Plasma breaks partial shipments.
The payment is done while the cart is still being argued with.
The merchant hears it in warehouse chat first, not dashboards.
“Why did this order split?”
USDT moved. PlasmaBFT finality closed. Balance updated before the picker finished scanning the shelf. Chain’s done. Floor isn’t.
This merchant sells bundles. Two SKUs, one box, one label. Their systems were built around a tiny grace window—inventory reservation settles, the order locks, then money “counts” for real.
On Plasma, that window gets shaved down to nothing.
Plasma's Gasless USDT means there’s no checkout friction. The relayer submits the send. PlasmaBFT seals. The order can flip to PAID while the WMS is still catching up to the reservation write. One SKU confirms. The other sits in that annoying state: “available” in the UI, not actually pickable in the wave.
The order engine doesn’t wait.
It spawns two fulfillment paths because it has to keep moving. One label prints. One package gets staged. Same order ID, same payment, two tracking numbers. Nobody planned for the second one.
Accounting sees one payment. Shipping sees two movements. Support gets the message later: “why did you ship half my order?”
The merchant tries to patch it with instinct. “Just hold the first box until both SKUs confirm.”
But the carrier cutoff is in twenty minutes. The SLA clock is already running. And the payment is final.
Picker already scanned the first item. Label already printed. The cage is already tagged for pickup.
So the first box goes out.
Hours later the second SKU clears. Another box. Another label. Another charge. You can feel the margin disappear in slow motion, one “small” exception at a time.
The internal debate gets ugly fast.
Lock inventory earlier? Then abandoned carts freeze stock all afternoon.
Delay fulfillment after settlement? Works until volume hits and the queue piles up.
Manual review for bundles? Fine on weekdays. Dead on weekends.
Plasma doesn’t care.
Plasma keeps settling in sub-second windows, indifferent to whether a bundle was “supposed” to be atomic.
The merchant ends up changing habits instead of code. Fewer bundles. Higher thresholds. “We ship separately” quietly added to a policy page nobody reads until they’re angry.
And the warehouse keeps asking the same question, every day it happens again: why did this one split?
