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Stablecoins are no longer an experiment.
They are already the financial backbone for millions of people across the world.
From exporters in emerging markets to remote workers, merchants, and institutions, digital dollars are used every day to store value, pay salaries, settle invoices, and move money across borders. Yet despite this massive adoption, stablecoins have remained structurally constrained.
The limitation was never the asset.
It was the infrastructure around it.
Money does not move on smart contracts alone.
It moves on regulated entities, compliant custody, licensed payment rails, and trusted distribution networks. Without these, stablecoins remain fragmented, expensive, and difficult to scale into everyday money.
This is the problem Plasma is solving.
Mainnet Beta and the Launch of XPL
On September 25, Plasma will launch its Mainnet Beta, alongside the introduction of its native token, $XPL .
From day one, Plasma will become the 8th largest blockchain by stablecoin liquidity, with over $2 billion in stablecoins live at launch. This capital will be deployed across 100+ DeFi partners, including Aave, Ethena, Euler, Fluid, and others, enabling immediate real-world utility rather than speculative activity.
The goal is clear:
Savings that preserve purchasing power
Deep and liquid USD₮ markets
The lowest USD₮ borrowing rates in the industry
Seamless, zero-fee transfers for users
At Mainnet Beta, vault deposits will be bridged to Plasma, allowing users to withdraw USD₮0, completing the final phase of Plasma’s launch. Users will also be able to send USD₮ with zero fees through Plasma’s dashboard, setting a new standard for stablecoin payments.
A Journey Built With the Community
Plasma has been built alongside its community from the very beginning.
Early access opened through Echo, ensuring participation was not limited to insiders. The Stablecoin Collective was formed to educate, collaborate, and bring real-world understanding to stablecoin adoption.
During Plasma’s deposit campaign, more than $1 billion in stablecoins was committed to vaults in just over 30 minutes, demonstrating both trust and demand. The public sale that followed attracted $373 million in commitments, far exceeding the original $50 million cap and ensuring ownership was widely distributed.
This momentum led to a historic partnership with Binance Earn, where Plasma launched the first onchain USD₮ yield product inside the world’s most widely used crypto application. The $1B cap filled rapidly, becoming the largest and most successful campaign in Binance Earn’s history.
This journey now culminates in Mainnet Beta — the largest day-one stablecoin liquidity launch ever.
The Rails for Digital Dollars
Plasma’s mission is to become the foundation for global money movement.
As stablecoin regulation matures worldwide — with positive momentum in the United States and beyond — Plasma is built for alignment from day one. The chain is designed not just for DeFi, but for payments, foreign exchange, card networks, on- and off-ramps, and real-world commerce.
At the core of this is PlasmaBFT, a high-throughput consensus mechanism engineered specifically for stablecoin flows. It enables fast settlement, high composability, and efficient execution at scale.
During the initial rollout, zero-fee USD₮ transfers will be available through Plasma’s own products, ensuring safety and performance under stress testing. Over time, this capability will expand across the ecosystem, allowing builders to create payment applications on a chain optimized for money.
But technology alone is not enough.
Money is a distribution challenge. Networks grow through trust, reach, and local relevance. Plasma is built to go country by country, integrating deeply into local markets and connecting onchain dollars to physical peer-to-peer cash networks. This approach allows digital dollars to reach merchants and users through channels they already trust.
Owning the System With XPL
XPL is the native token that powers and secures the Plasma network.
Ten percent of the total supply was sold directly to community members through the public sale, ensuring broad ownership from the start. At Mainnet Beta launch, an additional 25 million XPL will be distributed to smaller depositors who completed Sonar verification and participated in the sale.
Plasma is also allocating 2.5 million XPL to members of the Stablecoin Collective, recognizing those who contributed to education, adoption, and ecosystem growth. These distributions reflect Plasma’s core belief that ownership should belong to users and builders, not intermediaries.
Beyond distribution, XPL aligns incentives for validators, secures the network, and ensures that control of the system remains decentralized and community-driven.
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Stablecoins represent the most important financial innovation since the creation of money itself.
In emerging markets, they preserve purchasing power overnight.
In global trade, they compress settlements from weeks to minutes.
For small businesses, they remove gatekeepers and unlock access to global commerce.
Hundreds of millions of people already rely on digital dollars as their primary financial tool. Yet the infrastructure to support this reality has lagged behind.
Plasma is closing that gap.
By combining deep liquidity, owned infrastructure, real-world distribution, and a community-aligned token model, Plasma is building a new global financial system — one designed for everyone, everywhere.
Stablecoins are Money 2.0.
#plasma is how they move at global scale.
#Plasma @Plasma $XPL

Stablecoins are no longer a future narrative.
