Let's just say, the public chain's TPS is about to smoke from how fast it is, but if you really want to transfer a small amount of USDT—it's not only nerve-wracking to wait, just the Gas can eat up half of it, is this still called 'payment'?
What payment chains have always wanted is not the extreme data from laboratories. When transferring money across borders, the coffee hasn't even cooled before it needs to be confirmed; buying a sandwich at a convenience store, the transaction fee is cheaper than a sugar packet; it should be stable 7x24 hours like a tool, and not crash out of nowhere to give me a 'surprise'. This is the real demand.
So you see, routes like Plasma suddenly seem attractive again. It doesn't play with you in the complex DeFi family bucket, it just focuses on being a good 'payment vessel': minimizing delays, cutting costs to the floor, and being as stable as an alarm clock that goes off every morning (even though I often hit snooze). The performance philosophy is completely different—it's not flashy, but it must be reliable enough to make you forget its existence.
I myself was also obsessed with brushing through on-chain data, until one time I urgently needed to transfer 50U, and waited twenty minutes for confirmation, spending $12 on Gas... really, at that moment I realized: some chains are for 'speculating', but payment chains are for 'using'.
Have you had similar experiences? Or do you think which chain can truly handle the small matter of 'spending money' in the future? Let's chat in the comments, and by the way, help me with a like, and recover some losses (those who have been hurt by Gas understand). #plasma $XPL @Plasma
