s Increase Integration Load.

A useful contrast is the path taken by newer L1s that shipped with their own native asset frameworks and token primitives, like Aptos ($APT ) or $SUI in the Move ecosystem. They get cleaner control over the standard, but they also force every wallet, custody provider, indexer, and exchange integration to treat the token layer as a new surface area, with new edge cases around approvals, transfers, metadata, and recovery flows. Even in the EVM world, you see a similar pattern when teams push custom token mechanics or bespoke authorization layers that diverge from what wallets and infra assume by default. Fogo’s SPL strategy is the opposite risk trade. Keep the most widely integrated token semantics familiar, then add capability through sessions and scoped delegation so the “newness” lives in permission boundaries rather than in the token itself. That tends to lower integration drag, shorten audit scope, and reduce the number of places where a small mismatch turns into a funds-at-risk incident.

A Real Wallet Flow Under Stress.
A concrete use case is a Fogo consumer wallet running a “one tap” flow for an exchange account: swap USDC to SOL, pay a service fee, then send the remainder to a new address. Without sessions, many apps rely on broad approvals that sit open ended, or they ask users to sign multiple transactions in a row. In practice, users misclick, abandon the flow mid way, or get phished into signing an extra approval that persists. With SPL compatibility plus session based authorization, the wallet can issue a session that is valid for 5 minutes, limited to a specific swap program and a specific fee address, capped to a maximum spend, and automatically revoked at expiry. The user gets the convenience of a bundled experience, while the permission surface stays tight enough that ops teams can defend it and auditors can trace it.

Why Wallet-Ready Standards Lose The Hype Cycle
I’ve watched the market get oddly dismissive when a team like Fogo chooses the boring path. There’s no shiny token narrative to point at, no new acronym to chant, nothing that looks like a fresh category. Backward compatibility can feel like settling, and sessions sound like wallet plumbing. But that reaction is normal. Traders price what they can see first. The cost of operational debt usually shows up later, when the hype has moved on and Fogo-style decisions start looking sensible.
What makes the logic stick, at least for me, is who cares first, and Fogo is clearly building for that audience. It’s not speculators. It’s the people who get the late-night messages when approvals go wrong: wallet teams, auditors, exchange integrators, ops leads. I’ve seen the same failure pattern repeatedly. An app sponsors fees and tries to bundle a trade plus a transfer. With a custom token standard, a wallet mis-handles an edge case during allowance revocation and a user is left with permissions that quietly persist. On Fogo, scoped sessions give you a cleaner boundary: the authorization can expire in 10 minutes, be restricted to two programs, capped to a fixed amount, and the blast radius stays bounded even if the user abandons the flow.

Where Permissioning Becomes Internal Controls.
And this is where the market eventually catches up, including for networks like Fogo that prioritize controls over novelty. As more workflows go on-chain, permissioning gets evaluated like internal controls by default. Least privilege stops being a slogan and becomes a requirement. Expiring authority becomes expected. Logs that auditors can follow become part of “done.” The standards that fit existing wallet behavior tend to earn distribution not because they are exciting, but because they reduce integration drag while still supporting modern authorization patterns, which is exactly the lane $FOGO is leaning into.
Institutional trust is not won by clever primitives. It is won by systems that behave predictably under stress, integrate cleanly, and fail with contained consequences. Fogo is aiming for that prize, and it shows in the choices that are easy to overlook.

I felt it clearly the first time I helped a team underwrite a chain for production use, when the conversation moved from narratives to operational proofs. We were not asking how big the community was. We were asking the same boring questions Vanar’s model is built to answer. Who pays for uptime. Who pays for security. Who pays for fixes when something breaks at 2 a.m. The more we asked, the more I realized most token models are written like marketing plans, not like budgets.
That is why Vanar’s issuance split caught my attention. Validators have an explicit reward stream. Development has its own stream. Community incentives and airdrops sit in a separate bucket. It reads less like a single pot of emissions and more like a set of line items, which is exactly how operators think when they are deciding whether a system is dependable.
People in crypto argue about inflation as if the number alone tells the story. In practice, what matters is where issuance goes. A chain can emit tokens and still be disciplined if it is buying security and delivery. And a chain can brag about “low emissions” while quietly starving the validator set and the engineering team, then acting surprised when reliability slips.
I have watched what happens when the incentives are not balanced. Validators get squeezed, so participation drops or centralizes. Development becomes reactive, shipping patches late because there is no consistent capacity for audits, tooling, and incident response. Meanwhile the ecosystem budget gets spent like a campaign. Big pushes, thin follow-through. The chain looks busy, but the foundation is shaky.
Vanar’s allocation signals a different posture. Pay the security budget so validation remains competitive and honest. Fund development so upgrades are planned and repeatable, not heroic. Use community incentives, but keep them contained so adoption is earned through product and reliability, not only through rewards.

