How Superfluid Protocol is Empowering Onchain Builders

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Superfluid Blog

3 min readMay 31, 2024

Superfluid has been live on Optimism since March 2022 and on Base since July 2023. The protocol has been empowering builders with a crypto-native financial primitive, money streaming, and a modular smart contracts framework to build applications that leverage a formula-based balance and gasless value transfer.

To date 31,769 streams have been started on Optimism and 577,985 on Base for a combined total volume of $170M.

Over 850 projects have been built on Superfluid Protocol so far, below we highlight a selection of them that we believe already had a positive impact on these two networks and could enable further value creation in the long term.

Streaming Quadratic Funding (SQF) by Geoweb & Gitcoin

Geoweb together with Gitcoin developed an evolved quadratic funding model, called “Streaming Quadratic Funding” (SQF), where donations can be streamed in real-time to recipients and quadratic funding is matched to ongoing donations based on the streams flow-rate.

Recurring Donations by Giveth

Giveth has recently launched Recurring Donations, a new feature that makes funding sustainable for public goods and web3 projects by leveraging Superfluid streams as ongoing funding infrastructure. Live on Optimism.

Vrbs Grants by 1Hive

In Vrbs grants builders earn a constant stream of funding every second proportional to the number of votes they receive.

Fractal Visions Community Grants

The QF Matching Pool for Mission #1 of Fractal Visions Community Grants is being distributed to the grantees via Superfluid streams.

Anotherblock

The team behind Rihanna’s BBHMM NFT drop has been using Superfluid to automate rewards distribution to their music NFT holders.

AdLands

AdLands makes advertising space on Farcaster available for rental via an ongoing subscription streamed via Superfluid.

Creator Subscriptions by MadFi

MadFi enabled creators on Lens Protocol to receive crypto subscriptions via Superfluid streams and offer exclusive content for their top fans.

ChannelX

ChannelX makes Farcaster channels subscription-only, users need to pay a subscription via Superfluid streams to cast in gated channels.

AlfaFrens

The new SocialFi app built on Base leverages Superfluid’s Distribution Pools to enable paid chat access to creators while providing a cashback to all subscribers.

Superfluid Protocol has also been used by the Optimism Foundation to stream RPGF3 grants, and will be used again in the upcoming RPGF4 round, providing the rails for a seamless funds distribution.

It’s refreshing to see so much innovation in the grants distribution space. The industry seems to be getting closer and closer to making public goods sustainable day by day.

The protocol has been designed around builders and developers, with a set of tools available for building, debugging and data retrieval that empower new applications development. Take a look at the technical documentation for a quick introduction to how the protocol works under the hood.

We are excited about all the projects currently under development on these networks and the added value they’ll generate in the long term. If you are building on Superfluid Protocol reach out on Farcaster, Discord or X, our team will be ready to help.