[Spike] Tutorial – Trustless Work x Pollar Integration Guide --

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[Spike] Tutorial – Trustless Work x Pollar Integration Guide

Summary

Create a step-by-step technical guide that documents how to integrate Pollar's abstracted wallet and payment infrastructure with the Trustless Work escrow API. This is a documentation-focused spike aimed at improving the developer experience for external contributors who want to build on top of both systems.

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Context

As both Pollar and Trustless Work mature, external developers will need a clear, opinionated path to understand how to connect the two. Right now, that path doesn't exist in a consolidated, developer-friendly format. This spike addresses that gap by producing a canonical integration guide.

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Goal

Produce a clear, usable integration tutorial that an external developer can follow from zero to a working escrow deployment using Pollar as the wallet layer — without needing prior knowledge of either system.

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In Scope

• Step-by-step walkthrough of the integration flow
• Code snippets for each relevant step
• Explanation of key concepts (wallet abstraction, escrow deployment, signing flow)
• Notes on assumptions, prerequisites, and environment setup
• Common pitfalls or known gotchas worth documenting

Out of Scope

• Building new features or modifying existing codebases
• Production-ready implementations
• Full escrow lifecycle documentation (focus on initial deployment flow)

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Expected Output

A documentation artifact (markdown file, Notion page, or equivalent) that covers:

1. Prerequisites and environment setup
2. Wallet initialization via Pollar
3. Escrow deployment using Trustless Work API
4. End-to-end example with annotated code

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Acceptance Criteria

• Tutorial covers the full path from setup to escrow deployment attempt
• Code examples are tested and functional
• Document is clear enough for a developer unfamiliar with either system
• Submitted as a PR with the doc included

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Branching & PR Rules

Branch off from: spike/pollar-wallet-integration
Name your branch: docs/pollar-tw-integration-tutorial

In your PR include: what decisions you made about structure, any gaps you found in the existing docs, and any open questions that came up during writing.

[temitope-007]

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[Danitello123]

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[cypriannwokolo2-creator]

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CAN I WORK ON THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

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[OscarGauss]

@OscarGauss has applied to work on this issue as part of the Stellar Wave Program's 4th wave.

I'm one of the co-founders of Pollar (pollar.xyz), the wallet abstraction and payment infrastructure layer this spike is about. I've designed and built the core architecture being documented here — including the wallet creation flow, trust line management and gas abstraction on Stellar.

This means I can write this guide from the inside out: not by reverse-engineering the docs, but by documenting the actual integration decisions, the real gotchas (trust line setup timing, XDR signing flow, fee abstraction edge cases), and the opinionated path we'd recommend for an external developer onboarding onto both systems.

I'm also deeply familiar with the Trustless Work side — I've worked extensively with Stellar RPC, Soroban contracts, and the escrow deployment flow, and participated in the Stellar ecosystem through the BAF Network / Código Alebrije accelerator and an SCF grant application for Pollar.

My plan: structure the guide around the actual integration seam — how a Pollar-provisioned wallet hands off a signed XDR to the Trustless Work escrow deployment flow — with tested code snippets, annotated with the why behind each step, and explicit callouts for the failure modes that aren't obvious from the docs alone.

This is the guide I'd want to exist for developers building on top of Pollar. I'll deliver it properly.

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[AllanMangeni]

@AllanMangeni has applied to work on this issue as part of the Stellar Wave Program's 4th wave.

My background authoring technical documentation for Filecoin's developer ecosystem, including node setup guides, smart contract deployment tutorials, and API integration resources adopted by 2,000+ developers globally, positions me well to produce a clear, developer-friendly integration guide for this spike

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