At 14:02 USDT was sent.
14:02 the ledger finalized.
At 14:31 accounting finally booked it.
29 minutes where nothing failed —
but nobody moved.
Treasury wouldn’t release inventory.
Ops kept the dashboard open.
The counterparty asked for a screenshot “just to be sure.”
The chain was certain.
The workflow wasn’t.
That gap is the real pressure point in stablecoin payments.
Not loss. Not reorgs.
Supervision.
On Plasma, the question isn’t can it finalize.
It’s whether finality lands strong enough that humans disengage without hedging behavior.
Because once teams start compensating,
speed metrics don’t matter.
Attention becomes the hidden fee.
XPL
0.0888
-6.91%