When a shipment arrives short, a few machines fail inspection, or a court awards a partial refund, Tetrapolar now lets buyer and seller split the locked bitcoin between them in one signed transaction.
The majority of deals can be settled using our standard escrow flow. If you need payment in installments, that is when Milestones come in.
Learn how to recover your wallet keys if Tetrapolar goes offline.
This post explains why we are going back to bitcoin-only escrow.
Release deal funds in installments with our new Milestones feature.
Understanding the difference between Bitcoin-native and traditional escrow mechanisms.
A slightly technical post about how things are wired in the Tetrapolar stack.
If Tetrapolar vanishes tomorrow, your deal funds don't vanish with it: using nothing but your seed phrase and a backup file, you and your counterparty can independently reconstruct the multisig wallet in any supported wallet and sign the payout without us ever coming back online.
The Liquid network is a better fit for institutions settling in Tether USDT stablecoin. In this article, we explain how it differs from other chains.
A step-by-step walkthrough of a USD-priced bitcoin deal from the buyer's side — creating the deal, funding the multisig escrow, and releasing funds to the seller once you're satisfied.
Escrow contracts can now be executed in USDT on the Liquid Network which brings us closer to our vision of bitcoin-native trade finance.
The benefits of using the Liquid Network for escrow deals.