JOSEPH DESOZE

@Dusk $DUSK
Kad es skatos uz Dusk Foundation, es neredzu tikai vēl vienu Layer 1, kas cenšas sacensties par uzmanību, es redzu projektu, kas radies no ļoti reālas vilšanās par to, kā nauda pārvietojas pasaulē šodien, jo tradicionālajā finansē viss šķiet smags, lēns un sargāts ar vidusmēra slāņiem, un kriptovalūtās viss šķiet ātrs, bet bieži pārāk atklāts, pārāk publisks un pārāk riskants iestādēm, kurām nepieciešami noteikumi, lai izdzīvotu. Dusk tika dibināts 2018. gadā ar skaidru misiju izveidot regulētu, privātumu koncentrētu finanšu infrastruktūru, un tas, kas padara šo misiju atšķirīgu, ir tas, kā tas pieņem vissarežģītāko patiesību uzreiz: finanšu sistēmām nevar dzīvot uz "uzticieties man" solījumiem, tām nepieciešams privātums lietotājiem un uzņēmumiem, bet tām arī nepieciešama atbildība un audita iespējas regulētājiem, un lielākā daļa ķēžu stingri virzās vienā virzienā un ignorē otru. Tāpēc, kad viņi saka, ka būvē pamatu institucionālās pakāpes finanšu lietojumprogrammām, atbilstošu DeFi un tokenizētiem reālajiem aktīviem, tas nav tikai mārketinga vārdi, tas ir paziņojums par blokķēdes būvēšanu, kas var tikt galā ar emocionālo realitāti par finansēm, kas ir tāda, ka cilvēki vēlas brīvību, bet viņi arī vēlas drošību, un viņi vēlas kontroli pār saviem aktīviem, neizjūtot, ka viņi staigā pa plānu ledu.

@Plasma $XPL #Plasma
When people first hear about Plasma, they usually see a mix of technical words and feel a little distant from what it actually means in real life. They’re told it is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for stablecoin settlement, that it is fully EVM compatible, that it aims for sub second finality, and that it has special features for USDT and other stablecoins. All of that is important, but if I sit down and talk to you as a normal person, I’d start with a much simpler truth. Right now millions of people around the world already use stablecoins like digital dollars. They hold USDT or similar tokens because their local currency is unstable, or their banks are slow, or international transfers are expensive and full of friction. They get paid in stablecoins, they store savings in stablecoins, they pay friends and freelancers in stablecoins. Yet every time they try to send those coins, the experience feels strangely complicated. You open your wallet, you see your USDT balance sitting there, you feel like it should be as simple as sending a text message, and then the app says you need some other token for gas before you can move anything. You see weird fee numbers, you worry the network may be congested, your transaction sits pending and you’re not completely sure if it will confirm or be stuck. It makes something that should feel like money start to feel like software configuration. Plasma was created to close that emotional gap and make stablecoin usage feel like real, everyday money rather than a puzzle.

If we ask why Plasma even needs to exist when there are already big chains supporting stablecoins, the answer is not that those chains are bad. It is that they were never designed from the ground up purely for payments. They’re general purpose platforms. On them, stablecoin transfers share space with speculative trading, NFT minting, complex DeFi farms, games and many other intense activities. When those other use cases spike in activity, they can push your simple payment into the back of the line. Fees might rise, confirmation times might stretch, and the whole feeling becomes less like a quick payment and more like trying to use a busy public road during rush hour. Plasma chooses another path. It starts from a focused question. If It becomes normal for people to treat stablecoins as their main digital money, what kind of base chain do they deserve beneath that. The answer the team reaches is that the chain must behave like payment rails, not like a casino first. That means finality has to be fast and clear, costs have to be low and predictable, and the user experience should hide unnecessary complexity instead of forcing everyone to understand gas tokens and protocol details. From this simple question, the rest of Plasma’s architecture starts to make sense.

