Suddenly, you can no longer access it
Source code, AI models, datasets, access keys: much of it sits with vendors, service providers or individuals. If they go down, your access goes with them — permanently, without escrow.
Your digital assets, held in trust
on:mint holds source code, AI models, data and intellectual property as a neutral, independent third party — legally and technically secured. Your digital assets stay protected and are immediately available when it matters.
Legally sound, with lawyer-drafted contracts
Decentralized, redundant storage with controlled access
Easy to use for companies and developers
Why you can rely on on:mint
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Legally sound
Your escrow agreement is drafted by the lawyers of the tech law firm Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer. Designed for legal proceedings, including insolvency scenarios, and aligns precisely with your existing contracts.
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Data stays in the EU
Your data is stored exclusively on servers within the EU (Scaleway, IONOS). Your data never leaves the EU. You retain full control over your data.
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High-end security architecture
Three mechanisms work together: blockchain anchoring, content-based addressing and token-gated access. Manipulation is immediately detectable — not just contractually forbidden.
Trust is good.
Access is better.
Your business is built on digital assets that mostly live elsewhere: source code at the vendor, AI models in the cloud, data and know-how with individual partners or people. If one of those sources disappears, you lose exactly what keeps your business running.
Downtime costs money immediately
When what your operations rely on is missing, the business stops. Whether it's software, data or critical know-how: every day without access costs revenue and customer trust.
Traditional solutions fall short
Contracts sit with the lawyer, the content on a storage medium, updates happen rarely. Law and technology run on separate tracks. In an emergency, everything has to be brought together by hand — and that takes days.
Secure what makes your business work.
Contractually agreed, technically enforced.
With on:mint.
Digital Escrow
Digital escrow means depositing digital assets such as code, models, data or documents. on:mint handles both the technical custody and the contractual rules for the deposit. Only when the contractually defined event occurs — e.g. the insolvency of the vendor — are the assets released. That way, both sides are protected.
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You keep working, no matter what
If the agreed release event occurs, you automatically receive the current version. Operations and development continue without interruption.
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Drafted by lawyers, reliable in legal disputes
Your contract is written by SRD. It is insolvency-proof, designed for legal proceedings, and matches your release rules.
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Always up to date
Whether code, model or dataset: every new version lands in escrow automatically. For software, directly via GitHub or GitLab — without any manual handover.
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You stay in control
Your content remains confidential until the agreed event occurs. You decide who gets which rights then — from full access to read-only.
Dependency grows faster than the safeguards
Dependency has never been greater
Hardly any company runs without external software, AI services or cloud platforms. In every industry, operations depend on systems owned by others. Every one of those links is a potential point of failure.
Forgery has never been easier
AI can copy, alter or convincingly fake digital content in seconds. Whether something is the original or has been manipulated is barely distinguishable from the outside. Proving authenticity beyond doubt only works with state-of-the-art technology — like our blockchain-based anchoring.
Hardly anyone has it on their radar
Many companies hedge against the failure of individual vendors. What most haven't recognized is that the digital assets themselves can disappear. Act now and you are prepared — before the gap is exposed in an emergency.
Secured in four steps
Here is how the deposit with on:mint works, using software escrow as an example.
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Set up the contract
SRD drafts your escrow agreement. You define exactly what is deposited and in which cases you gain access to it.
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Set up the secure data vault
We set up your protected, decentralized data vault. Only contractually authorised parties get in — enforced by technology, not just paperwork.
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Deposit and sign
You upload your content — code, models, data or documents — and confirm the deposit with your digital signature. From that moment it is legally and technically valid.
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Keep current and release on demand
Push new versions whenever you like — manually, or for software automatically via GitHub and GitLab. If the release event occurs, the defined version is released automatically.
