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  • Getting started10
  • Security and privacy14
  • Check-ins and release9
  • Beneficiaries and claims13
  • Billing and plans14

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  • What to leave in your vault
  • Leave your password manager
  • Leave crypto wallet access
  • How check-ins work
  • Save your emergency kit
  • Prepare your beneficiaries
  • How to claim access
  1. Help Center
  2. Leave crypto wallet access

Leave crypto wallet access

Self-custody has no bank reset. Your heirs need the seed eventually and must not have it while you are fine. Leave the secret with instructions they can follow.

  1. 1

    Separate the secret from the instructions

    Leave the seed phrase or recovery material as an encrypted vault item. In a separate note, explain which assets exist, which hardware wallet or app to use, whether a password (25th word) is required, and who to call for technical help. A seed alone without steps fails for non-technical heirs.

  2. 2

    Never put the full seed in a will

    Wills can become public in probate and are the wrong place for spendable keys. Legal documents can say that digital assets exist and who should receive value. Recovery secrets belong in a controlled leave-and-claim path.

  3. 3

    Write for someone who has never held crypto

    Say that the phrase must never be typed into a website that offers to help. Name the wallet software. Note approximate holdings so they know the work matters. Warn that anyone offering recovery help is usually trying to steal funds.

  4. 4

    Name the beneficiary and test with practice

    Assign the crypto file to the right contact. Use practice claim so they see how claim works with sample content. Real release still waits for missed check-ins and the waiting period, which you can stop with a single check-in.

Multisig and Shamir splits can be stronger for large holdings and demand more from heirs. Leave-and-claim fits families who need automatic release without giving keys today. Pick based on who will actually execute the plan.
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  • Separate the secret from the instructions
  • Never put the full seed in a will
  • Write for someone who has never held crypto
  • Name the beneficiary and test with practice