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I used to hear “virtual machine” and file it away as jargon, but I’ve started to treat the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as a plain thing: the execution environment that decides how programs run and how state changes when transactions land. Fogo’s approach is to keep that execution layer intact—compatible with Solana-style programs and tooling—while redesigning the surrounding system so the speed the SVM can offer is less likely to get lost in validator and network overhead. In its docs, Fogo describes itself as a Solana-architecture Layer 1 with a client based on Firedancer, maintaining full compatibility at the SVM execution layer so existing Solana programs can migrate without modification. The “why SVM” part makes sense to me when I think about parallel work: Solana’s runtime (often called Sealevel) can execute transactions in parallel when they don’t contend for the same accounts, because each transaction declares which accounts it will read and write. Fogo explicitly points to latency-sensitive DeFi patterns like on-chain order books and real-time auctions—exactly the kinds of apps that struggle when everything has to queue. What surprises me is how much of Fogo’s “using the SVM” story is really about everything except the VM. One choice is a unified validator-client strategy: Fogo’s architecture notes argue that performance gets constrained by the slowest widely-used client, so it adopts a single canonical client based on Firedancer, even mentioning an initial hybrid “Frankendancer” phase before moving toward fuller Firedancer usage. Jump Crypto describes Firedancer as an independent Solana validator client written in C and built from the ground up for performance. Then there’s the consensus-and-network move Fogo calls multi-local consensus. Instead of assuming validators are always evenly scattered, Fogo describes grouping active validators into a geographic “zone,” ideally close enough that latency approaches hardware limits, with block times under 100ms as the design target. To keep that from becoming a permanent center of gravity, it also describes rotating zones across epochs through on-chain coordination and voting, tying rotation to jurisdictional decentralization and resilience. I find it helpful to say the trade-off out loud: you’re buying speed by coordinating physical infrastructure, and that shifts some of the burden from pure protocol rules into operations and governance. On top of execution and consensus, Fogo also adds a user-facing layer. Fogo Sessions is presented as an open-source session standard aimed at wallet-agnostic app use and gasless transactions, and at reducing how often users have to sign. That matters because expectations for on-chain markets have crept closer to “it should feel instant,” and this design is trying to meet that expectation without changing the execution engine itself. I used to hear “high throughput” and assume that was the whole story, but in practice users care about how long they’re waiting and whether the wait time is stable. The bigger question is whether the kinds of coordination Fogo relies on stay reliably as scale and diversity increase. Even so, the idea doesn’t feel complicated: the SVM is the part that runs the programs, and Fogo’s work is about preventing the network and validator layer from dragging that experience down.

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I’ve noticed a pattern in crypto: when a new technology gets attention, a wave of projects shows up that’s basically a thin layer on top of someone else’s system. With AI, that wrapper approach is especially tempting. In ordinary software, a wrapper can be legitimate—a layer between a user and a model API that shapes inputs and outputs so the tool fits a specific job. The trouble starts when that thin layer is presented as the core. A token and a chain are supposed to provide a shared record that other programs can build on. Yet many AI-and-crypto products still work like this: the chain handles payments and ownership, while the “thinking” happens off-chain in a hosted service. If the provider changes pricing, throttles access, or updates behavior, the system shifts with it, and users may not be able to audit what changed or why. That gap feels sharper now that people are trying to build agents—systems that watch for events, decide what to do, and then act with less human supervision—and mainstream reporting notes that agents can drive much higher inference demand than simple chat.

I find it useful to treat this as a trust problem more than a convenience problem. If a bot is going to trigger a contract, it matters whether its reasoning can be checked after the fact. That’s why verifiable approaches like zkML and verifiable inference are getting more attention: do heavy computation off-chain, but return a proof that ties the output to committed inputs and a specific model, so the chain can verify the result instead of trusting a black box.

It’s also why people have become harsher on hype. When an on-chain investigator dismisses most “AI agent tokens” as wrapper grifts, it lands because it puts blunt language on a pattern many observers already sense.

