Plasma $XPL really needs to exist, or is it just optimizing the edges?
Sometimes I wonder if Plasma XPL really needs to exist, or if it is just optimizing the inconveniences that are already "acceptable" on current chains. If the fees are a little lower, a little faster, is that enough to justify a separate infrastructure?
The answer depends on how you view payments. With DeFi, a delay of several seconds or fluctuating fees are sometimes still acceptable. With payments, they are not.
Plasma does not try to make everything a little better. It aims to completely eliminate the things users should not have to think about: gas, native tokens, or unpredictable wait times.
But edge optimization only becomes "necessary" when it is repeated enough. If users return to Plasma every day to transfer stablecoins without thinking, then it is no longer edge optimization.
Conversely, if it is only used when convenient, Plasma will always stand at the boundary between infrastructure and experimentation. The question is not about technology, but about habit.
