StreamWork

StreamWork is a decentralized payroll protocol that reimagines how the world gets paid. In the current gig economy, international workers lose 5-10% of their income to wire fees and exchange spreads, often waiting weeks for settlement. StreamWork solves this by enabling continuous, gasless salary streaming.

Instead of monthly lump sums, employers open a State Channel via Yellow Network, allowing them to stream USDC to employees by the second. This architecture means zero gas fees for the thousands of micro-transactions that happen during a pay period.

To make the experience accessible for non-crypto natives, we integrate ENS, replacing complex hex addresses with human-readable names like maria.nexus.eth. Crucially, we utilize Circle's User-Controlled Wallets to generate secure, email-based wallets for employees. This allows workers to receive streams and settle funds on Circle Arc without managing private keys or seed phrases. StreamWork proves that crypto payments can be fast, cheap, and user-friendly enough for the real world.

StreamWork integrates Yellow Network, ENS, and Circle Wallets into a unified payroll pipeline designed to hide blockchain complexity from the user.

We built the core streaming engine using Yellow Network's state channels. This allowed us to generate off-chain cryptographic signatures for every second of work, effectively creating a "gasless" salary stream that only hits the blockchain when the user clicks withdraw.

For identity, we integrated ENS on Sepolia to resolve employee names. Instead of hardcoding addresses, our system dynamically resolves maria.nexus.eth to find the destination wallet, making the system human-readable and error-proof.

Finally, we used Circle's User-Controlled Wallets to generate secure, email-based accounts for employees. This abstracting away of private keys was the most critical piece of our UX puzzle.