#plasma $XPL

The gap between settlement and booking is the final frontier of modern finance.

​In the old world, we waited days for money to move. With @Plasma settlement is now immediate. Using PlasmaBFT finality, a USDT transaction is finished in seconds. The math is done. The receipt is deterministic. The network has moved on.

​Inside the finance department, the clock is still stuck in the 1990s.

​Even when the treasury view shows the new balance is real and visible, the "books" remain open. This is because settlement is a technical state, but booking is a policy state. Finance teams are trained to trust windows, not transactions. They wait for the end-of-day close or a batch report before they officially recognize the value. They want the numbers to stop moving so they can sign a static report.

​This creates a strange "limbo" state. The money is legally and technically yours, but it doesn't exist on the corporate ledger yet.

​Plasma didn't create this delay, but it makes the delay impossible to ignore. It exposes the friction between instant cryptographic proof and slow human workflows. We have solved the speed of money. Now, we have to solve the speed of accounting. To truly evolve, we must move away from "batching" and toward continuous booking.