The central ideas of the financial infrastructure that revolve around plasma are that it must be neutral, resilient, and hard to censor. Plasma will use the highest combat-proven settlement layer in crypto to base its security model on Bitcoin, which increases trust and limits the use of discretionary governance. This is targeted at such a design: once money starts traveling on a magnitude and internationally, its neutrality is the key consideration.
The network is aimed at two highly different yet complementary groups of audience. On one side is the retail user in high-adoption market, in which stablecoins are already used by consumers as savings or remittance and payments of day-to-day items. In the other side are institutions that are involved in payments and finance which necessitate foreseeable liquidation, durable assurances and structures which can withstand pressure on regulatory and geopolitical grounds.
The Bitcoin-based security assists Plasma in occupying the aspects of the middle ground between these requirements. It reinforces the censorship resistance in addition to maintaining credibility of the cases of compliant financial uses. Instead of pursuing experimental quality, Plasma emphasizes trust, reliability and settlement finality. What emerged is a network that is not only aimed at transferring value, but rather in a manner that is perceived to be long-lasting, apolitical and ready to comply with international financial tracks.