The thing about @Plasma keeps bringing me back: it feels like a chain built by those who have really observed how stablecoins are used in the real world, and not just how they trade on charts. The overall identity of Plasma is simple on paper. It is a first layer specifically designed for stablecoin settlement. Not 'payments plus DeFi plus gaming plus artificial intelligence.' Just settlement. But once you sit down and think about this idea, you realize how many chains are truly dedicated to this. Most blockchains see stablecoins as passengers. Plasma sees them as the engine.
Plasma is quietly accumulating some meaningful progress, especially if you're concerned about stablecoins that are actually being used, rather than just parked. The first major advancement: Plasma's USDT setup is now connected to the cross-chain liquidity system of NEAR Intents. Translation? Stablecoins on @Plasma can now move and settle across more than 25 chains and over 100 assets without the usual bridging hassles. This is a step towards making stablecoins feel like global currencies rather than chained tokens. In terms of DeFi, Pendle has launched support for sPENDLE through the Plasma Foundation. This is noteworthy because Pendle's integration is not easy, indicating that confidence in Plasma as a settlement layer capable of actually generating yield strategies is growing. There is also a large ecosystem push underway, with millions of $XPL allocated to incentivize builders and creators. Incentives alone don't guarantee success, but they do accelerate experimentation and early usage. What is the honest risk? Competition is fierce. L2 and fast finality chains are chasing payments. #Plasma still needs to prove sustained transaction volume and real-world adoption. But in terms of direction, it's doing the right things, starting with stablecoins, prioritizing user experience, and maintaining neutrality through Bitcoin anchoring. This combination is worth watching.
Let's reminisce about the past and envision the future
A segmented distribution appears today, estimated to be a medium毛 The price is around 80u First segment 206 points, second segment 190 points, receive 90 tokens First tier distribution With relatively little selling pressure, the price fluctuation won't be too large Hold with confidence, the second tier is all about speed, first come first served Keep it up, eat more, and wish for good luck as the New Year approaches Here, I also wish everyone a Happy New Year and may all your wishes come true Earn more money in the New Year!
Isn't the first segment very familiar? But it's already been half a year since Alpha
Just for fun, I hope everyone is healthy, may all your wishes come true, and may your dreams be fulfilled!! dusk has also come to a successful conclusion
Recently, I've been spending more time focusing on Dusk, and the deeper I go, the clearer I can see its positioning. It is not trying to win the noisy retail DeFi race. It is building infrastructure for the crypto space that most blockchains still avoid: regulated finance that requires privacy, auditability, and legal clarity. This sounds very boring until you realize how big this market is. Most public blockchains are very transparent by default. If you want everything to be transparent, that's fine. This applies to open decentralized finance (DeFi), but when you try to tokenize real assets like stocks, bonds, or compliant funds, it quickly falls apart. Institutions cannot fully put sensitive positions, counterparties, or business logic on-chain and hope it will work smoothly. This is where Dusk stands out.
A year ago, Dusk felt very early. Not wrong, just early. Today, its surroundings look very different, and that's why my perspective has changed. @Dusk is building regulated on-chain finance, which was once a niche topic. By 2026, this will become a mainstream topic. Governments, exchanges, and large asset managers no longer ask whether real-world assets are flowing on-chain. They are asking how to do this without violating compliance rules, exposing sensitive data, or creating legal nightmares. This shift is significant because most blockchains were never designed for this reality.
@Plasma is a Layer-1 blockchain designed from the ground up around stablecoin payments and settlements. Its goal is not just to serve large institutions or funds in the hundreds of billions, but to make daily transfers, receipts, exchanges, and rewards truly usable for ordinary people. 1. Swap: In the Plasma ecosystem, users can not only transfer funds directly but also quickly exchange stablecoins for other tokens on-chain (Swap). This is typically achieved through decentralized exchanges (DEX) or trading aggregators, allowing users to perform asset swaps at low cost and quickly, thereby enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of funds usage. 👉 Swap is a key function that enables you to trade directly and adjust your asset allocation within Plasma.
