In the digital asset space, there is a golden rule: "Not your keys, not your coins."
If you own cryptocurrency, run a digital business, or manage private portfolios, you know the absolute importance of security. You use hardware wallets, secure passwords, and multi-factor authentication to keep your assets safe from hackers.
But this extreme security introduces a critical vulnerability: What happens to your assets if something happens to you?
If your private keys, seed phrases, or account locations are stored only in your head—or on a hardware wallet that no one else knows how to access—your wealth will be lost forever. In fact, it is estimated that billions of dollars in Bitcoin are permanently lost because the owners died without passing on their access keys.
How do you build a bridge for your heirs without exposing your most sensitive keys to the internet while you are alive?
The answer lies in Zero-Knowledge Client-Side Encryption.
The Security Dilemma of Digital Inheritance
Traditional solutions to this problem are full of security flaws:
- Writing keys on paper: Vulnerable to fire, theft, or nosey houseguests.
- Using a standard cloud document: Vulnerable to server breaches, phishing, and cloud provider employees.
- Using a standard password manager: While secure, standard managers don't have automated inheritance mechanisms. Giving someone your master password while you are alive gives them full access immediately, which violates basic trust principles.
WealthPass solves this dilemma by separating security while you are alive from accessibility when you pass away, using a zero-knowledge architecture.
The Science Behind the WealthPass Vault
Here is how WealthPass ensures your private keys, asset details, and personal files remain 100% secure while ensuring they reach your beneficiaries safely:
1. AES-GCM Browser-Side Encryption
When you input sensitive asset information, recovery codes, or legacy letters into WealthPass, they do not travel to our servers as plaintext. Instead, your browser encrypts this data using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-GCM) with a key derived from your Master Password.
Only the encrypted ciphertext is saved in our database. If our database were ever compromised, hackers would only see unreadable strings of characters.
2. The Server-Side Escrow Gate
To allow your beneficiaries to access your vault after you die without knowing your master password, WealthPass uses a secure key escrow system:
- Your vault decryption key is encrypted and stored in a special Firestore collection (
system_escrow_keys). - This escrow collection has a strict default-deny security rule. No client, device, or logged-in user can read or write to it.
- The key can only be accessed by secure Google Cloud Functions that run on the server side, and only after your death is verified through inactivity or trusted reports, and the countdown window has expired.
3. No Single Point of Failure (Dual Triggers)
WealthPass doesn't rely on a single check-in. It combines:
- An Inactivity Dead-Man's Switch: Triggers after 45 days of absolute silence, followed by a 72-hour countdown warning.
- Trusted Peer Connections: Let connections report your passing, initiating a countdown.
- Active Cancellation: You can cancel any running countdown via a single click in an email or SMS, keeping you in complete control.
Zero-Knowledge, Full Peace of Mind
With WealthPass, you don't have to choose between keeping your digital assets secure today and passing them on tomorrow. You get the security of a hardware wallet with the safety net of an automated estate plan.
Protect your crypto, your digital businesses, and your private portfolios.
[Create your zero-knowledge WealthPass vault for $1.90/year]