My first transaction on Vanar went perfectly. That’s what made me suspicious.
I clicked confirm expecting the usual anxiety. Would the gas spike? Would it hang? Would I get some cryptic error about RPC timeouts or nonce conflicts?
None of that happened. The transaction just went through. Fee matched the estimate. Confirmation came exactly when expected. Smooth as glass.
And my immediate reaction wasn’t relief. It was doubt.
Perfect Is Usually a Red Flag
I’ve tested enough blockchains to know that perfect first impressions are often misleading.
Sometimes things feel flawless simply because nobody else is using the network yet. No congestion means no competition for block space. No stress on infrastructure. Everything works beautifully until actual users show up.
Sometimes you’re being quietly routed through premium infrastructure. High-end RPC endpoints, over-provisioned nodes, maybe middleware catching errors before you see them. The experience feels great but it’s not representative of what most users will encounter.
Sometimes the chain is just too young for the pathological cases to have emerged. The weird contract interactions. The failure modes that only trigger under specific conditions. The bugs hiding in code paths that haven’t been exercised yet.
I spent three days after that first transaction trying to figure out which category Vanar fell into.
Breaking Down What Actually Happened
I needed to understand what “predictable” actually meant in technical terms.
Was it fee stability? Were the fees just low enough that variance didn’t matter, or was there something actively stabilizing them?
Was it confirmation consistency? Were blocks coming at regular intervals, or was I just getting lucky with timing?
Was it the absence of failures? Or was the system designed to fail gracefully in ways I couldn’t see?
The more I dug, the more I realized the smoothness came from something specific. Vanar is a Geth fork running standard EVM. That architectural choice eliminates entire categories of friction.
Why Geth Forks Feel Different
I’ve deployed the same contract to seven different chains in the past year. The Geth-based ones always feel calmer.
Transaction lifecycle is familiar. Wallet behavior matches your mental model. Gas estimation doesn’t do weird things. The tooling ecosystem just works without
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