On the technical side, Plasma wants developers to feel at home, so it keeps the execution environment compatible with what they already know. It is fully EVM compatible, which means smart contracts behave like on Ethereum and developers can write in Solidity, use familiar tools, and reuse existing code without throwing everything away. I’m seeing that as a crucial decision, because it lowers the barrier for wallets, payment apps and DeFi projects that want to build on top. They do not have to rethink their entire tech stack to benefit from Plasma’s payment optimizations. Underneath that execution environment, the chain runs a consensus mechanism known as PlasmaBFT. This is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol where validators go through rounds of proposing and voting on blocks. The goal is to reach deterministic finality very quickly, in under a second in normal conditions. Deterministic finality means that once a block is finalized, it is final. It is not just very unlikely to be reversed, it is guaranteed by the rules of the protocol. For a payment centered chain, this is a big deal. When you send money to a shop or to a friend, you do not want to live with a nagging thought that maybe a later block reorganization could undo your payment. You want to see a confirmation and know that the story is over. Plasma tries to give you that feeling.

Where things become more human and practical is in the stablecoin first features. Plasma takes the view that if you are holding USDT and you simply want to pay someone, you should not have to care about some other token just to move your money. So it introduces gasless transfers for simple stablecoin sends. In practice, your wallet prepares a USDT transfer, you sign it like normal, and behind the scenes a relayer or paymaster system is responsible for covering the gas cost according to the rules of the network. You do not see a separate gas token, you do not have to top up anything extra just to perform a basic payment. The protocol still puts limits and safeguards in place so the system cannot be abused, but from your point of view, it is refreshingly simple. For more advanced actions like interacting with smart contracts, using DeFi, deploying your own protocols or running complex transactions, gas is still needed. The difference is that Plasma is designed to let fees be paid in the native token or through stablecoin oriented mechanisms, so developers can keep the experience aligned with the assets their users actually care about. The everyday flow then becomes very clean. You open your wallet, pick a contact or type an address, choose an amount in USDT, press send, and the payment finalizes within about a second. No juggling, no confusion, just value moving.

Security on Plasma is not an afterthought. The team understands that if people are going to move serious value, they need to feel that the ground is solid. Beyond the validator based consensus, Plasma anchors parts of its security approach to Bitcoin. The idea is that Bitcoin, with its long history and strong resistance to censorship, can act as an external anchor for Plasma’s state and a base for bridging BTC into the ecosystem. When someone wants to bring Bitcoin value onto Plasma, they lock BTC on the Bitcoin chain and receive a representation of it on Plasma. This bridge is handled by a decentralized set of participants who cooperate using threshold signatures or multi party computation, so no single party controls the funds. The system can periodically commit data back to Bitcoin, which acts like a permanent, neutral log of important checkpoints. This anchoring and bridging design is meant to increase neutrality and censorship resistance. It is especially relevant for institutions or serious users who want assurance that security is not just resting on one small group of operators. It does not turn Plasma into Bitcoin, but it ties parts of its trust story to something much older and more battle tested.

Even though many day to day users might never think about it, the native token XPL is still at the heart of how Plasma functions. Validators stake XPL to participate in consensus. By staking, they show they have something to lose if they misbehave. If they propose invalid blocks or act in harmful ways, they can be penalized and lose part of their stake. This staking and slashing mechanism is one of the main tools Plasma uses to keep validators honest. The supply of XPL is divided across ecosystem growth, team, early backers and community participants, usually with vesting schedules to stretch releases over time. As the network runs, XPL is also used for fees in more advanced transactions and for rewards that go to validators and sometimes delegators. For a person simply sending USDT in a gasless way, XPL might stay invisible. But beneath the surface, the security, decentralization, and long term health of the chain all depend on how XPL is distributed, how much of it is staked, and how confident people feel that the incentives are aligned. If those pieces are balanced well, the chain can stay robust, and the user never has to worry about the complexity they do not see.

If we ask who Plasma is really trying to serve in the real world, the picture becomes quite human. One side of that picture is individual users in high adoption regions. These are people who may get their salary in stablecoins, who use USDT as a way to fight inflation, who send money to family across borders, who pay freelancers online, and who do not feel that traditional bank wires or remittance services are built for them. For them, Plasma tries to be the network where stablecoins feel like cash with superpowers. Simple to move, fast to arrive, and not full of strange traps. The other side of the picture is businesses and institutions that already sit in the middle of many money flows. This includes payment companies, remittance providers, exchanges, financial platforms, and possibly even more traditional firms. They care about more than nice interfaces. They want predictable finality times, clear security assumptions, stable operations, and infrastructure that integrates into their existing systems. Because Plasma uses an EVM environment with modern tools, they can build on it or plug into it without reinventing everything. For them, Plasma can become one of several rails they route volume through when it offers the right mix of speed, cost and trust.

