You have 100 USDT in your wallet. You want to transfer it.
As a result, the wallet tells you: 'Insufficient balance.'
You are not poor, you just don't have those few cents of ETH or SOL. To transfer this money, you first have to go to the exchange to buy Gas, withdraw, wait, and pray that the network doesn't get congested. This experience is not only awful but also absurd.
If Web3 payments are destined to become popular, this 'Gas anxiety' must die.
Why is payment now like a disaster?
The current public chains (whether Ethereum or Solana) have a fundamental logical error: forcing users to hold B assets to use A assets.
It's like going to the supermarket to buy apples, and the cashier refuses cash or credit cards, insisting that you exchange for specific tokens on the next street to pay the 'checkout fee.'
The result is:
Cognitive threshold: Ordinary people can't distinguish between what is the mainnet and what is RPC.
Resource competition: Your coffee money is competing with tens of thousands of NFT bots for bandwidth.
Cost fluctuations: When someone starts a scam project, your transfer fee can multiply by ten.
Plasma: Doing one thing and doing it to the extreme.
@Plasma It has given up the illusion of a universal public chain. It doesn't intend to be an 'all-rounder,' but focuses solely on stablecoin settlement.
Its logic is simple to the point of being brutal:
True zero gas (0 Gas): When you transfer USDT, you only use USDT. No need to reserve any extra tokens. The transaction fee is flattened at the underlying level, and the experience is no different from sending a WeChat red envelope.
Sub-second confirmation: What payments need is an 'instant feel'. Plasma's consensus mechanism reduces confirmation time to under one second. By the time you finish scanning, the settlement is already complete.
Leveraging Bitcoin's security: It doesn't invent a fragile security mechanism of its own, but rather anchors its security in the world's most powerful network—Bitcoin—through a Bitcoin-anchored model.
Blockchain should 'take a back seat.'
The best technology is one that makes people feel the absence of technology.
When you swipe your card or use facial recognition for payment, you don't care what protocol is running in the background. Web3 payments should be the same. The significance of Plasma is not how advanced it is as an L1, but that it makes the term 'blockchain' disappear.
It makes 100 USDT truly equal to 100 dollars of purchasing power.
No more gas fees, no more waiting, no more redundant operations.
Payment should just be payment.
