Escrow
A neutral third party or smart contract that holds funds or assets until both sides meet the agreed terms, then releases them, cutting counterparty risk.
- glossary
Escrow is a financial arrangement where a neutral third party holds assets during a transaction until all conditions are met, protecting both buyer and seller. Traditional domain escrow services like Escrow.com charge fees and require trust in the service provider.
Related keywords
- escrow
- trusted third party
- smart contract escrow
- trustless
- secure transactions
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.