Chapter 4 – Automation: Rules That Manage Execution

Rules enforce execution when the owner cannot act, reducing coordination; actions still require authorized on-chain transactions.

Alice’s crypto journey expanded rapidly — NFTs, DeFi ventures, Layer-2 innovations. As her investments multiplied, the challenge was not activity, but reliability: how to ensure transfer, recovery — and only if necessary, inheritance — would execute correctly if she could no longer act, without relying on coordination at the worst possible moment.

• Shared Mnemonics — Endless Manual Checks: Initially, Alice distributed parts of her seed phrase among trusted friends. Maintaining this approach required constant manual oversight to ensure each fragment remained secure and accessible. Any single failure introduced the risk of permanent loss, replacing certainty with ongoing vigilance.

• Multisig Wallets - Continuous Signer Dependence: Multisig wallets offered shared control but no automation. If Alice lost access, recovery depended entirely on signer availability and willingness to act. In practice, emergency recovery meant urgent coordination precisely when coordination was hardest.

• Traditional Legal Approach - Constantly Behind Reality: Traditional legal methods required repeated updates as Alice’s portfolio changed. Each new blockchain or asset meant additional paperwork, legal review, and human involvement. These processes could not keep pace with on-chain activity or guarantee timely execution.

CryptoLegacy removed the need for ad-hoc coordination by automating rule enforcement, not the actions themselves. Alice defined timeouts, roles, and thresholds in advance. Once set, the system enforced these conditions deterministically on-chain.

If Alice cannot act, Guardians could confirm that state through on-chain transactions. Their confirmations did not grant control over assets — they triggered predefined state transitions. Asset transfers were possible only after protocol conditions were satisfied.

If Guardians were unreachable, the same time-based rules allowed execution to proceed without requiring discretionary decisions. Beneficiaries could act only within the boundaries Alice had defined, and only after the system entered the appropriate state.

Recovery followed the same logic. Alice maintained predefined recovery addresses that allowed remaining contract-held assets to be reclaimed if circumstances changed, without reversing completed transfers or rewriting history.

With CryptoLegacy, nothing “managed itself” in the background. What changed was that execution no longer depended on coordination, interpretation, or manual intervention at the moment it mattered.

Rules were defined once. Execution followed deterministically within predefined rules, once the required on-chain actions were submitted.

Your keys. Your crypto. Your rules.