The moment Claude crawls out of the chat window and takes over your computer...
What is Openclaw? Simply put, it is Claudeai's... We usually use Claude to represent "hand," which is simply a smart device residing within a webpage. It's a smart brain. If you ask it how to organize files, it will give you a step-by-step guide; if you ask... It crawls data; it provides you with a piece of code.
OpenClaw's core logic is: it connects Claude's brain to... On your computer permissions
It's no longer just talk; it runs directly in your local environment. Give it a command, and it can open a browser, browse folders, etc. It runs its own scripts. This "autonomy" is its biggest selling point, but also...
I have been observing the progress of plasma and found that the payment ecosystem it advocates, $XPL , perfectly addresses the pain points of traditional industries. You see, today's offline retail or light asset operation projects fear the slow settlement of funds and high cross-border payment fees the most. Today's news mentioned that trade between China and Central Asia has exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and merchants in Yiwu are busy shipping hardware and home appliances around the world. In this process, if the underlying network designed specifically for stablecoins can be used, like @Plasma , to achieve zero-fee transfers with USDT, the savings for these traditional foreign trade merchants would be pure profit.
Many people feel that Web3 is far from their lives, but in fact, it is quietly solving the most practical cost issues. Whether it is the rejuvenation of century-old brands like the Guangzhou Haizhu Grand Theatre or the New Year markets in various places, what is needed is essentially a smoother value flow system. $XPL is not just a token label; it is backed by a set of high-performance payment logic. When we discuss the digital transformation of traditional industries, don't just focus on big data and AI; the innovation at the payment infrastructure level is often the pivot that can leverage the leverage. The current market is no longer lacking in concepts; what is lacking is the practitioners who can truly implement technology in payment scenarios, like @Plasma .
The Underlying Financial Currents Behind Infrastructure Going Overseas
Seeing the news about the successful completion of the Shaoyong High-Speed Railway across the Luohongjiang Grand Bridge is quite touching. This is not just a connection of hundreds of meters of reinforced concrete; it symbolizes that China's infrastructure, this traditional hardcore industry, is still advancing steadily. Meanwhile, the latest press conference from the Ministry of Commerce is also emphasizing that we should actively expand imports and promote a balance in imports and exports. These macro news may seem unrelated to the market trends we in the cryptocurrency space are concerned about, but if you raise your perspective, you will find that all real industrial growth will eventually hit a wall, and that is the wall of financial settlement efficiency.
The country has begun to take strong measures to govern the internal competition and monopoly of e-commerce platforms, guiding companies from simple low-price competition to value competition. To put it simply, everyone has realized that the days of burning money for subsidies and squeezing merchants are over; the future competition will be in supply chain efficiency and the transparency of payment settlement. This reminds me of the recent indicators in the cryptocurrency market. If you pay attention to the project @Plasma , you will find that what it is doing is precisely helping traditional businesses break through the last mile of the trust chain.
Currently, traditional retail, especially instant retail, has reached a scale approaching trillions, but the rate exploitation and settlement cycle faced by merchants remain pain points. Many small and micro businesses see high turnover, but in fact, all profits are eaten away by intermediaries. The stablecoin exclusive blockchain concept proposed by #Plasma is particularly timely at this juncture.
What we are going to discuss, $XPL , is backed by zero-fee transfers and second-level settlements. Imagine when a stall owner at a Guangzhou Lantern Festival or a Chinese foreign trader going overseas no longer needs to pay a 3% cross-border settlement fee and doesn’t have to worry about gas fee fluctuations eating into profits; then Web3 will truly be realized.
Plasma is currently on a steady path. Unlike those projects that can only dream, it transforms stablecoins from digital assets into spendable money through native banking applications like Plasma One. In this spring of 2026, where traditional industries seek change, this pragmatism stands out as the most unique.
The economic data for early 2026 has been released, showing China's goods trade surplus has surpassed 1 trillion USD for the first time. Behind this number is not only the resilience of the manufacturing industry but also reflects an urgent reality: with such a massive cross-border flow of funds still trapped in the outdated SWIFT system and layer upon layer of agent banks, the efficiency losses are staggering. These days I've been reviewing the latest progress of @plasma. As an old investor, I actually have a strong aversion to projects that constantly sell empty narratives. However, Plasma has sparked discussion at Binance Square because it hits a core pain point for 2026: compliance and implementation.
