This is the part most escrow pages leave vague. Attested Deal never holds a private key and never moves funds on its own. Buyers pay the operator's recipient address through the KOVA rail; a release produces a signed instruction naming payee, amount and proof, and executing it is a separate, recorded step.
custodyOperator recipient address on Base. The service has no signing authority over it.
releaseA signed attested.settlement/v1 document. Verifiable by anyone, at its own public URL.
executionRecorded back against the settlement with the payout transaction hash.
auditEvery state change is an append-only, sequenced deal event. Nothing is edited in place.