#Plasma is a transition from mainnet beta to full mainnet is designed as a phased, risk-minimized rollout that prioritizes payment reliability, validator resilience and regulatory readiness. During this beta phase, Plasma operates with capped validator sets, rate-limited zero-fee USDT transfers, and conservative paymaster budgets to observe real-world behavior under stablecoin-heavy loads. @Plasma Metrics such as finality time, failed transaction rates, paymaster drain attempts, and validator uptime guide progression.
The move to full mainnet involves gradually decentralizing validator onboarding, activating full slashing conditions, expanding gas sponsorship to additional stablecoins, and removing throughput caps. Governance rights via $XPL staking are incrementally unlocked, while protocol contracts (paymaster, gas abstraction, bridges) shift from upgradeable “guarded” modes to timelocked, community-controlled upgrades. This staged path ensures Plasma reaches full sovereignty only after demonstrating sustained security, liveness, and economic sustainability at global payment scale.