Trustless Work is programmable, non-custodial stablecoin escrow infrastructure that enables platforms, applications, and enterprises to embed conditional payment flows directly into their products.
Built on Stellar and using stablecoins for settlement, Trustless Work provides smart escrow contracts, APIs, SDKs, indexing, and orchestration so teams can add escrow without building and maintaining bespoke blockchain infrastructure.
With Trustless Work, integrators can:
Trustless Work abstracts blockchain infrastructure while allowing applications to preserve their own UX, business logic, and customer relationships.
Current status: Trustless Work is live on Stellar mainnet, supporting production stablecoin escrow workflows across grants, crowdfunding, marketplaces, and programmable-capital use cases. As of September 2026, the protocol has created more than 1,200 mainnet escrows and facilitated over $250,000 in released volume. We are currently expanding the developer platform with a new API and SDK architecture, while continuing to explore wallet abstraction, multichain settlement, privacy, and agentic commerce as modular extensions to the core escrow infrastructure.
Embed stablecoin escrow directly into marketplace and B2B transaction flows. Funds can be committed before fulfillment and released only when agreed conditions are satisfied, reducing counterparty and settlement risk without requiring the platform to custody customer funds.
Structure projects, professional services, contractor relationships, and outsourcing engagements around milestones. Payments can be funded upfront and progressively released as work is completed and approved.
Coordinate grants, ecosystem incentives, crowdfunding, donations, and other programmable-capital workflows using transparent escrow conditions and role-based release authority. Trustless Work is already used in production workflows involving grants and crowdfunding, while institutional pilots are exploring additional programmable-capital models.
Use stablecoin escrow to coordinate transactions between organizations or counterparties across borders. Stablecoins can be committed to an escrow while delivery, documentation, approval, or other commercial conditions are being completed.
Build programmable security deposits, reservations, guarantees, retainers, and other payments where funds should remain protected until a future condition is met.
Trustless Work is conducting open-source research into escrow as a trust and authorization layer for AI agents participating in commerce. Stablecoins provide machine-native settlement; programmable escrow can add bounded authority, conditional release, approvals, dispute paths, and human-in-the-loop controls around that settlement. This work is currently an active research and experimentation track rather than a production capability.
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