Trustless Work is dedicated to making Smart Escrows accessible for all platforms and developers. To achieve this, we provide open-source templates and developer tools that streamline the integration of escrows—helping you go from concept to implementation without unnecessary complexity.
Our open-source templates are ready-made solutions that allow developers to quickly implement escrow workflows. These templates cover a variety of common use cases, enabling teams to integrate Smart Escrows with minimal effort, while still retaining the flexibility to customize as needed.
The developer tools further enhance this process by providing a suite of resources that make it easy to integrate, test, and deploy Smart Escrows effectively.
Ready-Made Escrow Workflows 🏗️
Templates are provided for milestone payments, rental security deposits, crowdfunding, and more.
Each template comes with pre-configured settings, allowing you to understand how Smart Escrows can work in your scenario and quickly adapt the code to fit your platform.
Speed and Efficiency 🚀
Fast Implementation: The templates are designed to be as plug-and-play as possible, allowing you to get started with Smart Escrows without writing complex smart contract logic yourself.
Pre-Built Workflows: Each template includes the necessary business logic for the escrow flow, meaning less time spent on development and more time focusing on your unique value proposition.
Customizable and Adaptable ⚙️
While our templates provide out-of-the-box workflows, they are also highly customizable. You can easily adjust conditions, roles, and milestones to better fit your platform’s needs.
By being open-source, developers can modify these templates however they wish—adapting the workflows to match specific business logic or unique requirements.
Integrate with the Trustless Work API: All templates are designed to work seamlessly with the Trustless Work API, enabling you to set up, fund, and manage escrows with ease.
Utilize Smart Contracts: Templates leverage our open-source smart contracts on Soroban, ensuring that all escrow activities are transparent, secure, and executed in a trustless manner.
For Developers of All Levels: Whether you're new to blockchain or an experienced developer, these tools abstract away the blockchain complexities, allowing you to focus on integrating features that create value for your users.
Milestone-Based Payments: A template designed for freelancer and project-based platforms, allowing you to hold funds and release them upon milestone completions.
Security Deposit Escrows: Ideal for rental platforms, this template allows for secure holding of deposits, ensuring that funds are only released when both parties agree.
Crowdfunding Campaigns: A template for managing funds raised in crowdfunding, holding contributions securely until funding goals are met or milestones are reached.
These templates reduce integration friction, enabling developers to take advantage of Smart Escrows without having to build the entire logic from scratch.
There will be a fixed 0.3% fee on released funds from escrows on Mainnet.
That's our business model. As a platform you will be able to add a flexible fee on top of that 0.3%, which will automaticaly route to the address of your choice.
The Trustless Work API is a developer-friendly interface that enables you to integrate escrow functionalities seamlessly into your platform. Whether you're building a marketplace, a SaaS product, or any platform that requires trust in transactions, the API offers everything you need to easily manage the lifecycle of an escrow.
Kickstart a new escrow by specifying key parameters such as amount, recipient, and conditions.
The API handles the creation of a unique escrow smart contract, eliminating the need for manual blockchain interactions.
Fund Escrows: Deposit funds into the escrow securely—whether it's USDC or another asset supported by the Stellar Network.
Manage Conditions: Define conditions and milestones to align with your project requirements. The API lets you monitor and update these as needed.
Once the conditions are met, use the API to approve fund release. The open-source smart contracts ensure funds are released only when both parties fulfill their obligations.
By making approvals programmatic, the Trustless Work API helps automate workflows, reducing the need for manual checks and verifications.
Stay up to date with the escrow's status at every step. From initiation to completion, the API lets you retrieve information about the escrow state, milestones, and remaining conditions in real-time.
Abstracts Blockchain Complexity: No need to be a blockchain expert. The Trustless Work API makes interacting with smart contracts as easy as a standard API call—no need for specialized blockchain engineers or understanding complicated crypto processes.
Secure and Transparent: The API integrates directly with open-source escrow smart contracts, deployed on the Stellar blockchain, ensuring that funds are managed securely and that every transaction is transparent and traceable.
Seamless User Experience: You can configure the conditions, roles, and actions for an escrow without needing to touch any of the underlying blockchain logic. The Trustless Work API manages everything for you, allowing you to focus on building your platform’s unique features.
Marketplaces and Platforms: Ensure buyer and seller trust with secure milestone payments.
Freelance Platforms: Protect clients and freelancers by releasing funds only upon verified completion.
Rental and Security Deposits: Hold deposits safely until conditions are met, such as returning a rental item or completing an inspection.
Crowdfunding Campaigns: Ensure contributors' funds are only used once milestones are achieved, providing trust and transparency for backers.
Ready to explore more? Visit our API Reference for technical details, and begin integrating trustless escrow solutions today!
High-level architecture: Smart contracts, APIs, and escrow workflows.
