Finance has a habit of falling apart right when speed matters most. Large trades stall, liquidity gets scattered, and fees pile up like a hidden surcharge no one signed up for. We’ve all learned to treat it as “just how things work,” even though it never really made sense.
Plasma took a different approach.
With NEAR Intents now live, something meaningful clicks into place. Big settlements no longer require workarounds or complex routing. Swaps stop feeling like a bargaining process. You can move serious volume across more than a hundred assets, onchain, and the pricing feels… normal. The kind of execution people associate with centralized platforms, but without giving up the things that make crypto worth using in the first place.
Curious to hear your long-term take on $XPL — drop your thoughts in the comments.