USDC escrow, live on Solana
Escrow, in one link
Get paid the moment they say yes.
Single-link USDC escrow for cross-border freelancers. Your client funds the link, the money is held safely, and it lands in your wallet the second they approve. About 1% in fees instead of 10%, and seconds instead of days.
- Built on Solana
- Non-custodial by design
- Funds held on-chain
Escrow
Brand site redesign, phase 2
For Maya at Northwind Studio
Amount
2,000.00USDCYou receive
1,980.00 USDC
- Nexrow fee (1%)
- 20.00 USDC
- Auto release
- 7d 00h 00m 00s
Link created
One link, no account needed on their side.
Client funds the escrow
Held safely until the work is approved.
Released to you
Straight to your wallet, no payout window.
Link sent. Nothing is charged until your client funds it.
A live example, cycling through the states a real escrow moves through.
How it works
Three steps. No invoices, no chasing.
The whole thing is one link and one release. Everything else happens on-chain, where you can both watch it.
Create the link
Name the job, set the amount in USDC, pick an auto-release window. You get one link to send. No contracts to draft, no account for your client to open.
Your client funds it
They open the link and pay. The money is held safely on-chain, visible to both of you. You start work knowing the budget is real.
Release, or auto-release
They approve and you are paid in seconds. If they go quiet past the window you set, the funds release to you automatically.
Pricing
You did the work. Keep the money.
The old platforms charge you a tenth of your income to sit between you and a client you found yourself. Here is the same project, run both ways.
Nexrow
About 1% fee- Fee
About 1%
One flat platform fee, shown as a line item before you send the link.
- Speed
Seconds
Approved to settled in the time it takes a block to finalize.
- Lock-in
Your link, your client
Take the relationship anywhere. Nexrow is the rail, not the middleman.
Upwork and friends
About 10% fee- Fee
About 10%
Taken off the top of everything you earn on the platform.
- Speed
5 to 14 days
Security hold, then a payout window, then your bank.
- Lock-in
Platform lock-in
Contact off-platform and the account can go with it.
On a 2,000 USDC project
The amount your client funds.
You keep with Nexrow
After a 20.00 USDC fee.
You keep with a 10% platform
Before the payout wait.
Trust and security
You should not have to take our word for it.
Escrow only works if both sides believe the money is really there. So we took ourselves out of the middle of it, and put every step on-chain where you can check it.
Non-custodial
Nexrow never holds your keys. You connect your own wallet, you sign your own transactions, and we cannot move your money for you.
The rules are code
The program, not a support agent having a good day, decides when funds move. It is open source and not yet audited — an independent audit lands before mainnet, and until then it runs on devnet with test tokens.
Funds held on-chain
Once a client funds the link, the USDC sits in the escrow program itself. Not in a Nexrow bank account, not in a float we get to borrow against.
Always visible
Every state change writes a transaction you can open in a block explorer. You can always see exactly where the money is and who moved it.
FAQ
The questions people actually ask.
The awkward ones first, because those are the ones that decide whether you send the link.
You still get paid. Every escrow carries an auto-release window that you set when you create the link, usually 7 or 14 days. If the client funds the work and then goes quiet past that window, the funds release to your wallet automatically. Nobody has to approve it, including us.
The client can open a dispute before the auto-release window closes, which freezes the funds while both sides submit evidence. Today that is reviewed by the Nexrow team. Staked, independent arbiters are on the roadmap, so the review does not depend on us either.
They need a wallet with USDC in it, and that is the honest answer for now. What they do not need is a Nexrow account, an invoice, or a contract to sign. They open the link, they see plain language (held safely, release, refund), and they pay. Card funding for clients is on the roadmap.
About 1%, taken once when the escrow releases, and shown as an explicit line item before you send the link. There is no listing fee, no monthly fee, no withdrawal fee, and no sliding scale that quietly gets worse. On a 2,000 USDC project the fee is 20 USDC.
Solana, settling in USDC. That is what makes the release feel instant and the fee fractions of a cent instead of a wire charge. Nexrow is currently running on devnet while the program is finalized.
The USDC sits in the escrow program, not in a Nexrow wallet or a company bank account. The program's rules — not us — decide when it moves, and it can only go to you or back to the client, under the terms you both agreed to when the link was funded. Two honest caveats: it is running on devnet with test tokens today, and the program has not been audited yet. The Security page lays out exactly what we can and cannot do, and the one thing that could change it.
Send your next invoice as a link that pays you.
Set it up once, in about a minute. Your client funds it, you deliver, and the money is in your wallet the moment they approve.
Free to create. You only pay the 1% fee when you get paid.