Vanar being EVM-compatible is powerful. Any Solidity team can move fast — same contracts, same tools, same wallet flow. Just change the RPC to rpc.vanarchain.com, chain ID 2040, use VANRY for gas, and you’re live. The explorer is already there. It feels easy. ([Vanar Docs], [Chain registries])
But here’s the honest part:
The same ease that helps you enter also makes it easy to leave.
So what actually keeps people?
Vanar is trying to build more than “just another EVM.” They position themselves as an AI-native infrastructure stack — with layers like Neutron (structured, compressed on-chain data) and Kayon (AI reasoning and natural-language logic on-chain). That’s important. Because if teams actually build around those layers, not just deploy contracts, migration stops being one config change.
If a project’s data history, compliance logic, AI flows, and user records are deeply embedded into that stack, It becomes emotional and technical work to move. Not impossible — but meaningful.
They’re also building staking and validator alignment around VANRY to secure the network. That adds community gravity. Not hype gravity. Community gravity.
We’re seeing a shift in the industry:
Cheap chains don’t win long term. Useful ecosystems do.
So here’s the real truth:
If Vanar is treated like a cheap EVM, liquidity will rotate out when something cheaper appears.
If Vanar becomes infrastructure that apps depend on, switching won’t feel simple anymore.
"Lock-in doesn’t come from compatibility : it comes from dependency."
One honest question remains:
Will builders use the stack deeply enough that leaving feels like rebuilding their identity?