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Recurring Payments Meaning

Recurring payments are automated transactions that occur on a pre-set schedule, such as monthly subscriptions, utility bills, or "Dollar Cost Averaging" (DCA) investments. While these are simple in the traditional "Pull-based" banking system, where you give a company permission to take money from your account, they are technically challenging in the "Push-based" world of blockchain.Standard blockchain transactions require a private key signature for every single transfer.

To bypass this for automated billing, developers use Account Abstraction (ERC-4337). This allows a user to sign a one-time permission that grants a smart contract the authority to "pull" a specific amount of tokens from their wallet at specific intervals.

This enables decentralized versions of subscription services for content, gaming, or cloud storage.Recurring payments are the "glue" of the subscription economy, which accounts for trillions in annual revenue. In the crypto space, they are primarily used for "DCA bots," which automatically buy a set amount of BTC every week regardless of the price.

As the industry moves toward "Web3 Social" and "DeFi Subscriptions," the ability to handle recurring payments seamlessly will be a defining feature of the next generation of digital wallets.

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