Getting Started

Getting Started with Trustless Work

Welcome to the future of secure, trustless transactions! This guide will help you start using Trustless Work, whether you’re a developer integrating our API or a business seeking to scale with blockchain-powered escrows.

---

1. Understand the Basics

Before diving into the technical details, take a moment to understand how Trustless Work can revolutionize your payment workflows:

• What is Trustless Work? A blockchain-based Escrow-as-a-Service platform that secures payments and ensures transparency for all parties involved.

• Why Use Trustless Work? Save time, reduce costs, and eliminate reliance on intermediaries.

Learn more about how it works.

---

2. Design your escrow lifecycle

Before you Deploy your first escrow, you need to know which parties (addresses) will play which roles. You can learn more about escrow design here.

Explore Use Cases for inspiration.

---

3. Deploy and test in our dApp

We made a dApp to assist you on deploying escrows. You can find it here.

To sign transactions, you will need 1 (or more) Stellar wallets. Learn more here

To fund testnet escrows you will also need testnet XLM and testnet USDC. Learn more here.

---

3. Start building!

Integrating Trustless Work into your platform is simple:

• Work with your development team to integrate Trustless Work’s API.

• Use our open-source templates for faster implementation.

• Speak with our team to if you have feedback or feature requests: Get in Touch.

---

4. Contribute!

• We are open source and are constantly participating in OS campaigns through Only Dust
• Learn more about our Ecosystem. Some of them are open source too!

---

Next Steps

• Developers: Do the Quickstart or Explore the API Reference to build your integration.
• Businesses: Visit Use Cases to see how others are using Trustless Work.
• Join Our Community: Participate in hackathons and contribute to open-source projects.