Lazarus Protocol — Digital Asset Inheritance

A dead man's switch for self-custody: if you stop opening your wallet, the people you named are notified in stages, without any seed or private key ever being transmitted.

The problem it addresses

Self-custody means no institution holds a copy of your keys, which is the point of it and also the problem when the holder dies or is incapacitated. A will is public record, sharing a seed while you are alive creates a risk of its own, and a custodian gives the keys away.

Proof of life

You set a timeout, configurable in a range measured from a month to a year. Opening XColdPro is enough to reset it — no transaction required. The escalation only begins if that window passes with no access at all.

Staged escalation

Rather than one message, the protocol escalates through several stages, notifying beneficiaries and the professionals you nominated, such as an attorney or executor. The instructions are encrypted and prepared by you in advance.

What is never sent

No seed phrase and no private key is transmitted at any stage. What the protocol delivers is the instructions and the notification, closer to what a bank does with a safety deposit box than to handing over the contents.

Availability

Lazarus is part of the HellBound and Nyxor editions.