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Funcționarea fiabilă a contractelor inteligente—în centrul aplicațiilor blockchain—a devenit și mai critică odată cu creșterea rapidă a finanțelor descentralizate (DeFi) și platformelor NFT. În mod tradițional, auditarea acestor structuri de cod complexe s-a bazat pe echipe specializate care efectuează revizuiri manuale—un proces adesea plin de întârzieri, costuri ridicate și riscul iminent al erorii umane. Recent, totuși, sistemele automate alimentate de inteligența artificială (AI) au simplificat dramatic aceste verificări de securitate, inaugurând o nouă eră de eficiență pentru industrie.

Last week I tried to pay a contractor from my phone. Simple job. Small amount. And still… the usual mess. Copy this address. Pick the right network. Pay a fee that feels random. Wait. Refresh. Ask “did you get it?” again. It’s 2026 and we still move value like we’re mailing cash in a plain envelope. Now zoom out. People want to run AI apps that pay for data, pay for compute, pay for results, all in tiny chunks, all day. If a chain can’t handle boring payments cleanly, it has no shot at being the rails for AI. Most new L1 chains are still built like they’re hosting a 2019 DeFi demo day. Great for swapping tokens. Weak for constant machine-to-machine work. AI changes the traffic pattern. It’s not “a user signs two big tx a day.” It’s “a service signs thousands of small tx an hour” and those tx are tied to proof, access, usage, and payouts. That’s why “AI-ready” isn’t a slogan. It’s plumbing. Vanar Chain ($VANRY ) is interesting here because it’s aiming at the unsexy stuff: payments rails, predictable execution, and a system that can connect on-chain logic with off-chain compute without turning into chaos.

Think of it like running a busy kitchen. DeFi-only chains are good at cooking one fancy dish at a time. AI workloads are a food truck line at lunch. Same menu. Repeat orders. No time for drama. If your stove heats up and cools down at random, you don’t scale. You just burn food faster. Transaction flow and cost need to be boring. AI apps hate surprise. Humans can tolerate “gas spiked, try later.” Machines can’t. A model calling tools, buying data, or paying for inference needs stable fees and stable timing. When fees jump, the machine doesn’t “feel annoyed.” It breaks. Or it reroutes. Or it starts failing users. This is where market structure matters more than marketing. A chain can claim high TPS all day, but if real usage causes fee spikes, it’s not a platform. It’s a stress test.

Vanar’s angle, from what I care about, is the payments-first posture. Not just “payments exist.” Payments as a core habit of the network. You want low-friction transfers, but also the ability to attach conditions: pay only if data is delivered, pay only if compute finishes, pay per step. That’s basically automated settlement. Settlement just means “the chain is the referee that says who owns what after the action.” If AI is doing the action, the referee has to be fast, cheap, and consistent. No weird pauses. No random foul calls. AI needs trust signals, not vibes. People throw around “on-chain AI” like it’s magic. Reality: most AI compute is off-chain because GPUs are off-chain. So the real question is: can the chain verify what happened off-chain without swallowing the whole dataset? This is where terms like “proof” show up. A proof is just a receipt. Not a tweet. A receipt. There are different kinds of receipts. The fancy kind is a zero-knowledge proof. That’s a way to prove you followed rules without showing the private inputs. Like proving you’re old enough without handing over your full ID. For AI, it can mean proving a model ran with an allowed version, or that a result matches a committed process, without dumping the raw data on-chain. Hard to build. But it’s the direction serious systems move in.

Even without the fancy math, you still need integrity tools: signatures, hashes, and logs. A hash is a fingerprint of data. If the data changes, the fingerprint changes. That lets you anchor “this exact file” or “this exact model version” to the chain, without storing the whole thing on-chain. In AI systems, that matters because data is the asset. Models are the asset. If you can’t anchor and reference them reliably, you can’t build clean markets around them. You get disputes. You get “trust me bro.” And then you get users leaving. This is where Vanar’s ecosystem choices matter. An AI-ready chain isn’t trying to shove gigabytes into blocks. It’s building clean links between on-chain rules and off-chain storage/compute. On-chain: ownership, permissions, payments, and audit trails. Off-chain: the heavy lifting. If the bridge between those worlds is messy, the whole thing feels like duct tape. If it’s clean, devs can ship real products with minimal drama. Identity, access, and rights management. AI apps are not just “run model, get output.” They’re “who can call the model, who can use the data, who gets paid, who can revoke access, what happens if a key is leaked.” This is boring enterprise stuff. Which is exactly why it wins. A chain that’s serious about AI needs a usable permission layer. Permission layer just means rules about who is allowed to do what. Not in a PDF. In code. If I license a dataset for one purpose, I should be able to enforce that license in how keys, access tokens, and payments work. You can’t do this with vibes and a terms-of-service page.

