February 2026: Everyone is watching prices. Almost no one is watching rails.
The market feels frozen. Charts flicker, narratives stall.
But beneath the noise, settlement behavior is changing.
Over the past weeks, parts of enterprise payment flow have quietly shifted onto Plasma ($XPL) — not for yield, not for speculation, but for predictability. Faster finality. Lower reconciliation cost. Fewer intermediaries.
This is how infrastructure wins.
Retail follows attention. Enterprises follow certainty.
Once a payment stack embeds a settlement rail, it rarely looks back.
By the time volume shows up on price charts, the decision has already been made in backend systems.
Power doesn’t announce itself.
It settles first.