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Great ideas need great teams. For Trustless Work, everything began to align when a vibrant community and a shared vision brought the right people together.
Alberto joined Dojo Coding, a dynamic and vibrant community of web3 developers from Latin America. Focused on open-source innovation, collaboration, and solving meaningful problems with blockchain technology, Dojo Coding plays a pivotal role in fostering talent and building impactful projects. Join here
🌟 A Two-Way Partnership Dojo Coding continues to be a cornerstone for Trustless Work’s development efforts, while Trustless Work contributes back to the community by engaging developers, sharing insights, and strengthening the broader web3 ecosystem.
Within Dojo Coding, Joel reached out to Alberto, eager to team up for something meaningful: ✉️ Joel’s Message
“Hey, we’re forming a team, and we’re looking for a product idea. Want to collaborate?”
“Yeah, sure.” 😎
Alberto Chaves Armando Zuñiga Joel Vargas Caleb Loría
On our first call, Alberto pitched the initial idea for Trustless Work and shared an exciting opportunity: the application for the Astro Hacker House program by Draper University. The team immediately recognized the potential and decided to target this program as their first milestone.
🎯 A Shared Goal From the beginning, their focus was clear: build a solution that could get into Astro Hacker House, refine the idea, and set the foundation for something transformative.
With a clear problem to solve and a team aligned on the mission, Trustless Work began to take shape. This was no longer just an idea—it was a collaboration fueled by a shared belief in the power of blockchain to simplify and secure payments. LFG! 🚀
Every great innovation starts with a problem. For Trustless Work, it began with firsthand experience in the inefficiencies of traditional contracting and payment systems.
Alberto, the founder of Trustless Work, encountered these challenges while running a digital product agency. The pain points were clear: traditional payment models were unreliable, inefficient, and costly.
Acting as both a client for Argentine development teams and a service provider for U.S.-based clients revealed a flawed system, including:
⏳Payment Delays: Long waiting periods created cash flow crunches.
💰Upfront Costs: High initial payments were risky for clients and service providers alike.
⚙️Inefficient Models: The typical payment structure—50% upfront and 50% upon delivery—left both sides vulnerable.
Alberto’s insights were validated while engaging with other agencies during a pop-up city in Buenos Aires. It became evident that these challenges weren’t unique—they were systemic.
The inefficiencies of traditional systems inspired the idea of a better approach:
🤝A payment model that minimizes risk for all parties involved.
⚡Automation to eliminate delays and reduce manual intervention.
🔍Transparency to foster trust between clients and providers.
Alberto now had a great problem to solve—he just needed a team crazy enough to believe in the vision and help make it real!
Creating trustless financial systems for the modern economy.
At Trustless Work, we believe trust is the foundation of all financial transactions. Our vision and mission drive everything we do, empowering platforms, developers, and businesses to innovate without boundaries.
To drive the new economy forward by building a foundation of trust, scalability, and transparency in global payments.
We envision a world where financial transactions:
Are secure and transparent by default.
Eliminate the need for costly intermediaries.
Empower businesses of all sizes to scale globally.
Through our platform, trust is no longer a barrier—it’s embedded into the system itself.
To solve trust in global payments by providing configurable, scalable, and transparent escrow infrastructure and tools for the new economy.
How We Fulfill This Mission:
Configurable Solutions Allow businesses to tailor escrow workflows to their unique needs, from milestones to multi-party agreements.
Scalable Infrastructure Support high transaction volumes and diverse industries, enabling seamless growth.
Transparent Tools Leverage blockchain technology to ensure visibility and fairness in every transaction.
Escrows address one of the most critical challenges in payments: trust.
In traditional systems, trust is built through intermediaries—banks, lawyers, and brokers—resulting in high costs, delays, and limited accessibility.
These barriers slow down innovation, increase costs, and limit opportunities for businesses and individuals.
Trustless Work eliminates these inefficiencies, fostering trust through:
Blockchain-Powered Automation: Escrows managed by smart contracts.
API-Driven Simplicity: Easy integration for developers and businesses.
Global Accessibility: Bringing secure transactions to everyone, everywhere.
We are dedicated to empowering platforms and developers to unlock the full potential of blockchain without requiring deep technical expertise. By enabling trustless transactions across industries, we:
Simplify payment logic.
Reduce costs and time delays.
Open new avenues for innovation.
