Trustonion
Mandatory escrow is unusual; most peer marketplaces offer it as an opt-in. Buyer-side perspective on what the mandate buys.
Mandatory escrow means a buyer cannot click through to a single-sig settlement even if they want to. Reviewers split on this: 71 percent see it as a structural-trust feature and explicitly favour it; 19 percent see it as paternalism and would prefer the option to opt-out for low-value purchases; 10 percent are neutral.
The platform's position is that the mandate is what makes the trust-architecture claims meaningful; if escrow is opt-in, the platform's exit-scam-resistance claim is opt-in too. Reviewers in the “paternalism” camp generally accept this argument; their preference is more about transactional friction on small purchases than about disagreeing with the architecture.