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Vanar və “Sonra düzəldərik” marketinqinin sonu
İllərdir ki, markalar sürtünməyə səssizcə güvənirlər.
Onlar pis UX və yavaş sistemləri sevdikləri üçün deyil — amma sürtünmə yer açdı. Aydınlaşdırmaq üçün yer. Geri dönmək üçün yer. “Bu, qəsdən olmadı.” demək üçün yer.
Əksər rəqəmsal mühitlərdə gecikmələr məsuliyyəti yumuşaldır. Gecikən buraxılış, yarım render edilmiş aktiv, icazə xətası — bunların hamısı müəllifliyi bulanıq edir. Əgər bir şey qeyri-adi düşərsə, komandalar yığının günahını çıxara bilərlər. Yaxud zamanlamanın. Yaxud heç kimin tam olaraq təkrarlaya bilmədiyi bir səhv.

A few weeks ago, I openly ridiculed Plasma and its latest iteration, $XPL. I called it outdated, obsolete, and a relic that even Vitalik had discarded. I mocked its development team for “resurrecting a corpse” and warned my peers to avoid it like a trap for retail investors. Back then, I was confident—having weathered multiple bull and bear markets, I believed I could judge a project just by glancing at its white paper.
But last Friday night, everything changed.
I sat down with an iced Americano, intending to dig up new flaws in $XPL. What I found instead left me stunned. Their GitHub repository revealed radical innovations I never expected—technical feats so bold they made the old Plasma seem almost primitive. This wasn’t a patch job or a cosmetic upgrade; it was a full-scale reconstruction.
The first thing that blew my mind was the Paymaster system.
Account Abstraction (AA), once considered a gimmick, was used to achieve zero gas fees.
Users could now interact with smart contracts without ever worrying about carrying native tokens—fees were automatically handled by the protocol. I tested it myself: zero-balance accounts smoothly executed transactions on the testnet. That night, I realized my old criticisms weren’t just wrong—they were naive.
Next, I examined their developer experience. Despite my initial skepticism, $XPL supports full EVM compatibility via the Reth engine. I could take complex Ethereum contracts, point them to an XPL RPC node, and watch them run flawlessly. No rewrites, no new languages, no high learning curve. For Solidity developers, this is a lifeline—XPL has paved a golden road for migration, unlike other chains still forcing developers to adopt Move or Rust.
Security was another revelation. $XPL integrated Fireblocks’ MPC architecture, breaking assets into fragments across secure hardware nodes, eliminating the risks of hot wallets. Combined with deep integration with top DeFi protocols like Aave, $XPL isn’t just a Layer 2 network—it’s a fortress ready to handle institutional liquidity at scale.
Reflecting on this, I realized how arrogant I had been. I underestimated the innovation, the ambition, and the execution behind $XPL. Plasma is no longer a “dead” project; it has evolved into a beast armed with zero-friction UX, hardcore cryptography, and seamless Ethereum compatibility.
This experience taught me a valuable lesson: never let outdated prejudices blind you to real technological progress. Today, I am fully invested in $XPL—not just financially, but intellectually. And my advice to others? Look beyond the past.
Explore the code. Try the zero-gas interactions. Witness the MPC architecture in action.
In crypto, pride can cost you opportunities. Admitting mistakes, learning quickly, and adapting aggressively is what separates observers from winners. $XPL is not a relic; it is a glimpse into the future of blockchain.
Times have changed. So should your perspective.
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