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It prevents the theft in the first place because they'd need to hack two parties instead of just one.
Wow, are you really that clueless about crypto stealing malware, Fraud by crypto exchanges, Authentication attacks, etc?
None of those sorts of attacks would be prevented by the use any sort of escrow service because you’re not actively performing a transaction.
An Analysis of the first half of this year also shows a significant uptick in attacks on personal crypto wallets, and over $2 billion stolen so far in 2025.
How is malware going to steal funds locked in escrow?