Many people talk about @Plasma and habitually approach it from the old angles of 'performance' and 'cost'. However, I've recently been thinking about a more everyday question: if blockchain really matures, will we even feel its existence at all?
Just like today when using mobile payments, we don't think about how complex the underlying settlement system is; we just feel that 'a quick scan is all it takes.' The truly impressive infrastructure is never about showcasing technology but about making people forget about it.
Plasma gives me the feeling that it is pushing in this direction. It attempts to transform on-chain interactions from 'needing to learn wallet operations' into 'a backend capability as natural as using online services.' When users no longer worry about the cost and steps for each interaction, many small behaviors that wouldn't normally occur will have the chance to emerge on a large scale.
Perhaps in the future on-chain world, what will occur frequently is not large transactions, but countless almost imperceptible flows of small value. And $XPL is more like a foundational factor that supports the stable operation of this high-frequency network, rather than just a symbol in the market.
This path may not be easy, but if #plasma really reduces this 'psychological barrier to use', then what it changes may be not just efficiency, but whether people are willing to step into Web3.