Trustless Work provides an Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform that makes building Smart Escrows as simple and accessible as possible. By leveraging open-source tools and a developer-friendly API, we remove the barriers traditionally associated with escrows—making them secure, transparent, and easy to integrate.
The diagram above illustrates the architecture of Trustless Work, showing how each component interacts to make Smart Escrows possible.
Trustless Work API provides an interface for developers and platforms to easily configure, fund, and manage escrows, all without having to handle blockchain complexities. With simple API calls, integration becomes intuitive and hassle-free.
Open-Source Escrow Smart Contracts form the trustless foundation of our system. Deployed on Soroban, Stellar’s smart contract platform, these contracts ensure that funds are securely managed and only released once conditions are met—offering transparency and tamper-proof execution.
Open-Source Templates & Developer Tools are designed to assist developers in integrating Smart Escrows quickly. These templates are customizable, helping you transform your vision into functionality without the friction of building everything from scratch.
Together, these components allow developers to focus on building great products without the worry of complex payment flows or third-party dependencies.
Our Trustless Work API is designed to make integrating Smart Escrows into your platform as seamless as possible. You can use the API to:
Initialize, Fund, and Manage Escrows: Easily set up an escrow contract, define conditions, manage its state, and approve fund releases—all in a developer-friendly way.
Abstract Blockchain Complexity: Interact with our smart contracts without needing to know the intricacies of blockchain technology.
➡️ Learn more: Smart Escrow API
At the core of Trustless Work are open-source escrow smart contracts that are secure, trustless, and deployed on Soroban. These smart contracts:
Hold and Release Funds: Ensure that funds are securely held until all predefined conditions are met.
Offer Transparency: Being open-source means anyone can audit the contracts, providing complete transparency to all participants.
➡️ Learn more: Open-Source Escrow Smart Contracts
To make integration even easier, we provide open-source templates and developer tools. These templates help developers quickly implement:
Common Escrow Workflows: From milestone payments to security deposits and crowdfunding, these templates offer easy-to-adapt solutions.
Customizable Features: Modify templates to fit your unique needs and seamlessly integrate Smart Escrows into your applications.
➡️ Learn more: Open-Source Templates & Developer Tools
With Trustless Work, integrating trustless escrow solutions has never been easier. Dive in and start building today!
Trustless Work is powered by the Stellar blockchain and its innovative Soroban smart contract platform. Together, these technologies form the foundation for secure, scalable, and trustless escrow transactions.
Stellar is a powerful blockchain specifically designed for financial transactions. It enables fast, low-cost transfers of digital assets, which is crucial for ensuring our escrows are efficient and accessible to everyone.
Speed: Transactions on Stellar are confirmed within seconds, meaning no more waiting for days like with traditional banking or slower blockchains.
Low Costs: The transaction fees on Stellar are a tiny fraction of a cent, allowing escrows to operate economically, even for smaller-value transactions. This is a game-changer compared to the often high fees of traditional escrow solutions.
Designed for Financial Use: Stellar was built with the financial sector in mind, providing stability for payments and transactions. This is a perfect fit for escrow services, where stability is key.
Global Network: With Stellar, we can provide cross-border escrows with minimal fees, allowing businesses, freelancers, and marketplaces to interact globally without incurring high costs.
Soroban is Stellar’s smart contract platform, designed to bring programmable logic to the blockchain, allowing developers to create advanced, trustless applications.
Built with Rust: Soroban smart contracts are written in Rust, a language known for its security and performance. This ensures that Trustless Work is secure, efficient, and scalable—crucial for handling financial transactions.
Decentralized Trust: By using Soroban, Trustless Work offers a decentralized, tamper-proof solution for managing funds. Funds are released only when conditions coded in the smart contract are met—removing the need for a trusted third party.
Customizable Contracts: Soroban allows us to create custom smart contracts that fit a wide variety of use cases—from milestone-based payments for freelancers to complex multi-party transactions.
Scalable Logic: The smart contracts on Soroban enable complex operations without compromising on speed or reliability, making it possible for Trustless Work to handle high volumes of transactions smoothly.
Escrow Transactions: All escrows on Trustless Work are secured by Soroban smart contracts, deployed on the Stellar blockchain. This combination ensures that funds are securely held and released transparently.
Seamless Integration: The Trustless Work API abstracts the interaction with Soroban smart contracts, allowing developers to use escrow functionalities without dealing with blockchain complexities.
Global Accessibility: By leveraging Stellar’s network, Trustless Work can provide global escrow services with low fees and instant settlement, making it an ideal choice for international transactions.
At Trustless Work, we use USDC to provide a secure and stable medium of exchange for all escrow transactions. USDC is a USD-backed stablecoin that ensures your funds are safe, predictable, and easy to transact with, providing a reliable bridge between traditional finance and blockchain technology.
