{
  "id": 801427,
  "title": "Building Pontmore: From Protocol Spec to Working Standalone Escrow POC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/building-pontmore-from-protocol-spec-to-working-standalone-escrow-poc",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T19:56:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/mtange/building-pontmore-from-protocol-spec-to-working-standalone-escrow-poc-39gh"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When I opened PR #12 on the Pontmore protocol repo, I was trying to answer one question: can we define a standard way for applications to invoke an escrow service directly, without routing through a swap state machine? The answer was yes , but the path from spec to working POC to simplified protocol taught me more than I expected about designing interoperable financial infrastructure. The…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}