Expert perspectives on digital inheritance, security, and wealth preservation in the modern age
A 47-year-old DIFC fintech founder's family knew almost nothing about what he owned. Eleven months earlier, his firm had brought him in for an intake. Eleven days after his death, every asset (crypto, online business, property across three jurisdictions) was operationally handed over to the right beneficiaries.
When survival becomes the primary goal, succession planning is often the first thing forgotten. In modern warfare, that lapse permanently evaporates generational wealth. Here's why estate planning must evolve into a Doctrine of Asset Survivability.
Signing up a vendor takes ten minutes. Getting rid of one takes months, and sometimes you cannot. Thirty questions to ask before you trust a supplier with data you promised to hold for decades.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
There are only five real ways to get bitcoin from you to your children, and every one of them fails differently. Here is what each actually costs you, in money and in trust.
Anish Prashun
CTO
A digital will looks cheap to run until you count the legal review, the identity check, and the storage you promised to keep for forty years. A plain walkthrough of what one customer really costs and really earns.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
A PPLI policy can hold a family's entire investment portfolio inside one tax-efficient wrapper. It cannot tell your children the policy exists. Those are two different problems.
Deepak Saini
Founder & CEO, BlockWill
Millions of bitcoin are sitting in wallets that nobody can open, because the only person who knew the key is gone. This is what actually happens, why recovery almost never works, and what a real prevention plan looks like.
Anish Prashun
CTO
A will tells you who should receive what. It tells you nothing about whether they will ever find it. Why the operational layer beneath estate planning needs a name.
Deepak Saini
Founder & CEO, BlockWill
An estate plan only works if the right people are actually attached to it. Our original beneficiary invite flow quietly failed at that. Here is how a careful redesign doubled the rate at which people completed it.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
Most product design assumes a motivated, curious user. Bereavement flows assume the opposite. These are the principles we use at BlockWill to design software people touch on the worst day of their lives.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
For a large share of the world, the family computer is a single shared phone. If estate planning only works comfortably on a laptop, it does not reach them. Here is how we design BlockWill for one-phone families.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
An empty state is a blank screen with a few words on it. In a sensitive app, those few words carry an outsized emotional weight. Here is how we write microcopy at BlockWill so the quiet moments do no harm.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
Some things you want your family to have are not documents. They are words. DigiWish lets you write messages today that reach the people you love at exactly the right moment, encrypted until then so no one, not even BlockWill, can read them early.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
Most onboarding flows are designed for an excited new user. A beneficiary is the opposite: someone who arrives grieving, confused, and often for the first time. Here is how we designed for the worst day of someone's life.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
The hardest problem in digital inheritance is not encryption. It is knowing when to release. VaultRelay decides that moment without asking you to trust any single person, including us, with the keys to your estate.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
Passwords leak, get phished, and get reused. Passkeys fix all three. Here is how WebAuthn actually works, with the code to ship it.
Kumar Deepanshu
Engineering, BlockWill
How identity verification, zero-knowledge password auth, and field-level encryption come together to protect digital wills.
Kumar Deepanshu
Engineering, BlockWill
If BlockWill helps pass on digital assets, who actually holds the keys? You do. Here is the trust-minimized model behind digital inheritance infrastructure, with the questions self-custody folks keep asking about loss, coercion, and on-chain release.
Deepak Saini
CEO & Founder
A will may need to stay locked for fifty years, longer than any encryption standard has ever survived. The threat of harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks means quantum-safe protection is needed today, not when quantum computers arrive. Inside how BlockWill builds for a future that is still decades away.
Anish Prashun
CTO
A digital will faces a problem unlike any other software: it must act on the one event after which its owner can never act again. Inside the engineering of a dead-man switch built to fire at the right moment, and never the wrong one, across millions of users and decades of time.
Anish Prashun
CTO
Most people stall on estate planning because it arrives as one enormous task. Split across four weeks it is four short sessions, and the hardest of them takes about an hour.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
How does a beneficiary prove they are the rightful heir without writing their identity onto a public blockchain forever? Zero-knowledge proofs let your family pass verification while revealing nothing. Inside the math, the cave story, and the engineering choices behind zk-SNARKs, zk-STARKs, and Bulletproofs.
Anish Prashun
CTO
When a court asks how it knows a digital wishes document is genuine, the answer used to be unsatisfactory. The Certificate of Immutability is BlockWill's answer: admissible electronic evidence across common law, civil law, and Sharia courts in India, the UAE, the EU, the UK, the US, and Saudi Arabia.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
A traditional executor handles the house and the bank accounts. A digital executor handles the sixty online accounts nobody else knows about. Here is what the role actually involves and who should hold it.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
A single key is a single point of failure. Threshold signatures let you lock a digital will so that no individual, not even BlockWill, can open it alone, while still letting your beneficiaries reach it when the moment comes. The engineering choices behind FROST, MPC-CMP, and proactive refresh.
