-- Afterchain has launched the world’s first cryptographic inheritance protocol, offering fully automated post-mortem crypto asset transfers — without lawyers, custody, or trust assumptions.
As global crypto adoption matures, lifecycle infrastructure is the next frontier.
The protocol, filed under international patent application PCT/IB2025/057151, enables wallets and exchanges to license a simple but powerful infrastructure layer: verifiable death certificates (PKI-based) trigger deterministic, on-chain execution of smart contracts that release crypto assets to heirs. Heir validation is done via privacy-preserving zk-SNARK proofs.
“Crypto solved custody and decentralization — but not death. Afterchain fixes that,” said founder Mark J.F. Milczarek. “We believe inheritance is the last lifecycle gap in crypto — and now it’s closed.”
Afterchain uses a revenue-sharing model based on a 2% execution fee per activated inheritance, with 80% going to the partner exchange or custody provider. The protocol is license-based, token-free, and integration-ready.
Afterchain positions itself as the new global standard for crypto inheritance infrastructure — the first end-to-end protocol to automate post-mortem transfers, now protected by an international patent filing.
While death has long been overlooked in crypto infrastructure design, Afterchain introduces a structured, verifiable, and license-ready solution that can be implemented worldwide by exchanges, wallets, and custodians.
GitHub (technical brief): https://github.com/afterchain/afterchain
Contact Info:
Name: Mark J.F. Milczarek
Email: Send Email
Organization: Afterchain
Website: https://afterchain.io
Release ID: 89165395
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