Crypto / digital escrow · Case study

Escrowlyst: A Telegram-first escrow flow for high-value digital deals.

Escrowlyst vaults crypto funds, verifies delivery, and releases payment for digital transactions where buyers and sellers need a neutral middleman.

Escrowlyst website screenshot
$184.6M
vaulted to date
27,418
successful deals
99.2%
completion rate
4.94/5
satisfaction score
Challenge

Why this had to be built this way.

Digital trades are built on blind trust, screenshot disputes, impersonation risk, and irreversible crypto transfers. The site needed to show safety and speed together.

Implementation

What we implemented for the client.

We designed a trust-gap narrative around buyer, vault, and seller steps, then routed conversion into a prefilled Telegram transaction request.

Feature rationale

Telegram-native CTA

The primary action opens Telegram with a structured escrow-start message.

The client’s users already negotiate in chat, so conversion had to happen in the channel they trust.

Three-party flow diagram

Buyer deposits crypto, Escrowlyst holds funds in a vault, and the seller delivers goods before release.

Escrow can be intimidating; the client needed the process to feel legible in one glance.

Trust-gap problem section

First-mover risk, no common record, reversals, and impersonation are listed as transaction failures.

The page had to validate both buyer and seller anxieties before offering the solution.

Multi-sig and dispute cues

Multi-sig vault, inspect-before-release, and dispute desk language appear as trust signals.

Crypto users care about custody and recourse; those mechanisms needed to be explicit.
Build notes
  • Kept the product lightweight by routing operations through Telegram.
  • Turned escrow mechanics into a visual transaction flow.
  • Balanced crypto-native language with mainstream safety messaging.