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In Which a Crypto Exec's Meme Changes My Entire Investment Thesis

Let's be real: most crypto content is unreadable. Whitepapers are designed by PhDs to make other PhDs feel inadequate. Twitter threads are either price predictions from guys with anime avatars or FUD from people who definitely sold at the bottom.

So when I saw Binance co-founder He Yi's tweet the one about CZ and high heels I almost scrolled past. Another crypto inside joke, I thought. Another thing I'm too outsider to understand.

But I clicked. And somehow, that single, ridiculous tweet chain led me down a rabbit hole that ended with me becoming a genuine, card-carrying Vanar believer.

The Tweet That Started It All

The context, for the uninitiated: He Yi shared an interaction where a competitor executive joked about (casually recruiting) talent, and when he saw a photo she sent, he replied with (flats?). Her comeback: ("Spread the word, CZ likes high heels") .

It's silly. It's human. And He Yi's commentary on it was unexpectedly profound: Peace & Love." ("Online, they fight fiercely; offline, it's all respect. These days, meetings between leaders are all Peace & Love.") .

This, apparently, is now the most beloved crypto meme of 2026 . And buried in this story was her take on Vanar.

The He Yi Thesis

In discussing the high heels incident, He Yi dropped what I can only describe as a truth bomb about Layer 1 blockchains:

"Web3 doesn't lack basic blockspace. What we truly lack is Intelligent Space."

She pointed out that every few months, a new L1 launches claiming to be faster and cheaper. But Vanar took a different approach—designing from day one for "autonomous vehicles" (AI applications) rather than just building wider highways for horse-drawn carts .

This hit me. Hard.

The Blockspace vs. Intelligent Space Realization

I'd been looking at blockchain metrics all wrong. I was comparing transaction speeds and fees like it was 2021. Meanwhile, Vanar was quietly building infrastructure for a world where AI agents need blockchains that can actually understand what they're doing .

Their stack isn't about being the fastest—it's about being the smartest. Neutron for semantic memory, storing data as meaningful "Seeds" rather than just bytes . Kayon for on-chain reasoning, actually thinking about that data . Flows for automation, turning insights into action .

I'd been looking for a faster horse. They were building the autonomous car.

The FUD Fighters Are Weirdly Passionate

Falling down the Vanar rabbit hole also introduced me to the community's... let's call them "enthusiastic defenders." There's a user on Gate.io named rtsky777 who posts with the energy of someone who's mainlined four espressos before typing:

"Those hiding behind screens smearing VANRY, baselessly FUDing Vanar, are either salty because they missed the boat or mindless followers being led by the nose by people with ulterior motives!"

It's intense. It's a little scary. But honestly? The passion comes from somewhere real. These are people who've watched the team actually build, actually ship, actually partner with real companies like Worldpay . They've seen the transition from hype-driven marketing to "quiet, intentional infrastructure building" .

The "Usage Meter" Framework

The most mind-bending part of my deep dive was understanding how $VANRY works now. It's not just a gas token anymore. It's becoming a "usage meter" —a unit that measures actual economic activity on the network .

Developers pay in $VANRY to store semantic data, trigger automations, or run inference tasks. Demand is directly tied to usage, not speculation . The token is basically a meter for how much people are using the intelligence layer.

This is the kind of boring, sustainable tokenomics that doesn't make for good Twitter threads but might actually last.

What He Yi Got Right

He Yi's observation about Vanar wasn't just marketing fluff. She saw that the team's background in gaming, entertainment, and brands meant they understood something other pure-tech founders don't: mainstream users don't care about your consensus mechanism. They care about whether the thing works and feels familiar .

The high heels meme is silly. But the insight behind it—that the industry has matured, that competition is now about product rather than attacks, that Vanar is building something genuinely differentiated—that's real.

Where I Am Now

I'm not a maxi. I don't post defense threads at 3 AM or call people "salty" for missing the boat. But I did something I rarely do: I actually tried the product. myNeutron is legitimately useful . The chain is fast—"smooth as iced coke," as one reviewer put it . The vision of "Intelligent Space" makes sense in a way that "faster blocks" doesn't anymore.

So thanks, He Yi. Thanks for the high heels tweet that made me click. Thanks for the insight that made me look deeper. And thanks for accidentally turning me into someone who actually understands why Vanar matters.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go upload more data to myNeutron. Kayon is waiting to judge my life choices, and honestly? I kind of need it.

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