In the past few days, I have been touched by the news of the transformation of the sock industry and pearl industry in Zhuji, Zhejiang. When those traditional factory owners began to ponder how to use smart vision and low-altitude economy to deliver express, and to conduct quality inspection, I suddenly realized that those of us who play Crypto should also have our feet on the ground.
In today's crypto circle, the screen is full of AI, various incomprehensible modules. But how many can really solve problems? This reminds me of something I have been paying attention to: @Plasma . In fact, the pain point of traditional industries going overseas is never the lack of orders, but the expensive fees for payment terms and cross-border settlement.
#Plasma has taken a very steady path. XPL is not a conceptual coin floating in the air; it is a solid infrastructure for stablecoin payments. Just in the past few days, while the market is still discussing how traditional manufacturing can upgrade, Plasma has already brought zero-fee USDT transfers into cross-border trade in South America and Southeast Asia.
For a factory owner in Zhuji engaged in foreign trade, he may not understand what Layer 1 scalability means, but he certainly understands: this chain using $XPL as fuel transfers money in 1 second, and the handling fee is extremely low. This smooth experience, like swiping a card, is what financial technology should look like.
Stop focusing on those projects with excessive hype. When a project starts to solve the settlement pain points of traditional industries and connects with real physical transaction flows, its logic changes. $XPL has experienced a wave of adjustment, but this is precisely the manifestation of hard power after the bubble is squeezed out. In the key year of 2026 for the modernization of this industry, projects that can help traditional industries save money and improve efficiency are the real hot commodities.
The 'Growing Pains' of Traditional Industries and the 'Cure' from Plasma
Recently, I've seen a lot of discussions about the modernization of traditional manufacturing, especially mentioning that 2026 is the starting year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan. Everyone is talking about high-end manufacturing, green energy, and even low-altitude economy. But there's a heart-wrenching detail: a large portion of the profit margin for many small and medium-sized enterprises is actually eaten away by the outdated financial clearing system. If you are a factory owner doing cross-border trade in Yiwu or Foshan, what are you most afraid of? It's not having no orders, but rather that the money doesn't come back, or that there are numerous obstacles on the way back, with exchange rate losses and transfer fees making you feel like you've wasted half a month.
Who says traditional manufacturing doesn't need blockchain? Look at this breakthrough
Recently, I saw data from the China Machinery Industry Federation indicating that while the machinery industry is stable in 2026, everyone is talking about a term: transitioning from product output to standard output. In simple terms, it used to rely on hard work, but now it has to rely on trust and efficiency.
This reminds me of the recent research I've been doing on @Plasma . Many people think blockchain is just hype, but if you look at $XPL in the context of traditional cross-border trade, the logic becomes clear.
Today's traditional foreign trade factories fear not having orders, but rather slow payments, exchange rate fluctuations, and those expensive fees. You painstakingly produce a machine tool, and the profit may only be a few points, yet a large chunk is taken by the intermediary during the currency exchange, and you have to wait several days.
#Plasma 's greatest achievement is that it has specifically designed the underlying logic for stablecoin transactions. It's like a superhighway, allowing assets like USDT to be transferred with zero fees and instant arrival. Isn't this exactly the payment infrastructure that traditional manufacturing companies seeking digital transformation dream of?
When our traditional industries are discussing the 14th Five-Year Plan and industry structure adjustments, the technology side must keep up as well. @Plasma is not just coding in an ivory tower; it's paving the way for the real economy. If you are still entangled in the short-term fluctuations of $XPL , it might be better to look at its vision: making money transfer as simple and cheap as sending a message. When the efficiency of traditional industries is truly accelerated by blockchain, that's when the real show begins.
