Assets Inheritance allows you to securely pass your Bron workspace and its accounts to trusted people, with built-in protection and a clear ownership transfer process. It allows your accounts and balances to be transferred to your chosen beneficiaries in a secure and transparent way, without relying on third parties, lawyers holding keys, or off-chain processes.

The inheritance process described here is a technical mechanism designed to help ensure that digital assets are not lost and can become accessible to people designated by the account owner.

Bron does not provide legal, estate planning, or inheritance services. This process does not create or replace a will, does not determine legal heirs, and may not have legal recognition under applicable inheritance or estate laws.

Account owners are responsible for ensuring that their use of this feature aligns with their legal estate plans and applicable laws. Bron’s role is limited to providing a technical mechanism that enables access to the workspace according to the configuration set by the account owner.

Below is a detailed step-by-step guide for the account owner, beneficiaries, and the actions to take after an inheritance event occurs.

An account owner’s task is to define the list of beneficiaries, add them to a workspace using their email addresses, and ensure that each beneficiary has activated their account.

Before relying on the inheritance feature, it is recommended to prepare your setup and inform the people involved.

Let your beneficiaries know who your guardians are and how the inheritance process works. Document your inheritance configuration so your beneficiaries understand how access will be transferred if the process is initiated. Inform your guardians about their role and make sure they understand what they may be asked to do.

You should also carefully consider how many beneficiaries you want to designate and what should happen if some of them choose not to participate in the inheritance process.

A beneficiary can be any user with the role of Owner, Member, Viewer or Guardian. An active Guardian can also be designated as a beneficiary. A person may also be designated solely as a Beneficiary without holding any other workspace role. There is no limit to the number of beneficiaries you can add to a workspace.

If approvals for Team members changes are enabled in the workspace, adding a beneficiary must be approved before the invitation is sent.

After the beneficiary accepts the invitation and sets up their Bron account, their status in the team members list will change to Active.

If a beneficiary didn't receive the invitation or it has expired, the owner can resend it.

After all beneficiaries have activated their accounts, no further action is required from the account owner.

A user with only the Beneficiary role does not have access to workspace data such as accounts, the list of users, settings, balances, or transactions. A beneficiary has a dedicated interface where they can initiate the inheritance process or interact with an existing inheritance request. No other operations are available in the beneficiary interface.

A beneficiary gains access to manage the funds only after the inheritance process has been successfully completed.

The account owner can remove an existing beneficiary or add a new one at any time via the user management page.

When a beneficiary initiates the inheritance process, all owners, guardians, and beneficiaries receive an email notification.

If the inheritance was initiated illegitimately, an owner can stop and cancel the process at any time before it is completed.

To do this, sign in to the Bron web app or mobile app. A notification about the active inheritance process appears in the interface header. It can also be found in Workspace → Recovery requests.

To stop the inheritance process, open the request and select Cancel request.

The process could also be cancelled by any guardian or beneficiary at any time before it is completed.

When the inheritance request is cancelled, owners, beneficiaries, and guardians are notified by email.

If there are other owners in the workspace, they can also participate in the inheritance process. An owner has the following capabilities in the inheritance process:

A beneficiary must activate their Bron account after receiving the invitation, securely store their passkeys, and maintain access to the email address used to receive the invitation.

If an inheritance event occurs, a beneficiary must sign in to the Bron web app and initiate the inheritance process.

If there are two or more guardians in the workspace, the beneficiary who initiated the inheritance should contact them and enter the recovery codes in the interface to speed up the process.

Other beneficiaries can join the inheritance process at any time before it is completed (the process takes at least six months). To do this, they must sign in to the Bron web app and select the corresponding option in the interface.

To fulfil their role, a beneficiary must:

After a beneficiary is invited, they will receive an email with a link to set up their account.

To accept the invitation:

Once the invitation is accepted, no further action is required unless an inheritance process is initiated in the future.

If a beneficiary loses access to their account, they can restore it through the recovery process.

If the workspace owner is no longer able to access their account (for example, in the event of passing away), beneficiaries can begin the inheritance process.

After clicking Request access, the beneficiary will be asked to confirm the inheritance request.

Once confirmed:

If multiple beneficiaries are assigned to this workspace, they can join the inheritance request at any time before it's completed. When the delay ends, all beneficiaries who joined the process will gain access to manage the funds. Beneficiaries who did not join will not be granted permission to manage the funds.

To join:

Once the inheritance process is completed, all beneficiaries who joined the process become workspace owners.

Workspace owners can also join the inheritance process.

Each time a beneficiary or owner joins the process, the following users receive an email notification:

After the inheritance process is initiated, there are two possible paths depending on whether guardian recovery codes are available.

If the workspace has guardians set up, the process can be shortened to 6 months.

To continue, the beneficiary must:

This will activate the 6-month security delay.

If the workspace does not have guardians, the 12-month extended security delay starts when the request is initiated.

This allows inheritance to proceed without guardian recovery codes, but the security delay becomes 1 year.

The security delay is intended to protect the workspace and gives the owner, guardians, or beneficiaries time to respond in case it was started illegitimately. This delay is required and cannot be skipped.

The length of this delay depends on the workspace setup:

The 6-month security delay starts immediately after entering the recovery codes from guardians.

The 12-month security delay starts immediately after initiating the inheritance by beneficiary.

During the security delay:

Once the security delay ends, all joined beneficiaries and owners become owners of the workspace.

At this point:

After becoming a workspace owner, Bron applies additional security protections intended to ensure coordinated actions by the new owners and prevent any of them from acting unilaterally.

When one beneficiary becomes the only owner of the workspace, security delays are automatically enabled.

Any critical change will require a 48-hour waiting period before it takes effect, including:

If the workspace has multiple beneficiaries and owners who joined the process, they will all become owners once the inheritance process is completed. However, no single owner can act alone.

In an inherited workspace, the following changes are not allowed:

In an inherited workspace, adding a new address to the address book is allowed, but it requires approval from another owner.

An immutable transaction limit is also applied in the inherited workspace. This limit:

This ensures that all inherited owners must reach the same decision before assets can be moved.

To withdraw funds, the new owners must:

No. Two-factor authentication applies to the owner’s account, not to the workspace. The inheritance process is designed so that no actions from the account owner are required. Beneficiaries, guardians, and other owners can initiate and complete the inheritance process using their own accounts.

All beneficiaries and guardians are notified by email when the inheritance process starts, as well as about any other actions during the process (such as cancellation of the inheritance request, a beneficiary or owner joining the process, and the reminder sent 7 days before the delay ends). In addition, the inheritance process takes at least six months.

It is the beneficiary’s responsibility to respond in time and join the inheritance process. If a beneficiary does not join within the designated period, they will not gain access to manage the inherited workspace, and their account will be removed after the process is completed.

If the subscription expires, access to the workspace remains available and the funds stay secure, but some actions (such as withdrawing funds, swapping, or staking) are blocked. Actions related to the inheritance process — initiating, joining, or cancelling — remain available to owners, guardians, and beneficiaries.

If you have any questions or need help, contact us at support@bron.org