To really judge whether Plasma is living up to its promise, we need to observe some deeper signals rather than just noise. We’d want to see stablecoin activity that looks steady and genuine, not just short bursts of speculation. That means checking how many wallets send and receive regularly, how much volume moves in small and medium sized transactions that resemble everyday payments, and how consistently those payments stay cheap and fast. We’d also look at performance. Time to finality is not just a slogan, it is something that can be measured. If PlasmaBFT can keep finality under a second even when the network is busy and some validators fail or lag, that would show the design is strong. Validator diversity matters too. If only a few validators hold most of the stake and control, that would be worrying. Healthy decentralization means many independent entities with real skin in the game. The economic side is also worth watching. How XPL inflation and fee burning, if any, interact with usage will shape whether the system can stay sustainable without constantly needing external support. Over a long enough horizon, a network that balances usage, rewards, and costs well will feel safer than one that leans too heavily on subsidies.

No honest description of Plasma would skip the risks. As with any new chain, the technology is complex. Consensus bugs, unexpected interactions between modules, or edge cases in the bridge and anchoring mechanisms are always possible. Even with audits and testing, reality often finds scenarios nobody thought of, especially when thousands or millions of users are involved. On the human and governance side, the bridge that connects Plasma to Bitcoin needs careful operation. Decisions about who runs it, how they’re chosen, how they’re replaced if needed, and how the system responds to failures are crucial. If those processes are weak, the bridge could become a point of failure or centralization no matter how clever the cryptography is. Economic choices like gasless transfers must also be handled with balance. They’re wonderful for attracting users but they can be expensive to maintain. If the network is not careful, it could promise more subsidized behavior than it can support long term. Finally, there is competition and regulation. Many other chains and scaling solutions are racing toward the same stablecoin payments opportunity, and regulators are still working out how to treat stablecoins and crypto based payment rails. Plasma will need to stay flexible and responsible as those external factors evolve.

When I try to imagine Plasma’s future, I see a few possible paths. In one path, Plasma quietly becomes one of the main highways of digital dollars, even if not everyone knows its name. People in different countries send USDT to each other on Plasma because it simply works better for them. Merchants accept payments over it and barely think about the chain under the hood. Apps and services integrate it and route transfers through it because the combination of fast finality, strong security foundations, and stablecoin friendly design suits their needs. In another path, Plasma becomes one of several specialized networks that share the global stablecoin market, each with its own strengths, partners and regions. That is still a form of success, because the world of money is big enough for many rails. There is also a path where technical or external challenges slow it down. That is always a possibility in such a young and experimental space.

In the end, what makes Plasma stand out to me is not just its features but its intention. It is trying to take something that has already become common, stablecoins as digital dollars, and give them an on chain home that actually treats them like money. It respects the fact that most users do not want to become blockchain experts just to send value. They want tools that feel natural and kind to their time and attention. Plasma, with its EVM base, fast finality, Bitcoin anchored security approach, gasless stablecoin transfers and stablecoin first thinking, is a serious attempt to build such a tool. If It becomes widely adopted, many people may never learn the name of the consensus algorithm or think about how anchoring works. They’ll only know that when they press send, their money moves and arrives the way they expect. For a piece of invisible infrastructure that carries people’s savings, salaries and support for their loved ones, that quiet reliability might be the most beautiful thing it can offer.

@Vanarchain $VANRY #Vanar
I’m going to describe Vanar Chain in a way that feels like a real conversation, because the real reason a project like this matters has less to do with technical bragging and more to do with how people actually behave online when they’re playing a game, supporting a creator, or interacting with a brand they genuinely love. Most people don’t wake up thinking about blockchains, they wake up thinking about fun, about progress, about rewards that feel fair, about communities where they belong, and about experiences that don’t make them feel stupid or confused. That’s the emotional truth sitting underneath Vanar’s direction, because when you build for gaming and brands, you’re building for audiences who will not tolerate friction for long, and if it becomes too complex, they leave without even arguing. We’re seeing the entire Web3 industry slowly accept that mass adoption does not happen by forcing users to learn crypto culture, it happens by making the technology disappear into the background so the experience stays in the foreground, and Vanar’s whole identity points toward that goal, because it’s trying to be the kind of chain where the user doesn’t feel like they are “using a chain,” they feel like they are playing, collecting, earning, and participating.