Withdrawal, catching a big win means going all in! Are there any brothers in Macau who want to have a late-night snack together? It's on me. After eating, let's go to a water exchange; if we meet, we're friends. I'm happy to have made money today. Compared to contracts, I feel like baccarat is faster. After doing 100, I'm going to continue shorting BTC with a full position. Just do it! Gambling is everywhere; if you're going to gamble, you have to be bold. We've lost several times, but this time we all feel like we're going to win. Let's go! Enjoy a comfortable New Year!
Today's Alpha Short Forecast In this prediction, at 9 o'clock unknown old coin 35u According to previous patterns, there will basically be a small short on Sunday night Expected profit is still around 35u, the old coin price is stable, and there won't be too much selling pressure Price fluctuations won't be too large In fact, it's more worthwhile to seize than new coins, after all, new coins have large selling pressure and excessive price fluctuations Friends with weak hearts can't hold on Everyone can wait and pay attention I will also continue to update the situation for everyone
We are in a special period marked by the intersection and interaction of three major trends. First, there is a paradigm shift in international relations, moving from decades of global collaborative efforts to a focus on regional and factional confrontation centered around 'de-risking' and supply chain restructuring. Second, there are structural changes in the global financial environment, represented by the Federal Reserve's interest rate policies; the high-interest-rate environment and uncertain paths for rate cuts are continuously squeezing global liquidity, forcing capital to seek more efficient and lower-cost operational models. Third, there is the evolution of the cryptocurrency asset industry itself, marked by the approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs, where institutionalization and regulation have become an irreversible mainstream narrative.
After writing for so long, have you really thought about it?
In recent years, everyone is tired of chasing yields and playing with L2; calculating those Gas fees every day is exhausting. But at the beginning of 2026, an old name made a comeback into view: Plasma Many people's impression of Plasma still lingers on the "scalability solution proposed by Vitalik in the early days," and some even think it is an "antique" eliminated by Rollup. But to be honest, there has never been outdated technology in the crypto world, only scenarios that haven't reached their explosive moment. The current path of XPL is extremely pragmatic: a relentless focus on stablecoin payments. Why now? If you've used the Plasma One wallet recently, you'll find a very "refreshing" point - zero fees for USDT transfers. This was unimaginable before. On January 23 of this year, Plasma integrated with NEAR Intents, a very precise move. Through NEAR's liquidity protocol, XPL and USDT0 directly connected 25 chains. This means it is no longer an isolated small ecosystem, but has become a cross-chain "payment hub."
Once you grasp the trick, scoring is as easy as drinking water. It's a breeze to score a few points every day. With images comes the truth. It's not that you can't compete with others; it's just that you're using the wrong method. At first, I couldn't score either, but I found the techniques! Brothers who haven't written today, brothers who need to keep writing tomorrow, brothers who are lacking inspiration, and brothers still looking for AI to write—come to the comments section and see what I teach you. Feel free to ask any questions; those who know will share with you. Let's all create together in the Creator Center! #plasma $XPL @Plasma
Once you find the right techniques, scoring is as easy as drinking water. You can easily score several points every day. It's not that you can't compete with others, but rather that you're using the wrong methods. At first, I couldn't score either, but I found the techniques! Brothers who haven't written today, brothers who need to continue writing tomorrow, brothers who have no thoughts, and brothers still looking for AI to write—come to the comments section to see what I can teach you. Feel free to ask any questions; those who know will tell you. Let's all create together at the Creator Center!
Analysis of the construction of its compliant financial infrastructure
To deeply understand the long-term value of @Dusk , it is essential to shift the analytical perspective from mere candlestick fluctuations to the core fundamental construction. Dusk's strategic positioning is not that of a generic public chain, but rather focuses on building an infrastructure capable of supporting standardized tokenized securities and real-world assets (RWA). The core of this strategy is reflected through two key partnerships: collaboration with the Dutch compliance exchange NPEX and integration with the electronic currency institution Quantoz Payments. Core positioning: A blockchain infrastructure for standardized financial services
I think that blind proof technology is the coolest thing designed by dusk for its consensus. We can briefly discuss it without any fancy explanations.
