The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Francesco George Renzi, CEO and Co-founder of Superfluid, a protocol building programmable money streams. The two discuss how streaming solves payment problems today, the potential of streaming as a DeFi primitive, using future cash flow for on-chain credit scoring, and much more.

Show Notes: 

(00:00:00) – Introduction.

(00:01:17) – Francesco’s background.

(00:02:40) – The inspiration for starting Superfluid.

(00:04:31) – Problems with payments today / Why streaming payments are better.

(00:07:57) – Potential pushback from Web2.

(00:10:22) – Superfluid usage in DAOs. 

(00:12:47) – Getting started with Superfluid.

(00:17:27) – Upgrading/downgrading tokens.   

(00:19:40) – How gas cost savings are achieved. 

(00:23:11) – Uses for streaming beyond payments.

(00:29:58) – Future cash flow and on-chain credit scoring.

(00:34:36) – What are Super Apps?

(00:38:02) – Superfluid and L2s.

(00:41:34) – Biggest challenge building Superfluid / Advice to founders.

(00:44:45) – Closing thoughts.

Social links: 

• Francesco’s Twitter

Resources: 

• Delphi Podcast Summaries

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