The Escrow Times

Trustless Work is preparing the release of V2, the first major versioned upgrade of its programmable escrow infrastructure. This release is a major step in the evolution of Trustless Work from a simple escrow lifecycle into a configurable payment infrastructure layer

This wave of open-source bounties is all about one thing: making escrows observable. We’ve opened 7 spikes to explore how Trustless Work escrows can be indexed, tracked, and queried across three networks. Learn, build, contribute — and earn.

We're going live on mainnet—and bringing real smart contract, frontend, and infrastructure tasks to OnlyDust OS Wave #1. Contribute to Trustless Work and help build the future of escrow for the stablecoin economy.

The Trustless Work SDK MCP brings our escrow tooling directly into Cursor’s Model Context Protocol, allowing builders to generate, refactor, and integrate escrow logic with greater speed and accuracy — all within their editor.

We just shipped a major update to our Smart Escrow infrastructure. This version introduces Single-Release vs. Multi-Release escrows, a cleaner API URL structure, and our first React library for fast frontend integrations.

The Stellar testnet reset is set for June 18. During this time, we’ll update our main branch to Trustless Work v2.0 — introducing multi-release escrow flows and laying the groundwork for mainnet audit. Expect API changes, updated docs, and refreshed demo tools.

Trustless Work now has a live demo dApp — available at demo.trustlesswork.com — to help developers explore and integrate escrow flows with zero setup. Paired with our NPM library, this demo makes it easier than ever to start building.

We’ve released v1 of our official NPM library — giving developers an easy, stable, and fast way to integrate Trustless Work’s escrow infrastructure directly into their projects.

The Boundless × Trustless Work Hackathon brought 114 participants together to explore what becomes possible when programmable escrows are available as product infrastructure. The result: 31 showcased products across work escrows, agentic escrows, deposits, public funding, community finance, trade, tooling, and parametric payment flows.

SDF has published Stellar Skills, a new AI-ready directory for builders and agents. The site mirrors Stellar skill files into a copy-pastable catalog, exposes an /llms.txt index for AI agents, and includes community ecosystem skills such as Trustless Work Escrow.

GrantFox has been awarded a Stellar Community Fund Build Award to support its mission of becoming the home of open-source collaboration on Stellar. Built by the community, for the community, GrantFox brings structure, visibility, and transparent rewards to contributors across the ecosystem.

Boundless has been awarded a Stellar Community Fund Build Award to advance its milestone-based funding and collaboration platform on Stellar. Built to solve funding without accountability, Boundless uses programmable escrow to ensure funds are released only when verified milestones are completed.

Introducing Escrow Blocks — the first React library for escrows. Pre-built UI, providers, and flows that let you go from zero to full stablecoin escrow integration in under an hour.

At Casa Builders Hackathon in Mexico City, we connected with builders, mentors, and the Stellar community to tackle identity, inclusive finance, and public-good infrastructure. We left inspired—and with a working P2P ramp built in just days.

Trustless Work joined builders from across Latin America at the Stellar Hackathon in Mexico City. With 12 Costa Ricans and participants from 5 countries, the event highlighted the momentum for stablecoin infrastructure in the region—and why programmable escrow matters now more than ever.