shadowfax
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shadowfax
@shadowofthefax
part of the @Plasma community team 🕊️

A very overdue update: Last year I joined Plasma as Head of Engineering to spearhead the development of our flagship product, Plasma One. After a few years at MetaMask, it became clear that building products that make crypto easier to use will see the most distribution. Today, the tools and infrastructure that exist unlock entirely new levels of usability: account abstraction, fast finality, real-world crypto spending with cards, and more. For the first time, the infrastructure exists to make this possible. That's why we're building Plasma One. Money is changing and we are at the tipping point. Crypto is competing with traditional finance on multiple fronts. Aave has more outstanding loans than Klarna. Hyperliquid volumes are comparable to Robinhood. And now, Plasma One can compete with neobanks like Revolut on simplicity and reliability. My personal north star is simple: Plasma One should be so intuitive that my parents use it. We are building Plasma One to be the home of new money. Because stablecoins are new money. Global, borderless, permissionless, and programmable. But the expectation when people interact with stablecoins is the same as with fiat. That gap is exactly what we're building for. Plasma One is in private beta now. We're shipping fast and opening up early access soon. We are building money that just works, and your money deserves Plasma One.









Last year, Bridge announced support for @Plasma, and now we’re taking the first step live. We’re starting with USDT as the first supported currency within our Orchestration APIs—including onramps and offramps—unlocking more scalable stablecoin movement on Plasma.



Plasma’s DeFi ecosystem is now ready to become a tool for value accrual. After 4 months, XPL emission has decreased by 80% or 98% in dollar terms, peak to trough. - Liquidity is no longer a meaningful expense. - Existing protocols are showing signs of strong traction with extremely limited incentive. This is demonstrated by our @aave utilization rate being the highest in the industry (see below). - Plasma's DeFi ecosystem is likely to maintain its current position given the number of profitable traders sizing positions. - XPL liquidity mining, a once significant source of sell pressure and circulating supply inflation, is no longer worth considering. The coming months will focus exclusively on importing new income sources into Plasma for traders to take advantage of. The increased profitable activity, fee generation, and subsequent wealth events should become a significant boon for this network.

Trillions fr fr this time I swear (srs)




