Crypto Inheritance
Don’t lose your Bitcoin.
40 million Americans own cryptocurrency. Most have no plan. Henedo stores your recovery phrases encrypted end-to-end, hands every trusted contact their own key the day you name them, and releases access only when Trusted Delivery fires.
The $140 billion problem
Ledger estimates billions in Bitcoin are permanently lost because holders died without leaving their recovery phrase to family. Most crypto owners have never written a will. Most of those who have, never documented their wallets in it. And even when they do, storing a 24-word seed in a filing cabinet is a security catastrophe.
Henedo is the only platform purpose-built for this intersection: zero-knowledge encrypted seed-phrase storage, per-person keys for trusted heirs, and Trusted Delivery controlling release.
How inheritor access works
The current Eternal Vault is a $699 one-time purchase for 100 GiB with a 100-year preservation term. Upload files, choose inheritors and seal the encrypted cloud archive in your account. Each inheritor receives their own complete key through email delivery; save a secure backup in case an email does not arrive.
Hosted access follows the release settings chosen at sealing. Anyone who already holds a complete archive copy and a full key can decrypt it independently; a server-side release gate cannot time-lock a copy they already possess.
Existing contracts with M-Disc delivery retain their split-key model: 24 characters on the disc and 20 by email. Both halves are needed to derive that inheritor key. Physical delivery is not part of the current cloud purchase. See the full cryptographic detail.
What to store per wallet
Hardware wallets
- Seed phrase (12/24 words)
- Passphrase addendum (if set)
- Derivation path
- Wallet model + firmware version
- Location of the physical device
Software / mobile wallets
- Seed phrase
- App passphrase / biometric override
- Connected dApps and DeFi positions
- Staking arrangements
Exchange accounts
- Username / email
- Password
- 2FA backup codes
- Beneficiary form status at the exchange
NFTs and on-chain assets
- Contract addresses of notable holdings
- Any time-locked or vesting contracts
- ENS / handle ownership
- Multisig signer agreements
FAQ
Without a plan, it is lost forever. The recovery phrase dies with you. Ledger estimates billions in Bitcoin are permanently inaccessible for exactly this reason. Henedo solves the problem with encrypted vault storage and individual access keys for the inheritors you choose.
Yes, when it’s zero-knowledge encrypted. Henedo encrypts your recovery phrase client-side with AES-256-GCM using a key derived from your passphrase + device-bound ASK. The server stores only ciphertext. Even a full breach yields nothing.
Only the trusted contacts you designate, and only if Trusted Delivery (a dead man’s switch) fires after the user-set inactivity window (30 days to 12 months) plus a 5-week warning cascade. Each trusted contact receives their decryption key by email the day you add them. Current Eternal cloud purchases prepare a complete key for each inheritor for email delivery. Older disc contracts use a split key across the disc and email; their purchased terms remain unchanged.
Yes. You store the seed phrase (12/24 words) and any PIN or passphrase addendum in the Henedo vault. Your inheritor combines this with the physical device to restore your holdings.
Anything recoverable with a seed phrase is covered (ETH, BTC, most L1 and L2 chains, wallets holding NFTs). Centralized exchange accounts (Coinbase, Kraken, Binance) should be recorded as instructions + credentials, those institutions have their own inheritance protocols and Henedo stores the access information they’ll require.
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