I think about it like the week an exchange partner asked us for an uptime plan before they even talked marketing. They wanted to know who was on-call, how upgrades ship, what happens during an incident, and whether validator participation stays healthy when markets get quiet. If the only serious budget in the token model is “community incentives,” you can feel the risk immediately: validators churn, performance degrades, and the engineering team becomes reactive because there is no consistent capacity for audits, tooling, and fixes. But when issuance is explicitly split between validator rewards and development, you can answer those questions with something real. You can fund security, ship patches without drama, and keep the network stable while growth programs run on top, not instead of the foundation.

For instance, Imagine an exchange preparing a listing and setting limits. If validator rewards are too weak, downtime risk rises and the exchange tightens deposits and withdrawals. If development is underfunded, integration issues linger and support tickets pile up. A token model that budgets for validators and engineering reduces those operational surprises before they become headlines.
This is the upgrade from incentives as spectacle to incentives as operating discipline.
XAI and VANRY are solving different parts of the stack, and their numbers reflect that. XAI is explicitly a gaming-focused Layer 3 on Arbitrum/Orbit, so its token model and incentives are built to pull studios, players, and in-game economies onto a purpose-built execution environment, with distribution pressure naturally leaning toward ecosystem onboarding and activity loops. Vanar positions VANRY as an AI-native Layer 1 stack, so the emissions logic reads more like a budget for keeping the base layer secure and shipping the core product layers, not just subsidizing usage. On the scoreboard metrics, CoinMarketCap currently shows $VANRY around a ~$13M market cap and XAI around a ~$20M market cap, so $XAI is being valued higher despite being narrower in vertical focus. On TVL, DeFiLlama shows Xai chain TVL roughly ~$100k, while CoinGecko’s chain page for Vanar Chain shows TVL at $0, which is a reminder that TVL mostly measures DeFi liquidity, not whether an infra narrative is “real.” The practical takeaway is that XAI’s model is optimized for distribution-driven adoption in gaming, while Vanar’s model is trying to justify emissions as security + delivery capacity so the network can survive the moment incentives stop doing the heavy lifting.

The market often shrugs at this because it is not a short-term catalyst. A security budget does not trend. Development rewards do not produce a “number go up” moment. And restrained community incentives look boring next to aggressive giveaways. That reaction is normal. Most traders price momentum, not durability.
But the logic holds because the first buyers who care are the ones who have to live with the system. Exchanges, custodians, enterprise teams, and risk committees care about uptime, predictable upgrades, and clear accountability. They want to see that the chain can pay for the work that keeps it safe and usable.
As standards tighten across listings and operations, issuance design will be treated less like a narrative choice and more like underwriting. The winners will be the projects that can show their security budget is sustainable, their engineering is continuous, and their ecosystem incentives do not vanish when the campaign ends.
In short, the prize is institutional trust. And from where I sit, Vanar’s split looks like an attempt to earn that trust the practical way, by funding the parts that keep a network running when nobody is clapping.

@Vanarchain

#vanar

$VANRY

Ho letto attraverso Fogo Sessions e ciò che mi è rimasto impresso non è stata la proposta "senza gas". È stata l'insistenza sul fatto che permessi limitati nel tempo e nel campo dovrebbero essere il modo predefinito in cui gli utenti interagiscono. Una pulita approvazione iniziale, poi tutto il resto deve rimanere all'interno delle regole che puoi verificare onchain.
In un negozio di trading, non continui a chiedere approvazione ogni volta che un sistema suggerisce un ordine. Approvi un mandato, imposti limiti, imposti un orario di fine e poi lasci che l'esecuzione faccia il suo lavoro all'interno delle regole.

