I have a friend who does simultaneous interpretation. He says there is a counterintuitive standard in this industry— the better you translate, the less people remember you. Because good translation makes people completely forget the existence of language barriers. Two people speaking different languages chat enthusiastically in the conference room, shake hands when they are done, and walk away. No one turns back to look at the person in the translation booth.

@Plasma wants to do this kind of translation.

Before it, a small shop owner in Jakarta wanted to receive dollars; he needed to learn what a wallet is, what Gas fees are, what ERC-20 is, and which exchange to buy ETH to pay transaction fees. He needed to learn a new language first to complete a payment that should have taken three seconds.

#Plasma has hidden all of this. Zero-fee USDT transfers, the paymaster pays your Gas fees at the underlying level, you don’t need to know what XPL is, and you don’t need to know what PlasmaBFT is. The Plasma One app opens to a simple balance page—your dollars are here; you can spend, transfer, or save to earn interest. Swiping the Plasma Card is just like using a card; merchants in 150 countries receive fiat currency.

The term "blockchain" does not appear throughout the entire process.

This is true adoption. It’s not about getting more people to learn how to use blockchain; it’s about making blockchain disappear from their daily lives. Just like Wi-Fi—your mom doesn’t need to know what the 802.11ac protocol is when using WeChat for video calls.

What this industry has been doing for ten years has been the opposite: creating a cool thing and then teaching the whole world how to use it. Plasma’s idea is—create something that the whole world is already using without needing to learn.

So it doesn’t shout slogans, doesn’t hold airdrop parties, doesn’t invite KOLs to shoot short videos. It connects to the 230-country payment network of MassPay, connects to on-chain transactions of CoW Swap, connects to the cross-chain liquidity of NEAR Intents. These are all backend tasks. Users are unaware, but with every zero-fee transfer, every card swipe, and every instant cross-border payment, they run through these invisible pipelines.

The price of $0.08 for $XPL reflects the market's pricing for the "invisible" things. Invisible is equivalent to non-existent—this is the logic of retail investors.

But the best infrastructure shouldn’t be seen.

The best translation shouldn’t be remembered.