The first important choice Vanar makes is the decision to stay close to the Ethereum developer world through EVM compatibility, and I know that sounds like a developer-only detail, but it actually affects everybody because it determines how quickly real products can be built and how safely those products can be maintained. When a chain is EVM-compatible, it means builders can use familiar smart contract languages, familiar tooling, and familiar security habits, so they don’t waste months relearning basics, and they don’t get trapped inside a weird ecosystem with no support. They’re able to move faster, test more, audit more easily, and ship experiences that are stable enough for real players and real customers, and this matters because games and brand experiences are not patient; they need to launch, improve, fix mistakes, and scale without breaking every time they update. If it becomes easy for developers to build, we’re seeing an immediate ripple effect where more apps appear, more experimentation happens, and the ecosystem starts feeling alive instead of theoretical.

Now let’s walk through how Vanar works step by step in plain human language, because once you understand the flow, you stop thinking of blockchain as magic and start seeing it as a structured system that either earns trust or loses it. A player or user does something inside a game or app, maybe they earn an item, maybe they buy a digital collectible, maybe they upgrade something, maybe they trade a reward with another user, and that action creates a transaction request in the background. That transaction is like a signed message saying, “I want this action to happen under these rules,” and it gets sent to the network where validator nodes receive it, check it, and decide whether it follows the rules of the chain and the rules of the smart contract involved. If it’s valid, the transaction is executed in the EVM environment where smart contract logic runs in a predictable way, and once execution completes, the result gets recorded into a block, and that block becomes part of the chain’s permanent history. This is the heartbeat of the system: request, verification, execution, recording, and final confirmation, and when it works well, it feels smooth like a normal app, but when it works badly, it feels like lag, confusion, and fear, which is why infrastructure choices matter so much for gaming and mainstream audiences.

A big part of the Vanar conversation is consensus, because consensus is basically the way a network decides what is true, what gets included, and who is trusted to produce blocks. Vanar uses a model where block production is handled by a set of validators under a Proof of Authority style approach, and it describes a reputation-driven path for validator participation as it expands. The human reason projects start with an authority-based model is usually performance and stability, because a controlled validator set can coordinate faster and keep block production consistent, and that consistency is extremely valuable when you want consumer experiences to feel reliable. But the human worry that comes with that is also real, because people ask whether it is open enough, whether it can resist pressure, whether it can evolve into something broader, and whether the validator story is more than a plan. This is where the reputation layer becomes important, because it is supposed to guide how validators are added based on credibility and reliability, so the network can gradually become more diverse without losing the stability that games and brands require. If they prove this over time with real validator growth and transparent rules, trust becomes easier, but if it stays vague, skepticism becomes a weight the ecosystem has to carry.

So why is gaming such a central part of this story, and why do brands fit into the same narrative. Gaming makes sense because it already teaches people to value digital items, not only because of money, but because of effort, identity, and achievement. When someone earns something rare through time and skill, they feel a personal connection to it, and they want it to last, and they want the story behind it to stay attached to their account and their identity. Brands fit because brands are no longer satisfied with short campaigns that vanish; they want loyalty systems that feel meaningful, they want communities that feel like membership, and they want digital products that can become part of a person’s identity instead of being a temporary link in a feed. Web3 can serve both worlds when it is done properly, because ownership can become provable, transfers can be fair and transparent, membership can be verified, and limited drops can remain collectible without relying on a single company’s database. If it becomes normal for a gamer to truly own what they earn and for a fan to truly keep what they collect, we’re seeing the exact moment when blockchain stops being a concept and starts being an invisible layer of everyday life.

When builders create a real on-chain economy on Vanar, the chain becomes the truth layer and the app becomes the feeling layer, and both layers must work together or the whole thing collapses. Developers write smart contracts that define what an item is, how it is minted, how it is owned, how it is traded, and what rules prevent abuse, duplication, or hidden manipulation. The game client or brand app then interacts with those contracts to create real actions, and the best designs are the ones where the user feels like they are doing normal app actions while the chain quietly handles verification and ownership in the background. We’re seeing a strong push across the industry toward hiding confusing wallet steps and making onboarding feel like a normal login, because mainstream users do not want to learn crypto behavior before they’re allowed to enjoy the product. That’s why the “simple, trusted experience” promise matters so much, because simplicity is not just design, it’s survival, and trust is not just marketing, it’s the result of consistent behavior over time.

