The hardest part of “Web2 to Web3 gaming” has rarely been the blockchain itself. It’s usually not the blockchain that pushes people away. It’s the opening moment. Someone clicks “Play” expecting a normal game, and instead they’re told to set up a wallet, copy a long string of letters and numbers, figure out what “gas” means, and store a seed phrase like they’re handling a spare house key they can never replace. A lot of players exit right there, long before the game has a chance to win them over. After the noisy NFT years, the conversation has gotten more practical: if blockchain is going to sit under mainstream games, it has to feel like a normal service, not a test. A big reason this is getting attention now, and not five years ago, is that the tooling finally matches that mindset. Account abstraction, for example, can let an app handle fees in the background or cover them on a user’s behalf, so a newcomer doesn’t need to show up holding the “right” token just to take a first action.
Vanar is a useful lens for these onboarding concepts because it lays out the approach plainly in its own documentation. Vanar tells developers they can use ERC-4337 to deploy a wallet on the user’s behalf, abstracting away private keys and seed phrases, and letting people sign in with methods they already understand, like social sign-on or an email and password. It even points teams toward providers like thirdweb and Brillion that can supply those account-abstracted wallets, which is a quiet but important detail because it signals “this is meant to be shipped,” not just talked about. When I picture a Web2 player trying this for the first time, that’s the difference between “I guess I’ll try it” and “nope.”
The token layer still matters, but mostly as plumbing. Vanar’s documentation is straightforward that VANRY is the gas token used to pay transaction fees on Vanar Chain. In a game economy, lots of actions are tiny—claiming a reward, upgrading an item, trading a cosmetic—and they should feel lightweight. If each click turns into a financial ritual with pop-ups and fee math, the game stops being a game. I also think it’s worth being honest about the awkward middle stages, because they’re part of onboarding too: Vanar’s earlier token-swap messaging notes that, until mainnet is launched, VANRY exists as an ERC-20 token and holders can later migrate to mainnet. That’s not glamorous, but it’s real life when a project is trying to move from “token and community” toward “network that has to work every day.”
What makes this feel timely now, rather than five years ago, is that distribution and trust are finally being treated as first-class constraints. Vanar’s partnership announcement with Viva Games Studios leans into reaching traditional audiences through a Web2 publisher network, citing Viva’s “700 million plus downloads,” and framing Vanar’s SSO and economy tooling as the bridge between familiar games and onchain ownership. Vanar shows up in developer tools as an EVM-compatible Layer-1 chain built with entertainment and games in mind. That’s not just branding. Games are high-traffic, user-facing products, and if things aren’t fast and smooth, people simply don’t stick around.
None of this removes the hard questions; it just moves them to healthier places. If a game creates your wallet for you, who controls recovery, and what happens if the studio disappears? If fees are sponsored, who is paying, and what should the player be told? I don’t think the end goal is to make every player care about Web3. The healthier goal is to let players care about the game, and only notice the underlying rails when ownership or trading genuinely adds something. If Vanar’s onboarding concepts work, they’ll work because they respect normal player behavior instead of trying to re-educate it.
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