Across emerging and developed markets alike, digital dollars are already used to store value, pay salaries, settle invoices, and move money across borders. From exporters and remote workers to merchants and institutions, stablecoins power real economic activity every day.
Yet despite this adoption, stablecoins have remained structurally constrained.
The limitation was never the asset.
It was the infrastructure around it.
Money does not move on smart contracts alone.
It moves on licensed entities, regulated custody, compliant exchange flows, and trusted payment rails.
This is where Plasma takes a fundamentally different approach.
Owning the Regulated Stack
Payments is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. Relying on rented access or third-party licenses introduces fragility into systems that are meant to move money reliably at scale.
For a global stablecoin network, that model breaks quickly.
Plasma’s strategy is clear: own the regulated stack end-to-end.
To do this, Plasma has:
Acquired a VASP-licensed entity in Italy
Established a compliance and payments hub in the Netherlands
Begun the process for Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under MiCA
Started preparation for an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license to enable fiat connectivity and card issuance
Licenses are not an afterthought.
They are a core product primitive.
They determine who can custody assets, how funds are safeguarded, how users onboard, how fast settlement occurs, and which markets can be served with confidence.
Why Europe — and Why the Netherlands
Europe, under MiCA, offers a harmonized regulatory framework for crypto-native financial infrastructure. A CASP authorization enables compliant custody and exchange services across the region under a single standard.
Within Europe, the Netherlands stands out as a premier payments hub.
It is home to leading payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and sponsor banks that connect businesses to global card and alternative payment networks. Establishing Plasma’s compliance and payments operations there creates the foundation to pursue an EMI — the license that powers wallet accounts, card programs, stored-value balances, and direct access to local fiat rails.
This positioning allows Plasma to:
Serve priority global payment corridors
Meet strict data residency and compliance requirements
Offer institutions a predictable regulatory environment
Scale products without re-architecting for every jurisdiction
Why Licenses Matter for Global Money Movement
Licenses fundamentally change what a product can do.
They allow assets to be custodied under segregation and safeguarding rules.
They enable compliant exchange flows and card issuance.
They unlock fiat on-ramps and off-ramps directly integrated into stablecoin systems.
The result is:
Simpler onboarding
Fewer intermediaries
Faster settlement
Lower fees
Stronger consumer protections
A single operating standard for partners and builders
Instead of stitching together fragmented providers, institutions integrate once and inherit a full compliance and payments stack.
Distribution becomes coverage — at scale.
Plasma One: Turning Infrastructure into a Product
All of this regulated infrastructure powers Plasma One, Plasma’s stablecoin-native neobank.
Plasma One provides a trusted, compliant entry point into digital dollars and makes them usable every day:
Hold and safeguard stablecoin balances
Earn yield directly on digital dollars
Spend globally with a card
Send value instantly across borders
Because Plasma owns the licensing and compliance stack, it avoids the cost, delays, and fragility that come with third-party dependencies.
This is what allows Plasma One to become the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable way to use stablecoins.
Infrastructure That Compounds Across the Ecosystem
As Plasma One scales, the licensed payments stack does not remain siloed.
Builders and partners on Plasma will be able to leverage this infrastructure to launch:
Merchant acceptance and settlement solutions
Corridor-specific cash-in and cash-out
Payroll, payouts, and platform disbursements
Treasury and liquidity tools for businesses holding dollar balances
When licensed infrastructure is shared, balances connect cleanly across merchants and regions. Settlement accelerates. Liquidity becomes more efficient. Network effects emerge around digital dollars that actually move.
Conclusion: The Chain for Money
Plasma is not optimizing for short-term adoption metrics.
It is assembling the regulated capabilities that global money requires.
By owning licenses, embedding compliance, and wiring infrastructure directly into real payment corridors, Plasma transforms stablecoins from speculative instruments into dependable financial rails.
As the licensing stack deepens, partners gain a single, trusted standard for custody, exchange, settlement, and spend.
This is how digital dollars scale.
This is how trust is earned.
This is why Plasma is the chain for money.
$XPL
@Plasma

Stablecoins are no longer a future narrative.
They are already the financial backbone for millions of people across the world.
From exporters in emerging markets to remote workers, merchants, and institutions, digital dollars are used every day to store value, pay salaries, settle invoices, and move money across borders. Yet despite this adoption, stablecoins have remained constrained by one core limitation: infrastructure.
Money does not move on code alone.
It moves on trust, regulation, and licensed rails.
This is where Plasma’s strategy fundamentally differs.
Why Plasma Is Licensing the Payments Stack
Payments is one of the most regulated industries globally. Any system that aims to move dollars at scale must meet strict requirements around custody, safeguarding, compliance, reporting, and consumer protection.
Relying on rented access to licenses creates fragility. It introduces hidden risk, higher costs, slower expansion, and dependency on third parties whose incentives may not align with long-term scale.
