When I try to explain Plasma to someone who doesn’t spend their day thinking about blockchains, I don’t start with “Layer 1” or “EVM.” I start with the moment that usually breaks stablecoin adoption in the real world.
You finally get your hands on a stablecoin—maybe to pay someone, maybe to move savings, maybe because banks in your market are slow or expensive—and then you hit a silly wall: you can’t send it. Not because the stablecoin isn’t there, but because you don’t have the network’s gas token. It’s like having cash in your pocket and being told you also need a separate kind of coin just to open the door and hand it over.
Plasma feels like it was designed by someone who got tired of that exact problem.
Instead of treating stablecoins as “one more asset on the chain,” Plasma treats them as the main thing the chain is supposed to move. That’s why the project’s most interesting feature isn’t some exotic DeFi primitive. It’s the plain, everyday action that stablecoins were made for: sending them.
