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$307B in Stablecoins: How Plasma Is Positioning Itself as Global Money Rails
Moving dollars around the world at scale is actually very hard. People think it’s just send and receive, but that only works when volume is small. Once you go global, you need rails that run end to end, no breaks, no delays.
That’s where Plasma is coming in. On Plasma $XPL USDT settles almost instantly, like sub-second finality, and on top of that there are zero transfer fees. That alone already changes how money can move. But Plasma is not stopping with just fast transfers.
Now they are licensing their payments stack, so companies that are building settlement systems, custody platforms, exchanges, or payment apps can just use Plasma as the default chain. Instead of everyone reinventing the wheel, Plasma becomes the base layer for moving money.
On the regulation side, they’re not playing games either. Plasma already acquired a VASP-licensed entity in Italy, opened an office in the Netherlands, and hired serious compliance people. We’re talking a Chief Compliance Officer and also a Money Laundering Reporting Officer. That’s not cheap and not something you do if you’re not serious long term.
Next step is even bigger. They plan to apply for CASP authorization under MiCA, which would let them properly support custody and exchange for users in Europe. After that, they’re preparing for an EMI license, so fiat on-ramps and off-ramps can be integrated directly into Plasma’s stablecoin system. No extra layers, no third-party mess.
By licensing the whole stack for global money movement, Plasma can serve much larger markets and work with partners in many more regions. This is basically how Plasma One plans to operate like a real stablecoin neobank, not just another crypto app. This is also how Plasma wants to deliver on its mission building stablecoin infrastructure for a new global financial system.
That’s why they keep saying Plasma is the chain for money. It’s not marketing fluff, it’s positioning.
And if you zoom out, you can see the whole industry moving this way.
Western Union just announced USDPT, a US dollar payment token issued by Anchorage Digital. They also launched a Digital Asset Network, working with wallets and providers to make cash off-ramps easier. That’s a company with 170+ years of history going into stablecoins.
JPYC also launched a yen-pegged stablecoin, fully backed by Japanese deposits and government bonds. Like other issuers, they’ll make money by earning interest on those bond holdings. This is how stablecoins become profitable businesses.
Then you have Mastercard, which is reportedly finalizing a deal to acquire Zerohash for around $2 billion. What’s interesting is Zerohash raised $100M earlier this year and was valued near $1B. That shows how fast infrastructure value is moving.
Other headlines just confirm the trend:
Visa is adding support for four stablecoins across four blockchains, after stablecoin-linked Visa card spending quadrupled in Q4
Kyrgyzstan announced a national stablecoin on Binance Smart Chain, working with Changpeng Zhao
The European Central Bank is openly talking about launching a digital currency around 2027 to protect eurozone financial independence
Right now, total stablecoin supply is around $307.4B. USDT is still dominating with about 59.7% market share, roughly $183.6B. At this level, stablecoins already make up more than 1.38% of the entire US M2 money supply.
That number alone tells you this is not a small experiment anymore. Stablecoins are quietly becoming real money infrastructure, and Plasma is clearly trying to position itself right in the middle of that shift.
#Plasma @Plasma
That’s where Plasma is coming in. On Plasma $XPL USDT settles almost instantly, like sub-second finality, and on top of that there are zero transfer fees. That alone already changes how money can move. But Plasma is not stopping with just fast transfers.
Now they are licensing their payments stack, so companies that are building settlement systems, custody platforms, exchanges, or payment apps can just use Plasma as the default chain. Instead of everyone reinventing the wheel, Plasma becomes the base layer for moving money.
On the regulation side, they’re not playing games either. Plasma already acquired a VASP-licensed entity in Italy, opened an office in the Netherlands, and hired serious compliance people. We’re talking a Chief Compliance Officer and also a Money Laundering Reporting Officer. That’s not cheap and not something you do if you’re not serious long term.
Next step is even bigger. They plan to apply for CASP authorization under MiCA, which would let them properly support custody and exchange for users in Europe. After that, they’re preparing for an EMI license, so fiat on-ramps and off-ramps can be integrated directly into Plasma’s stablecoin system. No extra layers, no third-party mess.
By licensing the whole stack for global money movement, Plasma can serve much larger markets and work with partners in many more regions. This is basically how Plasma One plans to operate like a real stablecoin neobank, not just another crypto app. This is also how Plasma wants to deliver on its mission building stablecoin infrastructure for a new global financial system.
That’s why they keep saying Plasma is the chain for money. It’s not marketing fluff, it’s positioning.
And if you zoom out, you can see the whole industry moving this way.
Western Union just announced USDPT, a US dollar payment token issued by Anchorage Digital. They also launched a Digital Asset Network, working with wallets and providers to make cash off-ramps easier. That’s a company with 170+ years of history going into stablecoins.
JPYC also launched a yen-pegged stablecoin, fully backed by Japanese deposits and government bonds. Like other issuers, they’ll make money by earning interest on those bond holdings. This is how stablecoins become profitable businesses.
Then you have Mastercard, which is reportedly finalizing a deal to acquire Zerohash for around $2 billion. What’s interesting is Zerohash raised $100M earlier this year and was valued near $1B. That shows how fast infrastructure value is moving.
Other headlines just confirm the trend:
Visa is adding support for four stablecoins across four blockchains, after stablecoin-linked Visa card spending quadrupled in Q4
Kyrgyzstan announced a national stablecoin on Binance Smart Chain, working with Changpeng Zhao
The European Central Bank is openly talking about launching a digital currency around 2027 to protect eurozone financial independence
Right now, total stablecoin supply is around $307.4B. USDT is still dominating with about 59.7% market share, roughly $183.6B. At this level, stablecoins already make up more than 1.38% of the entire US M2 money supply.
That number alone tells you this is not a small experiment anymore. Stablecoins are quietly becoming real money infrastructure, and Plasma is clearly trying to position itself right in the middle of that shift.
#Plasma @Plasma
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