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Plasma, a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain custom-tailored for stablecoin payments, is quietly changing the way global digital dollars flow.

The mainnet will go live in 2025, with the core selling point being zero-fee USDT instant transfers—users do not need to purchase additional Gas tokens and can pay fees directly with their stablecoins (achieved through protocol-level paymaster), which completely eliminates the friction costs of traditional on-chain transfers. Imagine this: cross-border remittances, merchant settlements, and everyday small payments can all be confirmed within sub-seconds, with TPS easily exceeding a thousand, yet it won't be overwhelmed by meme coins or NFT traffic like some general-purpose chains. Technically, Plasma adopts PlasmaBFT consensus (based on HotStuff's pipelined optimization), achieving sub-second finality while maintaining complete EVM compatibility—developers can directly migrate contracts using familiar Solidity tools without rewriting. The chain also supports custom Gas tokens (such as paying with USDT or other ecosystem tokens), native Bitcoin bridging (allowing BTC liquidity to flow directly into the EVM world), and the ongoing development of confidential payment features (hiding transaction details while maintaining composability). These designs are not just functional stacking, but precisely focus on the stablecoin track: the stablecoin market has surpassed $250 billion, with trillions being transferred monthly, yet the underlying infrastructure still relies on outdated railways. Plasma aims to build a dedicated 'highway' that enables digital dollars to truly achieve global instant and frictionless circulation. As a native token, it plays multiple roles: network staking and validator rewards, security guarantees, governance participation, while a portion of Gas fees will be burned (similar to the EIP-1559 mechanism), creating deflationary pressure. Token distribution is reasonable: the team/investors have a longer lock-up, and the ecosystem growth portion is gradually released, attracting endorsements from top institutions like Foundry Fund and Framework at the mainnet launch, with total financing exceeding $70 million. After the mainnet launch, the on-chain stablecoin supply rapidly climbed to the billions level, and the lending market has ranked among the global leaders, proving that chains focused on vertical fields can also generate strong network effects. In the current macro environment, stablecoins are becoming the key bridge connecting TradFi and crypto—institutional entry, tightening regulation, and RWA explosion all require an efficient, low-cost settlement layer. Plasma is not just another 'universal chain', but is focused on doing one thing to the extreme: making stablecoin payments as simple and natural as sending a message. Compared to other L1 or L2 solutions, it avoids irrelevant noise and directly addresses pain points. In the future, if more payment service providers, wallets, and exchanges integrate its API, the practical value of this chain will grow exponentially. $XPL is not only a Gas and staking asset but also a long-term pass betting on 'stablecoins being the future currency infrastructure.' I personally have high hopes for this 'narrow and deep' narrative: in the fragmented blockchain world, those that can truly land are often specialized projects that solve a single high-frequency demand. Plasma is racing down this path, and if you also believe that digital dollars will reshape global payments, you might want to pay more attention to its development. Speed, cost, and compliance are rarely found together in a chain.

Plasma：稳定币支付的下一代基础设施， $XPL 的价值锚点
Plasma 作为专为稳定币支付打造的高性能 Layer 1 区块链，真正解决了全球转账的痛点：零手续费 USDT 转账 + 亚秒级确认，EVM 兼容让开发者无缝接入。 @Plasma
团队专注基础设施而非短期炒作，
$XPL 作为原生代币，不仅用于 gas 和 staking，还承载治理与网络安全价值。目前市场在震荡，但 Plasma 的稳定币叙事在 2026 年仍有巨大潜力，尤其在跨境支付和 DeFi 场景下。长期看好其生态落地！ #plasma $xpl

Plasma is a high-performance Layer 1 optimized for stablecoin payments, which went live on the mainnet by the end of 2025 and quickly accumulated ecological momentum.@Plasma
Achieving sub-second finality and over 1000 TPS throughput through the PlasmaBFT consensus, while maintaining full EVM compatibility (based on the Reth execution layer), allows developers to directly reuse existing tools and contracts with almost zero migration costs. The most impressive aspect is the protocol's native support for zero Gas transfers of USDT—users do not need to hold any tokens or calculate fees to achieve instant global payments, which is a revolutionary experience for high-frequency scenarios like cross-border e-commerce, payroll, and P2P remittances. $XPL is not only the network's Gas and Staking token but also deeply tied to value capture: inflation rewards gradually decrease, the Gas burning mechanism is similar to EIP-1559, and governance rights are gradually opened to the community. Recent highlights include the integration of NEAR Intents (supporting 125+ asset CEX-level large settlements), Confirmo payment gateway access (processing over $80 million in enterprise-level USDT settlements monthly), rapid increase in TVL of DeFi protocols like Aave (now the second-largest on-chain lending market globally), and native BTC bridging that allows Bitcoin liquidity to directly serve stablecoin scenarios. These implementations prove that Plasma is not just empty rhetoric but is genuinely building a 'digital cash highway.' The total market value of stablecoins has far exceeded 250 billion, with monthly transfer volumes in the trillions, but the underlying tracks still rely on congested high-fee chains. Plasma's focused positioning (zero fees + high performance + compliance-friendly + privacy transfers in development) creates a differentiated moat. In 2026, as more payment giants, merchants, and DeFi applications migrate, $XPL is expected to transition from infrastructure fuel to a core asset sharing the trillion-dollar track dividends. From a long-term perspective, the practicality of this chain far exceeds that of short-term speculative projects. Have you used Plasma to transfer USDT? How was your experience? Feel free to leave a message to exchange ideas and witness the next wave of stablecoin infrastructure together! #plasma