First things first

What is Sablier?

An Ethereum dApp that you can start using today to pay your employees continuously. You make a one-off deposit and then the contract starts “allocating” the funds to the employee at a rate you set in advance.

Why is this helpful? Maybe they need the money for a personal urgency. Or they have to pay rent. Or they just moved to the big city, need food and wouldn’t open up their savings account.

Sablier is about providing insurance and optionality.

If you’re an employee wanting to use our dApp, please reach out so we can get in touch with your employer.

What do you mean by “continuously”?

The first version of the dApp allows users to select one of the pre-defined intervals from below. There is no constraint though, we can easily expand to other fixed intervals or even custom values.

How do you measure time?

The trick is to use the so-called block time average as a time proxy. On Ethereum, blocks are broadcast once every ~15 seconds, which makes 1 minute to be the equivalent of 4 blocks.

If you want to see the implementation, check out our open-source repository.

Can the payer get their money back?

Indeed, they can at any time before the end of the stream! Read this tweet for more information.

Is it safe?

We can’t be evil. The backend of Sablier is composed strictly of trustless smart contracts deployed on Ethereum Mainnet. Check them out on Etherscan.

They have been audited using MythX. You can inspect the report here.