trade

handles.

Buy and sell social media usernames through escrow. Pay in BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT or ZEC, and the money is held until the handle is yours.

the discipline of creating interactions between humans and machines that feel natural, helpful, and—most importantly—human.

trade

handles.

Buy and sell social media usernames through escrow. Pay in BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT or ZEC, and the money is held until the handle is yours.

the discipline of creating interactions between humans and machines that feel natural, helpful, and—most importantly—human.

trade

handles.

Buy and sell social media usernames through escrow. Pay in BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT or ZEC, and the money is held until the handle is yours.

the discipline of creating interactions between humans and machines that feel natural, helpful, and—most importantly—human.

trade

handles.

Buy and sell social media usernames through escrow. Pay in BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT or ZEC, and the money is held until the handle is yours.

the discipline of creating interactions between humans and machines that feel natural, helpful, and—most importantly—human.

trade

handles.

Buy and sell social media usernames through escrow. Pay in BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT or ZEC, and the money is held until the handle is yours.

the discipline of creating interactions between humans and machines that feel natural, helpful, and—most importantly—human.

@you

 Every account starts as a single word. Post by post, that word becomes a reputation; the reputation becomes an audience. Creators build brands on it, founders build companies around it, and for most of us it is simply how who does what find us.

@you

 Every account starts as a single word. Post by post, that word becomes a reputation; the reputation becomes an audience. Creators build brands on it, founders build companies around it, and for most of us it is simply how who does what find us.
We spend years building an identity on top of a single name.
We spend years building an identity on top of a single name.
We spend years building an identity on top of a single name.
We spend years building an identity on top of a single name.
which is exactly why handing one over feels so risky
which is exactly why handing one over feels so risky
which is exactly why handing one over feels so risky
But selling a handle has always meant trusting a stranger. Someone has to go first: the buyer sends money and hopes, or the seller hands over

Logins

 and

2FA

and hopes. users.trade holds the money in escrow until the handle changes hands, so the middleman finally becomes

invisible

But selling a handle has always meant trusting a stranger. Someone has to go first: the buyer sends money and hopes, or the seller hands over

Logins

 and

2FA

and hopes. users.trade holds the money in escrow until the handle changes hands, so the middleman finally becomes

invisible

To understand this shift, we need to look back at how we connect

To understand this shift, we need to look back at how we connect

list

& agree

Every deal starts on the open market. Sellers list a handle at a price in USD; buyers pay the asking price or send an offer.

List a handle

step

Pick the platform, enter the handle and set a price in USD. The listing stays live until someone buys it.

list

Make an offer

step

Buyers pay the asking price or send an offer. Sellers accept, counter or decline from their dashboard.

offer

Agree in chat

step

Every deal gets its own chat. Contact details are filtered out until the payment is safely in escrow.

agree

locked

funds

Once terms are agreed, the buyer pays into a one-time escrow address made for that order alone. users.trade waits for enough confirmations before it counts the money; partial payments are added up and anything extra is refunded automatically.

Pay into escrow

step

The order gets its own escrow address. The buyer has 45 minutes to send the exact amount in the coin they picked.

pay in crypto

Hand over

step

The seller transfers the login, recovery email and 2FA, then marks the handle as handed over.

hand over

clean

handover

With the payment locked, the seller hands over the account and marks it done. The buyer then has 72 hours to inspect: change the password, email and 2FA, log out every other session, then confirm. Silence counts as a yes.

Hand over

step

The seller transfers the login, recovery email and 2FA, then marks the handle as handed over.

hand over

Secure it

step

The seller transfers the login, recovery email and 2FA, then marks the handle as handed over.

secure it

Confirm

step

One click releases escrow. No reply within 72 hours releases it automatically.

confirm

paid

out

When the buyer confirms, escrow releases the payment to the seller's payout address, minus the 3% fee and the network fee. If anything goes wrong, an admin reviews the evidence and can refund the buyer in full instead.

Payout

step

The seller's share goes to their payout address, minus the 3% fee. The deal is complete.

payout

Refund

step

Disputes freeze escrow. An admin reviews the evidence and can refund the buyer in full.

refund

list

& agree

Every deal starts on the open market. Sellers list a handle at a price in USD; buyers pay the asking price or send an offer.

List a handle

step

Pick the platform, enter the handle and set a price in USD. The listing stays live until someone buys it.

list

Make an offer

step

Buyers pay the asking price or send an offer. Sellers accept, counter or decline from their dashboard.

offer

Agree in chat

step

Every deal gets its own chat. Contact details are filtered out until the payment is safely in escrow.

agree

locked

funds

Once terms are agreed, the buyer pays into a one-time escrow address made for that order alone. users.trade waits for enough confirmations before it counts the money; partial payments are added up and anything extra is refunded automatically.

Pay into escrow

step

The order gets its own escrow address. The buyer has 45 minutes to send the exact amount in the coin they picked.

pay in crypto

clean

handover

With the payment locked, the seller hands over the account and marks it done. The buyer then has 72 hours to inspect: change the password, email and 2FA, log out every other session, then confirm. Silence counts as a yes.

Hand over

step

The seller transfers the login, recovery email and 2FA, then marks the handle as handed over.

hand over

Secure it

step

The seller transfers the login, recovery email and 2FA, then marks the handle as handed over.

secure it

Confirm

step

One click releases escrow. No reply within 72 hours releases it automatically.

confirm

paid

out

When the buyer confirms, escrow releases the payment to the seller's payout address, minus the 3% fee and the network fee. If anything goes wrong, an admin reviews the evidence and can refund the buyer in full instead.

Payout

step

The seller's share goes to their payout address, minus the 3% fee. The deal is complete.

payout

Refund

step

Disputes freeze escrow. An admin reviews the evidence and can refund the buyer in full.

refund

Nobody goes first. The escrow does.

Nobody goes first. The escrow does.

Nobody goes first. The escrow does.

Nobody goes first. The escrow does.

That is the whole idea. users.trade holds the money, never the account. Buyers never pay a stranger directly, and sellers never hand over a login before the money is locked.
That is the whole idea. users.trade holds the money, never the account. Buyers never pay a stranger directly, and sellers never hand over a login before the money is locked.
Every order runs through one state machine, from awaiting payment to paid out. Each step has an owner, a deadline and an automatic fallback, so a deal never stalls just because someone went quiet.
Every order runs through one state machine, from awaiting payment to paid out. Each step has an owner, a deadline and an automatic fallback, so a deal never stalls just because someone went quiet.

why

users.trade

why

users.trade

why

users.trade

One address per order

Deposits are never pooled. Every order gets its own escrow address, derived from the escrow wallet, so a payment always matches exactly one deal.

Paid in crypto

Prices are set in USD and the coin amount is locked when the order opens. Pay from any wallet or exchange: no card, no bank, no chargebacks.

Self-custodial wallet

The escrow wallet is users.trade's own. Deposits are watched on-chain through public nodes on each network, and payouts and refunds are built, signed and broadcast without a custodian in between.

Humans settle disputes

When something goes wrong, escrow freezes and a real admin reads the chat and the evidence before releasing or refunding.

Usernames are identities, and identities deserve better than a leap of faith. users.trade makes the trade boring in the best way: list it, lock it, hand it over, get paid.
Usernames are identities, and identities deserve better than a leap of faith. users.trade makes the trade boring in the best way: list it, lock it, hand it over, get paid.

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