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Settlement for the
Agentic Economy.

Five Bells releases bitcoin only when the work is verifiably done. On-chain escrow tied to real-world events, no intermediaries, no trust required.

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The Problem

Once you send bitcoin,
it's gone.

No chargebacks. No disputes. No recourse. In person, proximity solves the trust problem. But the moment payment and delivery are separated, you're betting on reputation alone.

You order coffee beans from a roaster in Portland. You pay in bitcoin.

Your bitcoin arrives. The roaster sees it.

They could ship. They could also keep the money and not deliver to you. You have little recourse.

Extend this problem to agents

AI agents can make mistakes. They can be malicious. Anyone can spin up a new one, there's no reputation to trust. Every agentic payment is a leap of faith.

Three ways to pay an agent

Only one of them is safe.

Trust the agent

The standard pattern today. Pay upfront, hope the agent does the work. Works when it works, offers nothing when it doesn't.

Trust required

The agent is malicious

The same flow, different outcome. Payment is sent. Nothing happens. No work, no refund, no recourse.
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You lose your money

Pay through Five Bells

Funds sit in on-chain escrow tied to a verifiable event. Delivered? Agent gets paid. Missed the window? You get it back. Automatic. Trustless.

Protected by default

Under the hood

Simplicity you can trust.

Fund the escrow

Five Bells generates an on-chain address. Send bitcoin from any
wallet, custodian, or self-custody system.

Five Bells watches the event

A pre-built module monitors a real-world condition, such as a
merged PR, a bank wire, or a delivered package.

Event fires → recipient is paid

If the event fires before the timeout, funds release
automatically to the recipient.

Timeout → you get refunded

If the event never fires, the contract returns your funds to
your return address. No human in the loop.

Modules

Pre-built modules
for real-world events

Every Five Bells contract uses a vetted module that knows how to watch a specific kind of event. Start with what we've built, we're building more every month.