Control instead of losing control
Without on:mint
With on:mint
Control over digital assets
Storage on physical media, barely manageable
Digital vault: you decide who gets access and when
Access in an emergency
Depends on people, office hours and processes
Available 24/7, worldwide
How current the deposit is
Only updated manually or at long intervals
Automatically up to date — for software via GitHub and GitLab
Law and technology
Contract and implementation don't mesh
Insolvency-proof contract, cleanly implemented in the technology
Security and proof
Centrally stored, hard to verify when it matters
Distributed across the EU, every version verifiable
THE PEOPLE BEHIND ON:MINT
Law and technology, from a single source
With the tech law firm Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer as our partner, we have top lawyers at our side we can rely on for all legal matters — and so can you.
Simone Rosenthal
CEO
Attorney, partner at the tech law firm SRD and serial founder. With caralegal, lawpilots and ISiCO, Simone Rosenthal has shown that law and technology belong together — and produce services that actually work.
At the firm she has already drafted countless escrow agreements. That's why she set out to build the best technical escrow solution with on:mint.
Co-FounderSerial Founder
Philipp Müller-Peltzer
Legal & Strategy
When law meets deep tech, things get complicated. Or you simply ask Philipp Müller-Peltzer. As an attorney and partner at SRD, he works at the intersection of law and technology every day.
Through his work at SRD he has advised companies of all sizes on digital assets. He knows their pain points and structures — from AI to IP, from SaaS to enterprise.
Co-Founder
What you don't get with on:mint
No escrow that falls flat in an emergency
With classic solutions, the deposited version is often outdated or incomplete. When you need it, it's worthless. With on:mint, the current, verified version is always on deposit — so a release actually holds up.
No new lock-in
You protect yourself against dependency without ending up in the next one. In an emergency you get full control over your assets, not just access on request.
No black box
You don't have to trust us blindly. You can independently verify at any time, via the blockchain, that your deposit is authentic and unchanged.
Not a tech-only solution
Software alone secures nothing. At on:mint, the lawyer-drafted contract and the technical custody belong together — from a single source.
Escrow for software, IP, AI, data and more.
If your software vendor goes bankrupt, gets sold or shuts down: you keep access to the source code and can continue to operate and develop the software. Contractually secured, technically enforced.
Keeps your operations running, legally sound
Actively offering escrow to your customers turns it into a selling point. You protect your own source code and give customers verifiable peace of mind. Especially as a smaller vendor, it puts you on equal footing with the big players.
Protects your IP and strengthens sales
Financing an IT project? Escrow secures your stake. If the company gets into trouble, you gain access to the deposited code — as collateral, for continuation or for resale.
Protects your investment, with an exit option
Not only software can be deposited, but other trade secrets too: engineering drawings, bills of materials, formulas or supplier details. They sit safely in the vault and only become accessible if a pre-agreed event occurs.
Protects trade secrets beyond software
Passwords, keys and access to critical systems often live only in someone's head. Deposit them securely and verifiably. No access gets lost when someone leaves the company.
Secures access, independent of individuals
Large datasets — from sensor data to analytics foundations — can be stored so that any change is immediately detectable. Even if a system fails, the data remains complete and unchanged.
Keeps business-critical data available and unchanged
An AI system consists of many parts: the model architecture, the trained weights, the training data, vector databases and the workflows behind them. Deposit these building blocks and your AI remains traceable and usable in the long term — even if a vendor disappears.
Secures AI models and their reproducibility
PRICING
From €79 per month
One source code including all related components, one beneficiary included, an audit-proof escrow deed. Minimum term 12 months.
Protect
your critical
technologies
Without Digital Escrow you risk losing your digital assets. With on:mint they are insolvency-proof, audit-ready and immediately available.
FAQs
Digital Escrow is a deposit with a neutral party. on:mint securely stores your business-critical digital assets: source code, AI models, data and intellectual property. If a pre-agreed release event occurs, you gain access. The deposit is insolvency-proof, verifiable at any time and technically protected against manipulation.
