Contents
- How to Inherit Staked Crypto: Traditional vs Liquid Staking
- 🔐 Traditional Staking: Locked but Rewarding
- Common Examples:
- Inheritance Considerations:
- How Vault12 Guard Helps:
- 💧 Liquid Staking: Inheriting Without Lockups
- Inheritance Considerations:
- How Vault12 Guard Helps:
- ⚖️ Traditional vs Liquid Staking: Inheritance Comparison
- 📘 Best Practices for Inheriting Staked Assets
- 🧭 Final Thoughts
Wasim Ahmad
Wasim Ahmad has spent decades at the exact point where deep, difficult technology meets everyday people.
It started early. As a schoolboy in Britain in the 1970s, he was among the first children to learn Prolog, the artificial intelligence language. He went on to the University of Sussex to study Mathematical Physics, then switched to Physics and French so he could spend a year in Paris — an early sign of a career that would keep crossing between the technical and the human. After university, he was an astronaut candidate with the Juno Project, but was too young to be allowed into space.
In the 1990s he joined Synon, the British startup whose software-based code generation won the Queen’s Award for Technology, moving with the company to Marin County, California.
As a founding member of Voltage Security, a Stanford University spinout, he launched the first commercial email encryption built on Identity-Based Encryption — the first genuine breakthrough in public-key cryptography in thirty years — working alongside some of the world’s most renowned cryptographers, including Stanford’s Dan Boneh. When catastrophic breaches hit the payments industry, he helped launch end-to-end protection for the world’s payment systems using format-preserving encryption.
His crypto journey began with AlphaPoint, working with the founding team that launched some of the world’s first cryptocurrency trading exchanges. He then joined Vault12, the pioneer of crypto inheritance, where the mathematics of Adi Shamir’s Secret Sharing — became a product that lets people pass their digital assets safely to the ones they love.
Most recently, he has been lobbying hard in both the United States and the United Kingdom — engaging with the SEC, CFTC and the FCA — to evolve the laws and regulations governing crypto, so that everyday people can access these technologies safely and confidently.
He is now the author of a book on everyday cryptography: "Who holds the key?", an everyday guide to cryptography, passwords, crypto wallets, and navigating the technology that protects your privacy in the modern world.
The pattern across all of it is the same one that drives his book: taking complex technology and formidable algorithms, and shaping them into solutions that ordinary people can trust, understand, and use.
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.
Art Krotou
Art is a crypto-security expert and researcher with serial entrepreneurship background. Having a degree in physics and experiences in multiple cutting-edge industries like fintech, secure hardware and semiconductors, and identity gave him a unique multi-faceted perspective on the problem of key management for individuals in the crypto networks and the evolution of the internet in general.
In his current work, he is specifically researching how cryptographic keys can be inherited without posing a threat to 3rd parties in edge cases. In addition, he advocates for "fault-tolerance via secrets automation". He discusses the quantitative impact of user experience factors on the uptake of non-custodial solutions.
As one of his most notable accomplishments, he co-founded and led through the early years of the company that contributed to the complex technology behind Apple's recent M-series CPUs. He is also the creator of the most friendly and aesthetically pleasing, but nonetheless super secure and fault-tolerant hardware wallet - U•HODL.
Check out his curated series of "Vault12 Learn" contributions below, and follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn for more sharp insights.
Vault12 is NOT a financial institution, cryptocurrency exchange, or custodian. We do NOT hold, transfer, manage, or have access to any user funds, tokens, cryptocurrencies, or digital assets. Vault12 is exclusively a non-custodial information security and backup tool that helps users securely store their own wallet seed phrases and private keys for the purpose of inheritance. We provide no legal or financial services, asset management, transaction capabilities, or investment advice. Users maintain complete control of their assets at all times.
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