This is the backdrop for Vanar’s push for what it calls native intelligence. I used to assume that meant “we added an AI feature,” but their claim is more structural: build a stack where data, memory, and reasoning are treated as first-class parts of the chain rather than bolt-ons. Vanar describes a setup that includes a semantic data layer called Neutron Seeds and a reasoning layer called Kayon, with the idea that the system can query, validate, and apply logic—like compliance rules—using on-chain data.

They also market Neutron as a compression-and-structure layer that turns larger files into smaller, verifiable on-chain objects, and they position the base chain as supporting AI-style querying with features like vector storage and similarity search.

None of this magically solves the hard parts. Even an AI-native design still has to answer where compute happens, how models get updated, what gets verified, and which tradeoffs you accept between cost, speed, and decentralization. But the underlying point feels coherent: if crypto really wants autonomous systems that coordinate value in public, it can’t keep outsourcing the intelligence and hoping the rest of the stack feels “on-chain” enough. That’s the debate I keep watching, and it isn’t settled.

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I keep noticing that “AI agents” rarely fail in a dramatic way; they fail in the ordinary way software fails—missing context, losing state, and making the wrong call without announcing it. My working model is that the pain point has moved from “can the model answer?” to “can the system remember, justify, and carry work forward?” That’s the frame I use to think through Vanar’s Neutron + Kayon + Flows stack: it’s an attempt to make memory and context plumbing, not an add-on. Neutron, in Vanar’s own description, takes scattered inputs like documents, emails, and images and turns them into “Seeds,” knowledge units that stay searchable and can be verified, with storage that’s off-chain by default and optionally anchored on-chain when you want integrity or ownership guarantees. The docs emphasize that Seeds can include metadata and embeddings so you can search by meaning or similarity, not just keywords, while keeping performance practical through that hybrid model. Vanar also positions Neutron against IPFS-style approaches, arguing that content-addressed links and static hashes still lead to dead ends; that’s a pointed claim, but it gestures at a real friction point: even if content addressing is designed to fight link rot, availability still hinges on whether the content is actually being served. Kayon sits above that as a reasoning layer. I find it useful to treat it as a bridge between stored memory and day-to-day questions: natural-language querying across Seeds and other datasets, contextual reasoning, and outputs that are meant to be auditable because they can point back to the underlying evidence. Vanar highlights MCP-based APIs for connecting Kayon to existing tools and backends, and that detail lands for me because the wider ecosystem is drifting toward “agentic” systems that have to hop between services. Microsoft has talked publicly about agents working together across companies and needing better ways to “remember,” including structured retrieval so they keep what matters without stuffing everything into a context window. At the same time, what you hear again and again from people actually running these systems is pretty simple: once you string a bunch of steps together, things get fragile fast. What feels new now, compared with five years ago, is that this isn’t living in demos anymore—it’s showing up inside real work, where losing context has a real cost. When a bot drafts a report, files a ticket, or triggers a payment, you want receipts. Flows is the layer that, conceptually, completes the story, even though it’s still labeled “coming soon” and described as “industry applications.” If Neutron is memory and Kayon is reasoning, Flows is where those two become repeatable work: processes that hold onto context across multiple actions instead of reloading and reinterpreting everything each time. I don’t know whether Vanar’s implementation will match its promises, and I’m wary of big compression numbers without independent testing, but the overall shape—memory you can search and optionally verify, reasoning you can trace to evidence, and workflows that don’t forget why they started—maps cleanly onto the problems teams are running into right now.

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I’ve caught myself lately staring at an agent’s “successful” run and still feeling uneasy. The action happened, the transaction landed, and yet my confidence is shaky because I can’t replay the context that led to the decision. I used to think that meant I needed better prompts or cleaner logs. Now I suspect the real issue is structural: we’re asking systems to act in the world without giving them the basic support to remember, explain, and stay within bounds.

I notice how quickly the conversation drifts to blockchains, as if “on-chain” automatically means trustworthy. These days, when I hear “AI on-chain,” I’m less interested in demos and more interested in whether the boring parts are handled: stable context, traceable decisions, safe execution, and where results settle. A write-up about Vanar put that support into a simple frame: four primitives any chain needs if it wants to host serious agents—memory, reasoning, automation, and settlement. If any one of the four is missing, the agent ends up leaning on off-chain patches that break the moment you scale.