Plasma has chosen a different path: ownership.
By acquiring a VASP-licensed entity in Italy, expanding compliance operations in the Netherlands, and preparing applications for CASP authorization under MiCA and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), Plasma is building regulated infrastructure from the ground up.
Licenses are not a legal formality.
They are a core product primitive.
The Strategic Importance of Europe and the Netherlands
Europe is the most advanced regulatory environment for digital assets and payments. MiCA creates a harmonized framework that allows licensed entities to operate across member states with clarity and predictability.
The Netherlands sits at the center of this ecosystem. It is home to leading payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and sponsor banks that power global card and wallet infrastructure.
By establishing its compliance and payments hub there, Plasma gains:
Direct access to payment rails
A foundation for EMI authorization
Support for card issuing and wallet accounts
Reliable fiat on/off ramps
Coverage for priority global corridors
This positioning allows Plasma to connect stablecoin settlement directly to licensed financial systems — something most blockchain projects cannot do.
What Owning Licenses Unlocks
Owning the regulated stack transforms how money flows on Plasma.
For users, it means:
Onboarding into a trusted, regulated environment
Holding dollar balances under proper safeguarding
Spending stablecoins instantly via cards
Sending money globally without intermediaries
Transparent fees and predictable settlement
For businesses and institutions:
One integration instead of many
Built-in compliance and reporting
Faster market expansion
Lower operational overhead
A single global standard for custody, exchange, and payments
Licenses turn stablecoins from a technical asset into usable money.
Plasma One: A True Stablecoin Neobank
Plasma One is the consumer-facing expression of this infrastructure.
It is a stablecoin-native neobank designed for how people actually use money:
Save digital dollars
Earn yield
Spend globally
Send instantly
Settle across borders
To deliver this experience at scale, Plasma must control the rails beneath it. Third-party licenses create delays, cost leakage, and systemic risk. Ownership enables optimization.
As Plasma One scales, this licensed infrastructure will not remain closed. It becomes a shared layer for builders, merchants, employers, and platforms on Plasma.
Enabling a New Financial Network
Once regulated infrastructure is native to the chain, powerful network effects emerge.
Merchants settle faster.
Payroll and payouts become programmable.
Treasury management becomes onchain.
Balances move cleanly across corridors.
Builders no longer need to solve payments from scratch. They inherit a compliant, global money layer by default.
This is how stablecoins evolve from a utility into an economy.
Conclusion: Why Plasma Is the Chain for Money
Plasma is not experimenting with payments.
It is industrializing them.
By assembling licensed capabilities, embedding them into priority corridors, and exposing them as products, Plasma is creating a dependable standard for global money movement.
Plasma One brings this infrastructure into everyday life.
Partners and institutions inherit it at scale.
Builders extend it across new use cases.
Costs fall. Access widens. Trust compounds.
That is why Plasma is not just another blockchain.
That is why Plasma is the chain for money.
@Plasma

Stablecoins are no longer a future concept.
They are already the financial rails for millions of people across emerging and developed markets alike.
What the ecosystem has lacked isn’t adoption — it’s credit infrastructure.
Deposits alone don’t power economies.
Credit does.
This is where Plasma’s Aave deployment fundamentally changed the game.
From Liquidity to Credit
Most DeFi launches optimize for TVL.
Plasma optimized for borrowing efficiency.
By committing $10M in XPL incentives, Plasma aligned liquidity providers and borrowers from day one. The result was immediate:
• $5.9B deposits within 48 hours
• $6.6B peak TVL
• Rapid transition from idle capital to active borrowing
But the most important outcome wasn’t size — it was rate stability.
Why Stable Borrow Rates Matter
In traditional finance, predictable borrowing costs are non-negotiable.
In DeFi, they’re rare.
On Plasma: • USD₮0 borrow rates have remained consistently between 5–6% • Despite massive TVL swings • Despite volatile market conditions
This predictability enables: – Sustainable leverage
– Yield looping without liquidation stress
– Institutional-grade capital planning
At times, net borrow costs dropped to ~4.48%, making positive carry strategies viable across the ecosystem.
Beyond TVL: Measuring Real Credit Demand
TVL shows deposits.
Borrowing shows economic intent.
Plasma’s Aave market generated: • $1.58B in active borrowing • 84.9% utilization on WETH • 84.1% utilization on USD₮0 • 42.5% market-wide utilization
High utilization means liquidity is working — not idle.
This is what separates a speculative market from a real credit market.
USD₮0: The Dollar Backbone
USD₮0 is not just another stablecoin on Plasma.
It is: • The primary unit of account
• The dominant borrowing asset
• The settlement currency across strategies
As of November 2025: • $1.78B supplied
• $1.49B borrowed
• 83.7% utilization
USD₮0 now anchors Plasma’s entire financial layer.
