Mission to moon Plasma represents a philosophical shift back to see lbuilding systems that do specific things extremely well rather than trying to be general-purpose execution layers that handle everything. The modular discipline is recognizing that different applications have different security, cost, and performance tradeoffs, and optimizing for one use case creates better outcomes than mediocre generalization.

The blockchain industry spent years pursuing universal platforms where every application runs on the same execution environment with identical security assumptions. This creates unnecessary overhead - a decentralized exchange doesn't need the same data availability guarantees as a lending protocol, and a payment channel doesn't need the same finality as a custody solution. Forcing everything through the same consensus mechanism and state transitions means every application pays for security properties it may not need. #Plasma @Plasma $XPL