Memory comes first, but not in the “save a transcript” sense. Agents need meaning that survives restarts, tool calls, and file formats, otherwise they waste time repeating work and keep making new mistakes that look like old ones. The hard part isn’t storage; it’s keeping the shape of information intact as it moves across tools and time. Vanar’s Neutron describes “Seeds” that compress and restructure data into verifiable, queryable objects, aiming to make context portable and checkable.

Reasoning is the second primitive, and it’s where trust either forms or breaks. If an agent is going to touch funds, permissions, or compliance checks, “trust me” isn’t enough; I want a trail I can inspect. I find it helpful to look at reasoning here as more than a model “thinking.” It’s the ability to show what inputs were used, what constraints were applied, and why one branch was chosen over another. Vanar positions Kayon as a layer that can search and apply logic over stored context, producing outputs framed as explainable and sometimes verifiable on-chain.

Automation is the third primitive, where value and risk show up together. The point of agents is that they can carry work across time—check conditions, take steps, recover from hiccups, and follow up—yet that’s also where small mistakes become recurring ones, especially when agents trigger other agents. What surprises me is how quickly a harmless edge case becomes a repeating pattern once it’s wrapped in a scheduler. So “automation” can’t just mean triggers; it has to include guardrails, retries that don’t spiral, and clear boundaries on what the agent is allowed to do. In Vanar’s stack, Axon and Flows sit above memory and reasoning as automation and application layers, which is basically a way of saying: don’t bolt orchestration on at the end and hope it behaves.

Settlement is the fourth primitive, and it’s the quiet anchor underneath everything. Without a native way to move value and finalize outcomes, an agent is stuck making suggestions and handing off to scripts where responsibility gets fuzzy. Settlement is where the system stops debating and starts committing. It’s also where disputes get real—because finality forces you to care about authorization, replay protection, and what counts as the source of truth when something goes wrong.

This is getting attention now because the plumbing around agents is finally standardizing, which makes ambitions larger and failures costlier. As more systems adopt shared ways to connect models to tools and data, it becomes easier to build agents that feel capable—but also easier for them to act with misplaced confidence. Persistent memory changes the security story too; once an agent can carry state forward, you have to worry about what it learns, what it stores, and whether that memory can be poisoned over time.

When I look at a chain through this lens, I’m less interested in slogans and more interested in which of the four primitives are real today. If memory is shallow, reasoning is opaque, automation is brittle, or settlement is external, you can still ship something impressive—but you’re not really building a place where agents can be trusted to operate. And for me, that’s the difference between a clever demo and a system that can hold up under pressure.

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I used to think “faster consensus” was mostly a brag, something teams reached for when they couldn’t explain the harder parts. My view shifted once I started paying attention to how much on-chain activity is drifting toward trading styles that punish hesitation: perps, order books, auctions that clear every block. In that world, a few extra network hops aren’t trivia. They show up as stale quotes, missed cancels, and the uneasy sense that the system is always catching up. Fogo’s “colocation consensus” is basically an attempt to stop pretending geography doesn’t matter. The project advertises 40ms blocks and roughly 1.3-second confirmation, and it ties that speed to the blunt decision to keep the active validators physically close—collocated in Asia, near exchanges—with backup nodes waiting in other places if the active set has trouble.

The first time I read that, it sounded like a fancy way of saying “centralize,” but I think it’s more accurate to see it as a specific latency strategy: don’t tax every trade with intercontinental message passing when the workload is dominated by price-sensitive, time-sensitive actions. What makes it feel like an actual design, rather than just a shortcut, is the idea that the “where” can move. In Messari’s write-up, Fogo is described as multi-local, borrowing a “follow the sun” pattern from global markets, where activity shifts from Asia to Europe to North America as the day rolls forward.

The mechanism that enables that mobility is practical and a little unromantic: validators keep a long-term key for identity and stake, then use separate zone-specific keys for consensus participation, rotating them at epoch boundaries so a validator can relocate without losing its on-chain identity.

That separation is doing a lot of work, because it tries to make “move fast” and “stay accountable” coexist. I also think the client story matters as much as the consensus topology. Fogo leans on a Firedancer-based validator client, and Firedancer itself is a ground-up Solana validator implementation built for speed and low-latency networking.