Yielding Collateral: Ethena & Ether.fi
Plasma’s credit market thrives because collateral remains productive.
• sUSDe earns Ethena yield + Aave incentives
• Users borrow USD₮0 against it
• weETH allows borrowing against restaked ETH without giving up yield
This stacking of yield + credit efficiency creates powerful, sustainable strategies.
Why Plasma Became the #2 Aave Market
As of November 26, 2025: • Plasma = 2nd largest Aave market globally • ~8% of all Aave borrowing worldwide • Nearly 2× larger than the #3 market
And this happened without endless asset sprawl — just focused, deep liquidity.
What Comes Next
Credit markets don’t exist in isolation.
Plasma’s next phase connects onchain credit to: • Licensed on/off ramps
• FX liquidity
• Payments & custody
• Merchant settlement
• Cross-border treasury flows
This is where onchain credit becomes real-world financial infrastructure.
The Bigger Picture
Plasma isn’t building for hype cycles.
It’s building the credit layer for stablecoin economies.
Predictable rates.
High utilization.
Real borrowing demand.
This is how global finance moves onchain.
@Plasma

Stablecoins have quietly become the financial backbone for millions of people across the world. In regions where inflation is persistent, banking access is limited, or cross-border payments are slow and expensive, digital dollars are already the default. USD₮ isn’t an experiment — it’s a daily necessity.
Yet despite this massive real-world adoption, stablecoins have been held back by one major limitation: usability.
Most users are forced into generic crypto wallets, complex exchange flows, or fragmented tools that were never designed for everyday financial life. Converting stablecoins to cash is difficult. Spending them is inconsistent. Trust and simplicity are often missing. This gap between powerful technology and practical usage is exactly where Plasma One comes in.
Plasma One is a stablecoin-native neobank designed from the ground up for how people actually use money. It brings saving, spending, earning, and sending digital dollars into a single, cohesive application. Users can hold USD₮, earn competitive yield, spend globally using physical or virtual cards, and transfer value instantly — without depending on legacy banks or centralized intermediaries.
What truly differentiates Plasma One is that it’s built on Plasma’s own onchain payments infrastructure. By becoming its own first customer, Plasma is stress-testing its technology under real global demand. Every transaction, every payment, and every yield mechanism feeds back into improving the network itself. This creates a powerful loop where consumer usability and protocol reliability evolve together.
Over time, these same battle-tested rails will be opened to developers, institutions, and payment providers. Wallets, fintech apps, and financial services will be able to launch on Plasma using infrastructure that has already proven itself in real markets — not just in test environments.
Plasma One represents a shift in how global finance is built. Instead of layering crypto on top of broken systems, Plasma is replacing them with faster, cheaper, and more reliable onchain alternatives. The end goal is simple but ambitious: anyone, anywhere, should be able to access dollars, earn safely, spend freely, and move money instantly.
This is how stablecoins become everyday money.
This is how global finance moves onchain.
$XPL @Plasma #plasma

Wenn ich einen Schritt zurücktrete, wird das große Bild klar: Dusk positioniert sich an der Schnittstelle von Privatsphäre, Compliance und Skalierbarkeit. Das sind die unverzichtbaren Voraussetzungen für die Einführung von Blockchain in der Finanzwelt. Mit DuskTrade, angetrieben durch eine lizenzierte Börse wie NPEX, könnte die Plattform zu einem Vorbild für andere Märkte weltweit werden. Persönlich fühle ich mich begeistert und vorsichtig optimistisch. Das ist kein spekulativer Hype; das ist Infrastruktur, die grundlegend verändern kann, wie regulierte Vermögenswerte ausgegeben, gehandelt und abgewickelt werden. Aus meiner Sicht ist die Reise von Dusk eine, der man genau folgen sollte, denn sie könnte das nächste Jahrzehnt der Finanzwelt prägen.

Ich habe immer das Gefühl gehabt, dass laute Werbung nicht gleichbedeutend mit langfristigem Erfolg ist. Dusk baut still eine Grundlage auf – Nodes, Partnerschaften, Lizenzen und ein Testnetz mit über 8.000 aktiven Teilnehmern. Diese Art von Fokus verleiht mir mehr Vertrauen in das Projekt als jede auffällige Pressemitteilung. Persönlich wirkt es, als würde Dusk Schach spielen, während andere Dame spielen. Sie bauen nicht einfach nur eine Plattform, sondern gestalten die Regeln dafür, wie tokenisierte, regulierte Finanzen sicher und effizient funktionieren können. Aus meiner Sicht sind das genau die Art von Bauherren, die Jahrzehnte lang Bestand haben.