If the world of fiat currency is made up of countless isolated islands separated by high walls, then Plasma is trying to create a door that can be opened at will.
Recently, the news of @Plasma connecting to Bridge is seen by many as just an ordinary positive development.
But in my view, this is the most critical piece of the puzzle in Plasma's ecological map.
Fiat ↔ USDT bi-directional connection.
In the past, entering Crypto was like an adventure. You had to find exchanges, find C2C, worry about frozen cards, and endure high slippage.
Now, through Bridge's single API, Plasma has turned this process into a one-click experience.
Developers can easily integrate this door into their applications.
Want to recharge? Just click, and fiat turns into USDT.
Want to withdraw? Just click, and USDT turns back into fiat.
The entire process is completed on the Plasma chain, with zero Gas and zero friction.
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This marks Plasma's official transformation from a "chain-based DeFi paradise" to a global payment hub.
It is no longer satisfied with just earning money within the chain; it is starting to earn money from connections.
Once this "full-chain path dependency" is formed, it is very difficult to replace.
Because for B-end enterprises, stability and low cost are everything.
The current market still views it with outdated perspectives, thinking it is not as attractive as Meme.
But if you believe that 2026 will be the year of stablecoin payment explosion, then Plasma's "least painful path" is a target you must pay attention to.
Not seeking attention, but pursuing flow.
This is the logic of doing big business. #plasma$XPL
In this world, the most expensive thing is not the brain, but experience.
Recently I've been thinking about a question:
Why do freshly graduated PhD students earn 200,000 a year, while an old Chinese medicine practitioner or a senior lawyer charges thousands for a consultation?
Because PhD students have computational power (quick brains), but seasoned experts possess 'data' (extensive experience).
Experience is the compound interest that accumulates over time.
After listening to the latest AMA from @Vanarchain , I realized they are moving this set of experience economics on-chain.
The current AI space is very competitive; everyone is comparing whose model has stronger computational power (competing like PhD students).
But Vanar says: Stop competing, let’s compete with experience instead.
Through the Neutron API, they turn every interaction and every decision of the Agent into on-chain verifiable memory particles.
This directly changes how AI operates.
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In the past, AI's capability was reset-based. Each time a task ended, the experience was lost.
Now, Vanar has transformed AI into an accumulation-based model.
What's even more intriguing is that this accumulation can be transferred.
This means that in the future, there will be an AI memory market.
You can directly purchase a memory pack proficient in DeFi lending and plug it into your Agent, instantly turning it from a novice into an expert.
Look at the current coin price ($0.006): The market clearly hasn't yet reacted to the potential of 'memory assetization.'
The trading volume is low, and community sentiment is still bottoming out.
But that doesn't matter.
What's important is that Vanar has transformed from a seller of shovels to a seller of resumes.
It is adding time value to AI.
If 2026 is the inaugural year for Agents, then Vanar is the archive and talent market for Agents.
This kind of infrastructure will have higher barriers as time goes on. #vanar$VANRY
After being rejected by Stripe for three months, I finally understood the value of this move in Plasma.
Recently, I wanted to add a fiat recharge entry for my DApp, but I was almost tortured to death by the process. I went to apply for Stripe, and it got stuck in compliance review for two months without any progress; I went to connect with MoonPay, and upon seeing that rate, users deposit $100 and only get $92, how can this business still work? At that moment, I finally understood why Web3 has been shouting about Mass Adoption for so many years, yet it still ends up being a self-indulgent circle. It's not that users don't want to come in, but the barrier is just too high. Every step of capital inflow and outflow is bleeding. This is also why when I saw the integration announcement for Stablecoin (Bridge) being forwarded, my first reaction wasn't that there was another partner, but rather, 'These people have finally found that point of least resistance.'
Recently, I've been reading a book about psychology that mentions a term called attention depreciation.
It means that if you can see something's new patterns every day, your brain will keep assigning it a higher value.
But if it suddenly goes quiet, even if the value behind it is still increasing, your subconscious will feel that it is depreciating.
The current @Plasma is obviously in a period of "extreme attention depreciation."
The official announcements haven't had that adrenaline-pumping excitement in a long time.
No new integrations, no collaborations with major influencers, and even light interactions have been cut. In the eyes of most people, this project has already fallen out of the top tier for 2026.
But this is exactly where I find it interesting.
The pricing logic of the market and the actual adoption paths are experiencing a severe disconnect.
If we shift our gaze away from Twitter and look at the few overlooked signals:
MassPay, a payment orchestration platform handling billions, has already regarded Plasma as the factual backend for USD settlements.
YuzuMoney is piloting new banking in Southeast Asia's most stubborn cash merchants.
