VaultPass
Pass your crypto to your heirs — automatically, no lawyers
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Pass your crypto to your heirs — automatically, no lawyers
13 followers
The only dead man's switch built for crypto. Your keys stay yours — until they need to become theirs.
How does the trigger work in practice - is it purely time-based inactivity or can it be tied to something more verifiable, and what happens if someone just forgets to check in while on vacation?
@sercanna3c Great question — it's time-based inactivity today, not on-chain. You set your own check-in interval (weekly up to yearly). If you miss it, a grace buffer starts (7 days on monthly, 100 on annual/lifetime) with two warning emails + Telegram pings before anything fires — so a vacation won't trigger it, and a single check-in resets the whole timer. On-chain/inactivity-based triggers (e.g. Solana) are on the roadmap; right now it's a deliberately conservative server-side timer with a wide safety margin.
How does the handoff actually trigger if I'm offline or my hardware wallet dies — is it purely time-based or can it pull from on-chain activity like inactivity periods?
@devran1280912 Good question. It's time-based inactivity — not on-chain — and importantly it keys off your check-ins, not your wallet's state. So whether you're offline or your hardware wallet dies is irrelevant to the trigger; what matters is that you periodically check in (a tap on a link or the dashboard) on a schedule you set, from weekly up to yearly.
Miss your window and a grace buffer starts (7 days on monthly, 100 on annual/lifetime) with warning emails + Telegram pings before anything releases — and a single check-in resets the whole timer. So a dead device or a long trip won't hand anything off; only sustained silence past your chosen window does.
On-chain activity as a secondary liveness signal is an interesting direction we've considered, but I won't claim it's built — today it's a deliberately conservative server-side timer with a wide safety margin.
How does it actually verify that someone is truly gone versus just offline for a few weeks, and what stops a false trigger from dumping my keys to the wrong people?
@fatmanurhuer It doesn't try to detect death — it detects inactivity, deliberately, because "proof of death" is unreliable. The safeguard against false triggers is the buffer: you pick the window, then there's a grace period plus repeated warnings (email + Telegram) before release, and checking in once cancels everything. And keys never go to "the wrong people" — access only ever goes to the specific heir you designated, who confirmed via email upfront. No one else can be a recipient.
Set this up in under 10 minutes and the step where you verify your beneficiaries actually made me feel like this is built by people who've thought through the worst-case scenarios. Refreshing to see a dead man's switch that doesn't treat crypto holders like an afterthought.
@efekhlg Thank you — that's exactly the design goal: treat self-custody seriously and never take control away from the owner until the conditions they set are met. Appreciate you taking a look.
Finally a dead man's switch that actually gets how self-custody works. The setup was straightforward and I liked that my keys never leave my control unless the trigger fires.
@glserenaynx6tw Thank you — that's exactly the design goal: treat self-custody seriously and never take control away from the owner until the conditions they set are met. Appreciate you taking a look.
The dead man's switch idea for crypto has always stressed me out, so glad someone built this. Setup was straightforward and the key-shard approach actually makes sense to me.
@turan9h8e Thank you — that's exactly the design goal: treat self-custody seriously and never take control away from the owner until the conditions they set are met. Appreciate you taking a look.