Payments don’t fail loudly.
They fail in the moments users don’t wait.
Solana optimizes for speed, but speed alone isn’t settlement. Finality arrives fast until congestion, retries, or reorg risk quietly stretch the gap between action and certainty. Fees stay low, but reliability still depends on network conditions staying friendly.
Plasma takes a different path. Finality is explicit, predictable, and scoped for payments. Transactions aren’t racing a global mempool for attention. They close cleanly, with no ambiguity about whether “almost confirmed” is good enough.
That difference matters in payments.
When a user taps “pay,” they don’t want probabilistic success. They want the moment to be over. Plasma treats that moment as sacred fast, cheap, and finished without asking users to understand what just happened.
Solana feels fast.
Plasma feels final.
And for payments, feeling final is what keeps users coming back.