Your software stays available – at all times

Digital Escrow at on:mint secures business-critical digital assets such as source code in an insolvency-proof, audit-ready, and technically verifiable manner.

The product addresses key risks in modern technology projects:

• insolvency or failure of software and technology partners
• blocked access to source code or intellectual property
• project, development, or production downtime

lack of legal and technical safeguards for customers, investors, and public-sector clients

on:mint combines digital deposit, decentralized storage technology, and attorney-drafted escrow agreements into a robust foundation for business continuity.

on:mint provides a fully digital escrow model.

Compared to traditional physical escrow solutions, the digital approach offers significantly greater transparency, up-to-dateness, verifiability, and resilience.

Escrow assets are stored in a gated IPFS vault operated exclusively on EU-hosted infrastructure.

The IPFS software runs on servers provided by Scaleway and IONOS.

The middleware responsible for data transfer is also hosted within the EU via Scaleway.

No transfers to third countries take place.

The architecture is decentralized, avoids single points of failure, and provides high operational resilience.

on:mint uses several combined protection mechanisms:

• Token-gated access: access is limited to contractually authorized parties and enforced through a token-based permission model
• Content-based addressing: each file is uniquely identified by its content
• Blockchain anchoring: every deposit is immutably documented
• Decentralized storage: no dependency on a single server

Only the cryptographic hash is stored on the blockchain, not the content itself.

The assets remain fully confidential at all times.

on:mint uses inherent versioning.

Any change to a deposited asset:

• automatically generates a new hash
• is documented in an audit-proof manner
• is clearly traceable in time

This makes it provable at any point:

• which version was deposited
• when it was deposited
• whether the content has changed

Manual updates are possible at any time.

A direct GitHub integration for automated synchronization is planned and will be available from mid-Q2 2026.

Access to escrow assets is granted exclusively upon the occurrence of contractually defined release criteria.

Typical trigger events include:

• insolvency
• prolonged support failure
• breach of contract
• loss of key personnel, such as brain drain

Release is:

• legally defined
• technically enforced
• limited to authorized parties only

Tiered access rights, such as read-only access, can be defined individually.

The process is clearly structured and can typically be completed within a few days up to three weeks, depending on complexity.

Process:

1. Joint definition of the desired setup and release logic
2. Drafting of an individually tailored, insolvency-proof escrow agreement
3. Setup of a dedicated tenant on the on:mint platform
4. Onboarding session, approximately 30 minutes
5. Initial asset deposit, approximately 30 minutes

The escrow agreements are drafted by Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer (SRD), a renowned German technology and IT law boutique.

A plausibility check of the deposited materials is included by default.

Comprehensive technical or functional verifications, such as build or full verification, can be arranged as optional services and are subject to additional fees.