I don't notice Plasma finishing payments.
I'm still saying the total out loud when the screen goes quiet. Plasma Gasless USDT already settled. No pause long enough to interrupt me. No sound cue. Nothing that forces my eyes back down.
The receipt starts before I look.
Customer's phone is still up. They are squinting at it, waiting for a confirmation that Plasma already spent. I wait too, because counters train you to wait for the little moment that means “safe to move on.”
It never shows.
I slide the bag closer anyway. Plasma closed the payment with deterministic-grade finality. The rest of us are just catching up to it.
“Did it go through?” they ask.
I check the screen. Clean. Too clean. No breadcrumb to point at. Just a Plasma ( @Plasma ) timestamp that already feels like it belongs to the previous customer.
Behind them, someone steps forward like the space is free.
So I nod. And I hate that the nod is doing the work the terminal didn’t.