You have heard about some blockchain being accused of using up insane levels of energy, such as old Bitcoin miners farms consuming entire nations of power? O, as AI explodes and requires the computing power of a hundred elephants, it has raised the question of whether chains that combine blockchain with AI will be a continuance of wringing more pain on the planet. So Vanar Chain is one of the good guys here or what?
As I have researched their documents and the like, Vanar Chain is indeed making an effort to go green. They identify themselves as a carbon-neutral blockchain or even zero-carbon footprint blockchain. The sustainability is one of the major pillars that they have made their entire business around; speed, affordability, and being environmentally friendly. No Proof of Work insanity here that burns electric like a madman. They instead apply this hybrid consensus construct, primarily Proof of Authority combined with Proof of Reputation, and a few bits of Delegated Proof of Stake. Essentially, it is the reputation and staking which helps in selecting the validators, rather than wasting power on solving puzzles during mining. It is that alone that makes it much more energy-efficient than PoW chains.
They even collaborate with Google Cloud to run on renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, hydropower - that is enormous! They discuss using Google green infrastructure to get things clean in their recaps and blogs on the AMA. They also added this feature known as VANAR ECO which allows you to monitor energy consumption and carbon footprint directly on-chain. It is optional, yet in case of their brands or projects that are concerned with ESG items, they can display real-time analytics of how much power transactions are consuming. Magnificent to be open, huh? They do not only encourage brands to be neutral but in fact purchase more carbon credits or offset.
At this point, it is related to AI - Vanar is marketing itself as the first AI-native Layer 1 blockchain. They have AIs embedded in them, such as smarter dApps, predictive applications, game non-player characters, fraud warning systems, etc. AI workloads may impose heavy loads on servers, but Vanar may not impose huge environmental penalties on servers such as some data-center intensive AI projects because Vanar is based on low-energy (via PoS-ish model and green hosting) foundation. They assert that the entire stack is created to be efficient and thus the spike in energy consumption of running AI on-chain is not utterly high.
Of course, nothing's perfect. Others may claim PoA is initially centralized, with the foundation operation of nodes, but they are transitioning toward more decentralized, with staking by communities and reputation scoring. And because they are saying they have a zero footprint, there are servers there somewhere but at least it is servers that are renewables-oriented, as many chains are not.
Vanar is much more environmentally friendly than Bitcoin or, even, some of its older chains. Unless you are allergic to AI + blockchain projects (gaming, RWAs, whatever), and you are concerned about not killing the planet, Vanar can be a good choice. They are not only talking green they have partnerships, tools and a consensus that does not guzzle power.
What do you think? Is Vanar the one that is going to guide eco-friendly AI crypto or is it just marketing? Have you borrowed any money belonging to $VANRY or erected anything on it? Share below!
