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When we talk about the widespread adoption of stablecoins, don’t rush to believe it’s already mainstream. Ask your friends: can they directly send $5 USDT to someone, transfer $100 to family members, or use it to pay employees? Most people would be stumped by the same question: what about Gas?

This seemingly simple payment scenario currently requires a whole set of complex preparations. Users must have a wallet on the relevant chain, purchase native tokens as fuel, and carefully choose the blockchain to avoid asset loss. Sometimes, a transfer of just $10 requires preparing $5 worth of Gas fees first. It’s like going to a convenience store to buy water, only for the clerk to insist you first get a “fuel card” before checkout — an absurd experience.

Payment Dilemma: Why Ordinary Users Are Still Locked Out by Gas

The essence of stablecoin payments isn’t about pursuing higher TPS or richer ecosystems; it’s about answering a fundamental question: can users transfer directly using only USDT?

This question exposes the core pain point of current crypto payments. Payments have three main characteristics that stablecoins currently do not meet:

First, payments are small and frequent. When each transaction involves cumbersome operations like Gas, users’ willingness to transfer drops significantly. Second, the recipients are often non-crypto users. They don’t understand Gas, cross-chain bridges, or signing risks—they just want “one-click to complete.” Third, users are reluctant to hold volatile assets as a payment threshold. Nobody wants to buy volatile native tokens just to send $5.

Combined, these points create a strong demand to abandon the current Gas model. Visa’s data confirms this contradiction: over the past 12 months, on-chain stablecoin transaction volume exceeded $51 trillion, with far more transactions than a single figure, yet the proportion used for daily payments is painfully small. The issue isn’t the scale of stablecoins but that they remain constrained by complex usage processes.

Plasma’s Innovation: Making Free Transfers a Native Chain Capability

Plasma’s brilliance lies in fundamentally breaking through this barrier at the bottom-layer architecture, turning “USDT transfer without fees” into a native chain capability, not just superficial gimmicks.

The official stance is clear: stablecoin transfers are a core application of Plasma’s design. Traditionally, fees have been the biggest obstacle to promotion. Plasma offers completely free USDT transfers, allowing users to pay without holding Gas tokens — meaning the old assumption that “users must understand Gas” is discarded.

In Plasma’s design, users don’t need native tokens to send stablecoins; the entire network is built for “high-frequency, low-cost, near-instant payments.” This change may seem simple but reflects a fundamental shift in thinking: instead of educating users about Gas, it’s better to eliminate Gas altogether.

In contrast, other chains try to reduce Gas fees but can’t eliminate the necessity of Gas. Plasma goes further — in its ecosystem, ordinary users can completely ignore Gas.

$XPL’s Economic Design: How to Sustain Free Transfers

Abandoning user-side Gas payments doesn’t mean the network has no costs. This is where $XPL plays a crucial role.

While many dislike projects being packaged as “price narratives,” in Plasma’s system, $XPL is better described as a “system essential.” Costs haven’t disappeared; they’ve shifted from “explicit user payments” to “system-level settlement and subsidies.” The network needs a value center to cover security budgets and fuel costs.

Plasma’s $XPL structure is clear:

• Validator Rewards: starting annual inflation rate at 5%, decreasing annually to a long-term baseline of 3% (activated after external validators and delegation)
• Fee Burn: introducing a mechanism similar to EIP-1559, burning fees based on network usage to hedge inflation

This design reflects deep consideration from the project team: the network must ensure security while avoiding unchecked token issuance. The goal is “the more people use it, the more value remains for participants.” Each stablecoin transaction, while not paying Gas directly, drives fee burning through network activity, creating long-term value for $XPL holders.

From Concept to Reality: A Complete Payment Ecosystem Loop

Connecting all these factors, a complete ecosystem loop forms:

Large on-chain transaction volume of stablecoins → Ordinary users face barriers due to Gas and native token requirements → Plasma enables “zero-fee USDT transfers + near-instant payments” to remove these barriers → Stablecoins can shift from “on-chain assets” to “everyday payment tools” → Network security and operational costs require a central asset to support → $XPL becomes the security backbone and fuel source for the payment network → Increased network usage leads to fee burning that hedges inflation, maintaining system value.

This loop’s key is abandoning the traditional blockchain “pay-per-transaction” model, instead establishing a new paradigm of “network participants collectively maintaining.”

Summary: Moving Beyond Education, Toward Experience

A phrase worth repeating: the widespread adoption of stablecoin payments doesn’t rely on educating users about Gas complexity but on making Gas invisible altogether.

When “only holding USDT to transfer” ceases to be a high-end feature and becomes the default experience, stablecoin payments are truly complete. Plasma is moving in this direction, using innovative design that eliminates Gas constraints, returning daily payments to their core — simple, fast, reliable.

This “anti-crypto” mindset might be the necessary path for stablecoins to become genuine payment tools.