This growth is linear, compliance-driven, and non-viral. It naturally struggles to produce the kind of tweet heat that goes viral.
This is a typical "dual track running in parallel but out of sync":
One track accumulates stickiness madly through merchant access in the real world.
The other track is being ruthlessly depreciated in the crypto market due to a lack of catalysts.
For long-term holders, the current low-level grinding is actually a test of patience.
Do you believe in those projects that paint a rosy picture on your screen every day, or do you trust these slow variables quietly changing the financial gears in the background?
If in the second half of 2026, these offline paths generate a quantifiable active inflection point, the market will be forced to switch from forgetting to reassessing.
And by that time, the current pricing window may have quietly closed.
Maintain independent observation, and don't let the market's noise (or silence) throw off your rhythm.
Last night, a friend involved in traditional venture capital dragged me to a so-called high-end business dinner.
The entire venue was filled with well-tailored suits and shiny leather shoes. In this scenario, if you talk about daily gains or mention how a local dog has doubled, people will only smile politely and regard you as a gambler who has wandered into the wrong scene. In their logic, money is not called money, but assets; investment is not called investment, but strategic layout. They only care about two things: certainty and sustainability. I sat in the corner, watching these people clink glasses, while secretly thinking about the noisy Binance Square of Web3.
A couple of days ago, I went to help Brother Wang downstairs to adjust the cash register system in his store. It was an old machine that had been used for almost five years, and it responded as slowly as a sloth. I asked him, 'Since it's so difficult to use, why not switch to the latest one? Those aggregation payment apps can be installed in just a few minutes now.' Brother Wang, while typing on the keyboard, smiled wryly and said, 'It's not that easy. The data of thousands of members in my store, three years of accounting records, and the settlement templates with suppliers are all in there. Changing to a new app only takes a few minutes, but to redo my entire business logic, I would have to cease operations for half a month. I can't afford that loss.
If your logic can't escape the crypto circle, then your market value will always have a ceiling
Recently observing the actions of @Vanarchain , I found that this team has finally realized a survival strategy:
Go to places with big money and speak the language they understand
Most projects are still tangled in how to deceive some likes on posts, while Vanar has gone to AIBC in Dubai to discuss AI-driven global growth
This move is quite clever
It is leveraging a dual-platform strategy: stabilizing the crypto circle's fundamentals (trust + activity) by borrowing from Binance Square, and penetrating into AI policy and investment circles (recognition + implementation) through AIBC
We must recognize this turning point:
Vanar is no longer limited to being a tool for developers; it is trying to become the spokesperson for Web3 in the AI field
It is betting on a huge expectation gap: in the second half of 2026, when the world is discussing the responsibility of AI decision-making and long-term memory
Vanar, which has long been mentioning "Foundational Intelligence," will become the only narrative outlet
Of course, the market is very honest
$VANRY 's current price is still hovering around $0.008, with a market cap of just over ten million dollars
This indicates two things:
The market currently lacks patience for "slow variable" infrastructure
Macro liquidity has not yet rotated to these carefully considered targets
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Do not be swept away by any AMA or Giveaway
What we need to pay attention to is: whether those who listened to him speak at the Dubai Panel will actually start testing the Neutron API
Only when the echo of ideas turns into real usage can this narrative spillover be considered a great success
The current low-level fluctuations actually provide an extremely quiet entry window for those who understand the logic of the global growth engine. #vanar$VANRY
Recently, many people have asked me why @Plasma looks nothing like those hot AI projects?
I countered them: Have you ever seen a tax-collecting project shouting orders on the street every day?
Understanding the 286% growth report of MassPay_io will help you understand the logic of Plasma.
MassPay is the payment brain connecting 1.1 billion endpoints worldwide. It chooses to use Plasma as the backend for USD settlements, which is tougher than a hundred airdrop events.
We need to clarify a core divergence:
Most public chains are doing 'retail business', competing on whose marketing is stronger.
Plasma is doing 'wholesale business', providing a complete, compliant stablecoin routing system to global payment platforms and new banks (Neobank).
Once enterprise-level traffic comes in, there is no 'loyalty'; it only has 'cost-benefit ratio'.
When Plasma reduces transfer costs to 0, shortens settlement times to seconds, and covers 230 countries, for platforms like MassPay that handle billions in flow every day, Plasma is the only 'standard answer'.
Powerpei's perspective:
The growth brought about by this 'backend integration' is extremely cold and linear.
It will not stop because the market drops, nor will it shrink due to market FUD.
On the contrary, the more chaotic the market, the more enterprises rely on 'low-cost, high-efficiency' settlement tracks.