Together, we’re building a trustless future where businesses thrive and transactions are effortless.
Explore how we bring this vision to life:
Our Journey So Far: Discover the milestones that shaped us.
How It Works: Dive into the mechanics of smart escrows.
Transforming Escrows for the Modern Economy
At Trustless Work, we solve one of the most critical challenges in global payments: trust. By leveraging blockchain technology, we provide configurable, scalable, and transparent escrow infrastructure that eliminates costly intermediaries and complex processes, empowering platforms to build trustless payment flows with ease.
To drive the new economy forward by building a foundation of trust, scalability, and transparency in global payments.
To solve trust in global payments by providing configurable, scalable, and transparent escrow infrastructure and tools for the new economy.
At its core, an escrow is a neutral and secure way to hold funds while something else happens—whether it’s transferring a house, delivering a product, or completing a project.
In traditional payment systems, trust is built through:
Costly Intermediaries: Banks, lawyers, or brokers.
Complex Processes: Lengthy, manual procedures.
Limited Transparency: Little visibility into where funds are and why delays occur.
These barriers slow innovation, increase costs, and limit accessibility for businesses and individuals alike.
We provide a new way to manage trust with blockchain-powered smart escrows. Our platform enables platforms and developers to:
Configure escrow workflows for any use case.
Scale payment processes with an API-first approach.
Ensure transparency and fairness with blockchain technology.
By reducing the time, cost, and technical barriers traditionally associated with escrows, we enable businesses to focus on innovation while ensuring trust and security.
Escrow-as-a-Service Seamlessly integrate escrow workflows into any platform.
Developer-Friendly Tools API-first design, open-source templates, and testnet resources.
Diverse Applications Supporting industries from marketplaces to crowdfunding, real estate, and trade finance.
Learn more about how we’re building trust and innovation in payments:
Our Vision and Mission: Dive deeper into our purpose.
Our Journey So Far: Explore the milestones that shaped Trustless Work.
Meet the Team: Get to know the people behind the platform.
With a great problem identified and a motivated team in place, it was time to explore the solution. Alberto presented his research and findings, laying the foundation for what would become Trustless Work.
Escrows have long been a trusted mechanism for securing payments, but traditional systems are inefficient, costly, and inaccessible for smaller contracts.
💡 The Insight Trustless Work introduces decentralized escrow contracts—an agile, blockchain-based solution that ensures transparency, security, and fairness for all parties involved.
Using Escrows to Mitigate Risks
Guarantees payment for service providers.
Protects clients from incomplete or subpar work.
Builds trust in transactions by holding funds securely until conditions are met.
Conventional escrow systems come with significant drawbacks:
🏦 Reliance on Banks and Lawyers: Intermediaries introduce high costs and delays.
💸 High Fees: Escrow services are often prohibitively expensive for smaller transactions.
⏳ Slow Processing: Settlement times can stretch into days or weeks.
Escrow solutions are already solving critical problems in established platforms:
🛒 eBay: Escrow mitigates risks between buyers and sellers in e-commerce.
💼 Upwork: Escrow protects freelancers and clients in service-based transactions.
Trustless Work builds on this proven concept but leverages blockchain to eliminate the need for centralized intermediaries.
Our team recognized that milestone-based payments would be the best starting point, especially for clients and service providers. This targeted solution provided a clear path to:
Demonstrate feasibility.
Showcase the potential of blockchain-powered escrows.
Develop a scalable product.
🎯 The Result This focus on milestone-based payments and a clear value proposition helped us secure a spot in the Astro Hacker House program, where our journey truly began.
Key milestones and achievements (DraperU Astro Hacker House, ETH Pura Vida Hackathon).
Welcome to the story of Trustless Work—a journey fueled by innovation, collaboration, and a vision to redefine how escrows operate in the modern economy.
Our journey began with a problem: the inefficiencies and risks of traditional payment systems. From there, a passionate team came together to develop a groundbreaking solution that has already reached significant milestones and is poised to transform industries worldwide.
Our journey is divided into key chapters, each showcasing a crucial part of our evolution:
🤔 The Problem: Learn about the challenges that inspired Trustless Work, rooted in firsthand experience with outdated payment models.
👾 The Team Comes Together: Meet the passionate team of innovators who made this vision possible.
💡 The Solution: Explore the foundation of Trustless Work—a smarter, faster, and trustless escrow solution.
