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USDT moves billions every day, yet on most chains it still feels technical. You need gas tokens. You estimate fees. You hope the transaction doesn’t fail. That friction is small for crypto natives, but huge for everyone else.
Plasma’s architecture reframes the stack. Stablecoins aren’t an app-layer feature. They are the default. With a protocol-level paymaster and gas abstraction, users can send value without holding the native token. Under the hood, validators still secure the chain through staking of XPL. But on the surface, it feels closer to fintech rails than Web3 infrastructure.
That distinction matters.
Payments don’t need narrative cycles. They need reliability, predictable finality, and developer continuity. Plasma keeps EVM compatibility so builders don’t start from zero, while tuning consensus for settlement performance rather than speculative throughput.
If it works, adoption won’t come from excitement. It will come from repetition.
And repetition is how infrastructure wins.
@Plasma #Plasma $XPL

moving stablecoins like the internet moves data. No extra steps, no gas token homework, just send USDt and settle fast. That is the whole point.
Behind the scenes it is built like a payments network: PlasmaBFT for low latency finality, Reth for EVM execution, plus stablecoin native features like zero fee USDt transfers and custom gas tokens so fees can be paid in whitelisted assets like USDt or BTC.
The chain looks alive right now. Plasmascan is showing about 150.13M transactions, around 4.3 TPS, and blocks landing at roughly 1.00s.
XPL is the core asset securing the system, with initial supply set at 10B at mainnet beta, and public sale XPL for US buyers unlocking July 28, 2026.
My takeaway: if they keep shipping boring reliability and open up validators over time, Plasma can become the default stablecoin settlement rail people use daily without thinking.#Plasma $XPL @Plasma

Giảm thuế: Phiên bản Séc Chính Phủ Lớn (Rất (Rất) Lớn)
Bởi Kelly Phillips Erb, Nhân viên Forbes
Ngày 07 tháng 2 năm 2026
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Crypto Crash: These 10 Billionaires Have Lost $60 Billion
By Getty Images
February 07, 2026
CZ Meets Italy - Blockchain Week Rome
CZ Meets Italy - Blockchain Week Rome
One of the worst crypto slumps in years has left the world’s digital asset billionaires reeling. In early October, they were riding high as Bitcoin hit a record $126,000. Since then, the price has plummeted more than 40%, including around 20% this week alone (even after a 12% rebound on Friday). And it’s not just Bitcoin: The total value of all cryptocurrencies has fallen 40% since October, wiping away $2 trillion in market value, according to CoinGecko.

That has left the planet’s crypto billionaires much poorer, down more than $60 billion since October, according to Forbes’ estimates, based on the value of their known token holdings and publicly traded crypto assets. At least 10 unfortunate billionaires have lost at least $1 billion each. That includes the CEO of exchange giant Coinbase Global, whose shares have tumbled 56% since the crypto market peak and executive chairman of crypto-treasury pioneer Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), which has lost 62% of its market value. The biggest loser of all is CZ, the founder of Binance, who lost some $29 billion from his personal stash of Bitcoin and his hoard of Binance’s BNB tokens—which are down by half since October. That doesn’t even count a likely drop in value of his privately held crypto firm.

Investors have moved away from risky assets in the face of geopolitical uncertainty, opting to park their funds in assets like gold, which has risen to an all-time high this year. Cryptocurrencies, long regarded as a risky asset class, have borne the brunt of this wide-ranging retreat—one that has affected equity markets, U.S. treasuries and even the U.S. dollar market. “The sharp drawdowns in founder net worth are a byproduct of shifting risk sentiment,” says Joe Tigay, a portfolio manager at wealth management firm Equity Armor Fund. “When markets move from risk-on to risk-off, crypto fortunes tend to get hit first.”

All this comes despite the support of crypto-friendly president Donald Trump, a skeptic-turned-proponent who has praised the industry, launched cryptocurrency projects of his own and promised a strategic U.S. Bitcoin reserve.

Here are 10 billionaires who have lost at least $1 billion in publicly traded crypto wealth since the market peak in October 2025:
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Citizenship: Canada
Net worth: $78.8 billion (-$29.3 billion vs. October crypto market peak)
The biggest loser is crypto’s richest person, Changpeng Zhao (known as CZ), the founder and former CEO of crypto exchange giant Binance. Between his personal stash of Bitcoin, and his hoard of Binance’s BNB tokens—which are worth half as much as in October—CZ is more than $29 billion poorer. Not that he’s had a bad year: In October, President Trump granted him a pardon on his guilty plea to federal charges for failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program at Binance. The pair now have extensive business dealings.

