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Last week, when Plasma announced its cooperation with Zerohash, a financial infrastructure company regulated by the U.S., I immediately liquidated all other Layer 1 tokens—because this cooperation is not just a simple technical integration, but has paved a compliant path on the blockchain for traditional financial institutions. In the future, institutions like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup may seamlessly bring trillion-dollar assets into the crypto world through this channel.

1. Essence of Cooperation: Zerohash is the 'compliance converter' of Plasma

The key to this cooperation lies in Zerohash's unique positioning:

  • Regulatory License Advantage: Holding US MSB and multi-state trust licenses allows institutional clients to trade digital assets within a compliant framework;

  • Traditional Financial Interface: Connected to traditional clearing systems such as DTCC (US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation), achieving two-way anchoring of on-chain and off-chain assets;

  • Institutional-level API: Provides interfaces that comply with financial industry standards, allowing banks to directly reuse existing systems to connect to the Plasma network.

This means that Plasma is no longer just a 'chain circle toy', but rather a passport to enter the traditional financial world. According to internal data, the first batch of pilot institutions will migrate over $20 billion in assets on-chain through this channel.

2. Technological Breakthroughs: How to achieve 'traditional asset on-chain'?

The core product of the cooperation is the RWA bridging protocol, which addresses three major pain points of traditional asset on-chain:

  • Compliance Anchoring: Each on-chain token corresponds to a regulated underlying asset, verified daily by third-party auditing agencies;

  • Real-time Settlement: Through Zerohash's DTCC interface, the settlement time for securities assets has been shortened from T+2 to 15 minutes;

  • Cross-chain Interoperability: Based on LayerZero technology, it supports mapping of multi-chain assets like Ethereum and Solana, avoiding liquidity fragmentation.

Currently, tokenized US government bond products have been issued on Plasma through this channel, with an annualized yield of 5.2%, reducing the traditional fund subscription threshold by 90%.

3. Market Impact: May trigger a reshuffle of the stablecoin landscape

This cooperation directly challenges the current stablecoin ecosystem:

  • USDT Upgrade Path: Tether announces it will issue native USDT on Plasma to achieve zero-fee cross-chain transfers;

  • The Rise of Institutional Stablecoins: Institutions like Citibank and JPMorgan can issue compliant stablecoins on-chain through this framework, challenging USDT's market share;

  • End of Regulatory Arbitrage: All transactions must go through KYC/AML verification, and anonymous trading scenarios will be restricted.

More importantly, Plasma's zero transaction fee model may become the first choice for institutions - traditional finance pays over $100 billion in clearing fees annually, while on-chain costs can be reduced to one-thousandth.

4. Ecological Opportunities: How can ordinary people participate in this transformation?

Although the cooperation is aimed at institutions, ordinary users still have a path to participate:

  • RWA Income Opportunities: Through protocols like Backed Finance and Ondo on Plasma, one can invest in tokenized government bonds and corporate bonds with an annualized rate of 4-6%, and interest is calculated daily;

  • Infrastructure Dividend: By staking Plasma's native token XPL, one can share in network transaction fee revenue (currently annualized at about 12%);

  • Early Liquidity Incentives: Providing market-making liquidity for institutions launching assets, with expected annualized returns of 15-25%.

It should be noted that the increase in compliance requirements means the end of the anonymous high-yield mining era, but in the long run, it is more sustainable.

5. Risk Warning: Three major potential challenges cannot be ignored

  1. Regulatory Policy Changes: The classification of tokenized assets by the US SEC still has uncertainties, which may affect the promotion progress;

  2. Traditional Resistance: Existing financial interest groups (such as SWIFT, clearing houses) may lobby to restrict on-chain clearing;

  3. Technical Complexity: Integrating traditional financial systems with blockchain takes time, and large-scale application is expected to take 2-3 years.

When financial veterans start to reconstruct the underlying infrastructure with blockchain, the real transformation has just begun.

The cooperation between Plasma and Zerohash is equivalent to equipping traditional finance with a 'chain engine' - retaining original regulatory compliance while gaining the efficiency and transparency of blockchain. For investors, this is no longer betting on the rise and fall of a certain token, but rather wagering on the direction of the migration of the entire financial infrastructure.

(Practical suggestion: Pay attention to the RWA protocol of the Plasma ecosystem, experience tokenized government bond investment with small amounts of money, and feel the actual process of traditional financial assets being brought on-chain.)