See how Plasma reshapes the capillaries of finance
The movement of hundreds of millions of people is essentially a game of efficiency and cost. In the financial world, every flow of funds also experiences its own Spring Festival travel: congestion, transfer, waiting. Recently, I saw news saying that the Spring Festival travel in 2026 has become more relaxed under digital scheduling, and the traditional transportation industry is optimizing resources through algorithms. This made me think, what is the truly hardcore technology that we are struggling with in the crypto market every day? Is it those esoteric algorithms? No, it is the solutions that can solve real problems. This is why I have been particularly focused on @Plasma and its token $XPL recently.
This Spring Festival, the Temple of Earth Temple Fair in Beijing has brought ancient rituals and music into the metaverse, and the cultural products of the Great Wall in Yanqing have sold out. Watching traditional industries desperately leaning towards digital intelligence, I suddenly realized that this is exactly the physical support we have been searching for on-chain.
Recently, I have been observing the project @Plasma . Many people are focused on the price of $XPL , but I pay more attention to its underlying logic. Just two days ago, China's January warehouse index was released. Although it is the off-season for bulk commodities, the warehousing of consumer goods has rebounded against the trend, especially in food and pharmaceuticals. The flow of these physical assets will inevitably require a more efficient financial settlement layer in the future to match.
The uniqueness of #Plasma lies in its deep optimization for stablecoin payment scenarios. You can think of it as a super logistics distribution center in the digital world. The chunked architecture it adopts is very clever: want to process important transactions quickly? Use the paid channel; want to save money? Use the free channel and wait in line slowly. This elastic mechanism perfectly fits the pain points of emerging traditional industries like micro short dramas going overseas and cross-border small trade.
2026 is the starting year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan, focusing on increasing residents' income and boosting consumption. When our traditional commerce, catering, and even cultural products begin to go global on a large scale, that high-frequency, small-amount settlement demand will be the moment when $XPL shines.
Don't always feel that Crypto is too far from reality. When you scan to purchase digital cultural products at the Temple Fair, or when you pay a few dimes for short dramas in Southeast Asia, the stable and low-cost on-chain settlement layer behind it may be the future that Plasma is building. Instead of going with the flow, it's better to pay attention to these infrastructure projects that can truly catch the transformation flow of traditional industries.
On-chain Opportunities in the Great Change of Traditional Industries in 2026
Walking on the streets in early 2026, you will find that the foundational color of China's traditional industries has changed. Recently, a report on the top ten hotspots in Chinese business went viral, mentioning a term: black light warehouses. Today's warehousing and logistics are no longer reliant on manual labor but driven by AI-powered digital twins and automated robots. This leap in efficiency reminds me of @Plasma . Efficiency is the lifeblood of traditional industries and the instinct of Plasma. This year's manufacturing data shows that intelligent transformation has become a ballast. When the amount spent by factories on automation equipment grows by double digits year-on-year, if the efficiency of financial settlement doesn't keep up, it will be a drag. After studying @Plasma I found that its dual-layer processing mechanism (parallel processing layer) is simply tailored for this industrial-grade efficiency.
Petrochemicals, machinery, and light industry, these traditional pillars, are being pushed towards the forefront of intelligent and green transformation. Watching these traditional giants strive to turn around, I can't help but think of a silent revolution happening in the crypto circle.
When traditional industries talk about transformation, the difficulty often lies in the high friction costs of old chains. Looking back at the payment sector, although QR code payments have become extremely convenient, there are still invisible walls in cross-border settlement and merchant costs. This is just like most public chains today: either the transfer fees are shockingly high, or the speed is as slow as a bullock cart.
At this juncture, the emergence of @Plasma is like a breath of fresh air. It doesn't engage in flashy, ethereal concepts, but rather focuses on one pain point: stablecoin payments. Just as the state promotes new industrial standards to improve efficiency and reduce costs, the logic of #Plasma is the same, achieving zero transaction fees for USDT transfers through Layer 1 architecture and instant arrival.
For ordinary users, the most intuitive experience may be the underlying logic represented by coins like $XPL : making digital assets truly as usable as cash, rather than being locked in pools with depleted liquidity. As traditional industries pursue cost reduction and efficiency improvement, the crypto world should also bid farewell to the era of high transaction fees. On the eve of this transformation, will you choose to cling to the old ways or embrace a more efficient payment future?
