Stellar network · Testnet live · Open source
Freelancers get paid
the moment work
is approved.
On-chain escrow on Stellar holds funds until a milestone is approved — then releases them instantly. No invoice cycles, no platform float, no 20% cut.
The problem
01
You wait. A lot.
Invoices sit in approval queues for days or weeks. The work is done. The payment isn't.
02
The platform takes its cut.
20–30% gone before you see a dollar. Every transaction, every time.
03
No guarantee for either side.
Clients pay blind. Freelancers deliver blind. Someone always takes on the risk.
04
Milestones don't scale.
Splitting a project into smaller payments is slow, expensive, and easy to dispute.
How it works
Five steps.
One settlement.
The whole flow runs on Stellar. No intermediary holds your money at any point.
Connect wallet
Link a Stellar wallet — Freighter works out of the box. No custodial account, no KYC flow.
Create a contract
Define the work, milestones, and payment amounts. Both parties sign on-chain.
Fund escrow
Client locks XLM into the escrow account. Funds are on-chain — visible to both sides, touchable by neither until conditions are met.
Deliver milestones
Freelancer submits work through the platform. Client reviews against agreed terms.
Payment released
Approval triggers an immediate on-chain transfer. 4–5 second settlement to the freelancer's wallet.
Why Stellar
Payment rails that work without you knowing they're there.
Stellar is a public payment network optimized for fast, low-cost transfers. Transactions finalize in 3–5 seconds and cost less than a fraction of a cent — which means milestone payments that would be impractical on Ethereum become trivial here.
We use Stellar's built-in account mechanics and the Horizon API for escrow. Soroban smart contracts are next on the roadmap for more complex dispute logic and automated validation.
3–5s
Transaction finality
< $0.01
Per transaction fee
Trustless
Escrow via Horizon
Soroban
Smart contracts (roadmap)
Open source
Built in public.
Contributions welcome.
Stellance is an active project in the Stellar Wave program. The full codebase is on GitHub. If you want to build on real payment infrastructure — frontend, backend, or Soroban contracts — there are open issues and clear contribution guidelines.
# stack
See it on the Stellar testnet — no signup required.
Generate a keypair, fund it with Friendbot, and watch a payment settle in under 5 seconds.