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$XPL , $VANRY, and
$DUSK are flooding Binance Square—but what are they really up to? A deep dive into the “chassis-tuning tricks” of three Layer 1s!】
Recently, while climbing the leaderboard in Binance Square’s Creator Task Hub, I came across a really interesting question:
We used to talk about Layer 1 blockchains and think only of Bitcoin and Ethereum. So why have all these new Layer 1s—
$XPL (@Plasma Chain
#Plasma ), $VANRY, and
$DUSK —suddenly appeared? Why not just build Layer 2s like everyone else? Why buy their own land and build from the ground up?
After digging through the technical docs, it finally clicked: they’re all about 【EVM compatibility + specialized upgrades for specific verticals】!
If Ethereum’s EVM (virtual machine) is like a mature, standardized car chassis, these projects have bought that standard chassis and welded on custom turbochargers to address different pain points:
1️⃣ Spotlight:
$XPL —the stablecoin bodyguard giving blockchains a “free fuel tank”
• Key data and positioning: Current price $0.122 | Market cap approx. $220 million | TVL over $900 million | Support $0.115 / Resistance $0.138
• Its killer upgrade: A stablecoin-focused Layer 1 (PlasmaBFT consensus, blocks in <1 second) + built-in Paymaster for zero-fee USDT transfers + ZK privacy
The biggest pain point with standard EVMs is painfully high Gas fees during peak periods. Based on PlasmaBFT consensus (block times <1 second, 1000+ TPS),
$XPL has built a Paymaster fee-payment system and a custom Gas Token directly into its base layer. Send USDT on it with zero fees, then add the ZK-snarks privacy module—and it directly addresses the biggest pain points in global cross-border remittances and RWA payments!
2️⃣ Head-to-head showdown: Whose moat is deeper?
• For real-world payment utility:
$XPL ’s zero-fee transfers are the most practical, backed by solid TVL and stablecoin deposits;
• For a forward-looking AI narrative: $VANRY brings AI into smart contracts with Neutron semantic memory + Kayon on-chain inference;
• For institutional compliance and privacy:
$DUSK uses ZK circuits to tackle the EU’s MiCA regulations and tokenized securities.
💡 My take:
Layer 2s are like renting a place and patching things up, while rebuilding payment rules from the ground up at Layer 1, as
$XPL does, is like buying land and building your own place. Understand the underlying logic before taking part in the Task Hub and trading on the secondary market—that’s how you can earn all the Creator Points on Square while protecting your principal. DYOR!
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