Plasma is built around a single assumption that most blockchains avoid: stablecoins behave more like money rails than speculative assets. At the network level, Plasma removes friction that makes everyday payments inefficient on general-purpose chains. Zero-fee USD₮ transfers are not a temporary incentive but a protocol-level design choice, allowing stablecoins to move like cash rather than assets burdened by variable gas costs. Custom gas tokens let applications abstract fees entirely, which matters for users who should never have to think about network mechanics when sending money.
Unlike privacy chains that sacrifice compliance, Plasma is designed for confidential yet auditable transactions, making it suitable for institutions, payment processors, and regulated finance. Scalability is treated as a baseline requirement, not a marketing metric. Thousands of transactions per second ensure the network can support real payment volumes rather than episodic on-chain activity.
In practice, Plasma behaves less like a crypto platform and more like global settlement infrastructure, optimized for stablecoins from the ground up rather than retrofitted later.
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