Escrow Tutorials
-The Ripple Consensus Ledger supports held payments that can be executed only after a certain time has passed or a cryptographic condition has been fulfilled. You can use these simple features to build publicly-provable smart contracts. This article explains basic tasks relating to held payments.
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- Send a time-held payment -
- Send a conditionally-held payment -
- Look up held payments where you are the destination -
- Look up held payments where you are the sender/owner -
Availability of Held Payments
-Held payments have been enabled by the "Escrow" Amendment to the Ripple Consensus Protocol since 2017-03-31. A previous version of the same functionality was available on the Ripple Test Net by the name "Suspended Payments" (SusPay) in 2016.
-When testing in stand-alone mode, you can force the Escrow feature to be enabled locally regardless of the amendment status. Add the following stanza to your rippled.cfg:
[features]
-Escrow
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-You can check the status of the Escrow amendment using the feature command.
