Your Whole Team Can Read Your Salary 💸
Getting paid in stablecoins is turning into a normal way to work, with 39% of workers in a 4,600 person survey this year taking some of their income that way, against roughly $390B of stablecoin payments moving through 2025.
Once a company runs that payroll on $SOL every salary it pays is a transfer with an amount attached, sitting at an address anyone can watch.
So a colleague can read your number, a recruiter can price you before the call, and a competitor can size your whole team from the outside.
Vesting has the same shape, because teams running unlock schedules through tools like Streamflow are publishing who receives what and when.
None of that is a choice those tools made, it is the token standard, since an SPL transfer carries a readable amount by design and moving to another app on the same chain changes nothing.
C-SPL is Arcium's answer to it, a confidential token standard that will seal the amount inside a transfer while the token keeps moving through the same wallets and apps. It has not shipped yet.
What does run today is the compute layer beneath it, live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations so far, where a result still settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction.
Streamflow sits on Arcium's ecosystem page alongside fourteen other teams, which says something about where the payments side of this is pointed.
Payroll moved onchain because it beats a bank wire on speed and cost, and my read is that it does not reach the mainstream until a salary stops being public information.
#Stablecoin #Solana
Getting paid in stablecoins is turning into a normal way to work, with 39% of workers in a 4,600 person survey this year taking some of their income that way, against roughly $390B of stablecoin payments moving through 2025.
Once a company runs that payroll on $SOL every salary it pays is a transfer with an amount attached, sitting at an address anyone can watch.
So a colleague can read your number, a recruiter can price you before the call, and a competitor can size your whole team from the outside.
Vesting has the same shape, because teams running unlock schedules through tools like Streamflow are publishing who receives what and when.
None of that is a choice those tools made, it is the token standard, since an SPL transfer carries a readable amount by design and moving to another app on the same chain changes nothing.
C-SPL is Arcium's answer to it, a confidential token standard that will seal the amount inside a transfer while the token keeps moving through the same wallets and apps. It has not shipped yet.
What does run today is the compute layer beneath it, live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations so far, where a result still settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction.
Streamflow sits on Arcium's ecosystem page alongside fourteen other teams, which says something about where the payments side of this is pointed.
Payroll moved onchain because it beats a bank wire on speed and cost, and my read is that it does not reach the mainstream until a salary stops being public information.
#Stablecoin #Solana