Pegged to the U.S. Dollar: USDC is a stablecoin backed by reserves of U.S. dollars. This means that for every USDC in circulation, there is a corresponding dollar held in reserve, ensuring that the value of USDC remains stable and predictable.
Ideal for Escrows: Stability is crucial when dealing with escrow transactions, as it ensures that the value of the funds held in escrow does not fluctuate unexpectedly, providing peace of mind for both parties.
Built on Stellar: Our escrows use USDC on the Stellar blockchain, which means low transaction fees and fast settlement times. Traditional financial rails can be slow and expensive—USDC on Stellar provides a scalable solution to process payments in seconds with minimal cost.
No Banking Delays: Unlike traditional bank transfers, USDC transactions are completed in seconds, without the delays associated with banking hours, cross-border restrictions, or manual intervention.
Borderless Payments: With USDC, you can participate in transactions globally, without the need to convert currencies or deal with high international fees. This makes Trustless Work a perfect solution for freelancers, businesses, and marketplaces operating across borders.
Supports Emerging Markets: By using USDC, we enable participation from countries where access to stable banking may be limited. This inclusion provides new opportunities for businesses and individuals worldwide.
Escrow Creation: When escrows are created through Trustless Work, funds are securely held in USDC. This ensures that the value remains stable throughout the escrow lifecycle, eliminating the risks of currency fluctuations.
Fund Management and Release: When milestones are met or contract terms are fulfilled, USDC is used to release the funds, offering a transparent and traceable settlement process on the blockchain.
Partner Integrations: Our Stellar Partner Network makes it easy to convert USDC to fiat or use it directly for payments. The flexibility of USDC allows you to either use it for future blockchain transactions or convert it to your local currency when needed.
Security: Funds are fully backed and auditable, ensuring complete security.
Fast Settlement: No delays, no waiting—instant payments.
No Volatility: Unlike cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, USDC is designed to maintain a stable value, making it ideal for contractual payments.
Trustless Work and USDC together provide a stable, efficient, and secure escrow solution for the digital economy. Start building today!
Trustless Work is built on a foundation of open-source escrow smart contracts, providing a trustless, transparent, and programmable backbone for handling funds. These contracts are deployed on Soroban, Stellar's smart contract platform, and are designed to ensure that escrows are executed securely, fairly, and without intermediaries.
Escrow Smart Contracts are programmable agreements that securely manage and release funds based on predefined conditions. They replace the traditional need for an intermediary, like a bank or lawyer, by embedding all terms directly in code.
Trustless Transactions 🌐
The smart contracts manage funds autonomously. There is no need for human involvement once an escrow is set up—the contract ensures that all conditions are met before releasing funds.
This trustless nature removes third-party dependencies, reducing costs and the potential for errors or conflicts.
Transparency and Security 🔒
As open-source contracts, they are fully auditable by anyone. Participants can review every line of code to understand exactly how their funds will be handled.
Deployed on Soroban (Stellar's blockchain for smart contracts), they benefit from blockchain's inherent security—making them tamper-proof and resistant to unauthorized changes.
Flexible and Programmable Conditions ⚙️
The contracts can be configured to suit a wide variety of use cases. Conditions such as milestone completions, multi-party sign-offs, or specific timelines can all be encoded in the smart contracts.
Whether it’s milestone payments for freelancers, security deposits for rentals, or crowdfunding releases, our smart contracts provide flexible automation to fit your needs.
No Intermediaries Required: Traditional escrows depend on trusted third parties, which come with delays and fees. Our smart contracts act as the neutral party, eliminating the costs and delays associated with human involvement.
Global and Accessible: Leveraging the Stellar Network, our escrow contracts support fast and low-cost transactions in assets like USDC, making them accessible across borders with minimal fees compared to traditional systems.
Fully Open Source: By being open-source, developers and users can review and contribute to the code. This fosters community trust and allows for continuous improvements by developers worldwide.
Trustless Work API Integration: The Trustless Work API interacts directly with these smart contracts, abstracting away blockchain complexities and allowing developers to integrate escrows without needing deep blockchain knowledge.
Open-Source Templates: To make it even easier, we provide open-source templates that work with these contracts to speed up the implementation process for common use cases—helping you get started quickly with minimal coding.
Built on Stellar: Our smart contracts are deployed using Soroban, Stellar’s innovative smart contract platform that offers scalability, low fees, and high security.
Modern and Efficient: Soroban uses Rust, a modern language known for its security and efficiency, ensuring that our contracts are robust, fast, and secure—crucial attributes for handling financial transactions.
Interested in seeing how our Open-Source Escrow Smart Contracts can fit into your platform?
Check Out Our Templates to find ready-made examples that integrate seamlessly with our contracts.
For more in-depth technical details, explore the contracts directly on GitHub and understand how you can customize them to suit your use cases.