Most people have valuable digital assets, whether they realize it or not.
Whether we’re talking about the growing market for cryptocurrency or the files and accounts most people store and access through their computers, digital assets are a growing
part of people’s everyday lives.
Unfortunately, providing access to these assets once their owners can no longer be responsible for them often involves providing heirs with highly-specific instructions and in
some cases, requires them to jump through legal hurdles in order to access the assets.
Introducing Endowl 🦉
Endowl 🦉 is changing the way people think about estate planning by crafting an engaging way to plan your legacy.
Ken Hodler, Morgan Sherwood, Seth Goldfarb, and Aaron Anderson came together as Team Alfred for the ETHDenver 2020 hackathon to work on issues relating to security in the
Ethereum ecosystem.
Discussion about what to build led to the problem of cryptocurrency inheritance. A quick search revealed several attempts at solutions but nothing addressed the technical and
legal issues involved in digital estate planning in way that satisfied the team.
The proof-of-concept won a bounty from Kyber Network and the encouragement Team Alfred received motivated them to continue exploring the market for digital inheritance.
What We’re Building
Our solution will help people and companies maintain legacy access to digital assets and documents after their death or incapacitation while maintaining privacy, accessibility, and flexibility.
The solutions we’re creating:
Guide users through the estate planning process
Provide methods for generating proof-of-death or incapacitation
Automate the distribution of assets in accordance with the owner’s wishes
Since ETHDenver, Endowl’s 🦉 journey has led:
To victory in MetaCartel’s Dragon Quest with 2nd place out of 70 entries and a bounty from Gnosis for building a recovery dApp using Gnosis’ contract proxy kit
To new insights on the issues surrounding digital inheritance through user testing advised by the Maker Foundation’s Jordan Jackson
To our current participation in Consensys’ Tachyon Accelerator Program
In the coming weeks, we plan to start user testing our legacy planning solution in anticipation of a beta release.
Sign up for Updates
We’re Endowl and our mission is to help people do everything they can for their loved ones.
Sign up for updates on the team’s progress and opportunities to participate in user testing and gain early access to our virtual estate planner. Thanks for reading!