An XRPL Escrow is a ledger object that holds an amount and will not release it before a FinishAfter time. It is enforced by the network, not by a person or a document.

Reading them

Call account_objects on the treasury account with type escrow. Each object carries an Amount, a Destination, a FinishAfter and often a CancelAfter, all in Ripple-epoch seconds. The Ledger hub converts those to UTC and lists every escrow individually with its unlock date.

Why it matters

A team allocation held in a normal wallet can move at any moment. The same allocation inside escrows cannot move before its unlock time, and anyone can verify that independently on an explorer. That is the difference between a promise and a receipt.

The honest caveat

The treasury account itself is project-declared. What the ledger proves is that the escrow objects exist with those amounts and those dates. We label those two things separately.