The product addresses key risks of modern technology projects:
- Insolvency or failure of software and technology partners
- Blocked access to source code, data or IP
- Project, development or production downtime
- Lack of legal and technical safeguards for customers, investors and public-sector clients
- Tampered or opaque deposits with classic escrow providers
on:mint combines three things: a protected, decentralized storage layer in the EU, proof via blockchain that is independently verifiable at any time, and an insolvency-proof contract drafted by lawyers. Together they form a robust foundation to keep working — even in an emergency.
Escrow assets are stored in a gated IPFS vault, exclusively on EU-hosted infrastructure (Scaleway, IONOS). Your data never leaves the EU.
The architecture is decentralized: data is held redundantly on multiple independent nodes. If one server fails, other nodes serve the data. There is no single point of failure.
on:mint uses four protection mechanisms that work together:
- Access control (token-gated access): Only those who are contractually authorised can reach the data. This is enforced technically via digital permissions.
- Forgery detection (content-based addressing): Every file receives a unique digital fingerprint. Change a single character and a new fingerprint emerges — any manipulation becomes immediately visible.
- Immutable proof (blockchain): With every deposit, the fingerprint and a timestamp are permanently recorded. Only the fingerprint is stored, never the content itself.
- Distributed storage: Data sits redundantly on servers across the EU. Nothing hangs on a single server.
The deposited content never leaves the protected system. Only the fingerprint is visible from the outside; the content itself remains fully confidential.
on:mint works with inherent versioning and native GitHub/GitLab sync. Every change to a deposited asset:
- automatically generates a new hash,
- is documented in an audit-proof manner,
- is uniquely traceable in time.
You can prove at any time which version was deposited, when it was deposited and whether the content has changed.
We offer three ways to keep your escrow deposit up to date:
- GitHub/GitLab sync: Native integration as a step in your CI/CD pipeline — every merge or release automatically triggers a secure transfer into the escrow vault.
- Command-line tool (CLI): For CI/CD systems like Jenkins, CircleCI or Bitbucket Pipelines — the on:mint CLI can be plugged into any pipeline that runs shell commands.
- Manual upload: Directly via the on:mint web app, any time, no pipeline integration needed.
Access to the escrow assets only happens when the contractually defined release criteria are met. Typical trigger events:
- Insolvency or cessation of business,
- permanent support failure,
- breach of contract,
- vendor lock-out,
- change of control (e.g. acquisition by a competitor of the licensee).
The release is regulated legally, enforced technically via the token-based permission model and only possible for the authorised parties. Graduated rights (e.g. read-only access) can be defined individually.
The whole process is clearly structured and can be completed within a few days to three weeks, depending on complexity. The four steps:
- Escrow contract: SRD (Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer), a renowned German tech and IT law boutique, drafts your individual, insolvency-proof escrow agreement — aligned with your existing licence agreement and synchronised with the agreed release logic. Contracts are provided in German by default, in English on request at no extra cost.
- Platform setup: We set up your dedicated escrow account — including analytics dashboard, deadline management and update cycles — and coordinate the deposit appointment.
- Deposit & CI/CD integration: Upload of the source code and setup of automated synchronisation via GitHub/GitLab sync or CLI for systems like Jenkins, as a step in your CI/CD pipeline. We guide you through the process; read rights remain in place, change rights are revoked.
- Certificate: You receive your audit-proof escrow certificate. The deposit is complete.
Onboarding includes a joint session covering legal and technical questions (approx. 90 minutes) as well as the initial deposit of the assets.
A plausibility check of the deposited materials is included by default — that is, verification that the submitted files are complete, readable and match the agreed scope of the deposit.
Beyond that, further verification levels can be arranged on request:
- Build verification: Does the deposited source code compile into a runnable application?
- Full verification: Functional testing of the compiled software against defined test criteria.
These extended checks are quoted project-specifically and incur additional costs.
Questions? We're
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