When a new tech platform launches, the hard part usually isn’t getting attention; it’s earning a second visit, and then a tenth. That distance between “we shipped” and “people rely on it” is the adoption gap, and it shows up especially in crypto, where a token can trade constantly even if the underlying tools barely enter anyone’s routine. Vanar sits right in that tension. It has lived through a rebrand from the TVK era to VANRY, and it’s now presenting itself less as a collectibles or metaverse brand and more as infrastructure meant to support AI-driven applications. In a recent conversation, the CEO, Jawad Ashraf, recalled that they once launched a VR metaverse on blockchain and “no one knew what we were doing,” which is a blunt way of describing what happens when timing and onboarding don’t match the audience.
Part of why this conversation is louder in 2026 is that crypto is getting easier to approach. The biggest barrier for users has never been ideology; it’s anxiety. Seed phrases, confusing fees, and the feeling that one mistake is permanent have scared off many people. Wallet builders have been moving toward passkeys and more familiar sign-in and recovery methods, and newer wallet standards make it easier for apps to smooth over fee payments and cut the number of steps a user has to understand.
Stablecoins have become a workhorse for payments and cross-border value transfer, and 2025 reports from TRM Labs and Chainalysis show they’re a solid share of transaction volume. Tokenization is also edging out of conference talk and into experiments, including pilots at the Bank of England and European Central Bank using tokenized assets as collateral. At the same time, trust remains fragile: researchers keep pointing to the scale of crypto-enabled money laundering, and that reality makes “real users” more demanding about safety, clarity, and accountability.
Against that backdrop, Vanar’s adoption gap can’t be solved by a bigger launch or a louder narrative about an AI-native stack. If it wants real users, it has to make the chain feel like plumbing and the application feel like the point. That usually means choosing a couple of concrete use cases where the benefit is felt quickly, partnering with teams that already have distribution, and measuring success in repeat actions rather than wallet downloads. It also means being willing to say no to vanity activity—bots, incentive loops that inflate numbers, or features that only make sense to insiders.
The question I can’t shake is: if we completely removed token pricing from the picture, what’s the real reason someone would come back and open this tomorrow morning? Vanar may be arriving at a moment when usability and institutional curiosity are finally catching up, but closing the gap will still look like slow work: fewer surprises, more reliability, and a steady accumulation of small moments where a user thinks, almost without noticing, “that actually worked.” That trust is hard-won, but it lasts well beyond hype in the long run.
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