Escrow Contracts

On-chain escrow by Vitalik Buterin (Sep 2015). Two parties designate arbiters; majority vote releases funds. One of the earliest smart contract dispute systems.

Second deployment of Vitalik's on-chain escrow (Oct 2015). Arbiters vote to release escrowed funds. Identical bytecode to the Sep 28 instance.

Dead man's switch: owner pings to stay alive, trustee can withdraw after 1000 seconds of inactivity

A shipping escrow contract with buyer/seller structs, late delivery penalties, and IPFS cargo documentation.

A shipping escrow contract with public struct getters, late delivery penalties, and IPFS cargo documentation. Sibling of ShippingEscrow with added buyer/seller/

Identical clone of ShippingEscrow2 (0x47618f). Shipping escrow with public struct getters, deployed by the same developer on the same day.

Identical clone of ShippingEscrow2 (0x47618f). Shipping escrow with public struct getters, deployed by the same developer on the same day.

A factory contract for generating custom escrow agreements between buyers, sellers, and arbiters. Compiled with solc v0.3.5, optimizer on.

Simple 3-party escrow contract: partyA (beneficiary), partyB (refund recipient), arbiter (mediator). Either party can pay the other, or the arbiter can settle.

A minimal two-party escrow with an arbitrator. finalize() releases funds to the seller; refund() returns them to the buyer. Byte-identical to verified sibling.

Sibling of 0x9b27a230 (Escrow). Simple 3-party escrow: partyA (beneficiary), partyB (refund recipient), and an arbiter who can release or refund.

Minimal two-party escrow with an arbitrator (731-byte variant), part of Vitalik's 2016 escrow series.

Minimal two-party escrow with an arbitrator (688-byte variant), part of Vitalik's 2016 escrow series.

A three party escrow where either the buyer or the arbiter can release the money

The escrow whose rewritten guard locks out every caller