Anish Prashun
CTO
Imagine your grandfather kept a small metal box under his bed with everything that mattered most, and only he knew where the key was. Today the box is digital, and the key is a password. Here's how BlockWill makes sure nothing important gets locked away and lost.
Deepak Saini
CEO & Founder
If you die without a will, the law writes one for you. It does not know your family, your promises, or who actually needs the money. Here is what the default rules do, and where they hurt most.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
A 47-year-old DIFC fintech founder's family knew almost nothing about what he owned. Eleven months earlier, his firm had brought him in for an intake. Eleven days after his death, every asset (crypto, online business, property across three jurisdictions) was operationally handed over to the right beneficiaries.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
The GCC is on course to transfer close to a trillion dollars of private wealth in the next five to seven years. Much of it is now on-chain. The asset class has arrived. The succession architecture has not. Why estate planners across Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai face a three-faced gap, and what closing it will require.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
How do you actually know nobody changed your will? DigiWish anchors a SHA-256 fingerprint of your document to the Polygon blockchain, a tamper-evident proof anyone can verify, without ever reading the document itself.
Anish Prashun
CTO
An executor's runbook for Google, Apple, Meta and the rest, including what each provider will actually give you, what they will refuse, and the order to do things in.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
A joint academic publication by Al Mikial Law Firm and BlockWill on the convergence of doctrinal legal craftsmanship and cryptographically verifiable infrastructure for digital inheritance across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Why the GCC sits at the leading edge of the mismatch, and why it is equally well positioned to lead the response.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
By 2030, roughly $1 trillion will change hands across MENA families, and only 24% have a real estate plan. Why a will is no longer enough, and how digital legacy infrastructure protects what matters most across crypto, accounts, and family memories.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
Not a complete plan. A real one, done in a single sitting: sign up, put one thing in the vault, name one beneficiary. Timed, step by step, with the parts that actually slow people down.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
How do you actually know nobody changed your will? DigiWish anchors a SHA-256 fingerprint of your document to the Polygon blockchain, a tamper-evident proof anyone can verify, without ever reading the document itself.
Anish Prashun
CTO
Trust at the most fragile moment in a family's life has to be provable, not promised. How HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 shape the audit-readiness of a digital inheritance platform, and why BlockWill engineers compliance as architecture, not a checkbox.
Ritu Raj
CISO
When survival becomes the primary goal, succession planning is often the first thing forgotten. In modern warfare, that lapse permanently evaporates generational wealth. Here's why estate planning must evolve into a Doctrine of Asset Survivability.
Ajay Kumar Rastogi
Head of business
Most apps lock your data and keep the key. BlockWill builds the lock on your device, so by the time your will reaches our servers, it is already nonsense to anyone but you. Here is how breach-proof, subpoena-proof, end-to-end encryption protects your last wishes.
Anish Prashun
CTO
Most apps lock your data and keep the key. BlockWill builds the lock on your device, so by the time your will reaches our servers, it's already nonsense to anyone but you. Here's how breach-proof, subpoena-proof, end-to-end encryption protects your last wishes.
Anish Prashun
CTO
Your seed phrase, your trust deed, your insurance policy, they all need to live somewhere your family can reach them when you can't hand them over yourself. SecureVault encrypts every file on your device before it ever touches a server. This walkthrough shows you exactly what happens at every step.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
A plain-English guide to KYC in digital estate planning. How Sumsub, OPAQUE, and field-level encryption protect your digital will from sign-up to inheritance.
Kumar Deepanshu
COO
BlockWill stores your wish, but BlockWill cannot read it. Here is the full picture of how zero-knowledge inheritance works, explained like you are ten, then one layer deeper.
Anish Prashun
CTO
A registered UAE will under Decree 41 answers the question of entitlement. BlockWill answers the question of access: how the entitled party comes into functional possession of keys, credentials, custody arrangements, and device-gated assets, on a verifiable trigger event, without any single human being ever holding the full picture.
Ishan Shukla
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy
In Indian estate planning, people assume that naming a nominee is enough. It isn't. A nominee is a trustee, not an owner, and when digital assets enter the picture, even legal ownership means nothing without access.
Ajay Kumar Rastogi
Head of business
Your family knows about the house. They know about the car. But do they know about the $47,000 sitting in your Coinbase account? Modern wealth doesn't live in one place anymore.
BlockWill Team
Editorial
Everyone upgraded from passwords to two-factor authentication. Hackers upgraded, too. In the last four years, ransomware attacks have increased by 300%.
Ritu Raj
CISO
In a podcast interview, Aamir Khan – one of India's biggest film stars, worth hundreds of millions – was asked about his net worth. His response was striking: he doesn't know.
Bhavya Gosai
Head of Product
If someone asked you right now what your total net worth is, could you answer? Not a rough estimate, but the actual number - every account, every asset, every investment.
BlockWill Team
Financial Planning
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