In distributed systems, the slowest component quietly sets the pace, and multiple implementations tend to create performance cliffs at the edges. Standardizing around a fast client is one way to keep those cliffs from becoming the whole landscape, even if it makes some people nervous about monocultures. This whole angle is getting attention now, not five years ago, because “real-time” is suddenly a serious requirement. People are building markets that need tight sequencing and quick feedback to feel fair, and there’s a growing willingness to admit that global decentralization carries a latency tax you can’t hand-wave away.

Fogo’s mainnet launch on January 15, 2026 made the debate more concrete, because you can argue with measurements and user experience instead of hypotheticals.

The tradeoffs are still real—regional outages, policy risk, and the politics of who gets to be “active”—but at least they’re out in the open, where you can evaluate them like adults. I’m not sure the industry has settled on the right balance yet.

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I keep coming back to a simple frustration with AI agents: they don’t really remember. My conversations with them can feel smooth in the moment, but the minute I start a new thread, switch tools, or restart an agent process, the “relationship” snaps back to zero. For a while I told myself this was just the price of working with probabilistic models, but lately it feels more like an avoidable design choice—and that’s where Vanar’s idea of “native memory” clicks for me.

I don’t mean “save the chat log somewhere and hope retrieval finds the right line.” I mean memory treated as infrastructure: a durable state the agent can rely on, with clear rules about what gets written, what gets recalled, and who owns it. What’s different now is that the big assistants are making that kind of persistence a mainstream expectation. OpenAI has described ChatGPT remembering details across chats, with controls to view, delete, or turn memory off. Anthropic has rolled out memory for Claude with an emphasis on being able to inspect and edit what’s remembered, and on keeping separate memories for separate projects so contexts don’t blur together. Google’s Gemini has also introduced a memory feature that can remember preferences and details across conversations for subscribers.

This matters now because we’re treating agents less like search boxes and more like ongoing collaborators. We want them to keep track of a project, move between tools without losing the plot, and feel like the same assistant from one moment to the next—even when the session resets or the environment changes. Big context windows can help, sure, but they’re a blunt instrument. They’re expensive, they’re not always reliable, and they don’t solve the deeper issue: the agent still doesn’t have a durable identity. I used to assume “just give it more context” would get us most of the way, but the more I see people trying to do real, multi-step work with agents, the clearer it gets. The bottleneck isn’t intelligence in the moment. It’s continuity over time. For an agent to feel like a real collaborator, it should remember what matters: your preferences, your rules, and the shared understanding you’ve developed, instead of making you repeat yourself in every new session.

Vanar is basically arguing that agents will stall out if memory stays retrofitted. Their pitch is that memory should be native enough to be portable across tools and durable across restarts. They frame MyNeutron as a universal memory that’s portable and private, with the idea that the user owns it, and with the option to keep it local or anchor it on their chain. Under that umbrella, they describe Neutron as taking raw files and turning them into compact, queryable knowledge objects they call “Seeds,” and they position Kayon as a reasoning layer that lets agents and smart contracts query and apply logic to that stored, compressed data inside the same environment.

I find it helpful to translate all of that into a simpler operational picture: make the agent instance disposable, but let the memory outlive it. If you can do that, then swapping models or moving execution stops being a reset button. The agent can pick up the thread without you having to restate your preferences, re-upload the same documents, or re-explain the context of a project. It also changes what “tool use” means. Instead of the agent grabbing whatever it can from a transient prompt window, it can pull from a stable library of what you’ve already agreed is relevant.

Of course, persistent memory isn’t automatically good. It can mix contexts you didn’t intend, store sensitive details, or “remember” something wrong with extra confidence because it keeps getting reused over time. That’s why I pay attention to the boring parts—controls, boundaries, and the ability to inspect what’s stored—more than the grand claims. I don’t think anyone has fully solved the question of how to make memory useful without making it risky. But I do think the direction is clear. If we want agents that behave less like one-off chat sessions and more like steady collaborators, memory has to stop being a hack and become part of the system’s core contract.

