Real-World Escrow Use Cases

Explore how platforms, teams, and protocols use escrow as a capital governance layer.

How It WorksBuild with the API

How Escrow Is Used in Real Systems

Capital Inflows

When capital enters your platform, escrow ensures funds are reserved, transparent, and conditionally used.

  • Crowdfunding and pre-funding
  • Security deposits and collateral
  • Investor capital and tokenization flows
  • Prepaid and escrow-backed services
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Capital Outflows

When capital leaves a treasury, escrow enforces milestone-based release and long-term auditability.

  • Payroll and contractors
  • Grants and bounties
  • Milestone-based projects
  • Treasury-controlled distributions
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Platform in the Middle

When a platform coordinates payments between parties, escrow enables trust without custody.

  • Marketplaces and freelance platforms
  • P2P exchanges and OTC desks
  • Trade finance and delivery-vs-payment
  • Asset-backed commerce
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Featured Use Case

A Non-Custodial, Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Exchange
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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.

#use case#p2p#stablecoins#escrow#trustlesswork

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A Non-Custodial, Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Exchange
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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.

#use case#p2p#stablecoins#escrow#trustlesswork
Crowdfunding with Trustless Work
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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.

#crowdfunding#use-case#stablecoins#escrow#trustlesswork
Freelance & Gig Platforms with Trustless Work
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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.

#freelance#gig-economy#marketplace#platforms#escrow#stablecoins#use-case
Grants, Bounties, and Ecosystem Funding with Trustless Work
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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.

#grants#bounties#hackathons#ecosystem-funding#capital-outflow#use-case#escrow#trustlesswork
Investor Capital Escrow for Tokenization Flows
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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.

#tokenization#investor-capital#private-credit#use-case#stablecoins#escrow#trustlesswork
Why Every Marketplace Needs Escrow — and How to Integrate It in a Day
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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.

#marketplace#e-commerce#escrow#trust#stablecoins#platforms