paystream pays workers in real time. Every minute on the clock is a minute settled — wages, tax, reserve and compliance, split and sent automatically.
No invoices, no two-week wait, no escrow. A payment channel opens when work begins and settles continuously until it ends.
The worker starts the timer. A Lightning channel opens between employer and worker and the meter starts running.
Each minute, the gross wage is split four ways — take-home, tax authority, company reserve, compliance fund — and sent as bitcoin or stablecoin micropayments.
The channel closes. There's nothing to reconcile — the worker has been paid for every minute worked, and every obligation is already routed.
Every settlement is decomposed at the protocol level. The worker sees their take-home rise in real time; the employer's tax, reserve and compliance obligations are met the moment the wage is earned — not at the end of a pay period.
paystream settles value over the Lightning Network and stays asset-agnostic — workers can be paid in bitcoin or stablecoins today, with support for more assets on the roadmap.
Issue and transfer stable assets on Bitcoin, settled natively over Lightning channels.
native · lightningClient-side validated smart contracts and assets with privacy held off-chain by design.
client-side · privateA statechain-based layer for fast, scalable stablecoin transfers and self-custody.
statechain · scalablepaystream turns payroll from a batch process into a continuous stream. If you're investing in or building on the future of money movement, let's talk.