How it works

A dead-man switch with many off-switches.

LegacyNetwork watches for one thing: whether you are still around. You prove it with a free signature. If those signatures stop, the protocol moves through five stages — and each stage gives you, and the people you trust, a chance to stop it.

1
Check in
Sign a free message at least every 30 days. Optional: on-chain activity counts too.
2
Grace + reminders
14 days of grace with 3 reminders. Nothing happens to beneficiaries.
3
Guardian quorum
2 guardians must try to reach you and approve with a signature.
4
Cancel window
7 days final warning. One check-in cancels everything.
5
Release
Verified beneficiaries can read your sealed instructions and asset inventory.

1 · Check-ins (proof of life)

Open your vault and press “I’m here”. Your wallet signs a short text message that names the vault and the time. It costs nothing and sends no transaction. The signature is verified and stored as a record. Premium owners can also let on-chain activity count: any successful transaction signed by your wallet resets the timer (incoming transfers and airdrops never do).

2 · Grace period and reminders

Miss your check-in and the vault becomes “overdue”. A grace period starts (3–90 days) with at least two reminders spread across it — in the app, and by email or Discord/Slack if you add them. The final reminder must be sent at least 24 hours before anything can trigger, so an outage on our side can only delay a recovery, never speed it up. Beneficiaries are not told anything at this stage.

3 · Guardian quorum

Guardians are people you trust — a sibling, a close friend, your lawyer. When the grace period ends, they are asked to try to reach you and then approve or decline with a signed attestation. Only when the quorum you chose (for example 2 of 3) approves does the process continue. If so many decline that the quorum can no longer be reached, the recovery stops and your vault returns to active.

4 · Owner cancel window

After the quorum is reached you get a final warning and a cancel window of at least 48 hours (7 days by default). A single check-in at any point — overdue, awaiting guardians or in the cancel window — cancels the recovery and is logged as a prevented false trigger.

5 · Release

When the cancel window ends, verified beneficiaries can sign in with the wallet they accepted the invite with, enter the claim code you gave them (if you set one), and read your sealed instructions together with a live inventory of the assets in your wallet. Guardians are informed; they never see the instructions.

Emergency access

If you allow it, a beneficiary can request early access — for example when you are in hospital and cannot sign. It opens the same recovery: your guardians must approve, and you still get the cancel window. You can cancel with one signature.

Invites

You invite each person with a private link. They connect their own wallet and accept. You can lock an invite to a specific wallet address, and each person sees exactly what their role involves before accepting. Every invitee can set up their own vault — inheritance planning spreads through the people who care about each other.

FAQ

Do you ever hold my crypto or keys?

No. Your assets stay in your wallet. LegacyNetwork has no ability to move them. What we release is information you chose to write down, plus a read-only view of public balances.

Then how do my heirs actually get the assets?

Through the instructions you leave: where the hardware wallet is, who holds the PIN or passphrase, which lawyer has the will. Many people keep the seed phrase with a notary or in a safe-deposit box and use LegacyNetwork to tell the right people, at the right time, that it is needed and where it is.

What if I am just on a long trip?

Choose a long interval (90–365 days), keep reminders on, and add guardians who know you. A long trip would need you to miss the check-in, every reminder, your guardians to approve and the full cancel window. One signature from anywhere stops it.

What if my wallet is stolen?

A thief who controls your wallet could check in (delaying the release) or change your vault. Every change to people or timers is announced to your guardians and recorded. If you lose the wallet, rotate your setup from a new wallet and tell your guardians.

Can a guardian release my vault alone?

No. A recovery needs the configured quorum of signed approvals, and even then you have a final cancel window. A wallet cannot be both guardian and beneficiary of the same vault.

What happens if LegacyNetwork goes offline?

Nothing is released while the service is down: triggers need a final reminder at least 24 hours earlier. Keep a copy of your instructions with your will as well — this is a coordination layer, not the only copy.

Is this a will?

No. It does not transfer ownership and has no legal force. Make a will, mention your crypto in it, and talk to a lawyer in your country.

Roadmap

On-chain timelock program: an optional Solana program where you pre-authorise transfers that unlock only after the same check-in / quorum / cancel-window rules — enforced by the chain instead of by us.
Shamir-split instructions: encrypt the release key into shares held by guardians, so nobody (including us) can open it alone.
Squads multisig integration for treasuries and DAOs.
Professional guardian network of vetted notaries and estate lawyers.

Next: the security model and the legal disclaimers.