Document your holdings, distribute your access, set conditions for delivery — without trusting any single company, including ours. Vault Permanent keeps your continuity on Arweave from day one.
If you self-custody meaningful crypto — anything from a single hardware wallet to a multisig setup with DeFi positions across chains — you've thought about what happens if you can't access it, or if you couldn't pass it on. This page is for you. Specifically: holders who already understand self-custody, have done some setup, and are thinking about the handoff layer their wallet doesn't include. We assume you know what a seed phrase is, what cold storage means, and why custodians aren't a substitute for self-custody.
Documentation about your holdings, encrypted on your own device. Wallet locations, exchange records, DeFi positions, recovery paths. Never the keys themselves — Vaulternal stores ciphertext you control.
Versioned as your holdings evolve. Quarterly review reminders so the documentation doesn't go stale during a bull or bear cycle.
On the trigger you set: a date, your manual command, an inactivity window, or confirmation from a trusted contact you designate. Identity-verified to the recipient. End-to-end audit trail.
Four steps, parameterized for the reader who'll verify each one.
Write or upload, on your device.
Documentation, inventories, recovery paths — encrypted client-side using AES-256-GCM. Recipient keys derived via secp256k1-ECIES. Our servers receive ciphertext only.
Set the delivery rule.
Choose recipients, trigger conditions (date, manual command, inactivity, or trusted-contact verification), and scope. Each rule is independent, editable, and revocable.
We hold only the encrypted package.
Vaulternal cannot decrypt, sign, reconstruct, or move anything. We hold no keys; we are not a custodian.
Recipient verified, file decrypted, delivery logged.
Identity verification before access. End-to-end audit trail. No account required for recipients to receive.
Every hardware wallet, every software wallet, every exchange account. What's where. Updated quarterly.
Where each seed phrase backup lives (paper, metal, safety deposit box). Not the seeds themselves — the map to find them.
Where each device is physically stored — home safe, deposit box, a trusted relative's. Not the PINs; the locations, so the right person can find them.
Centralized exchange accounts, 2FA recovery code locations, KYC documentation. For recipients who'd need to claim balances or close accounts.
Open positions on lending protocols, DEXs, yield farms. What they are, how to access them, how to unwind them.
For Casa, Unchained, Sparrow, or self-hosted multisig users — coordinator access, co-signer contacts, key share locations.
How to use the specific devices you hold. PIN structure (not PINs). Recovery procedures. Written for the non-technical recipient.
A plain-English starting point for the recipient who's just been handed all of the above. What's urgent. What can wait. What to never do.
Honest, accurate competitor analysis is the persona's filter. Here's where each alternative genuinely wins — and the layer Vaulternal adds.
Sarcophagus is a decentralized dead man's switch protocol on Ethereum, designed for maximum trust-minimization. It works — but the ops burden is significant: archaeologist coordination, resurrection time costs, on-chain transaction management. Vaulternal is the consumer-grade equivalent: easier setup, less trust-minimized in the maximum-paranoia sense, but with Vault Permanent keeping your entire vault on Arweave from day one.
Sarcophagus wins on pure trust-minimization. Many crypto-native holders appreciate Vaulternal's ease of use plus on-chain permanence.
Multisig coordinators are for active joint custody during your life — you, the coordinator, and other co-signers signing transactions together. Vaulternal is for what happens after, or when you can't act: the documentation handoff, the access continuity, the recipient guide. Many holders use both.
Casa for active multisig. Vaulternal for the handoff layer multisig was never designed to cover.
Paper and metal backups are how you store the secret itself. Vaulternal is how you store the documentation around the secret — the inventory, the map, the recipient guide, the access procedures. Both belong in a complete plan.
Paper/metal wins as the secret backup. Vaulternal handles everything else.
Common pattern; brittle. Verbal handoff dies with memory. No documentation about what to do with the seed phrase once found. No recipient guide. No identity verification. No audit trail. The first 30 minutes of work on Vaulternal replaces this with something durable.
Verbal handoff is the default. Vaulternal is the upgrade most holders never make.
Hardware wallets and multisig coordinators secure your keys. None of them document what you hold, distribute access to the right people, or deliver on a condition you set. That's the layer Vaulternal adds — with Vault Permanent keeping it on-chain, independent of any single company, including ours.
Three beats, written for a reader who'll verify the claims.
Files are encrypted on your own machine using AES-256-GCM. Recipient access uses secp256k1-ECIES with keys derived from BIP-39/BIP-32 HD wallet schemes. Vaulternal's servers store ciphertext. We hold no keys. We cannot decrypt, sign, reconstruct, or move anything.
Every delivery rule is a condition you set: a date, your manual command, an inactivity window, or confirmation from a trusted contact you designate. Rules are independent, editable, revocable up to the moment they fire. Each delivery is identity-verified to the named recipient. Audit trail is end-to-end.
Vault Permanent ($29/month annual) is the dedicated subscription tier where your entire vault lives on Arweave from day one — no permanence questions to revisit, no Vaulternal dependency. If we disappear tomorrow, Vault Permanent deliveries are unaffected, on infrastructure independent of any single company, including ours.
Two paths. Pick what matches how you want to think about permanence.
On-chain storage from day one. Survives any single company — including ours.
For holders who want permanence as the default operating model.
Most crypto holders who want permanence pick Vault Permanent — everything on-chain from day one, no decisions to revisit. The standard tiers below cover holders who don't need on-chain permanence.
Or start on a standard tier
The first packet most crypto holders create is a basic wallet inventory — under 30 minutes of work, free to set up. No credit card. Vault Permanent available for on-chain permanence from day one.