If you have really engaged in cross-border e-commerce, you will understand one thing:
Collecting money is harder than selling goods.
The platform's return is slow, fees are high, and currency exchange losses are significant.
A sum of money can be sliced multiple times from the overseas customer to your account.
This is also why more and more cross-border sellers are beginning to engage with USDT.
But the problem arises.
On-chain transfers are not friendly to 'business people':
Fees are unstable, and a network blockage can cause delays.
Wrong chain transfers and non-arrival directly impact cash flow.
For cross-border e-commerce, money is not for 'showing off,' it is for circulation.
I first learned about @Plasma not from the white paper,
But starting from a very realistic problem:
Is there a chain that treats 'stablecoin settlement' as a serious business?
The answer given by Plasma is very straightforward.
It is not about making the most complex public chain, but rather resembles a settlement network:
Low cost, high certainty, and simplicity of operation.
Transferring USDT on Plasma feels more like a 'business transfer',
Rather than participating in a blockchain experiment.
There is no need to repeatedly calculate Gas, nor worry about a fee suddenly multiplying several times,
For sellers, this predictability is very important.
From the perspective of cross-border e-commerce,
The value of a chain does not depend on how grand the story is,
But whether it can help you circulate money safely, stably, and at low cost.
$XPL here does not play the leading role,
But rather the basic cost of system operation.
Just like the logistics fees, electricity costs, and platform service fees you have to pay in business.
Many blockchain projects resemble financial products,
And Plasma is more like an infrastructure.
When blockchain starts to seriously serve real business scenarios,
Rather than just serving traders,
It has truly reached the stage of 'being usable for a long time'.
For a cross-border e-commerce,
Plasma is not a project for fantasy,
But rather a chain that, if it can run stably, is really useful.
