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After giving it some thought, the most important thing that we need is the escrow functionality. If that's already been implemented on Layer-1, as Dan suggested, then we can do some amazing stuff on Layer-2. Private messaging is only required for shipping physical products.

Dhive's library shows 4 escrow operations:

But, I'm not sure if those types of transactions are currently accepted by the blockchain. I will do some tests tomorrow to find out, unless someone else can enlighten us? @inertia @blocktrades @someguy123

I don't know much about escrow transactions, other than knowing that they are in-fact fully working at the blockchain level last I knew.

I'm sure at least a few libraries have Escrow APIs ready to use - since they were added a good few HF's ago.

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You're 100% correct.

DHive had a bug but Hive-js worked fine:

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YESSS!!! Why aren't more devs using this? This is amazing. 🤓

@someguy123: Sorry that I ever doubted you 😅

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