Digital Executor
Autonomous crypto inheritance protocol, a dead man's switch powered by Chainlink CRE.
What it is
Digital Executor solves a $300 billion problem: cryptocurrency lost forever when owners die without a succession plan. Private keys don't survive their owners, and probate courts have no mechanism to override blockchain ownership.
The protocol works as a fully autonomous dead man's switch. An estate owner deploys a LifeContract, registers heirs with World ID verification, and sets an inactivity threshold (e.g. 180 days). As long as the owner sends periodic heartbeat transactions, the estate stays locked. If the owner stops pinging then the Chainlink CRE workflow detects the inactivity and triggers automatic estate execution to verified heirs.
No lawyers, no courts, no intermediaries. The entire succession process is autonomous and trustless. The CRE workflow reads on-chain state via EVMClient, fetches live ETH/USD price data via HTTPClient with DON consensus, computes a signed verdict, and writes it to the VerdictRegistry contract on Sepolia.
How it Works
- Smart contracts: Solidity (LifeContract, VerdictRegistry) deployed on Sepolia
- CRE Workflow: TypeScript using EVMClient, HTTPClient (CoinGecko ETH/USD), ConsensusMedianAggregation, CronCapability
- Frontend: React + Vite + shadcn/ui deployed on Vercel
- Identity: World ID for heir verification
- Stack: Hardhat, viem, Tailwind CSS
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Created by
- Max Karlsson