Payment-rail comparison across stablecoin-native L1s (Plasma, Circle Arc, Stripe/Paradigm Tempo, Tether Stable) and incumbent chains (Tron, Solana, Base) — fees, finality, and ecos

Payment-rail comparison across stablecoin-native L1s (Plasma, Circle Arc, Stripe/Paradigm Tempo, Tether Stable) and incumbent chains (Tron, Solana, Base) — fees, finality, and ecosystem maturity, grounded in live search and cited.

price-ascending: candidates are ordered by the listed price of the operation, with no managed-first preference applied. Unlike /v1/apis, this surface does not rank Apiosk-settled listings above federated ones — a comparison that reorders on commercial grounds is not a comparison. Pass sort=managed_first for the catalog's ordering.

Compared: listed price, settlement rail and input compatibility. Not measured yet: latency, reliability, result quality, and provider terms such as rate limits, jurisdiction and licensing.