Chapter 5 – Reliability: Ensuring Your Execution Plan Works as Intended

Reliability comes from deterministic on-chain execution, not human availability.

Bob valued reliability when planning for situations where he might not be able to act. He knew that situations change over time, and wanted execution to remain predictable even if he couldn’t personally manage every step.

From experience, he saw that many common approaches fail not because of attacks, but because execution breaks down over time:

• Shared Mnemonics: Losing, withholding, or mishandling even one fragment can permanently block access or trigger disputes among intended recipients or trusted parties.

• Shamir’s Secret Sharing: While more structured, missing or uncooperative participants can still delay or prevent recovery.

• Multisig Wallets: A single unavailable signer can block execution indefinitely, turning availability into a critical failure point.

• Traditional Legal Processes: Expensive and slow, often delayed by disputes, bureaucracy, or third-party errors. Legal procedures cannot guarantee timely on-chain execution.

Bob chose CryptoLegacy to reduce these failure modes.

With CryptoLegacy, Bob’s assets remained in his own wallets during normal operation. Reliability came not from human coordination, but from predefined execution rules enforced on-chain:

• Blockchain-enforced timeouts ensured that execution could not remain stalled indefinitely once inactivity conditions were met.

• Guardian confirmations acted as a verification layer, not a control mechanism. Guardians did not access assets; they confirmed Bob’s unavailability according to predefined thresholds.

• Recovery addresses provided a predefined path to reclaim remaining contract-held assets if circumstances changed, without rewriting history or depending on ad-hoc intervention.

When Bob temporarily lost access, the system behaved predictably. Guardians confirmed his unavailability on-chain, allowing execution to proceed according to the defined rules. At the same time, recovery remained available as a fallback for remaining assets that had not yet been distributed.

CryptoLegacy did not remove uncertainty from life. It removed uncertainty from execution.

Reliability came from the fact that once conditions were met, the system behaved consistently — without delays caused by coordination failures, disputes, or unavailable participants.

Your keys. Your crypto. Your reliability.