(Re-)Introducing Vault Guardian Rewards

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(Re-)Introducing Vault Guardian Rewards

Once agin, Vault owners can provide rewards for Guardians using $VGT with the blessing of the SEC and CFTC.

Recent regulatory changes announced by Chairman Paul Atkins of the SEC and Chairman Michael Selig of the CFTC mean that projects can resume implementation of their token economies. Vault12, the pioneer of crypto inheritance provided critical feedback to the SEC in 2025, on how its token was intended to be used, now with new regulations in place, Vault12 can complete introduction of its full token economy as described in its white paper. The most important aspect of this is, once agin, for Vault owners to provide incentive rewards for Guardians using $VGT.

Vault12 White Paper, § 6.1 Custodian Incentives (2018)


Custodians are giving owner's free storage space on their phones, which will grow as owners add more files to their Vaults. To motivate Custodians to safeguard the owner's shards, respond to owner's requests and to demotivate Custodians from deleting platform storage application, owners can opt-in to pay a mothly storage fee. This will be proportionate to the amount of assets stored and level of service expected from a given Custodian.

Vault12 White Paper - M. Skibinsky, Y. Dodis, T. Spies, W. Ahmad (2018). "Decentralized Storage of Crypto Assets via Hierarchical Shamir's Secret Sharing"

Promises made, promises delivered

In 2020, right after the launch of the Vault12 app in Apple and Google's App Store, an essential part of the VGT token economy was introduced.

The token provides utility by enabling subscriptions to Vault12 backup and inheirtance Vaults via the use of Guardians. These are friends, family and professionals who guard your Vault, ensuring your crypto assets can be passed on to your heirs. To support this utility an incentive is necessary for Guardians to guard your Vault, respond to notifications and requests to unlock and restore the Vault,

In 2020, Guardian incentive rewards capability was introduced into the product - however had to be disabled because at the time the SEC's stance was that all tokens are secutities and therefore not freely distributable, Vault12 complied, with this and the token utility was restricted to obtaining subscriptions.

In March 2026, the SEC and CFTC announced wide reaching changes to how tokens are to be treated. From a practical perspective these changes involve reviewing token economies described by project white papers and looking at how those token economies are functioning once the project is live. For Vault12 this means we can now re-introduce Guardian incentive rewards using VGT to complete our token economy,

Next Steps

Vault12 is re-introduing Guardian Incentive Rewards in an upcoming release of the Vault12 Guard app, This will enable Vault owners to provide Guardian incentive rewards to people guarding your Vault. No incentives will be issued to device Guardians, Guardians will be able to see that rewards have been deposited into their wallets, and Vault owners will be reminded to issue rewards.

This completes delivery of the VGT token economy per the Vault12 White paper.

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(Re-)Introducing Vault Guardian Rewards

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Wasim Ahmad

Wasim Ahmad is a serial entrepreneur and an advisor in the fields of AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and encryption solutions. At Vault12, the pioneer of crypto inheritance, he led private and public fundraising efforts and focuses today on expanding the Vault12 ecosystem. In addition, he is a producer of the upcoming movie 'The Bitcoin Executor'.

His crypto experience began with AlphaPoint, where he worked with the founding team to launch the world's first crypto trading exchanges. Previously he was a founding member of Voltage Security, a spinout from Stanford University, that launched Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), a breakthrough in Public Key Cryptography, and pioneered the use of sophisticated data encryption to protect sensitive data across the world's payment systems.

He has also been very involved with regulatory initiatives in both the US and the UK, providing feedback to the SEC and FCA respectively pushing for expanded momentum for innovation and startups within the regulatory frameworks of both countries.

Wasim served on the board of non-profit, StartOut, and is a Seedcamp and WeWork Labs global mentor.

Wasim graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and French from the University of Sussex.

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Vault12 is the pioneer in crypto inheritance and backup. The company was founded in 2015 to provide a way to enable everyday crypto customers to add a legacy contact to their cry[to wallets. The Vault12 Guard solution is blockchain-independent, runs on any mobile device with biometric security, and is available in Apple and Google app stores.

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