The announcement read,
“Since BNB is an ERC20 token, adding support for one token on PlasmaChain meant we were easily able to abstract the logic and apply it to any ERC20 token […] As of now, we’ve officially added support for the top 100 ERC20 tokens by market cap on PlasmaChain.”
PlasmaChain is one of the three sidechains of the Loom Network, the others being GameChain and SocialChain. This DPoS sidechain is noted to be a revamp of ZombieChain, and is also one of Loom’s most significant sidechains. This sidechain is going to be the main point of transaction for tokens that are linked to Ethereum through Plasma Cash.
Plasma Cash is a scaling solution proposed by Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, and Joseph Poon, the co-creator of Lightning Network. It is a built-in decentralized exchange that is going to “act as a bridge to Ethereum mainchain and other sidechains”. This not only ensures faster transactions, but also cheaper transactions.
Another prominent feature of PlasmaChain is that it would act as a main chain, in order to connect Plasma Cash to Layer 3 chains. It enables fee payment in ETH and Loom Token. In the future, it would also pave path for Bitcoin [BTC] payments. Crucially, since the chain was connected to the mainnet, it enables ETH, ERC20 and ERC71 token transactions.
The blog post stated,
“It enables zero-fee and near-instant transfers of tokens, while allowing users to easily transfer their tokens to and from Ethereum mainnet at any time […] But since PlasmaChain offers much shorter time-to-finality (typically 1–3 seconds), it allows for an online payments experience using crypto that is comparable to using a credit card.”
Among the top 100 ERC20 tokens integrated to PlasmaChain, six are stablecoins. This includes USD Coin [USDC], TrueUSD [TUSD], Maker Dai [DAI], Paxos Standard Token [PAX], Gemini Dollar [GUSD], and EURS.
The co-founder said,
“Layer 2: Enabling Lightning-Fast Stablecoin Payments with Near-Instant Settlement Stablecoins by themselves are great. But integrating them into a Layer 2 like PlasmaChain is like putting stablecoins on steroids — bringing them even closer to a potentially disruptive form of online payments.”
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