Our mission
To cultivate and reinforce user trust in cross-border digital commerce through lucid terms, efficient procedural frameworks, and robust verification mechanisms. We exist so that two strangers can transact a high-value digital asset without ever having to trust each other — only the process.
What we believe
- Trust scales when process replaces personality. Receipts beat reputation, every time.
- The process must be visible. If both parties cannot see what we are doing, we are doing it wrong.
- Neutrality is paid, not promised. The non-refundable middleman fee is what allows us to be impartial.
- The smallest deal deserves the same vault as the largest. Operationally identical, fee proportional.
Our story
Escrowlyst was born out of frustration with the loose-ends middlemen on Telegram — pseudonymous operators with no published policies, no custody architecture, and no answer when a deal went sideways. In 2024 a group of custody engineers, former payments-fraud investigators and compliance officers got together to build the operator we wished we could have hired ourselves.
Today Escrowlyst has settled tens of thousands of digital deals across domains, software, social accounts, marketing services, art and code — all under the same playbook, all on one Telegram channel.
Where we operate
Escrowlyst is jurisdiction-agnostic by design. Every deal is documented inside a private Telegram thread, settled on public crypto rails, and held to the same standard regardless of where the parties live. Where local law requires reporting, we report.
Who we are
The team
- Custody engineers — design and operate the multi-sig vaults that hold your funds.
- Dispute officers — read the evidence, ask the questions, and write the binding decisions.
- Compliance veterans — handle KYC, sanctions screening and reporting where required.
- Customer leads — the people answering your messages on Telegram, 24/7.
How we stay small on purpose
We deliberately cap the deals we take per week so every transaction is touched by a human who cares about the outcome. If we’re ever at capacity, we’ll say so up-front rather than rush you through.
What we don’t do
- We don’t do physical goods.
- We don’t custody for speculation — vaults exist to settle deals, not to park money.
- We don’t mediate anything illegal in either party’s jurisdiction.
- We don’t sell, share or monetise your data.