If you want to judge whether Vanar is actually moving toward its goal, you have to watch the right metrics, and most people watch the wrong ones first. Token charts can tell you sentiment, but they don’t tell you whether a chain is becoming a reliable home for games and brands, and that is a different standard. The network metrics that matter include confirmation time consistency, average fee stability, failure rates during high traffic, uptime, and the way performance holds up when real users arrive at the same moment for an event, a drop, or a tournament. The ecosystem metrics that matter include how many real products are live, how many daily active users interact with contracts through real apps, how well new users convert from install to first meaningful action, and most importantly how many of them return after a week and after a month, because retention is where gaming lives or dies. On the trust side, the metrics include how the validator set evolves, how many independent validators participate, how transparent onboarding rules are, and whether governance feels stable enough for long-term builders to bet their product on it. If those signals move steadily in the right direction, we’re seeing real growth, not just noise.

But a human explanation must also admit the risks, because this space can be beautiful and brutal at the same time. The first risk is centralization perception and governance trust, because starting with a controlled validator set means the project must prove, not just claim, that it can broaden participation in a fair way. The second risk is security, because gaming economies and brand ecosystems can attract attackers when value is involved, and complex contracts, marketplaces, and integrations increase the surface area for exploits, and one high-profile incident can damage belief across the entire ecosystem. The third risk is competition, because the world is full of chains promising speed and low fees, and developers will follow users and reliable tooling, not slogans. The fourth risk is user experience, because mainstream audiences do not forgive complexity; if onboarding is confusing, if transactions feel slow, if fees feel unpredictable, or if support feels weak, they simply won’t come back. The fifth risk is reputation, because brands and major studios protect their public image fiercely, and they avoid environments that feel unstable, so the ecosystem needs maturity, clarity, and consistency even when the broader crypto market becomes chaotic.

If the future unfolds in the healthiest way, it will not look like one big moment, it will look like many small moments that quietly add up. More games and experiences will go live, performance will stay stable even when traffic spikes, the validator story will become clearer and more diverse over time, and users will stop thinking about the chain because the chain stops interrupting them. We’re seeing a world where blockchain becomes like internet infrastructure, something you only notice when it fails, and the chains that win are the ones that behave predictably and support creators and developers without drama. If Vanar keeps focusing on what consumer products need, which is stability, simplicity, and a credible path toward stronger decentralization, then the ecosystem can grow into something that feels less like a risky experiment and more like a natural layer of modern digital life.

I’m not saying Vanar is guaranteed to dominate, because nothing in this space is guaranteed, but I do believe there is something powerful in aiming directly at how people actually live online, because gamers and mainstream communities don’t want complicated systems, they want feelings: excitement, pride, fairness, and belonging. If Vanar keeps turning technical choices into smooth user moments, and if they keep building trust through steady performance and transparent growth, then it can help shape a future where digital ownership feels simple, safe, and human, and where creativity and community are rewarded in ways that last.

@Plasma $XPL #Plasma
Mēs redzam, ka stabilo monētu loma kļūst lielāka par kriptovalūtu tendenci, jo, kad cilvēki vēlas pārvietot vērtību pāri robežām, aizsargāt uzkrājumus no vietējās valūtas satricinājumiem vai norēķināties par uzņēmējdarbības maksājumiem, nepagaidot, kamēr bankas atveras, viņi turpina meklēt to pašu vienkāršo rīku - digitālo dolāru, kas uzvedas kā skaidra nauda, bet ceļo kā internets. Problēma ir tāda, ka pieredze joprojām liek justies, ka nepieciešama tehniskā licence, lai veiktu pamata pārskaitījumu, jo maksas var strauji pieaugt bez brīdinājuma, maki bieži prasa atsevišķu gāzes žetonu, un pēdējais brīdis “vai tas tiešām ir izdarīts” var šķist nenoteikts, kad tīkls ir aizņemts. Plasma XPL ir veidots ap vienkāršu emocionālu solījumu: stabilo monētu pārskaitījumiem jābūt dabīgiem, mierīgiem un tūlītējiem, nevis kā puzle, kuru jūs risināt katru reizi, kad sūtāt naudu, un dziļākais likme ir tāda, ja jūs noņemat mazās berzes, kas kaitina ikdienas lietotājus, stabilo monētu loma pārstāj būt nišas rīks un sāk uzvesties kā globāla maksājumu infrastruktūra, kurai parasti cilvēki var uzticēties, nedomājot par to, kas notiek aizkulisēs.