Superfluid Distributions

What are distributions in Superfluid?

Looking forward to highly scalable, one-to-many token distributions? Superfluid has got you covered.

Superfluid is a smart contracts framework that adds functionalities to crypto tokens. We call these new functionalities agreements, they represent structured relationships between parties that last over time. All tokens that leverage Superfluid technology (SuperTokens) can use all available agreements.

In order to enable scalable distributions, we use one of these agreements called the Instant Distribution Agreement (IDA). This connects the wallet of one sender (which we call “Publisher”) with the wallets of many receivers (or “Subscribers”) via digital pipes across which assets can flow freely. Once these connections are properly established, the Publisher can send tokens to all Subscribers at a fixed gas cost.

To effectively set-up an IDA, a Publisher needs to assign units in this IDA to any number of receivers. These units give a receiver a right to a proportional amount of all future distributions, allowing any sort of granular allocations. In any future distributions, a receiver will get a number of tokens equal to the proportion of its units divided by the total units in existence. After assigning units to all Subscribers, publishers can start distributing assets.

Creating these digital pipes to each subscriber and assigning units to subscribers are on chain smart contract interactions that require gas. So using this technology only makes sense if you plan recurring distributions over time to the same users.

Distributed amounts are immediately allocated to the receivers. However, in order to receive any distributed assets directly in their wallets, receivers have to accept the units given to them by a publisher. This is a spam-prevention mechanism as a single wallet can only receive units from up to 255 IDA publishers.

Once receivers accept to be part of a distribution, the Publisher can distribute any amount of tokens that would appear directly in the receivers’ wallets without any need to withdraw.

Distributions have a fixed gas cost for Publishers (one single on chain contract interaction), and cost nothing for Subscribers. Once the set-up is done and units have been allocated, it doesn’t matter how many Subscribers there are, distributing tokens among them will always cost the same.

To recap, in order to distribute tokens as a Publisher you will have to:

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