🏆 Key Milestones: Relive the pivotal moments, from hackathons to accelerator programs, that shaped our growth.
🚀 Current Programs: Dive into the exciting initiatives and collaborations driving our current success.
🛠️ Vertical Development: See how our technology is powering specialized solutions for industries like real estate, agriculture, and more.
🌎 Spotlight: Kindify: Discover Kindify, a standout use case transforming social impact crowdfunding.
🔮 Future Vision: Get a glimpse into where Trustless Work is headed and our aspirations for the future.
Ready to dive deeper? Use the navigation below to follow our journey step by step or jump directly to the chapter that interests you the most!
Every journey has pivotal moments that shape its future. Explore the key milestones in Trustless Work’s evolution:
🌌 DraperU Stellar Astro Hacker House
A three-week accelerator program that validated our solution and shaped our focus on an API-first approach.
⚙️ Launching the API V1 at ETH Pura Vida Hackathon
Our first API release, tested and validated by developers during an Ethereum hackathon.
This three-week program was a game-changer for us. Held at Draper University in San Mateo, it brought together 30 startups and provided us with a $20,000 grant to further develop our vision.
What Made It Special?
🚀 Validation from Entrepreneurs: Many fellow founders expressed interest in integrating our escrow solution into their platforms, confirming its market potential.
🔍 Diverse Use Cases: We identified various applications for escrows across industries, including:
Freelancer services
Influencer platforms
Marketplace transactions
📈 A Strategic Focus Shift: Encouraged by feedback from luminaries like Tim Draper and Denelle Dixon (Stellar), we pivoted to an API-first solution—positioning Trustless Work as an Escrow-as-a-Service provider.
Trustless Work was accepted into the Draper/Stellar Embark Program, marking a significant milestone in our journey. This 10-week program connected us with Draper University and Stellar Ventures, making them our first investors.
Program Highlights:
🌍 10 Startups from Around the World: Joined a global cohort of innovators.
📈 Focus on Growth: The program enabled us to refine our product strategy, improve our go-to-market plan, and scale further.
🎓 Access to Mentorship: Gained insights from experienced VCs and founders to prepare for an eventual fundraise.
📅 Demo Day to Investors: The program concludes with a public demo day, offering exposure to a network of investors.
The next major milestone was the launch of our API V1, an essential step in validating our technology and gathering feedback from developers.
🎯 Our Plan We sponsored the ETH Pura Vida hackathon and allocated 10% of the DraperU grant to organize and support the event.
Hackathon Highlights:
📋 Participation:
55 Developers Registered, with 35 actively participating across 8 teams.
💡 Diverse Projects: Developers built innovative solutions using our API, including:
House rentals with automated escrows
Agricultural financing
Privacy-focused payment systems
Revenue-sharing for ridesharing apps like Uber
🌱 Community Growth:
Created a Telegram group with over 30 members, fostering ongoing collaboration.
Received invaluable feedback on our codebase, documentation, and overall vision.
🤝 Customer Leads: Connected with potential reference customers interested in integrating Trustless Work into their platforms.
The OD Hack #10 campaign was a significant success, bringing new contributors and advancing our product.
OnlyDust is a platform that connects open-source contributors with projects in need of development. It fosters collaboration within the web3 ecosystem by providing funding, mentorship, and tools for decentralized teams.
Why It Matters:
OnlyDust empowers developers to work on impactful blockchain projects like Trustless Work.
Through hackathons and campaigns, it helps projects scale while nurturing a thriving developer community.
Key Achievements:
🤝 First Contributors: Onboarded developers who contributed to our Smart Contracts and Escrow UI, laying a solid foundation for future iterations.
🛠️ Integration by Other Teams: Four teams using Trustless Work’s API also benefited from contributors and funding, helping them grow alongside us.
📋 Issue Assignments: A total of 58 issues (across Trustless Work and related projects) were completed, showcasing strong developer engagement.
Escrow UI Development: During OD Hack #10, we built the first version of our Escrow UI—a form-based interface enabling developers to:
Fill in escrow details.
Visualize how contracts are created.
Looking Ahead to OD Hack #11:
🛠️ Developer Mode: Introducing a new feature allowing developers to see how API requests are constructed as they interact with the UI.
📈 Simplifying Integration: This enhancement will make it easier for developers to implement our solutions in real-world use cases.
Trustless Work is actively participating in programs and campaigns that fuel our growth, enhance our product, and build a strong developer community.
