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My workplace is looking for a payment processing and escrow account banking platform
45 sats \ 13 comments \ @itsrealfake 12 May 2022 bitcoin
For legal reasons, this must be a 3rd party:
it needs to be able to create a trust account (our customer & our business are the two parties to the trust) & the payment processor must be able to process payments into and out of the account on behalf.
any ideas about where to look?
i've reached out for API access @ strike already, but i'm not confident they'll be able to support our needs.
executive team is bitcoin curious... it would be neat to have an impact on this project, but i'm not sure where to look for the payment processor. i've done a bit of googling.
let me know if you have any ideas. thanks
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23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Tristan 12 May 2022
Hey there,
I am the founder of LightningEscrow.io, and we are launching later this year.
We will have an API for the base layer and Lightning, so that it can be integrated with any wallet, marketplace, or bank. We charge a small 1% flat fee on all transactions, that's it.
Let me know if you would like to hop on a call and discuss on how we can help, and to answer any questions you may have :)
My Twitter is https://twitter.com/TristanBietsch
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4 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake OP 12 May 2022
that's dope.
i'll dig in a bit more.
after a bit more investigation into this whole architecture, i think the FDIC insurance of the escrow account might be a must-have for our use case :-/
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 12 May 2022
Damn
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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 12 May 2022
@Tristan is https://lightningescrow.io/ ready?
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tristan 12 May 2022
Not yet, but we are in beta! Check it out at app.lightningescrow.io
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @earnbitcoin 13 May 2022
Really had a hard time trying to decipher what it is you are asking.
First things first, ... for which jurisdiction(s) are you inquiring? (e.g, all payments in/out will be U.S. domestic only, or global in/global out ... or some other variation)
Is the incoming payments for retail / customer payments, or is this for more like B2B?
Are the incoming payments in fiat, or bitcoin/crypto (or both)? If bitcoin, then on-chain, or LN (or both)? For fiat, is this bank payments (e.g., ACH) or debit/credit card (or both)?
Are the outgoing payments in fiat, or bitcoin/crypto (or both)? If bitcoin, then on-chain, or LN (or both)? For fiat, is this bank payments (e.g., ACH) or debit/credit card (or both)?
The trust account you describe ... is that for fiat (bank), or for bitcoin/crypto?
I'm not aware of a merchant payments (incoming) platform that also does outgoing bill pay / vendor payments.
For merchant payments, you might look at (or talk to) https://Blockonomics.co, which has an API. Or work with a custodial merchant payments, like https://CoinPayments.net
For bill pay, "mass pay" is common, among both fiat and bitcoin/crypto custodial services, and non-custodial even. There's also a firm called Coinsfer.com, which lets you pay bills in fiat using bitcoin -- not sure if that might be something that matches your use case. I don't know anything about them so DYOR.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @itsrealfake OP 13 May 2022
Really had a hard time trying to decipher what it is you are asking.
thanks, that's good/fair feedback. thanks for the detailed suggestions.
i've learned a bit more about the specifics after speaking with some others in the business (i'm a lowly engineer, building the features that are required now, wasnt' here for the early startup days)
the business negotiates USD denominated debt settlement for individual clients (b2c) that want to avoid bankruptcy. inbound and outbound payments are in fiat, via ACH. the trust accounts we use are FDIC insured, but i'm not certain if that's a legal requirement, or a coincidence. the trust stores the payments until a negotiated lump-sum payoff with a debt-holder (b2b) can be reached.
being willfully vague here because "The Man", but if you're super curious let me know how we can initiate a DM.
our current platform has a heinous, poorly documented API... seems like the sort of thing ripe for disruption.
i'll investigate the tools you mentioned. i think a combination of tools might suffice. in terms of alternate solutions to our current workflow... it's certainly non-trivial.
thanks again
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @earnbitcoin 13 May 2022
Are you familiar with Prime Trust?
https://www.primetrust.com
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @earnbitcoin 13 May 2022
Are you familiar with Prime Trust?
https://www.primetrust.com
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @jp 12 May 2022
Depends on your liquidity requirements but you may want to check with Open Node.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Brunswick 12 May 2022
What happened to that one new lightning open source project that was hodl invoices for online purchases? It was posted here on SN a few months ago and I wanted to try it out again.
Is it one of these?
https://github.com/CypherToad/LightningStrike
https://github.com/supertestnet/hodlcontracts
https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy
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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @Tristan 12 May 2022
Fun fact, the guy who made HodlContracts is working on LightningEscrow with me :D
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brunswick1 12 May 2022
LightningEscrow is what I was trying to remember. Sometimes the most obvious thing to search for is the hardest to think of.
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