The current XPL price (0.09x) actually reflects an awkward reality:
The market is not yet ready to price a 'on-chain clearing house'.
Everyone is still using the mindset of speculating on altcoins to bet on its rise and fall, yet they have not noticed it is quietly building an 'indispensable' payment stack.
When on a morning in 2026, you find that the salary you send to foreign employees and the cross-border dividends you receive are all flowing through this track,
You will understand why the silence now is the highest form of hunting.
Focus on the turning point of real transaction volume, that is the true starting gun. #plasma$XPL
February 2026: While everyone is waiting for the big pie to give an explanation, someone is quietly replacing the CPU of the global finance.
Today is February 10, 2026. To be honest, the market in these two days is a bit dull. The big pie jumps back and forth in that range, both long and short sides seem to be playing an extremely boring tug-of-war game. I stared at the screen, watching a few friends in foreign trade repost complaints about 'delayed cross-border remittances' on their Moments, that sense of powerlessness dragged down by the old system can be felt even through the screen. After staying in this circle for a long time, we often fall into a delusion that only the red and green of candlesticks signify 'progress'. But in this dull atmosphere, I saw a set of data that most people overlook.
When trust shattered into pieces, Vanar decided to use the hardest bricks to mend it.
Last week I tried to find a photo taken ten years ago in Lijiang, wanting to see the blue sky from that time. I searched through three Baidu cloud drives and four old phones, and finally found its thumbnail in a broken external hard drive. Only that one. The rest disappeared completely in the sea of bits, all due to broken links, platform closures, or hardware failures. At that moment, I felt not just heartache, but a sense of digital void. It turns out that the eternal digital world we thought was actually more fragile than paper. As long as the power goes out, as long as the cloud servers shut down, our past is equivalent to having never happened.
If code has no past, intelligence is a complete deception.
Last week I visited an old watchmaker who was repairing a mechanical watch from the 1950s. I watched him in the dim light, using tiny tweezers to fiddle with those parts as fine as hair. He said something that has stuck with me to this day: “The reason this watch is valuable is not because the parts are expensive, but because the seventy years it has lived are recorded in the wear of the gears. A new watch only has precision; an old watch has a soul.” After stepping out, I kept thinking about the current technology industry—especially our pride in AI and blockchain, which seem to have a pathological rejection of 'time' and 'sedimentation.' We pursue instantaneous responses, rapid settlements, and each second is a 'brand new' beginning.
Recently, the fakes continued to drop, leaving everyone stunned. I stared at the computer screen, with red columns flowing down like blood, and all the community groups were filled with various wails and curses. In times like this, what everyone wants is an explanation or a lifesaving move. But you will find a very absurd phenomenon. Those projects that usually shout the loudest and post three Roadmaps a day are the ones that fall the hardest and have the most selling pressure. Because their value is built on hot air. As long as the mouth stops or the external wind changes, their consensus collapses faster than paper. In this chaos, I looked at the still inactive official account @Plasma and suddenly felt a sense of extreme coldness and awe.
Last night, watching the shrinking altcoins in my account, I couldn't help but smoke half a pack of cigarettes on the balcony.
I kept thinking about a question: Is our circle collectively suffering from 'cognitive myopia'?
The tolerance for 'no updates' has surprisingly dropped to being measured in hours.
If a project team doesn’t engage on Twitter for an entire day, the evaluation is that the team is not doing a good job. This extreme 'emotion-driven' approach is destroying the valuation logic of all infrastructure projects.
@Plasma is the most typical victim of this valuation paradox.
It is currently in a typical disconnection phase between the 'offline experimental accumulation period vs online echo decay period'.
On one hand, its on-chain data, including lending, earnings, and cross-chain pathways, is actually quietly growing in the background.
Real merchants and new banking applications are gradually embedding the foundation into the soil of the real world.
These processes are like building a car behind closed doors, dealing with dirty and tiring work, with no social premium to speak of.
On the other hand, the market’s 'punishment' towards it is extremely harsh.
Because there are no new stories, no highlights, funds flow away rapidly from this 'silent' zone like water flowing downhill.
This has led to an interesting pricing: the market is pricing a 'real asset' using the standards applied to 'air coins'.
This is essentially a gamble. Plasma is betting that when the path dependency of the real world outpaces the market's patience for forgetting, the pricing power will return to its hands.
The market is betting that before it can run smoothly, its volume will completely disappear and become marginalized in silence.
The current $0.09x looks like a hopeless sideways trend, but in the eyes of seasoned investors, this is actually the moment with the highest risk-reward ratio.
