Paystream is a Solana DeFi protocol focused on funding-rate arbitrage, peer-to-peer lending, and yield optimization, founded by Maushish Yadav. Paystream's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #72,515 among 493,607 tracked accounts.
Paystream began as an escrow contract supported by an InstaGrant from Superteam India before being redesigned into a yield-optimization and peer-to-peer lending protocol on Solana. By March 2026, the project had pivoted further toward funding-rate arbitrage on perpetual-futures markets, adding leveraged liquidity provisioning and yield routing to its feature set.
Paystream launched its PAYS governance token through a MetaDAO fair-auction mechanism, with a total launch supply of 24.75 million tokens. The MetaDAO raise drew $6,149,247 committed from 1,837 contributors, though the raise was capped at $750,000 and approximately 87.8% of committed USDC was refunded to participants. A MetaDAO restructuring proposal passed in May 2026 reduced the protocol's monthly allowance from $33,500 to $15,000.
Paystream is governed through futarchy, a mechanism in which proposals generate pass and fail prediction markets and execute only when the pass market meets the protocol's specified threshold. The project is operated by Paystream DAO LLC, a DAO limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Paystream has published 809 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 15 accounts a total of 28 times, reflecting ongoing attention from within the Solana DeFi community.
Who follows Paystream on X?
The accounts that follow Paystream include 32 founders, 18 angel investors and 41 influencers, among them Solana, SL Big Brain, zac.eth, Kel, Proph3t and NFTboi.