Most chains ask developers to learn new habits before they can ship. Plasma flips that: keep the workflow familiar, then make the payments experience radically simpler.
If you’ve built on Ethereum, the appeal is obvious Plasma is fully EVM compatible, and their docs explicitly call out standard tooling like Hardhat, Foundry, and MetaMask. The “why now” is stablecoins: Plasma bakes in zero-fee USD₮ transfers and stablecoin-native gas so users don’t need a volatile token just to pay fees.
The first time I shipped a payments flow, my biggest bug wasn’t code it was explaining “finality” to normal users. In 2026, I think the best chains will make that conversation unnecessary.