Glossary
Plain-language definitions for DeFlow product, workflow, blockchain, security, and availability terminology.
Availability label
A release marker showing whether a capability is available to invited testers, limited, planned, or internal.
CREATE2
An Ethereum operation that enables deterministic contract addresses. EscrowFactory uses it to deploy a complete Escrow instance for each deal.
Deal ID
The identifier used to correlate the off-chain workflow, deployed escrow, and emitted contract events.
Escrow
A non-upgradeable per-deal smart contract that holds TestUSDC and applies the settlement, refund, dispute, and governance paths encoded in its source.
EscrowFactory
The Sepolia contract that deploys complete Escrow instances, maintains the allowed-token list, and can pause new deployments.
FeeRouter
The UUPS/ERC1967 proxy contract used to preview and distribute settlement fees. Its upgrade authority belongs to the current governance address.
Governance
The address authorised to perform defined administrative and emergency actions. The current deployment uses a single externally owned account rather than a multisig or timelock.
HMAC-SHA256
A keyed hashing method used to transform normalised email identifiers before application storage. Hashing reduces exposure but does not by itself settle the legal classification of the resulting data.
Private beta
An invitation-only product stage intended for testing. It is not a statement of production readiness.
Sepolia
An Ethereum test network. Its ETH and tokens are intended for testing and do not represent mainnet assets.
FIFO allocation
First-in, first-out allocation. The current Syndicate implementation processes eligible allocation requests in order up to the hard cap; proportional or pro-rata allocation is not available.
Sharded escrow
The current Syndicate settlement model in which each approved investor allocation receives its own Escrow contract. It is different from the planned single pooled escrow.
Syndicate
A multi-investor raise with a soft cap, hard cap, minimum ticket, funding deadline, and access rules. Its current lifecycle is coordinated by the backend rather than an on-chain SyndicateController.
TestUSDC
The allowlisted six-decimal test token used by the current DeFlow release. It has no monetary value.
UUPS proxy
An upgradeable proxy pattern used by the deployed FeeRouter. It is not used for the per-deal Escrow instances.
VIP rank
A progression level calculated from lifetime settled volume. Economic controls and named benefits are documented separately because an approved benefit assignment does not imply operational availability.