Plasma is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain optimized for stablecoins, especially USD-pegged assets like USDT, with the mission of making digital dollar payments as fast, cheap, and seamless as traditional money. Plasma’s architecture is designed from the ground up to remove the biggest pain points in crypto money movement: high fees, slow settlement, and complex user flows. It achieves near-instant finality, high throughput (1,000+ transactions per second), and zero-fee USD₮ transfers through innovative protocol-level paymasters and custom gas token support, allowing users to send stablecoins without needing separate native gas tokens.
Plasma is fully EVM-compatible, letting developers deploy smart contracts and apps with familiar Ethereum tooling while benefitting from its scalable, low-cost execution environment. The network also supports advanced features like confidential payments and a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge, opening the door for broader asset integration. Central to the ecosystem is the native XPL token, which secures the network via staking rewards, aligns long-term incentives, and underpins governance, helping Plasma grow beyond crypto into real-world payments, remittances, merchant use, and next-generation financial services.
Plasma’s focus on stablecoin-first infrastructure positions it to support trillions in on-chain money movement and become a foundational layer for global digital finance.
