Episode 31 | Michele D'Aliessi from Superfluid on Streaming Payments

Smart contracts allow the transfer of digital assets automatically without the need for manual periodic transactions, in the form of a payment stream.

Payment stream you ask? Allow me to break it down for you through a simple example.

As an employee/freelancer, you are familiar with receiving your salary/fees in the form of a lump sum transfer.

What if I told you could now receive crypto payment every second, in the form of a payment stream?

On Episode 31, I had the opportunity to speak to Michele D’Aliessi, co-founder at Superfluid.

Superfluid is pioneering the idea of programmable cash flows, or simply put, allowing a constant flow of transactions that are executed automatically on-chain.

Payment streams would be impossible to do in traditional finance and have the potential to change how money works.

Topics covered;

• Michele’s story on how he first became interested with blockchain, and co-founded Superfluid (2:00)
• What is Superfluid and how it works (8:00)
• Basic uses cases for Superfluid protocol (subscriptions, salaries payments, dollar cost averaging, vesting) (10:37)
• DeFi use cases with Ricochet for Dollar Cost Averaging & Idle Finance for optimizing yield as you earn (11:51)
• NFT uses cases when buying land in the Metaverse (14:37)
• How to convince my employer to receive my salary in the form of a payment stream (16:39)
• Superfluid ecosystem (Diagonal, Request Finance) (23:50)
• Accounting for payment streams (30:07)
• Challenges faced by Superfluid for adoption (40:50)
• What Michele is looking forward to in 2022 in terms of adoption (44:09)

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