Last week at the blockchain salon, the entrepreneur sitting next to me, Lao Wang, suddenly slapped his thigh: "If I had used ERA earlier, I could have saved half a month's salary on that cross-border settlement!" On his phone screen, a string of transfer records was particularly eye-catching— the same amount took three days through traditional channels, but only 8 minutes with ERA, and the fees were nearly 20 times different.
This reminded me of the dilemma I faced six months ago. At that time, I sent a batch of samples to a UK client, who requested a deposit first, but the bank's cross-border transfer process left me overwhelmed: endless forms, a three-day deposit cycle, and an inexplicable intermediary bank fee. To make matters worse, by the time the money arrived, the pound's exchange rate had dropped significantly, resulting in a loss.
A friend in fintech recommended the ERA wallet to me: "Try this, it is based on a Layer 2 scaling solution and follows the Optimistic Rollup route." I decided to give it a try. I selected the amount, entered the recipient's address, and at the moment of confirmation, a prompt popped up saying "On-chain." In less than ten minutes, the client sent a screenshot saying they had received it, and the fee was just a fraction of the bank's charge.
I later realized that ERA's advantage lies in the mechanism of "off-chain computation + on-chain verification." It processes a large amount of transaction data off-chain, then packages and compresses it before uploading it to the main chain, inheriting the security of the main chain while solving the problems of slow transfers and high costs typical of traditional blockchains. This characteristic of "high throughput + low gas fees" is a necessity for small merchants like us who frequently engage in small cross-border transactions.
Now, I have switched to using ERA for settlements with several clients, and last month, I saved nearly three thousand just in fees. Looking at the clear transaction records in the backend, I suddenly felt: good blockchain applications are not obscure concepts, but technologies like ERA that transform "complex" into "simple," allowing ordinary people to genuinely enjoy the benefits of efficiency. $ERA