Because all the bad expectations, including lack of updates, no heat, and no capital attention, have already been factored into the price.
And as long as a potential killer application lands, the valuation elasticity will be exponential.
Don't blame the project team for not tweeting; you should ask yourself:
Do you want a project that paints a rosy picture on your screen every day, or do you want a project that is quietly changing the global financial pipeline in the background?
If it's the latter, the current silence is your best entry ticket.
Who is footing the bill for the 36-month "decision-making vacuum?"
A couple of days ago, I passed by the large theater in the city center that has been under construction for almost five years, and the fence has finally been taken down halfway. The young people passing by were complaining about the slow progress, feeling that this efficiency is simply a disgrace to the city. I happened to be smoking by the roadside and chatted with an old supervisor wearing a hard hat for a couple of minutes. He pointed at the foundation and said, "For this century-old building, just the review of the mechanical and electrical drawings took a year, and for fire acceptance, acoustic testing, seismic assessment, each item requires signatures from several departments. Quick action at this level is irresponsible." In that moment, I suddenly thought of the biggest embarrassment in the current RWA track: we, the speculators used to "one day in the crypto world is like a year in the real world," are using this shortsighted anxiety to hold back top institutions that need a 36-month decision-making cycle.
Today I saw an old master repairing old porcelain by the roadside.
He used gold powder to slowly outline the cracks, which is what is known as 'Kintsugi'.
He said that every crack is the experience of this bowl, and once repaired, it has more dignity than a new bowl.
I suddenly felt that what our current AI race is lacking is precisely this 'respect for experience'.
Today's on-chain AI Agents all seem incredibly intelligent, but in essence, they are all 'vagrants'.
They have no home (persistent memory), no past (historical context).
The stateless design of the underlying public chain makes these AIs execute tasks as if they are reinstalling the system every time.
This collapse of efficiency means that AI can never generate real economic value and can only exist in demos and PPTs.
Recently, focusing on the actions of @Vanarchain , I found that they are trying to build houses for this group of 'vagrants'.
The Neutron API is not some black technology; it is essentially an 'AI diary'.
It allows AI to seamlessly integrate the experiences learned last week into today's decisions.
This is what is called 'intelligent compound interest'.
The reason I value this direction is that the consensus for 2026 has already changed.
The 650 billion dollar infrastructure investment from big companies has already shown that:
AI must transform from 'an interesting toy' into 'a reliable workforce'. And the most important quality of a workforce is not intelligence but 'error-free'.
Only by having verifiable and tamper-proof memory can AI be trusted to handle large DeFi settlements and manage RWA assets.
Look at the current lifeless state of VANRY; the price of 0.006 indeed makes it hard to get excited.
The trading volume is also pitifully low, showing that retail investors' confidence has already been worn away.
But this is precisely the inevitable refinement of infrastructure projects.
It doesn’t play narrative hardball with you; it is betting on the long-term logic of 'Usage-burn'.
Once developers begin to realize that 'memory gaps' are the Achilles' heel of AI deployment, the stickiness of bottom-layer tools like Vanar will be more effective than any marketing.
Don't talk about dreams of getting rich at this position.
In 2026, whoever can make AI 'not forget' will have obtained the ticket to the future. #vanar $VANRY
Don't just focus on large institutions, take a look at those $DUSK coins in Binance Pay
Recently, many people couldn't understand the operations of @Dusk
On one hand, they are deeply integrating with top licensed exchanges in Europe, and on the other hand, they are conducting down-to-earth activities in Binance Pay like 'send 0.01 U to friends to win big prizes'.
This contrast is so strong that it makes people wonder if the project team is a bit schizophrenic?
But after carefully reviewing it, I found that this is actually Dusk playing an extremely insidious, yet also extremely stable game of 'trust chess'.
This is so-called 'reverse social proof'.
If you are an investment officer of a family office or a head of a Neobank, what is the most concerning when researching a privacy L1?
The biggest fear is that it is just an 'experimental ghost town' with only three to five people.
No matter how advanced the technology is, if no one is running on it, its security and liquidity are questionable.
Dusk is actually creating an 'active scene' for those aloof institutional bigwigs through the retail touchpoints experiment of Binance Pay and the content competition of CreatorPad.
When institutional researchers open Dusk's browser and find that although the amounts are PRIVATE, there are real transaction SUCCESS every minute;
When they discover that Binance's massive user base has started to smoothly send and hold DUSK on their mobile devices;
This 'visible activity on the retail side' becomes the best 'trust buffer zone' before institutions enter the market.
It proves that this Hedger EVM architecture is not something that can only be written in white papers but can withstand the click pressure from millions of users.