🌟 Draper Embark Program
A 10-week accelerator helping us refine our product strategy and connect with investors.
Learn more
💻 OD Hack Campaigns
Open-source developer engagement that has significantly contributed to our product maturity.
Learn more
A brief introduction to the team and its expertise.
At Trustless Work, our team is dedicated to building a secure, scalable, and transparent payment infrastructure for the new economy. With a shared vision and diverse expertise, we’re paving the way for trustless transactions across industries.
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Our team combines technical expertise with a shared passion for solving trust challenges in global payments. We work tirelessly to deliver configurable, scalable, and transparent solutions for platforms worldwide.
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At Trustless Work, we’re not just building a product—we’re creating the foundation for a global, trustless ecosystem. Our vision is to redefine how payments are managed, risks are mitigated, and trust is established in the modern economy.
We aim to make Trustless Work an integral part of how businesses handle payments by:
🔗 Open-Source Tools: Continuing to expand and refine our developer-friendly, open-source tools.
⚙️ Modular Solutions: Offering flexible APIs and templates for seamless integration across platforms.
📈 Accessibility: Scaling to support transactions of all sizes, from micro-payments to enterprise-level deals.
While marketplaces and freelancing platforms were our starting point, the future holds immense opportunities in diverse industries:
🏠 Real Estate: Escrows for property sales, rental agreements, and security deposits.
🌾 Agriculture: Transparent financing mechanisms for farmers and cooperatives.
💳 Fintech: Integrating blockchain escrows into payment gateways and banking solutions.
📦 E-commerce: Revolutionizing buyer-seller protections with transparent, automated escrows.
Through partnerships, we’re unlocking the potential for Trustless Work to support and transform industries that rely on secure transactions.
Our ultimate goal is to empower platforms with:
💡 Transparency: Eliminating black-box systems and ensuring all transactions are visible and verifiable.
🛡️ Security: Leveraging blockchain to provide tamper-proof, decentralized solutions.
✨ Simplicity: Abstracting blockchain complexities, enabling anyone—developer or not—to build on Trustless Work with ease.
The future of Trustless Work lies in:
Network Effects: Growing a community of developers, partners, and users who contribute to and benefit from the ecosystem.
Decentralized Governance: Transitioning to a DAO structure to ensure scalability, inclusivity, and resilience.
Continuous Innovation: Pioneering new technologies and use cases to stay at the forefront of escrow innovation.
Join us in shaping the future—one transparent, secure transaction at a time.
Trustless Work is pioneering a whole new category of escrows, unlocking opportunities for innovative use cases across diverse industries. The potential is immense, and we’re supporting builders to turn their visions into scalable verticals—each targeting massive markets independently.
We believe in the power of builders to transform ideas into impact. While anyone can build on Trustless Work without needing permission, we offer support in product development, business models, and scaling for those who align with our vision.
From hackathon concepts to fully-fledged verticals, here’s how some of our initial projects are taking shape:
Origin: Initially focused on house rentals.
Evolution: Pivoted to offer security deposit solutions for broader applications, including:
Hotels
Car rentals
Directories requiring secure payment interactions.
Origin: Collaboration between Kindify and Revolutionary Farmers.
Solution: An escrow-based crowdfunding mechanism allowing multiple funders to contribute.
Flexible Fund Release Options: By milestone or as a lump sum.
Applications: Social impact projects, agricultural financing, and community-driven initiatives.
Trade Finance: With Costa Rica’s recent invitation to join the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership), new opportunities are emerging to integrate escrows into international trade finance.
Why It Matters: Escrows can streamline payments across member countries with diverse currencies, reducing friction and boosting trust in global trade.
Marketplaces: This vertical is in development, with promising potential to create secure payment solutions for e-commerce and platform-based economies.
Each vertical is positioned as an independent product capable of:
Pursuing its own funding through grants or investments.
Leveraging Trustless Work’s infrastructure as the backbone for secure, transparent transactions.
Targeting massive markets with scalable solutions.
We’re fostering a future where builders can capitalize on the stablecoin wave and leverage Trustless Work to create entirely new markets for escrow technology.
Permissionless Development: Anyone can build on Trustless Work without needing approval.
Support for Builders: For those looking to scale their ideas, we offer resources, guidance, and a collaborative network to help you succeed.
Join us in shaping the future of escrow technology—one vertical at a time.