robopay

Getting started

  • Install
    • Requirements
    • Build from source
    • Packages
    • Check the install
    • Optional: your own RPC endpoint
  • Quickstart
    • 1. Create a wallet
    • 2. Fund it
    • 3. Start the payment node
    • 4. Preview a payment
    • 5. Pay on a condition
    • Next
  • Running on mainnet
    • Before you switch
    • Funding

Concepts

  • How robopay works
    • The shape of it
    • The chain carries money, the developer carries coordination
    • What happens when you pay
    • What happens in an escrow
  • Payments, invoices, and escrow
    • Direct payment
    • Invoice
    • Escrow
    • Terms hash
  • Signature exchange and transport
    • On a shared ROS network
    • Anywhere else
    • Discovery

Guides

  • Payments
    • Send from the command line
    • Send from your own node
    • Preview first
    • Idempotency
    • Payment lifecycle
    • Spending caps
  • Escrow, end to end
    • 1. Agree on the job
    • 2. Open
    • 3. Do the work
    • 4. Sign
    • 5. Release
    • If it goes wrong
    • What escrow does not do
  • Condition-triggered payments
    • The primitives
    • Example
    • Layers of protection
  • Two robots
    • On one machine
    • On two machines
    • Different owners

Reference

  • Interfaces
    • Services
      • transfer/send
      • transfer/preview
      • wallet/create
      • wallet/balance
      • escrow/sign
      • escrow/submit_signature
    • Actions
      • escrow
    • Topics
      • EscrowSignature
      • PaymentRequest
  • Node parameters and environment
    • payment_node parameters
    • Environment variables
    • Files on disk
  • Command line
    • wallet create
    • wallet list
    • balance
    • fund
  • Python API
    • EscrowClient
      • EscrowHandle
    • Triggers
    • Invoices
    • Spending limits
  • Escrow contract
    • Functions
    • Signed message
    • Events
    • Admin role

Project

  • Trust and security
    • What protects the funds
    • Passphrase handling
    • Operating checklist
    • Known limitations
    • Reporting a vulnerability
  • Roadmap
    • Next
    • Later
    • Contributing
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