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.
Recently, the news in the liquor industry has been quite heartbreaking. Originally thought that the Spring Festival of 2026 would welcome a good start, but what came instead was a price war and the painful transformation of channels. Some old liquor merchants are holding onto inventory from two or three years ago, watching helplessly as market prices are halved. This makes me think that the protective moat of traditional industries may really collapse in an instant in the face of a new cycle.
While liquor brands are still entangled in how to stabilize prices, I see @Plasma using a completely different dimension to launch a downward attack.
Young people today don't like drinking, but they value efficiency. The stablecoin payment system launched by @Plasma , which features 0 fees and 1 second settlement, is essentially addressing the liquidity cost problem that traditional finance finds most troublesome. While liquor distributors are still losing sleep over cash flow and the interest on payments for goods, if we can move the settlement process onto the #plasma chain and use the staking returns of $XPL to hedge operating costs, could this cross-dimensional combination be a remedy for traditional industries?
Don't always think that blockchain and selling liquor are two separate worlds. When traditional value carriers (like liquor) encounter liquidity crises, the new generation of underlying protocols is frantically generating capital.
Follow $XPL , maybe in the future when you buy a bottle of Moutai, you will only need to swipe on Plasma One.
The Birth of a New Order from the 'Tech New Year Goods' of Huaqiangbei
The hottest New Year's goods in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen are no longer nuts and cured meat, but drones and AI glasses. This indicates that the traditional consumption structure has changed; people are no longer satisfied with material accumulation but are pursuing experience and efficiency instead. But behind this consumption transformation, there is a pain point that has been overlooked. Our payment and trust mechanisms are still stuck on old tracks. The dilemma of digital intelligence in traditional manufacturing Now, Chinese manufacturing is all shouting for AI + manufacturing. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says that by 2026, it will gather tens of thousands of small scenarios into a big picture. But there is a very practical question: whether it is the supply chain of precision manufacturing or the settlement of cross-border trade, that kind of transfer that takes several days and has frighteningly high fees, can it really match 'Industry 4.0'?
From the rise of 'China's New Intelligent Manufacturing', let's talk about why $XPL is the steady happiness we are looking for
This Spring Festival, the atmosphere really feels different. In the newly released 2026 Spring Festival plan, everyone is talking about trade-in and using technology to boost consumption. Even the Ministry of Commerce is supporting the import of high-quality global goods into China. I was watching a commentary from China National Radio the other day, and it mentioned a term: value ascent. It said that China's manufacturing industry has transitioned from scale expansion to value ascent, especially in core technologies like industrial mother machines and precision molds, which are undergoing a breakthrough battle to avoid choke points.
Sitting in front of the screen, looking at these news about the dividends of traditional industrial clusters, the $XPL in my hand suddenly feels heavier.
Recently, Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen has become crowded again. But this time, what everyone is scrambling for is not pure gold jewelry, but so-called tech New Year's goods: AI glasses, bionic drones. Even those old garment factories that have been operating for decades have started using industrial internet for individualized global delivery. Seeing these traditional industries desperately trying to embrace digitalization, I suddenly thought of the @Plasma we've been discussing.
The pain points of traditional industry transformation are exactly the same as the pain points of our on-chain transactions: the game of efficiency and cost. You see those old factories wanting digital precision but fearing high investment costs. Isn't this exactly the problem that Plasma is addressing?
As a blockchain specifically designed for stablecoins, what excites me most is its extremely intelligent layered architecture. It has two layers of parallel processing; if you want speed, you pay a fee for the express lane; if you're not in a hurry, you can completely queue up for the free lane. This kind of flexible order mechanism is remarkably similar to the cost reduction and efficiency improvement that traditional companies are currently pursuing.
Many people look at $XPL just to check the price, but what I see is the pragmatic logic behind it. Just like those hot-selling tech products in Huaqiangbei, it's not because they are the most advanced, but because they allow ordinary people to enjoy the convenience of technology at extremely low or even zero cost. In the year 2026, when countless industries are undergoing a major transformation, projects that can lower the threshold and improve efficiency are truly the ones with vitality.
