As a beneficiary, it is within your power to claim inheritance in the event a Vault Owner passes away, or becomes incapacitated. Follow the steps below to initiate and claim Inheritance. When the time comes to access the inherited digital assets, the Beneficiary opens the Vault12 app, selects the Vault to be inherited, and activates Inheritance. This will send a safeguard message to the Vault owner — just in case the Beneficiary is actually jumping the gun. The owner has a set period of time - 48 hours - to veto the request. Once the Vault is ready, the Beneficiary is asked to contact th ..read more

With Vault12 Guard, you can secure your digital valuables with your choice of trusted Guardians. After you have created your Vault, you are ready to assign Guardians, who will be able to help you recover your Vault in case of accidents like phone loss. This guide will take you through the steps to help you assign your Guardians simply and efficiently. How to start adding your Vault12 Guardians? Now that you have set up your Vault12 Guard Digital Vault, begin by navigating from the Vault's home screen by pressing the "Add Guardians" button. From the "My Guardians" screen, you can easily man ..read more

Vault12 is a powerful yet straightforward way to safeguard all of your digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), 2FA backup codes, master passwords, device PIN codes, IDs and medical records, and even documents with trade secrets, audio, or video. With the Vault12 Guard app, you can secure your digital valuables with your choice of trusted Guardians. This guide will take you through the following steps to help you set up your Digital Vault: Download and install the Vault12 Guard app. Initialize your Vault. Assign Guardians. Download and Install To download a ..read more

Summary Introducing the newly revamped Vault12 Guard app, Version 2.0, designed for everyday users and offering native support for NFTs, digital art, and Web3 wallets. The updated app provides a simplified onboarding experience, making it easier for users to create a Vault and add assets. With the option to assign Guardians for fully decentralized backup and inheritance, the app now supports subscriptions via both Apple iOS App Store and Google Play App Store. Vault12 Guard offers a consistent user experience with enhanced features, such as support for Web3 wallets, NFTs, and digital art ..read more

Summary Just like that, cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT) digital donations are now the fastest-growing new type of donation to charities around the world. Consider these 5 top points: 1. Over $300M in crypto has been gifted in the last year, and most recipient nonprofits have opted to auto-convert cryptocurrency to dollars or equivalent upon donation. 2. More sophisticated ways to receive crypto gifts, like endowments and trusts, can hold cryptocurrency for future conversion. 3. Nonprofits should move now to set up donation systems so that donors can choose them when making ta ..read more

What is Vault12? The Vault12 app is an intelligent digital vault that knows how to back up and inherit your digital assets like passwords, PINs, seed phrases, private keys, files associated with your NFTs, and digital artwork. Basically, everything that you know and love in the world of Web3. What is the difference between a Wallet and a Vault? One of the questions that we get a lot of is, what's the difference between a wallet and a vault? So basically a wallet,t which is initialized using a seed phrase or a private key, interacts with the blockchain and allows you to send and receive, buy ..read more

Welcome to NFT.New York! We talked about the scenarios for why you should think about protecting your assets. Now let’s discuss how Vault12 can help you simply and easily back up and recover assets as well as set you up with inheritance for the future. Vault12 is a mobile app that enables you to create a digital Vault guarded by a set of trusted people - friends, family, and business associates. As you accumulate assets you can back them up in your Vault - this has the side benefit of creating an active inventory of all your assets which is needed for comprehensive inheritance. Assets in yo ..read more

Summary Traditional approaches to the inheritance of assets, when applied to digital assets, create complexity and risk. Among the biggest risks are (1) creating an up-to-date inventory of digital assets, with failure resulting in inaccessible assets, and (2) trusting the third party with credentials to access your digital assets. If you pick the wrong person, they could lose the assets, pass them on to an unauthorized third party, or attempt to access them before they are entitled to do so . The risks in using a traditional approach to inheritance of crypto assets  Traditional App ..read more

Welcome to the Vault12 step-by-step guide to securely configuring the Trezor Model T, the high-security hardware wallet created by Trezor. This guide will walk you through either creating a new wallet, or initializing an existing wallet by importing a recovery seed. Let's get started. TLDR; Hardware wallets are widely considered to be the safest way to store cryptocurrency. The Trezor Model T is considered to be among the best hardware wallets available on the market. The Trezor Model T is compatible with multiple 3rd-party software wallets. The Trezor Model T supports a wide variety of ..read more

Welcome to Vault12's step-by-step guide to securely configuring the Ledger Nano X, the high-security hardware wallet created by Ledger. This guide will walk you through creating a new wallet, or initializing an existing wallet by importing a recovery phrase. Let's get started. TL;DR Hardware wallets are widely considered to be the safest way to store your cryptocurrency. The Ledger Nano is a very popular and well-reviewed cryptocurrency hardware wallet. The Ledger Nano X offers more storage space for Apps and more connectivity options than their first-generation hardware wallet model (t ..read more