Dear friends,
Cryptocurrency and digital financial assets present unique challenges in legacy planning because they combine irreversible security measures with complete dependence on credential access. Unlike traditional financial institutions that can work with estate executors, blockchain assets are permanently inaccessible without proper keys and credentials.
Billions of dollars in cryptocurrency have been permanently lost due to inadequate legacy planning. When someone dies without sharing wallet credentials, seed phrases, or hardware wallet access information, those assets become irrecoverable. No customer service department can help, no court order can retrieve them, and no technical workaround exists.
The main challenges include requires coordination between multiple keyholders to authorize any transaction, loss of too many keys can permanently lock funds if threshold cannot be met, and co-signers must be trusted, available, and willing to sign transactions for beneficiaries. These security features that protect assets during life become absolute barriers after death without proper planning.
DeathNote provides secure, encrypted storage for seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, and exchange credentials. You can document complex security setups like multi-signature wallets, hardware wallet PINs, and recovery processes while ensuring this sensitive information only reaches designated beneficiaries after proper verification.
The stakes are particularly high with cryptocurrency because mistakes are permanent. Take time to document every wallet, every seed phrase, every security layer. Test your recovery process while you're alive to ensure your beneficiaries can actually access what you intend to leave them.
Platform Overview
Primary Use
Shared custody, corporate treasuries, family vaults, DAOs, enhanced security requiring multiple approvals
Account Types
Bitcoin multisig, Gnosis Safe, Argent wallet, corporate multisig, DAO multisig
Data Types
Multiple private keys, co-signer addresses, threshold requirements (M-of-N), smart contract addresses
Access Challenges
- Requires coordination between multiple keyholders to authorize any transaction
- Loss of too many keys can permanently lock funds if threshold cannot be met
- Co-signers must be trusted, available, and willing to sign transactions for beneficiaries
- Smart contract multisig wallets may have bugs or require specific software versions to access
- Geographic distribution of keyholders can delay urgent transactions requiring multiple signatures