Payments First: How Plasma Separates Settlement From Speculation.
Plasma positions itself as a Layer 1 built around stablecoin payments, aiming to keep fees and settlement behavior predictable by designing the chain with stablecoins as first-class citizens. Unlike general-purpose chains where block space is shared across many competing uses, Plasma’s thesis is that a payment network should optimize for consistency under load. It also advertises full EVM compatibility, so it’s not “settlement-only,” but it’s clearly payment-first in how it frames architecture and user costs.
