Non-custodial
Your keys never leave your device. Heirsgate only ever holds one half of a key — and half a key opens nothing.
non-custodial · zero-knowledge recovery & inheritance
Never locked out. Never lost.
Lose your recovery phrase and the funds are gone. Die without passing it on and they are gone for good. Heirsgate is one vault that answers both, reopened only by people you choose, and never by us alone.
Zero-knowledge
Our servers store only an encrypted blob and a single share. No plaintext, no way for anyone here to read what's inside.
Client-side encryption
Your secret is sealed on your device with AES-256-GCM. Its key is then Shamir-split — any m of n shares can rebuild it, and nothing less.
Human-gated release
Nothing unlocks on its own. Death verification, an identity check, and a cancelable grace window guard every claim.
Swiss-grounded
Built on a Swiss AG over a ring-fenced reserve — engineered for decades under one of the world's strongest legal frameworks.
why it matters
Self-custody has no undo.
The whole promise of crypto is that the keys are yours: no bank, no gatekeeper, only you. But 35% of holders have already lost access to a wallet, and 31% of them never got it back. Heirsgate keeps the promise intact and adds the one thing self-custody was missing: a safe way back in, whether you are locked out today or gone tomorrow.
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A way back in
Forget a phrase or lose a device, and today the funds are simply gone. Heirsgate gives you a route back, opened only by people you chose in advance.
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No single point of trust
No one person, not even Heirsgate, can move your assets. It takes your circle and Heirsgate's share, together, to open the vault.
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Custody stays yours
You never hand your keys to a custodian. The reason you went self-custody in the first place stays fully intact.
the mechanism
Necessary, but not sufficient.
Heirsgate splits the key to your vault in two: one half for your heir, one mandatory Heirsgate share. Our half alone is useless. Their half alone is useless. The vault opens only when both come together — after you're verified gone.
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Encrypt
Your secret is sealed on your device. Plaintext never leaves it.
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Split
The key splits into two halves — your heir holds one, Heirsgate holds the other.
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Reveal
After death is verified and a grace window passes, the shares recombine for your heir.
Demonstrator Phase 0 prototype. The cryptography here is illustrative, and KYC, death verification, and the escrow trust are simulated. Funding builds production hardening and a formal security audit.
the product
A vault only you and your heir can open.
Heirsgate is non-custodial, zero-knowledge recovery and inheritance infrastructure for self-custody crypto. You keep your keys. We hold one share that can never open your vault alone. Locked out, you reopen it with your own circle. Gone, your heir claims it, and only after death and identity are verified and a grace window passes does the vault reconstruct, for them, never for us.
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You stay in custody
Heirsgate never holds your keys or anything it could decrypt alone.
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Human-gated release
Death verification, KYC, and a cancelable grace window guard the claim.
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Built on Swiss ground
A Swiss AG over a ring-fenced reserve, engineered for the long term.
0%
of the time, your keys stay in your hands — never ours.
m-of-n
of your trusted circle, plus one mandatory Heirsgate share, to open.
0
pieces of plaintext Heirsgate's servers can ever read.
the opportunity
A real market, with no good answer yet.
Self-custody crypto wealth keeps growing, and almost none of it has a safe way back in, either for the holder who loses access or for the family left behind. Heirsgate answers both without custody, and it is built as a business that funds its own promises.
560M+
people hold crypto worldwide, up ~33% in a year (Triple-A, 2024).
2.3–3.7M
Bitcoin already lost forever, much of it to keys no one can recover (Chainalysis).
35%
of US crypto holders have already lost access to a wallet; 31% of them never recovered it.
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Pay once, protected for life
No subscription. A small setup fee, then a settlement fee at death collected as a standard estate-administration expense — so Heirsgate never deducts from or touches the assets. A fraction of the 2–5% typical of probate. (Figures illustrative.)
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Built to outlast the company
A Swiss AG over a ring-fenced, bankruptcy-remote reserve and key-share escrow held by a licensed trustee. The promise to your heir survives an acquisition, or even Heirsgate's own failure.
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Distribution through partners
B2B2C through exchanges, wallets, estate attorneys, and insurers who already hold the customer at the deciding moment and have no good answer today. US-first.
Where funding takes it: this Phase 0 demonstrator → production hardening, a formal security audit, real KYC and death verification, and the escrow trust → US launch through partner channels. Funded by Swiss innovation grants and founder capital. Non-dilutive.
who's building this
A product designer who ships.
Heirsgate is led by Liron Ross, a Zurich-based product and brand designer with around fifteen years turning ideas into launch-ready products. Currently Design Lead at Atly; previously led the Usersnap product pivot that ended in acquisition, and designed the national identity for Luxembourg's Klimabonus green-energy programme.
Solo for now, and honest about it: the demonstrator's cryptography is illustrative on purpose. Production calls for specialist cryptography, security, and US + Swiss legal hires — exactly what the first funding builds. Based in Zurich.