The core here is quite simple yet genius; validators handle transactions but have no idea whose wallet it is, who the sender is, or who the receiver is. Complete blindness. It is precisely because of this blindness that no one can bribe validators against a "specific person" because they physically do not know who they are reviewing or releasing.
I feel that this is actually the pinnacle of ethics in blockchain development. When the system technically does not allow bias, it is not just about the pretty words of decentralization but a truly built-in moral barrier within the code. Such situations are very rare, and discussions about these matters are too few. @Dusk #dusk $DUSK
Plasma always makes people feel like it is a system that is not in a hurry to be forgotten. It does not record every click or microtransaction you make, but the consequences will be remembered for a long time. In ordinary Web3, everything lives in the moment, seeing blocks after completing transactions, then moving forward without looking back. However, in Plasma, the past can suddenly become the most important evidence. When things go wrong, all history will resurface, reminding us that 'yes, you have already committed to other things here'. If we analyze it in more detail, its design is not for a fast or aesthetically pleasing interface. It is designed for systems that can maintain memory. Not all memories, but those that can save or expose. Perhaps, that is its true superpower, rather than speed, meaning the ability to remember enough things to protect oneself. This perspective shocked me about how Plasma works. @Plasma #Plasma $XPL
Have you ever felt that the news in today’s world seems to be staging a large-scale 'magical realism drama' every day? On one side, the funds in the A-shares are scared to death, looking for 'security', engaging in 'high cuts and low'; on the other side, the 'real estate faith' that we once firmly believed in has collapsed, leaving countless people confused about where to put their money. The more twisted part is that today’s young people are starting to lose interest in the consumerism of 'buy buy buy', pursuing 'buying only what is right, not what is expensive'. This indicates that people's mindset has changed, no longer willing to pay for the illusory brand premium. Meanwhile, while AI technology is advancing rapidly, it also fills 'workers' with anxiety about being monopolized by giants and being abandoned by the times. Behind all this chaotic scene, there is a huge background sound - that is the 'loosening of dollar hegemony'.
Walrus is not trading like a 'hot new infrastructure coin' right now. Its trading feels like something the market is still struggling to price correctly. As of February 1, 2026, the price of WAL has fluctuated between $0.09 and $0.10, with a 24-hour trading volume of about ~$19 to $21M and a market cap of about ~$150M, showing recent weakness. This is not dead liquidity. This is divergence. And when there is divergence, there is usually a misunderstanding somewhere. The misunderstanding I keep coming back to is: people still see Walrus as 'just another decentralized storage tool.' If that is all it is, I would be less interested because the narrative around storage will quickly become commoditized. But Walrus is trying to transform storage into something closer to the infrastructure you build, rather than just a passive place where you casually throw files. Think of it as the difference between a 'hard drive' and 'the AWS primitives that developers actually combine into products.' The same raw category, but completely different value capture.
At the beginning of 2026, an old name made a comeback: @Plasma Many people still associate Plasma with the 'scalability proposal put forward by Vitalik early on,' and even consider it an 'antique' that has been eliminated by Rollup. But to be honest, there has never been outdated technology in the crypto world, only scenarios that have not yet reached the moment of explosion. The current path of XPL is extremely pragmatic: focusing on stablecoin payments. Why now? If you recently used the Plasma One wallet, you would notice a very 'pleasant' point — zero transaction fees for USDT transfers. This was unimaginable before. On January 23 of this year, Plasma integrated with NEAR Intents, making a very precise move. Through NEAR's liquidity protocol, XPL and USDT0 directly connected 25 chains. This means it is no longer an isolated small ecosystem but has turned into a cross-chain 'payment hub.'
We are in a special period characterized by the convergence and interaction of three major trends. First, there is a paradigm shift in international relations, moving from the globalization cooperation of the past few decades to a regional and camp-based confrontation centered on 'de-risking' and supply chain restructuring. Second, there is a structural change in the global financial environment, represented by the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy, where the high-interest rate environment and uncertain rate-cutting path continue to squeeze global liquidity, forcing capital to seek more efficient and lower-cost operating models. Third, there is the evolution of the crypto asset industry itself, marked by the approval of the Bitcoin spot ETF, where institutionalization and compliance have become an irreversible mainstream narrative.