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About Superfluid
Superfluid is a streaming payments protocol deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and other EVM networks, built for salaries, subscriptions and grants that settle by the second. It wraps ERC-20 assets into Super Tokens, sets a per-second flow rate through the Constant Flow Agreement, and derives account positions from a static balance plus real-time balances, so recipients can withdraw whatever has already streamed; the Instant Distribution Agreement allocates payouts to many addresses by share instead of one transfer at a time, and both agreements share one token contract, so a wallet only reads the balance endpoint to display a continuously moving position.
Its position is closer to a cash-flow primitive called by applications than to a standalone front end: wallets, payroll tools and game applications use the two agreements as settlement components, and cumulative streamed value has passed 1.7 billion dollars across roughly 1.31 million recipients. Compared with batch transfers, clearing happens entirely in contract accounting, with no custodian in the middle and no oracle pricing, which suits payment relationships of fixed size and continuous duration.
Founded in 2020, Superfluid pioneered asset streaming on Ethereum. In March 2021, it deployed on Gnosis Chain and Polygon, enabling real-time money flows and marking its multi-chain expansion. In July 2021, a $5.1M strategic round led by Fabric Ventures, with Multicoin Capital and others, accelerated ecosystem growth. Later that year, the SDK Suite was released, lowering developer barriers and fostering composable streaming applications. In 2022, Distribution Pools launched, enabling one-to-many streams and programmable airdrops, later adopted by ENS DAO and Optimism for grant distribution. In February 2025, the native token SUP was introduced, with 60% allocated to the community, 35% to a DAO treasury, and 25% to a foundation, signaling a shift toward decentralized governance. These milestones transformed Superfluid from a niche protocol into core public infrastructure for programmable cash flows.
On 12 February 2026, Superfluid published a teaser declaring batch payments obsolete and promising a new product built around continuous streams, shifting subscriptions, payroll and rewards from one-off transfers to per-second settlement.
The team iterated on that direction over the following months, emphasising pay-as-you-use subscription structures and the ability to split one stream among multiple recipients. On the product side, Superfluid wraps stablecoins into Super Tokens so that USDC and USDT can flow between DeFi protocols by the second; creating a stream costs gas once with no further charges, making repeated payments to many recipients far cheaper than individual transfers.
Future strategy and roadmap: Superfluid plans to extend streaming into machine-to-machine settlement between AI agents in the second half of 2026, supporting billing per unit of data, compute and API calls, while deepening integrations with payroll and subscription platforms and pursuing enterprise settlement as stablecoin rules clarify.
ZhiCheng "Miao" Miao — Co-founder & CEO; former senior software engineer at Microsoft and video software engineer at Skype, also founder of Decentral.ee.
Francesco George Renzi — Co-founder and director; former CEO, now stepped down from the role.
Michele D'Aliessi — Co-founder & COO; former Digital Industry Lead at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and Head of Growth at Makr Shakr, lectures on blockchain at Bayes Business School.