What Happens When an Onchain Workflow Takes Days, Not Seconds? Most blockchain interactions are designed around a short cycle send a transaction, execute it get the result But real businesses don’t always work that quickly Imagine an online marketplace order. A customer pays today the seller ships tomorrow, the carrier delivers four days later and only then should the seller receive the final payment That’s not really one transaction. It’s a workflow that has to survive across time This is where Rialo’s approach to persistent workflows becomes interesting Instead of forcing everything to happen in one execution an application could keep track of its progress while waiting for the next event: Payment received → Wait for shipment → Shipment confirmed → Wait for delivery → Delivery confirmed → Release funds Between those stages hours or even days could pass The important part is that the application still knows where it is in the process. When the next relevant event arrives it can continue from that state rather than rebuilding the entire workflow from the beginning You can imagine the same pattern for insurance claims, subscriptions, escrow, logistics, invoices or any application involving multiple real world steps A lot of real world processes aren’t instant Onchain applications shouldn’t have to pretend they are. @RialoHQ