Nowadays, use cases for continuous payments are handled with recurring discrete payments. While this obviously works to some extent, there’s some significant drawbacks which become visible when having an alternative.

Streaming money can be emulated with Payment Channels by creating and sending transactions with small amounts with high frequency.

A demonstration for this can be seen in this tech demo of Raiden, a payment channel implementation for Ethereum.

While such an implementation may make sense for some use cases, a native, on-chain implementation of Streaming Money has some properties which can be of significant advantage for various use cases.

The ARTIS Blockchain introduces Streaming Money to facilitate subscription-based business models, especially for the sharing economy. How — read in this blog post.