Stop focusing on those superficial narratives; look at the industrial revolution happening outside your window, and you will realize how stable the path chosen by #Plasma is.
A news article from People's Daily deeply resonates: in Shandong Weifang Shouguang, the older generation who once relied on hoes and earthen huts to grow vegetables is being completely transformed by the intelligent greenhouses developed by those born after 1985. Today's vegetable farmers are not only growing vegetables but also engaging with big data and AI algorithms. This leapfrogging in a traditional industry is quite similar to what we experience in Crypto.
People often think of traditional industries as outdated and cryptocurrencies as illusory, but look at what @Plasma is doing; it is actually the intelligent greenhouse of the financial world. When Shouguang's vegetables are sold globally through intelligent systems, the efficiency of capital flow at the grassroots level is crucial. The high fees and slow speeds of traditional cross-border settlements are akin to the inefficiency of old earthen huts. The emergence of $XPL is an attempt to achieve zero-fee stablecoin transfers through the L1 protocol of #Plasma , which is not only a technical breakthrough but also a true practice of inclusive finance.
Many people focus on the red and green fluctuations on the market but overlook the true meaning of technology implementation. Whether it’s growing vegetables or making transfers, efficiency, low cost, and decentralization are the trends of the future. The intelligent transformation of traditional industries aims to help farmers earn a bit more for their hard work, while the vision of @Plasma is to ensure that every value flow is no longer exploited by middlemen.
In this era, those who do not embrace change will eventually be left in that 8-meter-wide earthen hut. Watching the ecosystem of $XPL gradually taking shape, I can almost see the Shouguang miracle of the digital world being performed. In the early part of 2026, filled with uncertainties, what we need are not hollow slogans, but hardcore projects like Plasma that can root themselves in reality and truly solve payment pain points.
Today I saw Shouguang vegetable farmers using AI butlers to grow crops, with a full sense of technology. This is actually a primitive form of real-world assets (RWA): digitizing the growth process of crops. But there is a core contradiction here: vegetable farmers do not want their core technical parameters (such as light formulas) to be made public, but buyers and financial institutions need this data to prove the authenticity of the assets.
This dilemma is actually common in the RWA track. This is why I repeatedly emphasize the importance of @Dusk . $DUSK provides a privacy-preserving execution environment, allowing data to be verified for authenticity without exposing the original text.
In the year 2026, if a project only talks about going on-chain without discussing privacy protection, it is destined to be unable to carry large and serious financial assets. #dusk , which embeds privacy compliance into its DNA, is the infrastructure that can truly reassure Shouguang vegetable farmers and traditional enterprises to hand over their assets. The value of $DUSK lies in this irreplaceable trust premium.
Today I saw a report from the People's Daily about the intelligent greenhouses in Shouguang, Shandong, which resonated deeply with me. The traditional 'vegetable basket' industry now relies entirely on AI algorithms as 'gardening housekeepers,' with the output value per acre rising from a few thousand yuan to 80,000 yuan. This digital upgrade of a traditional industry actually reveals the core trend of China's real economy in the coming years: simplification, with data as king.
But in the cryptocurrency world, many people are still stuck in the phase of speculating on concepts. If you have paid attention to @Vanar , you will find that its path is similar to that of Shouguang's intelligent greenhouses.
#vanar is not just a public chain that can only make grand promises; its core V23 protocol and Neutron compression layer essentially address the issues of 'heavy' and 'expensive' enterprise-level data. Just as Shouguang's vegetable farmers need AI to precisely control light and temperature, traditional enterprises going overseas and digitalizing assets also urgently need a blockchain infrastructure that is operational and cost-effective.
$VANRY is currently working on making the complex on-chain interaction processes more accessible. When the financial statements and logistics documents of a traditional industry can be transformed into AI-recognizable intelligent assets through Neutron, Web3 will truly be grounded.
Stop fixating on the small fluctuations in the market; look at the determination of traditional industries to undergo digital transformation, and you'll know that projects like @Vanar , which deeply cultivate infrastructure and not only talk about AI but also have practical tools, are the true contenders that can accompany the real economy on long journeys.