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Who Should Use This

Trustless Work is built for developers, platforms, and agents who want more control and automation over when funds are released.


🧱 Platforms Using Stablecoins

Examples:

  • Gig and freelance platforms (e.g. milestone payments)

  • B2B tools using USDC for global payouts

  • Rental and booking platforms (security deposits)

Value:

  • Reduce fraud, automate disbursements, lower cost


🧑‍💻 Builders & Product Teams

Examples:

  • Solo devs or teams prototyping dApps

  • DAO tools, donation platforms, web3 marketplaces

Value:

  • Plug-and-play escrow logic

  • Start on testnet, go live without audit headaches


🏢 Enterprise Use

Examples:

  • Platforms with escrow-like flows (but no infrastructure)

  • Projects looking to replace costly custodial services

Value:

  • Save time and legal risk by using programmable, auditable escrows

AI optimized docs

Trustless Work documentation isn’t just written for humans. It’s structured for agents, copilots, and AI models to understand, remix, and build on top of.


Every page in our documentation is written for both:

  • Humans who want clarity, precision, and examples.

  • Machines that need structure, consistency, and semantics.


Why It Matters

The next generation of builders won’t just code — they’ll prompt. Trustless Work is optimized for that. Our docs follow an AI-ready format, meaning you can:

  • Export any page in Markdown or PDF for training datasets.

  • Feed it directly into your custom copilot or LLM memory.

  • Let your AI agents read the docs, reason through flows, and even execute API calls using your keys and roles.

🧠 Our goal: make the documentation itself a building block for automation.


Export & Train

You can export any section of this documentation into:

  • PDF – for reference and onboarding manuals

  • Markdown (.md) – for AI ingestion or context injection

  • Prompt blocks – pre-formatted snippets that can be pasted into GPT, Cursor, or v0.dev

💡 Use the SDK subpage under VibeCoding to see live examples of AI prompts generating, debugging, and deploying escrow flows automatically.


Ask the Docs

The docs themselves are AI-trained and search-optimized. That means the search bar understands natural language and intent — not just keywords.

Try prompts like:

The system will reformat your question into a structured query, returning optimized snippets, SDK calls, or workflow examples.


Why Escrows Matter

  • Escrows are a great way to solve for trust.

    Escrows are neutral way to hold funds while specific conditions are met. Most people tend to think about Real Estate when I mention escrows, and they are right! we DO use escrows for Real Estate and high value transactions!

But Escrows are useful for so many things, for example, marketplaces like Upwork and Ebay use them:

Ebay and Upwork can afford to build their own escrow infrastructure. Well, sort of... Ebay actually uses Escrow.com, a huge legacy escrow company that takes between (3% - 8%) , Upwork, built Upwork Escrow inc. But thats not the reality of most businesses...

Welcome

Our docs are optimized to be exported as context for any AI! You can also ask on the search bar!

Welcome to Trustless Work Documentation!

Trustless Work is the escrow infrastructure for the new economy — a developer-first platform to integrate programmable, milestone-based escrows into products.


fund a multi-release escrow with testnet USDC
create an SDK snippet to mark milestone as done
explain the difference between approver and release signer
Platforms that could greatly benefit from the use of escrows don't use them because of the technical complexity and cost of building an escrow infrastructure.
  • Escrows with Fiat are next to impossible to build (Legacy escrows). Escrows are more commonly found on high value transactions, like Real Estate, Merge and Aquisitions, and cross border trade mainly because they are costly and sloe. Fiat requires bank accounts or a complex settlement system to achieve this functionality. I've met people who toook a year to build their escrow infrastrucute, A YEAR!

  • Blockchain obviously solves this, but complexity to built it is still high. Blockchain and web3 are the perfect solution for this, but we can't expect for every marketplace out there to have a Smart Contract engineer. Getting to experiment, test and scale with this technology is resource intensive and has a steep learning curve.

🧩 What Escrow Solves

  • ❌ Chargebacks and fraud in marketplaces

  • ❌ Late or withheld payments for freelancers

  • ❌ Unclear fund control in grants, bounties, or pre-orders

  • ❌ No dispute path in P2P or milestone deals


✅ What Trustless Escrow Enables

  • 💸 Payments are only released when work is approved

  • 🔐 Funds are held in secure, neutral smart contracts

  • 🤖 Approval flows can be signed off by users, platforms, or agents

  • 🌍 Works globally with USDC and Stellar’s fast settlement

Next Steps

  • Get Started: Quick Start Guide Begin integrating Trustless Work today.

Simple representation of a Real Estate Escrow.
Escrows on digital marketplaces.

What You Can Do Here

With Trustless Work, you can integrate smart escrows in minutes, this means you can:

  • Hold funds securely in non-custodial smart contracts.

  • Configure the roles to adapt to your business needs.

  • Launch way faster, without developing the smart contracts from scratch.

  • Not worry about audits, or time-consuming implementations.

We abstract away the complexity of blockchain so you can focus on building great products.


🗺️ What's in This Documentation?

Section
Purpose

Quickstart

Set up your first escrow

Core Concepts

Learn how Trustless Work escrows function

API Reference

Full technical docs, endpoints & schemas

React SDK

Use our SDK and hooks in your dApp

Templates & Examples

See working code and flows

Dev Tools

Explore our viewer, faucet, dApp, and more


🧪 Try It in Minutes

  • 🔑 Request an API Key

  • 🧪 Explore the Demo dApp

  • 🧱 Clone the GitHub Starter


🔗 Essential Links

  • 🌐 trustlesswork.com

  • 🔧 Swagger API Docs

  • 💬 Telegram Chat

  • 💎 Only Dust Profile

  • 📰

We’ve organized everything you need into clear sections tailored to your role:

  1. Getting Started A quick-start guide to help you onboard with Trustless Work. Perfect for developers and businesses looking to explore the platform.

  2. API Reference Complete technical documentation for developers, including endpoints, code examples, and troubleshooting tips.

  3. Use Cases Discover how Trustless Work transforms industries, from marketplaces to crowdfunding.

  4. Technology Overview Dive into the technical architecture, featuring Stellar, Soroban, and smart escrows.

  5. Join our growing ecosystem, explore our open-source projects, and see where we’re headed next.


Use Cases

See how escrows are used across industries

Community

Join the movement and build with us

Escrow Times Blog
Community and Roadmap

Links

🧭 Core Docs

  • Quickstart Guide

  • API Reference


🛠️ Tools


🌐 External Links

React SDK
Escrow Concepts
Templates & Examples
Trustless Work Backoffice dApp
Trustless Work demo dApp
Escrow Viewer
Swagger API Docs
Website
GitHub
Only Dust Profile
Blog: Escrow Times