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📰 News
Escrow Blocks: React Library for Stablecoin Escrows
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.
More News
2025 in Review — Trustless Work
GrantFox Receives a Stellar Community Fund Build Award
Boundless Wins Stellar Community Fund Build Award
Hackathon Recap: Casa Builders CDMX
Trustless Work Joins Stellar Hackathon in CDMX
🚨 GENIUS Act Passes House — A New Era for Stablecoins Begins
PYUSD Escrows Are Now Possible on Stellar — What This Unlocks for Builders
💼 Use Cases
A Non-Custodial, Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Exchange
With Pacto, we show how communities, merchants, and builders can spin up their own decentralized ramp using stablecoins, fiat rails, and smart escrows. Built with Trustless Work, live on Stellar.
Crowdfunding with Trustless Work
Trustless Work gives crowdfunding platforms the infrastructure to hold funds securely, release them on milestone completion, and keep backers informed — without building smart contracts from scratch.
Freelance & Gig Platforms with Trustless Work
Trustless Work lets freelance and gig platforms run milestone-based, non-custodial escrow flows similar to Upwork — without custodial risk and at a fraction of the cost.
Grants, Bounties, and Ecosystem Funding with Trustless Work
Trustless Work enables sponsors and platforms to distribute ecosystem funds from a treasury using non-custodial escrows — making grant payouts, bounties, and hackathon rewards transparent, auditable, and fair.
Investor Capital Escrow for Tokenization Flows
Trustless Work enables tokenization platforms to raise investor capital into non-custodial escrows, release funds based on verified milestones, and provide investors with real-time transparency — without relying on blind trust.
Why Every Marketplace Needs Escrow — and How to Integrate It in a Day
Trustless Work gives marketplaces a neutral, programmable escrow layer that protects buyers and sellers, eliminates custody risk, and enables flexible delivery, approval, and payout flows — without building escrow in-house.
Milestone-Based Projects & Outsourcing with Trustless Work
Trustless Work enables teams to fund projects incrementally using non-custodial escrow — replacing large upfront payments with milestone-based releases that improve accountability, flexibility, and trust.
Payroll & Contractor Payments with Trustless Work
Trustless Work enables companies to run payroll and contractor payments through non-custodial escrows — separating funds by pay cycle, enforcing approval logic, and making compensation fully auditable on-chain.
Security Deposits with Trustless Work
Trustless Work gives platforms a clean, non-custodial way to hold, approve, dispute, and refund security deposits using stablecoin-based smart escrows — without becoming a custodian.
Trade & B2B Marketplaces with Trustless Work
Trustless Work gives trade and B2B platforms a neutral escrow layer to hold funds during cross-border transactions, release payments on delivery or inspection, and provide full auditability for buyers, sellers, and financiers.
📘 Tutorials
Understanding the Escrow Lifecycle
From initiation to release, every Trustless Work escrow follows a transparent, role-based lifecycle. Learn how this structure turns payments into verifiable, auditable transactions — and why immutability and roles are the foundation of trust in modern business flows.
The Trustless Work Backoffice dApp — Your Command Center for Escrows
The Backoffice dApp is both a production-ready control panel and an open-source template. Deploy escrows, approve milestones, manage payouts, and request your API key — all from one place.
Understanding Roles in Trustless Work
From Service Providers to Funders and Approvers — every escrow role defines who can act, what can change, and when funds move. Learn how Trustless Work’s role-based design powers programmable trust.
Vibe Coding: AI-Powered Escrow Development
We’ve added Vibe Coding to our escrow documentation — a structured set of AI-ready prompts, global coding rules, and full integration guides to help you build escrow flows faster, cleaner, and with fewer mistakes.
Escrow Mix & Match
A practical guide to mixing and matching our API, SDK, Back Office, Viewer, and templates so you can launch your escrow flow in a day, not a quarter.
Getting Started with Trustless Work Demo
Deploy your first testnet escrow in minutes with the Trustless Work demo app. Learn the flow, explore the roles, and see real-time contract responses. Perfect for builders, testers, and curious explorers.
📘 Dev Updates
OnlyDust Wave 2: Help Us Make Escrows Observable
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.
OnlyDust OS Wave #1
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.
Introducing the Trustless Work SDK MCP
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.
Version Update: New Contract Types, API Changes, and React Integration
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.
Upcoming Testnet Reset & Trustless Work v2.0 Launch
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.
Launch: Try Trustless Work in Minutes with Our New Demo dApp
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.
Trustless Work Launches NPM Library
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.