In the hot news of these days, there is a strong sense of the hustle and bustle. A cargo ship carrying 2,700 tons of Chilean cherries just docked, followed closely by the New Year gold being sold out. People are discussing whether this year's cherries can achieve freedom while adding gold to their asset allocation list.
This traditional sense of wealth security and consumption upgrade actually reflects a solid underlying logic: people are increasingly valuing the liquidity and certainty of assets.
Interestingly, when I opened the project plan for @Plasma , I found that this certainty is being digitalized. #Plasma is not the kind of geek product hiding in an ivory tower; it is more like a digital highway serving real transactions.
Why should we pay attention to this change?
People buy New Year gold because it has cultural attributes and is hard currency. People use stablecoins because they can circulate globally like the US dollar. However, the current blockchain networks are not friendly to stablecoins. If you transfer 100 dollars of USDT, you might have to pay 10 dollars in fees, an experience that is incomprehensible in traditional business logic. It's like shipping a box of cherries from Chile to Guangzhou, only to find that the shipping costs more than the fruit; how can this business continue?
This is why I am focused on $XPL . As the native token of the Plasma network, it supports a brand new payment standard.
Zero-cost transfers: In the future, when paying with USDT, the term 'transaction fee' might just disappear.
Second-level confirmation: No longer need to stare at the transfer page spinning, as smooth as swiping a card.
Bitcoin-level security: It is a sidechain anchored in the Bitcoin security system, and this solid feeling resonates with the mindset people have when buying gold.
The intersection of tradition and the future
Recently, the market regulatory authority mentioned that the core of updating traditional industry standards is integration. What @plasma is doing is deeply integrating the transparency of blockchain with the convenience of traditional payments. It does not seek to be an all-purpose solution; it aims to thoroughly and ultimately refine the payment process.
In the current situation where traditional industries are caught in a rat race, seeking change, and discussing going overseas, what we need are technologies that can truly land and be used by ordinary people. Whether it's through applications like Plasma One that resemble new banks to deposit and withdraw digital dollars, or through various lending protocols on the chain to appreciate assets, the underlying core remains unchanged: efficiency.
If you are still entangled in various tricks of those air projects, you might as well calm down and take a look at these infrastructures that truly solve problems. As the Year of the Horse approaches, perhaps we should re-examine those projects with a pragmatic spirit as if we were scrambling to buy New Year gold.
Don't be intimidated by those complex technical terms; you just need to remember one thing: if a technology can make your money move faster, cheaper, and safer, then it is a trend. And trends often hide in these seemingly dull but extremely critical underlying constructions.
