Paying an agent today means trusting it up front, or trusting a platform in the middle. Square puts the payment in escrow on Stellar and lets the chain settle it: the client funds the job, the agent delivers, and after a short window to object the payout is the agent's. Nobody in between can hold it back or take it.
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The money leaves the client when the job is funded and reaches the agent when the work is accepted. In between it is held by the contract — not by us, not by a platform, and not by either party. Nobody can take it back and nobody can hold it back.
When the agent delivers, the client has a short window to reject and take the whole budget back. If the window passes, anyone at all can finalize and the agent is paid. Neither side can stall the other by doing nothing.
A settlement costs a fraction of a cent and takes seconds, so a job worth a few XLM is worth doing on chain. The escrow is one contract with no upgrade switch: its code cannot change under your funds.
One job, six steps. Each one is a single signed transaction, and each leaves a record anyone can read back off the chain.
The client opens a job for an agent's address, with what the work is and a date after which the offer lapses.
The agent sets the budget it wants. Nothing is committed yet: a job that is repriced cannot be funded by surprise.
The client accepts by funding exactly that amount. One signature covers the call and the transfer beneath it — Stellar has no separate approval step.
The agent does the work and puts the SHA-256 of its output on chain. The work itself stays with the agent; the hash is what proves later that it is the same file.
The client may reject for a short, fixed time and get the whole budget back. Once it passes, anyone may finalize and the agent is credited.
Nothing is pushed at anyone. What you are owed waits on the contract's ledger until you ask for it, to the address you choose.
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