It turns the abstract concept of 'privacy compliance' into a small gift that you can send to friends.
This kind of 'pragmatism' is more effective than attending a hundred grand industry summits.
Dusk is not in a hurry to pump the market right now.
What it is doing is making 'privacy settlement' a default setting that is as natural as breathing.
In 2026, when MiCA comes into full effect, chains without privacy will find it increasingly difficult to attract high-end capital.
When everyone realizes that 'asset on-chain' must be accompanied by 'isolation of identity and amount', Dusk has already completed early stress tests through these fragmented retail experiments. #dusk $DUSK
This afternoon I called customer service, and the automated voice assistant repeatedly asked me to input my order number three times.
At that moment, I was thinking: If I can't even remember an order number, what gives this thing the right to be called artificial intelligence? This is called artificial stupidity.
This is currently the Achilles' heel of on-chain AI.
The design of public blockchains is inherently 'short-term memory.' It can verify your current transaction, but it doesn't care what you did ten minutes ago.
This 'stateless' architecture is sufficient for human transfers, but for AI agents that require autonomous decision-making, it's simply hell.
Recently, focusing on the post about @Vanarchain , I found they are shifting their focus towards a highly pragmatic direction.
They are no longer discussing those ethereal 'intelligent layers,' but are directly using the Neutron API to connect with OpenClaw developers.
Their slogan is very straightforward: "They forget what they were working on last week."
This sentence directly hit the developers' pain points.
Vanar is not showing off skills; it is providing 'survival assurance.'
It externalizes memory, allowing AI to break free from the cycle of reboots and crashes, achieving 'zero-cost continuity.'
This foundational tool property, although it sounds not at all FOMO, is the only ladder that allows agents to move from 'toys' to 'real workflows.'
Look at the current market conditions.
The market is still fluctuating, and altcoins are basically lying flat. $VANRY is stuck in the corner at $0.006, with no one paying attention.
But in my eyes, this is rather a deep dive into value.
When everyone is competing over whose model is smarter and whose slogan is louder, only a few are competing over 'how to keep this thing alive on-chain.'
This 'pain-point-driven' survival method is extremely resilient in a bear market.
What I value is its 'developer dependency.'
Once a few killer agents successfully run continuous tasks on Vanar, this path dependency will become the hardest shield.
Don't talk about beliefs at this position; let’s just talk about 'production efficiency.'
If AI must have memory to create value, then Vanar's card has not yet been fully played.
Last night's big hit shattered how many people's dreams of a bull market?
I saw everyone discussing in the group, and I found that everyone is waiting for a "big positive news" to save the market. This mindset is actually quite sad.
This means our fate is completely in the hands of the project team; if they are unhappy and don't tweet one day, your assets will shrink.
But the @Plasma I've been keeping an eye on is taking another road.
I noticed a detail:
In the Southeast Asia YuzuMoney case, it no longer relies on "good news" to drive it.
Local small and medium-sized business owners, once they switch their payment processes to this chain's Neobank, every transaction and every burn they generate comes from being "useful."
This kind of growth is linear, dull, and even invisible.
This is what I mean by "path dependence":
It doesn't grab your attention; it grabs your cash register.
It doesn't grab your emotions; it grabs your habits.
When ten thousand merchants default to using this system to pay salaries, Plasma is no longer a public chain; it is the financial standard for that region.
The current price of $0.09 is actually the market's collective forgetfulness of this "boring business." People think it lacks explosiveness and dopamine.
But what I value is its "irreversibility."
Meme coins are hot today and cold tomorrow, but once financial channels are connected, no one will stop using a 0% fee channel just because the big hit dropped and opt to pay a 7% interbank remittance fee.
In 2026, if this set of "cash digitization" logic works in multiple emerging markets, the current price is a low-cost ticket to the leading stablecoin settlement layer.
Stop always thinking about "when will the market rally."
Go take a look at those gears operating quietly in the background; only then can you survive to the finish line in this long race. #plasma$XPL
While the entire internet is betting on AI's intelligence, I decided to bet on its memory.
Last night I was modifying a very simple automation script, and suddenly my computer blue-screened and restarted. Although most of the code is synced to the cloud, in that moment I still cursed Microsoft and its whole family in my study. What frustrated me the most was not the loss of code, but that sense of interruption. The computer after the restart was a blank slate; it didn’t remember which parameter I had just adjusted, nor did it remember why I needed to change that line. I had to spend half an hour reloading my thoughts and reconstructing the context. At that moment, I suddenly realized: the reason human civilization can progress is that we have diaries, libraries, and hard drives. If humans had to reset the system every day upon waking, we’d still be picking fruit from trees.