Company: Vanar Chain
CEO: Jawad Ashraf
Website: https://vanarchain.com/
About Vanar Chain
Vanar Chain began its journey in 2017 under the name Virtua, with a focus on digital collectibles that revealed the fragility of off chain asset links. In late 2023 the team pivoted to building a high-performance Layer 1 network optimised for on chain data and reemerged as Vanar Chain. The public mainnet went live in 2024 and immediately demonstrated the ability to process nearly twelve million transactions with sub-three-second finality and fees at a fraction of a cent per operation.
From the beginning, Vanar Chain confronted a long-standing storage dilemma in blockchain. Most blockchains anchor only a checksum onchain while hosting files offchain, creating broken links, censorship risk and single-point-of-failure scenarios. The Neutron launch in April 2025 tackled this challenge by introducing an AI-driven two-stage compression pipeline that shrinks multi-megabyte files into text-sized seeds. Those seeds carry their own proofs, load instantly within smart contracts and remove any reliance on external gateways such as IPFS or cloud storage.
Beyond its technical breakthrough Vanar Chain has sharpened its focus on intelligent infrastructure for real-world finance. By concentrating on programmable PayFi onramp with Worldpay and tokenisation of real-world assets with legal, financial and compliance metadata, Vanar Chain delivers real partners, real use cases and real differentiation. The network runs on Google Cloud renewable energy, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and sustainability.
Building and maintaining this infrastructure has required a globally distributed engineering team of eighty specialists across Dubai, London and Lahore. The Vanar Chain validator set now includes more than one hundred strategic partners, from leading cloud providers to GPU manufacturers, enabling support for data-heavy workloads ranging from AI agents and DeFi protocols to compliant real-world finance platforms.
In under eighteen months, Vanar Chain recorded 11.98 million transactions and onboarded 1.56 million unique addresses while forging over one hundred ecosystem partnerships. These concrete metrics demonstrate a focus on progress over hype and highlight the role of Vanar Chain as intelligent infrastructure for the next generation of decentralised applications.
This onchain storage breakthrough unlocks use cases that were previously out of reach at scale such as tamper proof loan agreements, immutable governance records, self-contained NFTs that never break and true on chain memory for autonomous agents. By collapsing payload and proof into a single state transition Vanar Chain makes permanence and verifiability the default rather than the exception.
Looking ahead, Vanar Chain plans to launch a public developer portal and Neutron toolkit in Q3 2025 to lower barriers for builders. A grant-driven builder program will follow in Q4, with ongoing validator growth, deeper exchange integrations and performance tuning scheduled through 2026. With this roadmap Vanar Chain aims to become the platform of choice for projects that cannot tolerate data ageing into a dead link, firmly establishing a lasting impact on the blockchain industry.