Brian Armsrong
Brian Armsrong
Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $7.5 billion (-$7 billion)
Armstrong cofounded Coinbase and has grown it into a $7 billion (annual revenues) crypto exchange giant as CEO. He owns more than 12% of Coinbase's shares (plus options to acquire more of the company), which have made him a multibillionaire–but much poorer since October as the stock has plunged by nearly 60%.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $4.6 billion (-$4.7 billion)
Few people have bet bigger on crypto than Saylor, who steered his three-decade-old software firm MicroStrategy into Bitcoin in 2020, stocking up as a hedge of inflation. He has amassed more than 713,000 BTC, helping drive shares up more than sixfold since he first announced his move into crypto–but down 70% since peaking in mid-July.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $10.2 billion (-$4.6 billion)
Larsen cofounded payments platform Ripple, which launched the XRP currency. He has a sizable stash of XRP, which have dropped more than 40% since October.

Bitcoin 2022 Conference Draws Cryptocurrency Industry Professionals And Investors To Miami
Bitcoin 2022 Conference Draws Cryptocurrency Industry Professionals And Investors To Miami
Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $4.7 billion (-$4.4 billion)
The financier did stints at Goldman Sachs and Fortress Investment Group before turning to crypto, launching investment firm Galaxy Digital Holdings, with more than $12 billion of assets on its platform. Shares of the Toronto- and Nasdaq-listed company—which is making a huge push into AI infrastrucure—have fallen more than 60% since October.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $3.5 billion each (-$2.6 billion each)
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss got famous by claiming to have come up with the idea for Facebook, but they got truly rich in crypto. The brothers founded crypto exchange Gemini, which went public on the Nasdaq in September. The stock has dropped 76% since then, and this week Gemini announced plans to lay off 200 staff and shut down offices in Europe and Australia.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $2.1 billion (-$1.9 billion)
Ersham cofounded Coinbase with Armstrong in 2012, but left in 2017 and founded crypto investment firm Paradigm. He still owns about 4% of Coinbase’s shares.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $2.8 billion (-$1.6 billion)
A VC legend who is a founding partner of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he also bought 29,656 Bitcoin that had been confiscated by U.S. Marshals from the shuttered Silk Road black market in 2014. He paid just $18.7 million, or $632 per coin. They’re worth more than $2 billion now, but $1.6 billion less than just a few months ago.

Citizenship: United States
Net worth: $2.7 billion (-$1.2 billion)
A former VC investor who began buying up crypto in 2012, Roszak cofounded blockchain startup Bloq and has a portfolio that includes Bitcoin, Ether and BNB—all down big since October.