Here token design also stops being a casino chip and becomes a resource tool. I’m not talking price. I’m talking utility. What does $VANRY actually do inside the system? If it’s the unit for fees and settlement, then it becomes the “oil” that keeps the machine running. But the token has to fit the workload. AI workloads are bursty. Spiky. Heavy. If fee design punishes bursts, builders will avoid the chain. If fee design can smooth costs and keep service predictable, builders stick around. That’s the difference between “theoretical decentralization” and “usable infrastructure.” Most new L1s will struggle because they’re still selling performance numbers instead of solving workflow pain. AI doesn’t care about your brand. It cares if the pipeline works at 3 a.m. It cares if payments settle. It cares if access is enforceable. It cares if proofs or receipts exist when things go wrong. AI apps are like factories, not art galleries. If the conveyor belt jams once a day, you don’t call it innovation. You call it downtime. Vanar Chain (VANRY) bet looks closer to what AI builders actually need: payments that feel native, a structure that can anchor data and model integrity, and a path to connect on-chain settlement with off-chain compute in a clean way. That’s not flashy. That’s good. Flashy is for fundraising decks. Infrastructure is for users who don’t want to think about the chain at all.
Not Financial Advice. Just my perspective as someone who cares more about architecture than narratives. If you’re building for AI, the bar is higher now. New L1s can either become boring, reliable plumbing… or they can stay loud. Loud doesn’t ship.
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Bitcoin mining is no longer just about hashing power. After the April 2024 halving cut block rewards in half, a growing number of publicly traded miners began rewriting their business models.

Key Takeaways
Miners are shifting into AI after the 2024 halving cut rewards and squeezed margins.TeraWulf is leading the move, backed by Google and multibillion-dollar AI contracts.Firms are selling BTC to fund GPU upgrades and data center expansion.AI hosting offers steadier, higher-margin revenue than traditional mining.Power access has become the most valuable asset in the race for AI infrastructure.
By late 2024 and into 2025, many shifted aggressively toward Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing, turning their massive energy footprints into platforms for AI workloads.
The logic is simple: mining revenue became less predictable, while demand for AI infrastructure exploded. Instead of relying solely on Bitcoin production, companies started monetizing their electrical capacity by hosting GPU-heavy AI clusters. In many cases, that meant selling portions of their BTC treasuries to finance expensive hardware upgrades and data center retrofits.
TeraWulf Leads The AI Pivot
Among the most aggressive movers is TeraWulf, which has rapidly repositioned itself as a hybrid energy and AI infrastructure provider. As of early 2025, the company has emerged as one of the clearest examples of how miners are transforming into large-scale data center operators.
A major catalyst has been its partnership with Google. The tech giant increased its equity stake in TeraWulf to 14% and committed a $3.2 billion backstop to support expansion at the Lake Mariner facility, which is being upgraded to handle AI workloads.
To fund this transition, TeraWulf has steadily liquidated much of its Bitcoin holdings. Unlike pure-play miners that continue to accumulate BTC, the company is prioritizing infrastructure expansion. It also secured long-term AI hosting contracts, including a 10-year agreement with Fluidstack, with potential revenue reaching $8.7 billion if lease extensions are exercised.
Recent site acquisitions in Kentucky and Maryland have pushed TeraWulf’s total power capacity to roughly 2.8 gigawatts, placing it among the most energy-rich operators in the sector.
A Broader Industry Migration
TeraWulf is far from alone. At least eight other major miners have announced strategic pivots toward AI or HPC.
Cango sold 4,451 BTC, worth roughly $305 million, to repay debt and fund its expansion into distributed AI computing. Core Scientific secured a 12-year agreement with CoreWeave projected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue. Bitdeer reduced its BTC treasury in early 2026 to finance AI infrastructure growth.
Meanwhile, Hut 8 attracted a $150 million investment to build AI-ready facilities and has reportedly collaborated with Anthropic. IREN, formerly Iris Energy, is leaning into AI hosting contracts that can offer operating margins between 80% and 90%. Bit Digital reported that more than half of its gross margin was already coming from AI operations as early as 2024.
Why Miners Are Chasing AI
The transition reflects a powerful economic trade-off. AI hosting typically provides stable, long-term revenue streams under multi-year contracts. Bitcoin mining, by contrast, remains highly sensitive to price swings, network difficulty, and halving cycles.
There is also clear infrastructure synergy. Miners already control high-capacity substations, industrial-scale cooling systems, and large physical footprints - precisely the “hard assets” hyperscalers need. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are racing to secure limited electricity supplies, making existing power permits increasingly valuable.
On a per-megawatt basis, AI contracts can generate up to three times the revenue of traditional Bitcoin mining. For firms under pressure after the 2024 halving, the math has become difficult to ignore.
The result is a structural transformation: what began as digital gold extraction is evolving into energy-backed AI infrastructure. If current trends persist, many former “miners” may soon resemble power-focused data center operators more than crypto-native companies.
#AI #bitcoin