Plasma vs Traditional Layer 1 Blockchain Payment Performance Comparison

In the stablecoin payment field, Plasma has achieved significant advantages over traditional Layer 1 blockchains in payment performance due to its targeted architectural optimizations, primarily reflected in four core dimensions: throughput, transaction fees, confirmation speed, and stability, perfectly aligning with the global stablecoin payment demand for "efficiency, low cost, and reliability." Traditional Layer 1 blockchains like Ethereum, due to their use of single-chain serial processing and PoW/PoS consensus mechanisms, face issues such as low throughput (Ethereum PoS is about 15-30 TPS), high fees (single transaction costs several dollars during peak times), and slow confirmation speeds (several minutes), making it difficult to support large-scale payment scenarios; whereas high-performance Layer 1s like Solana and Avalanche, although they have higher throughput, suffer from poor EVM compatibility, insufficient ecosystem maturity, and controversies over decentralization, limiting the deployment of stablecoin applications.

In contrast, Plasma is designed with the core goal of "stablecoin payments," improving throughput to thousands of TPS through sharded parallel processing, far exceeding traditional Layer 1, and can easily meet the transaction demands of high-frequency scenarios such as global retail payments and cross-border remittances; in terms of transaction fees, Plasma has optimized the transaction packaging and validation process, keeping the fee for a single stablecoin transaction below $0.001, even approaching zero, significantly reducing payment costs for users and businesses; regarding confirmation speed, Plasma uses a fast consensus mechanism, shortening transaction confirmation times to seconds, meeting the real-time payment experience requirements; in terms of stability, Plasma is based on a Layer 1 native architecture, without relying on other networks, ensuring data availability and security through its own consensus, avoiding the "data availability crisis" of Layer 2 solutions and the congestion issues of traditional Layer 1, providing reliable underlying support for stablecoin payments. This performance advantage gives Plasma a strong market competitiveness in the global stablecoin payment arena, making it a potential core choice for the next generation of payment infrastructure. @Plasma $XPL #Plasma