Plasma began as a chain that is best used to transfer stablecoins. It soon gained liquidity, became part of DeFi protocols, and was a regulated neobank. Today, at the beginning of 2026, the project is on the verge of its next adventure: globalization and a more extensive connection with the entire crypto-community. This article discusses the way Plasma intends on expanding its user base, integrate Bitcoin into its system, and overcome the difficulties of scaling fast.
More than the early markets: East and south
Plasma One first focused on the high dollar cities like Istanbul and Buenos Aires. These areas are characterized by very high inflation rates and they are consumers of digital dollars. Plasma is targeting Middle East and Southeast Asia in 2026. These are the areas with high populations of migrant workers that remit money, as well as with the fast-rising digital economies. In order to achieve success, Plasma should localize its services. It would imply collaborating with regional payment providers to issue cards, so that merchants are able to accept payments in stablecoins, and work around local regulations. It is also the ability to adjust the user interface to the local languages and cultural standards.
Plasma has indicated that it will expand Plasma One to these areas and it hopes to have a goal of over 100,000 people actively using it on a daily basis before the end of the year. The idea is straightforward yet bold: offer free transfers and high returns and cashback to a user to make them change their mind about the remittance system and savings accounts of the past. This would establish a new trend of the stablecoin neobanks and demonstrate that crypto rails can target the unbanked and underbanked.
The indigenous Bitcoin bridge: pBTC
The roll of a pBTC, a native Bitcoin bridge is one of the largest technical projects Plasma has in its roadmap. A large number of Bitcoin owners would like to spend their resources in DeFi or payment situations but do not do so because bridging can involve third-party custodians or complicated wrapping. Plasma, through pBTC, is supposed to provide a 1: 1 custodial representation of Bitcoin on Plasma. Users post BTC, get pBTC and are able to either lend them, make payments or put them up as collateral on Plasma. When they would like to leave, they redeem pBTC to BTC.
This bridge has the potential to open very vast capital. By far the biggest crypto asset in terms of market capital is Bitcoin. Assuming that the percentage flowing into the ecosystem of Plasma is not too large, it may increase the liquidity to a significant degree. It also establishes a new user experience: a payment using Bitcoin in stores that accept Plasma One cards. As the paymaster of Plasma is likely to have native support of pBTC, Bitcoin transfers may have the same zero-fee system as USDT.
It is complicated to start a Bitcoin bridge. It demands strong custody, reliable redemption procedures as well as attentive risk control. Plasma claims to peg its sidechain on Bitcoin every now and then borrowing the security of Bitcoin to settle the end result. This strategy is a blend of the velocity of Plasma and the notoriety of Bitcoin. Should it succeed, pBTC may turn Plasma into a Bitcoin capital-seeking yield and utility hub.
Meeting the 2026 risks head-on
Rapid growth brings risks. The biggest problem facing Plasma is the unlocking of the token in July 2026. Approximately 3.5 billion of XPL tokens will be made transferable upon expiration of the one-year lockup of the 2025 public offering. Selling pressure can be caused by large unlocks. Plasma will counter this by introducing staking around the same period. The token holders will also be motivated to delegate their XPL to the validators where they will receive rewards and contribute to the safety of the network. Staking mechanism is also based on an EIP-1559-style burn, where fees are destroyed, which puts deflationary pressure on XPL. It is hoped by the company that these incentives will persuade holders to stake and not sell.
The other risk is that of user engagement. The high TVL and deposit figures of plasma indicate that the institutions and DeFi users like plasma, yet the aggregate number of transactions daily is not as high as it should be to qualify as a payments network. Plasma is being used by many users to make simple transfers and do yield farming but not their day-to-day payments. Plasma has an intention of rolling out Plasma One in new geographical areas, introduce new features like paying utility bills and recharge of mobile phones, and implement pBTC to transform that. Assuming that the network has the capacity to handle daily purchases and remittances at scale, the number of transactions may increase and result in new business participants.
There is also increasing competition. The other chains and payment networks that specialize in stablecoins are competing with the same audience. Plasma is placing its twofold edge of deep DeFi liquidity and a consumer-focused neobank to keep up with the times. The merging of both worlds poses a barrier which cannot be easily duplicated by general-purpose chains and pure payment apps. It also provides Plasma with the opportunity to cross-sell services, i.e. convert remittance clients into DeFi users and reverse.
Long-term vision: Value rather than hype.
The philosophy of plasma is also surprisingly conservative as a crypto project. The team discusses the long-term value, the development of the controlled infrastructure, and the integration with the conventional financial system freely. This is unlike most of the projects, which pursue speculative cycles. Focus on the real product, such as Plasma One, adherence to MiCA, and collaboration with well-established paying companies illustrates the intention to create a point of transition between digital value and everyday life. This focus would be a distinguishing feature of Plasma in a market that is full of promises.
2026 will be a decisive year. Whether Plasma will be able to expand to new markets, to roll out the Bitcoin bridge without troubles, and to navigate the token unlock without significant price shocks, will be the determinants of success. Should it be able to do so, Plasma could potentially not only establish itself as a fundamental, stablecoin rail, but it would also be able to show that the next phase of crypto adoption could be based on regulated, user-friendly services, as opposed to hype. You are either a developer, investor or consumer, Plasma provides the view of how digital money might work, not speculation, when built to work with people
@Plasma

Nhà phát triển crypto của Mỹ, Danny Ryan, đã nộp một đề xuất vào tháng 11 năm 2024 cho Vitalik Buterin, người sáng lập và lãnh đạo biểu tượng của Ethereum, một blockchain nổi bật cung cấp năng lượng cho đồng tiền điện tử lớn thứ hai thế giới. Ryan, người đã làm việc trong bảy năm tại Quỹ Ethereum (EF), cơ quan quản lý thực tế của Ethereum, đã đề xuất rằng Ethereum có thể đang ở ngưỡng của một sự chuyển mình mang tính bước ngoặt.