How many people are still chasing the next 100x coin in the market, while those who truly sense the trend have already started to布局the entire track.

Have you noticed that the total market value of stablecoins has long surpassed most mainstream coins, but the network infrastructure supporting their operation is as outdated as old antiques? The competition among Layer1s has never been about whose ecosystem is richer, but about who can process fund settlements more efficiently.

This is why projects like Plasma are worth watching. Essentially, it is a financial-grade settlement layer specifically designed for large-scale fund flows. To give an analogy, it’s like a highway built exclusively for armored trucks, with no speed limits and no tolls.

On the technical level, sub-second finality makes settlements as instant as sending a text message; USDT transfers incur no fuel fees at all, completely lowering the barrier to entry for newcomers; even more impressively, users can pay for any transaction’s Gas directly with USDT, meaning ordinary people don’t need to understand what XPL is to use it seamlessly. This kind of product design thinking is an excellent entry point for traditional financial tools entering Web3.

From a trader’s perspective, this is no longer just another EVM chain story, but the last mile of cross-chain asset settlement. For high-frequency traders, OTC merchants, and enterprises with cross-border payment needs, stablecoin networks that can achieve near-zero costs and秒级到账are a must. Participating in ecosystem建设—such as providing liquidity or running nodes—now is like getting a ticket to the infrastructure takeoff.

The prosperity of the ecosystem will ultimately feedback into the value of XPL itself. As the core of network security and governance, XPL captures the value growth of the entire stablecoin settlement ecosystem.