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I’ve been thinking about stablecoins in a different way lately. My default was to treat them like just another app riding on top of whatever general-purpose chain happened to be popular, because that’s where developers and liquidity already are. But the more stablecoins creep into ordinary money movement, the more it feels like the settlement layer underneath becomes its own product, with its own constraints. That’s the frame in which Plasma starts to look less like “yet another chain” and more like a system designed to do one job with fewer surprises.

The debate is louder now than five years ago because the numbers are no longer hypothetical. Stablecoins aren’t a small experiment anymore. One payments guide put total supply at about $305B by September 2025, and estimated over $32T in stablecoin transaction volume during 2024. McKinsey’s view is that 2025 could be a turning point, especially for cross-border payments and treasury work where reliability and speed actually matter. Institutions are behaving like the back-end plumbing matters: Reuters reported Barclays taking a stake in U.S.-based Ubyx, a clearing system meant to facilitate settlement between stablecoins from different issuers. The Financial Times reported Swift developing a blockchain platform in response to the rise of stablecoins, which is about as clear a signal as you get that the incumbents feel pressure at the settlement layer.
Once you treat the problem as settlement, the requirements become almost boring, and I mean that as a compliment. Settlement isn’t the moment a wallet flashes “sent.” It’s the moment a merchant or finance team can treat value as final, reconcile it, and keep operating without holding extra buffers “just in case.” The DL News research report on Plasma describes today’s stablecoin activity as fragmented across chains, and it argues that general-purpose networks often treat stablecoins as secondary to their core design—showing up as high fees at the wrong times, fragmented liquidity, and inconsistent integration across scaling layers. Those issues are annoying for traders. For payments, they’re existential. If your cost to settle or your confidence in finality changes depending on what else is happening on the network, you don’t really have a settlement rail—you have a variable expense line and a risk management problem.
Plasma’s bet is that you win share by being narrow and dependable. It presents itself as purpose-built for stablecoins, embedding features like gasless USD₮ transfers, stablecoin-based gas options, and confidential payments aimed at ordinary financial flows rather than novelty. I find the “gasless” design especially clarifying. Plasma’s docs describe a dedicated paymaster that sponsors gas for USD₮ transfers, but it’s restricted to basic transfer and transferFrom calls and uses rate limits plus lightweight identity verification to keep spam from turning “free” into “unusable.” The same docs describe protocol-maintained paymasters that let approved ERC-20 tokens be used for gas, which is a small detail that matters a lot when you’re trying to make a stablecoin experience feel normal and not like a scavenger hunt for a separate gas token. And on the build side, Plasma leans into compatibility with Ethereum tooling, pairing a HotStuff-derived consensus (PlasmaBFT) with an Ethereum-compatible execution layer (Reth) so developers can reuse familiar tools while targeting fast, deterministic settlement.
I used to assume the “winner” would just be the chain with the lowest average fee. What surprises me now is how much the last mile matters: predictability, onboarding friction, and whether you can explain finality and costs to people who don’t want a crypto lesson. I don’t know that Plasma “wins” in an absolute sense, and I doubt the market crowns a single chain. But if stablecoin settlement is becoming its own category, specialization starts to look like a structural advantage rather than a marketing choice.

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I keep coming back to a simple question when I read about Plasma: if something goes wrong, where do you want the argument to end? My earlier instinct was that “finality” was whatever the fast chain said it was, as long as the app felt instant. These days I’m less satisfied with that. As stablecoins start behaving like payment rails instead of a trading convenience, I find it helpful to split two jobs we often blur together: updating balances quickly, and settling disputes with a reference point that most actors can’t rewrite.

Plasma’s design leans into that split. On the Plasma chain itself, the goal is rapid, deterministic confirmation using a HotStuff-style Byzantine fault tolerant consensus (their docs describe PlasmaBFT as a Fast HotStuff implementation) tuned for low-latency finality. For execution, Plasma stays close to the Ethereum world: it uses an EVM execution layer built on Reth so existing contracts and common tooling can run without a translation layer. In plain terms, Plasma tries to feel familiar to developers, while behaving more like a payments network when it comes to speed. It also experiments with fee abstraction, including protocol paymasters that can sponsor certain stablecoin transfers, which matters when you’re trying to mimic normal payments.