I remember the first time I had to explain a token migration to someone who did not care about crypto culture. It was an ops lead, calm voice, sharp questions. What is the mapping. What changes in supply. What happens to inventory on day one. I opened the docs expecting to talk about vision, and instead I spent two hours hunting for the one thing that matters in a live system: continuity.
That is when I realized most migrations are not really branding events. They are accounting events. People argue about whether a new ticker is bullish, whether a reset is justified, whether the market will “like” it. But the real question is quieter. Does the team carry continuity forward cleanly, or do they take the chance to rewrite the ledger in ways that are hard to explain later.

I explain VANRY to non crypto people with a scenario from the kind of workflow that actually breaks when incentives are vague. Imagine a mid-sized e-commerce platform in Germany running a weekend flash sale and using an AI assistant to approve refunds, apply coupons, and flag fraud in real time. At peak traffic, the AI is making thousands of calls per hour to check eligibility rules, write decisions to an audit log, and trigger payouts. If costs are not metered cleanly, the system either gets abused by spammy requests or finance shuts it down because the bill becomes unpredictable. If validators cannot enforce the same semantic rules consistently, the same customer can be approved on one path and rejected on another, which turns into chargebacks, disputes, and support chaos. Vanar’s value proposition is that this workflow can be priced and governed like infrastructure: each decision has a measurable cost, each state change leaves a trace, and the validator layer is accountable for enforcing the same policy logic so operations can scale automation without losing control of spend, behavior, or auditability.

When I read the TVK to VANRY migration design, I felt that rare sense of relief you get when something is simple for the right reasons. The 1:1 swap symmetry is not exciting, but it is clean. If you held one unit before, you hold one unit after. That single decision tells you a lot about intent. It signals that the project is trying to keep holder continuity intact and keep the supply story understandable without a long disclaimer.
I have seen what happens when migrations are not clean. Picture a mid-sized exchange treasury desk during the changeover. They are moving inventory, updating wallets, syncing custody, coordinating with market makers, and trying to keep spreads tight. If the swap has confusing ratios, rounding edge cases, surprise locks, or a supply plan that shifts midstream, risk teams step in and slow everything down. Deposits pause. Withdrawals pause. Liquidity gets thin. Support tickets spike. The token ends up paying a hidden tax in the form of distrust.

If I’m being honest, I only started caring about “price and TVL” after I watched how migrations break in the real world. $VANRY is still priced like an early infrastructure bet, sitting around half a cent with a market cap in the low teens of millions on the major trackers. AIOZ, which sells a broader DePIN-style compute and media story, is being valued meaningfully higher on those same dashboards, closer to the mid-$80M range recently. ORAI is smaller by market cap, and when you look at chain-level usage signals like Oraichain’s DeFi footprint on DeFiLlama, it’s modest, which is a good reminder that “AI infra” value often trades on narrative and positioning more than locked capital. The point for this article is not that one chart is better than another. It’s that VANRY’s migration and supply continuity choices are the kind of boring details that let a token survive the moment it gets treated like inventory by exchanges, custody, and treasury desks, whether the TVL number is big or not.

What Vanar seems to be warning against is that exact mess. The discipline they are building instead looks like grown-up infrastructure work: deterministic handoffs, clear supply mapping, distribution you can trace, and long-horizon issuance you can explain without hype. It is not designed to create a moment. It is designed to avoid a failure.
This is migration designed to keep systems and stakeholders aligned, not just excited.
The market can react coldly to that because it does not give traders a new trick. Symmetry is boring. But boring is often what exchanges, compliance teams, and serious allocators want, because boring means fewer surprises.
As listing committees get stricter and liquidity gets more selective, migrations will be treated less like rebrands and more like audits. The projects that win will be the ones whose transitions look clean on paper and stay clean in production.
In the end, the prize is institutional trust. And the more I see how these things break in real workflows, the more I respect the teams that design the boring parts like they matter.

#vanar

@Vanarchain

$VANRY