Everyone assumes the best way to do stablecoin payments is to just use the biggest chain and ship.
But payments don’t forgive little annoyances.
If I have USDT, I shouldn’t have to hunt for another token just to pay a fee. “You can’t send because you don’t have a tiny bit of ETH” is the kind of thing that kills real-world use.
And when the network gets busy, fees jump and transfers slow down. That’s fine for crypto apps. It’s not fine for “I’m paying someone right now.”
Plasma is basically built around that reality: make stablecoin transfers the main thing, not an afterthought. So it leans into stuff like gasless USDT transfers and paying fees with stablecoins, while staying EVM-compatible so builders aren’t starting from zero.