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I’d love to share more about my experimental escrow system I built using @LitProtocol Chipotle (Lit v3), on exactly how it works, because the implementation is the interesting part. The problem: when two strangers trade an online service (design work, freelance gigs etc), neither wants to go first. Buyers fear paying for nothing. Sellers fear delivering for free. How I used Lit Protocol to solve it: 1. The referee is a Lit Action. All the decision-making logic (has the seller delivered on time? did the buyer approve? should a dispute go to review?) lives in a Lit Action, a program that runs on Lit's network rather than on a server I control. 2. The escrow wallet's private key only exists inside Lit. It's generated directly from that Lit Action's exact code, using Lit's key derivation. Nobody creates it, stores it, or can extract it, not me, not Lit itself. The code can sign with it; no person ever touches it. 3. The Lit Action reads real on-chain data itself. I paired it with a small logbook smart contract (deployed separately, on Base Sepolia) that only stores and timestamps events: paid, delivered, reviewed, disputed. The Lit Action reads this logbook directly from the chain, through two independent RPC connections that have to agree, rather than trusting any data it's simply handed. 4. The Lit Action pays out itself. Once a decision is final, it signs and sends the payout directly from its own Lit-controlled wallet, with a rule that makes double-payment structurally impossible: the payout can only ever be the wallet's first transaction. 5. I called it through the Lit API directly. I wrote a script that calls Lit's API from my own code, which is what an app or an automated trigger would actually use in production. I tested this properly before trusting it with anything: 97 automated tests, over 25 deliberate attempts to break the logic (all caught), live runs through the Lit dashboard and the Lit API, and a full real transaction on Base Sepolia - buyer pays, seller delivers, buyer approves, and Lit itself sends the payout from its own wallet. All verifiable on-chain. This is a proof of concept on a test network, not a production system, no security audit, no real funds(yet). But the mechanism genuinely works end to end;I drove every design decision myself. Stay tuned for my next experiment, which will be built on Lit protocol😉🔥 Code, tests, and the full design history are open source; if you want to see how it's put together, you can check it out on GitHub. More built coming soon,stay tuned😉