Your seed phrase deserves better than a will

Three quiet ways crypto gets lost

None of them require a hack. It's enough that nobody finds out in time where the keys are.

What you can store in Erbnis

Everything around your crypto plan — kept cleanly separate from anything visible while you're alive.

Why a will is the wrong place for a secret

A will is a legal document, not a vault. It's held by the probate court and becomes readable during the inheritance process — by heirs, sometimes by other parties too. Writing a seed phrase into it means potentially exposing it long before anyone is legally entitled to use it. Erbnis doesn't replace a will (in Germany, § 2247 BGB still requires a handwritten or notarial will) — but it is the right place for anything that needs to stay secret until it's actually needed.

The real problem with crypto succession planning is trust: who do you hand something to that becomes instantly usable the moment it's in their hands? Erbnis doesn't solve that with a promise, it solves it with structure. Nothing is released while you keep checking in. Only after a defined period with no sign of life, and after further verification, does anything reach the person you named — time-delayed, conditional, never on demand.

DIY versus a managed plan: an honest comparison

Where does Erbnis stand honestly on this? We encrypt your data at rest — it's never stored as plain text on our servers. A zero-knowledge approach, where even Erbnis couldn't technically read your content, is not part of the product. For many people, combining time-delayed release with encryption is already a huge step up from having no plan at all — for very large holdings, an additional split like Shamir or multisig can still be worthwhile.