The new layers are a fundamental addition for the ethereum network, not only because bitcoin added similar options to overpass some issues because bitcoin has no competitor yet, that Ethereum is not only facing scalebility problems but also have to compete with other ecosystems aiming to facilitate the adoption of the smart-contracts and make it friendly-use such as EOS.
Early talk about if this may really help but hopefully ethereum is always considered as an under-developement ecosystem which related its progression by fixing accuring bugs and the full analyse of the market.
So remind: Ethereum is still an undervalued token until reache its full developement.

Wow I cant imagine when this upgrade will be done for the ETHEREUM. The plasma project does have out fo the box thinking and it can really boost the transaction to all new levels and dimensions. If that is true thing then ETH can go crazy 100x or may be more than that I believe. The economics of the ETH will rise gradually and suddenly we will see more usage of the ETH platform. This upgrade is also mandatory for one important reason that it is getting its popularity decreased these days due to other platforms with full scaling model. So to get that one back on track you have to seek this update soon.

Plasma rocks It will allow computation off-blockchain that is absolutely enforcible on-chain, and is scalable to billions of computations in a second, with minimal on-chain updates. I guess it will be a huge step forward.