Rename the "Airstreams" contract to something more general-purpose

[PaulRBerg]

It dawned on me that the name of the Airstreams contract need not be as specific as it currently is.

We should consider renaming the contract to something more general-purpose because the same contract could facilitate other use cases, such as non-airdrop vesting. The target audience is normal Sablier senders who want to stream to a large number of recipients; subsidizing the gas costs for everybody is not feasible because only up to ~100 streams can be created in a single Ethereum block.

Suggested alternative names:

• MerkleStreamer
• MerkleDistributor (the name Uniswap used for its airdrop, see https://github.com/Uniswap/merkle-distributor)

To avoid any doubts, I don't suggest rebranding the Airstreams product as a whole. All labels in the UI can remain as is.

[andreivladbrg]

Interesting idea. I'm kinda pro this.

Between the suggested names, definitely the better version for us is MerkleStreamer, as it maintains the streaming "footprint" in the contract name.

The only problem I can think of is that we will have different terminologies between the contracts and the app. e.g. Create airstream campaign -> create merkle streamer.

[PaulRBerg]

Thanks!

That's not a problem. >95% of all UI users will never care about the contract name. And among those who care, there's nothing wrong with using a different terminology in the UI ("airstreams").

Though we could also reconsider renaming "airstreams" to "Merkle streams" in the UI.

[razgraf]

Love it!

"Airstreams" are still quite cool branding-wise, so I belive we should keep them in the app and product materials. It sounds much more meme-able for consumers. But for integrators, having a more general purpose nomenclature helps us avoid narrowing down the spectrum of possibilities for that same code.

MerkleStreamer sounds cool. Using the more general MerkleDistributor might make people think the contract supports/is a regular ERC20 merkle distributor, whereas ours is a bit more specific.

[PaulRBerg]

Awesome, thanks.

Agree that we should keep using Airstreams in the UI.