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.
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
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
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
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
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
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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