Anchored settlement is the other half of the story, and it’s where Bitcoin comes in. The idea is to periodically take a compact cryptographic fingerprint of Plasma’s recent state and record that fingerprint on Bitcoin, so there’s a public, timestamped checkpoint that’s extremely hard to revise later. Sources describing Plasma’s approach frame this as “state commitments” anchored to Bitcoin, with Bitcoin acting as the final settlement layer rather than the execution engine. I like thinking of it as notarization: Plasma does the day-to-day bookkeeping, but Bitcoin is where you pin a permanent “this is what we agreed happened” marker. It doesn’t make Plasma identical to Bitcoin, and it doesn’t eliminate the need for good operations, but it does narrow the room for quietly rewriting history after the fact.

This angle is getting attention now because stablecoins themselves are getting attention now. Research over the last year has been pretty direct that stablecoins are turning into infrastructure for payments, remittances, and onchain finance, and that a new class of networks is emerging that specializes around stablecoin flows rather than treating them as a side feature. Once you accept that premise, the boring questions—settlement, auditability, dispute resolution, operational risk—suddenly feel like the whole point.

None of this removes tradeoffs, and I don’t think it should be described as risk-free. Between anchors, you still rely on Plasma’s validator set and the chain being well run. And whenever you bring Bitcoin into an EVM environment, you add bridge risk by definition. Plasma’s bridge design relies on a verifier network and threshold signing, and the docs are explicit that parts of it are still under active development. Still, I come away thinking anchored settlement is a pretty grounded way to connect speed with credibility.

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I keep noticing how quickly “PayFi + AI” conversations drift into futuristic demos, so I’ve been forcing myself to start with a boring question: what would make this feel like ordinary economic life? My hunch is that it becomes real when the system behaves predictably under dull, repetitive pressure—lots of small payments, lots of refunds, and plenty of moments where the rules matter more than the tech. PayFi, in the cleanest definition I’ve seen, is about integrating payments with on-chain financing and blockchain technology so value can move more freely, often by turning real-world claims like receivables into something that can be funded and settled quickly.

The timing feels different now than it did five years ago because stablecoin settlement is being treated more seriously in the payments world, and AI has made it feel plausible for software to handle messier decision-making instead of only following rigid instructions. Payments are full of judgment calls—what to check, what to block, what to report, and what to store so disputes can be resolved without guesswork. I used to assume the ledger itself would do most of the trust work just by being transparent, but transparency doesn’t create judgment; it just makes the trail easier to audit later. Vanar’s bet is that more of that context can live inside the infrastructure layer instead of being rebuilt by every application. Vanar describes itself as an AI-powered blockchain stack designed for PayFi and tokenized real-world assets, and it positions the base chain as built for AI workloads rather than retrofitted later.

What I find interesting is that they talk about both a reasoning layer (Kayon), aimed at natural-language interaction and compliance automation, and a data layer (Neutron) that compresses and restructures files into on-chain “Seeds” so applications and agents can work with verifiable records instead of orphaned attachments.

The most concrete “demo versus economy” test, though, is pricing. If fees swing wildly, you can’t price a coffee, you can’t forecast operating costs, and you can’t confidently automate thousands of tiny settlements. Vanar’s documentation leans into fixed fees, including a mechanism intended to keep a constant fiat-denominated transaction cost—described as $0.0005 per transaction—by updating protocol-level fee parameters using token price feeds.

Finally, there’s the bridge to the existing payments world. Worldpay has written about running validator nodes to test payment innovation in real-world environments, and it names Vanar as one of the networks it uses to explore low-cost microtransactions and merchant settlement flows involving agentic payments and on-chain logic. Vanar and Worldpay have also appeared together publicly around that theme.

I don’t think any of this comes with a promise. Software that makes decisions can make the wrong ones, regulators and risk teams change their expectations, and moving money always brings edge cases you can’t fully simulate in a demo. What helps me is watching the unglamorous signals over time: do costs stay stable, can the decision trail be inspected, does settlement stay reliable when things get messy, and do people begin using it the way they use utilities—quietly, without needing to think about it?

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