Release research funding to teams automatically as verified milestones are reported and confirmed, instead of a single opaque lump sum. Funding bodies gain real-time visibility into progress while researchers receive capital the moment each milestone clears.
Replace lump-sum grants and end-of-project reports with milestone-gated releases that funders can watch in real time.
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Lock the full grant at award. The Escrow and Conditional Settlement module holds capital in a contract and releases each tranche only when its milestone is confirmed, so funds are never advanced ahead of verified work.
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Confirm progress against defined criteria. The Compliance Attestations module records that a deliverable met its stated conditions, turning a milestone report into a signed on-chain event rather than an email.
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Anchor the evidence behind each claim. The Provenance Notary seals datasets, reports, and outputs by digest, so a funder can trace any released tranche back to the exact deliverable that unlocked it.
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Give funding bodies a live window. Every registered milestone, attestation, and release is visible in real time, replacing the annual progress report with a continuously auditable record of spend.
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Pay researchers promptly. The moment a milestone is confirmed, the contract settles the associated tranche to the research team's account without a manual approval cycle in the finance office.
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Protect public capital. If a milestone is missed or an attestation is withdrawn, undisbursed tranches remain locked in escrow and can be returned to the funder under the encoded grant terms.
Follow a single research grant from award through milestone confirmation to automatic tranche settlement.
10:05:12
[SYS] Initializing Grant Escrow manifest...
10:05:12
[CMD] awardGrant { proj: "NSF_LAB_771", total: 4800000, milestones: 4 }
10:05:13
[AUTH] Locking funds and encoding release conditions...
10:05:13
[OK] Grant escrow anchored at block 6033120.
Cerulea decomposes grant administration into modular contracts. Each layer escrows capital, records milestone claims, attests results, and settles tranches without a manual finance cycle between confirmation and payment.
Milestone-gated funding is a horizontal capability. Here is how different funders and research bodies put conditional settlement to work.
Disburse public research capital against verified milestones with a continuous audit trail, replacing annual progress reports and giving oversight bodies live visibility into every rupee committed.
Key Asset Types
Receive funding promptly as each deliverable clears, removing the cash-flow gaps between milestone completion and payment that stall lab work and equipment purchases.
Key Asset Types
Sponsor targeted research with confidence that capital releases only against confirmed outcomes, and reclaim undisbursed tranches automatically when a project falls short of its plan.
Key Asset Types
Whether you are bridging a funder's legacy grants-management system or letting research teams report from a portal, Cerulea routes both into one milestone-gated escrow.
For agencies on legacy grants-management platforms. Award and review events are translated into on-chain escrow and attestation calls through the API gateway automatically.
Legacy Grants System
Funder Back Office
Cerulea API Gateway
Escrow & Attestation
Cerulea Private Chain
Grant Settlement Ledger
For labs reporting milestones from a portal. A signed submission anchors deliverables and triggers the attestation and release flow directly on the ledger.
Research Portal / Wallet
Principal Investigator
Attestation Nodes
Review Consensus
Cerulea Ledger
Shared Escrow Record
Building a milestone-gated grant system with conditional escrow, attestation workflows, and a live funder dashboard from scratch requires specialised settlement engineers and long finance integration cycles. Calculate your exact deployment speed using Cerulea.
Traditional Deployment
Solidity Coding & Audits
~ 12 Months
Visual Compilation
WASM Logical Artifacts
~ 4 Weeks
The legacy timeline reflects enterprise financial-workflow benchmarks. Building conditional escrow, wiring milestone attestation into a funder's systems, and shipping a live spend dashboard for an average program takes a baseline of 8 months. Building the same architecture on Cerulea takes a baseline of 2 weeks, because Cerulea Studio visually translates your escrow and milestone rules into pre-audited WebAssembly binaries and provisions the settlement ledger and dashboard layer instantly.