🔥 How Plasma Accidentally Fathered Modern DA Layers 🧵
1/ Plasma didn’t fail; it exposed the dirty secret:
You can’t have a “trustless” chain if the data can disappear.
No data → no fraud proofs → no exits → just blind trust.
That single flaw broke the illusion and forced Ethereum to level up.
2/ The revelation was brutal but simple:
Scalability without verifiability = security theater.
Plasma screamed “DATA MUST BE AVAILABLE” louder than anyone else in 2017–2018.
The ecosystem heard it… eventually.
3/ Fast-forward: every major DA solution today is a direct answer to Plasma’s pain
→ Celestia
→ EigenDA
→ Danksharding + EIP-4844
All of them exist to guarantee: “the bytes are here, prove it or get slashed.”
4/ Even rollups are Plasma’s grandkids.
Posting calldata, DAS sampling, validity proofs; it’s all just refined ways of saying
“Never again will users be blind when they need to exit.”
5/ Plasma died so DA could live.
Zero mainstream adoption… yet its DNA is in every serious scaling roadmap in 2025.
Sometimes the most influential projects aren’t the ones that moon; they’re the ones that reveal the crack in the foundation everyone else builds on top of.
Respect the OG that taught us the hard way ⚡️
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