4 Ways Superfluid Removes Friction for DAO Admin

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3 min readOct 19, 2021

The moment when money is exchanged for value is powerful, isn’t it?

It’s a moment where you can make important decisions — like whether you should hire that designer for your web3 project, purchase that new gaming rig, or buy the next CryptoPunk.

But while the exchange of value for money is an empowering moment for individuals, it’s often a challenging one for organizations. That’s because they have to pay tens, hundreds, and potentially even thousands of contributors and team members, entailing significant administrative efforts and costs in the process.

This challenge is particularly nuanced for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), given their dispersed operations and highly scalable nature. Without a programmable payment method (and multisig wallets to manage along the way), payroll can quickly become a nightmare for growing DAOs.

Fortunately, DAO admin doesn’t have to be a headache. Now, you can stream any token over time — without any friction or fees — to your team and contributors, settling their compensation once and for all. Your tokens will keep flowing to recipients until you edit their compensation or choose to stop it altogether.

This is all made possible thanks to Superfluid Protocol, the asset streaming protocol for real-time finance, in tandem with the ecosystem of DAO-friendly applications built on top of it.

Not only can DAOs stream employee salaries in real-time (ensuring contributors are paid fairly and efficiently), but release hidden value by greatly reducing the effort, overhead, and complexity when it comes to payroll management and execution.

The 4 Key Benefits of Superfluid for DAOs

  1. Less effort: streaming salaries allows DAOs to set a yearly (or monthly) amount to transfer and then moves the funds over time without the need for any further transactions on-chain.
  2. No more overhead: you only have to set the amount of funds you want to transfer once, rather than every month. No more monthly admin and payroll transactions from complicated cold wallets.
  3. Reduced complexity: you can stream to as many wallets as you want directly from a Gnosis Safe. This means you only have to add funds to one wallet to keep paying everyone.
  4. Pay in real-time: contributors get paid in real-time and can use the funds as soon as they receive them.

    And, one of the best parts about Superfluid is that setup is straightforward!

The Super Short Guide to Streaming Salaries With Superfluid

There’s 4 key steps to take in order to start streaming salaries with Superfluid:

  1. Transfer your mainnet Gnosis Safe funds to a wallet,
  2. Bridge the funds to Polygon,
  3. Send funds from the bridged wallet to Gnosis Safe on Polygon,
  4. Use the Superfluid App directly in your Gnosis Safe to stream to your team!

You can click here for a step-by-step guide on how to set up Superfluid streams for your DAO.

Unlock Value For Your DAO With Superfluid

Join organizations like MakerDAO Growth, Delphi Digital, and Connext by streaming salaries with Superfluid to your team today and transform your DAO’s payroll from a challenge into a superpower — for both your organization and its contributors.

Should you have any further questions about Superfluid streams and how they work, please feel free to reach out on our Discord! Fran, Mike, Sam, and the rest of the team are incredibly responsive and would love to help you anytime.

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