Bro, today is Tuesday, let's daydream by the window in our office or café in Singapore.

Sometimes I think our circle is actually divided into two worlds: one is **"building shelters"** and the other is **"building cities"**.

You see those so-called "high-performance public chains" on the market, whether they are launching meme coins or running Ponzi schemes, their underlying logic is actually just a temporary **"shelter"**. In order to be fast, they sacrifice decentralization; for the sake of excitement, they ignore security. When the hype comes, everyone rushes in to celebrate; once the hype passes, the shelter is dismantled, leaving only a mess behind. How could such things possibly support the future digital civilization of humanity?

As for @Plasma ($XPL), I feel it's doing something very clumsy and slow, but only those who truly know how to **"build cities"** would do: it is laying underground pipelines.

You might think its Rust code is not as sexy as the marketing slogans of those meme projects, and its Bitcoin Anchoring mechanism sounds a bit dull. But if you think about it, in the real world, when you walk into an international metropolis like Singapore or Tokyo, what you first marvel at is not how tall the buildings are, but how stable its water, electricity, and gas networks are, and how smooth its transportation (payment) is.

Plasma is doing this set of "invisible infrastructure".

It does not pursue a temporary surge in TVL; it aims for the day when the real "big players"—like a national bond system, multinational corporate supply chain finance, or even the social networks of billions of people—decide to move into Web3, only then will Plasma, this city made of solid materials (industrial-grade code) and top-notch foundations (BTC security), dare to take orders.

In this restless casino, being a lonely architect is very difficult.

But please believe that when the hurricane comes, all shelters will be blown away, only those skyscrapers that have laid their hundred-meter deep piles will still stand on the skyline. What we hold now is the "land certificate" of this future city. $XPL #Plasma @Plasma