What is Escrow?
Short answer
An arrangement where payment is held and released only once agreed conditions are met.
True third-party escrow places funds with a neutral agent. On-chain escrow places them in a contract that releases automatically.
VFCore operates neither: funds are held by VFCore in company-controlled wallets and released when proof of completion is posted. The protection is contractual rather than technical, and we state it that way because the difference matters.
Why it matters
Plenty of services use the word while holding your money in an ordinary account. Ask what releases the funds and who decides.