Everything you own,
passed on exactly as you wish.
One plan for your Bitcoin, Ethereum and NEAR, coordinated by a single contract on NEAR. You stay in control until the very last moment.
No custody. No middlemen. Only the plan you wrote.- Bitcoin0.0004 BTC · testnet4 vaultFees reserved
- Ethereum0.02 ETH · 0.01 WETH · Sepolia vaultFees reserved
- NEAR0.05 NEAR · 0.01 wNEAR in escrowGas sponsored
Your crypto deserves better than a seed phrase in a drawer.
Set it up once. Behest quietly keeps watch, and only acts the way you told it to.
Careful, Balanced or Quick fill in sensible timers, guardians and safety settings, and explain every one. Change anything. Before you save, the whole plan is read back to you in plain words, with warnings for risky choices.
Name a heir or a guardian by their email address. When the time comes they get a message, sign in with a code from their inbox and receive their share. No wallet, no seed phrase, nothing to install. They can send it on to an exchange or their own wallet from the same screen.
Give each person a share by email, or a fixed address on the chain they use: NEAR, Ethereum or Bitcoin, or their NEAR Intents account. Add fixed amounts, a remainder rule, alternates and a fallback.
Choose private and the chain holds only a fingerprint of each heir. Who inherits, how much and where stay hidden until you stop checking in. Each heir then reveals their own recovery record, from their printed packet or, if you allow it, from Behest's encrypted copy.
People you trust approve a release together. None of them can act alone or change where funds go. Availability checks catch a guardian who has gone quiet, and a standby can take their seat.
Prove you're here every few months. Behest pays the gas, so a check-in costs you nothing. A delegate or your DAO can check in for you too.
Changes to heirs, addresses, shares or guardians can wait a notice period before they take effect, and everyone on the plan is told. If someone gets your key, you have time to cancel.
Heirs prove they control each address with a signature, and can ask you for a new one while you're around. Only you approve it.
Even after a release is proposed and approved, one tap stops it until the waiting period ends. Delay signers can extend that wait.
Network fees are reserved from the plan, so heirs need nothing but their email or their wallet. Or have transfers start automatically. Money added later goes out in a follow-up round.
Nobody can redirect a single coin.
You don't have to trust your guardians, the people who send transactions, or us. The contract enforces your plan, and the destinations you set are the only ones it will ever sign for.
You keep control
Funds sit in plan escrow and in vault addresses only your plan's contract can sign for. Behest never holds keys.
Rules are public
Anyone can read a plan's rules in plain words and in code. Heirs can be kept private until they're needed; everything else stays checkable.
Edits give notice
Changes to heirs, addresses and guardians can wait a notice period, and everyone on the plan is told. A stolen key can't quietly rewrite your plan.
Failures are visible
If a transfer fails you see why, that the funds are safe, and who can retry. A retry never pays twice.
One contract on NEAR, coordinating every chain.
Your Bitcoin stays on Bitcoin and your ETH stays on Ethereum. The plan lives on NEAR and signs for each chain directly, with no bridges, wrapped tokens or custodians.
NEAR Protocol
The coordinator. Your plan's rules live and are enforced here: check-ins, guardians, waiting periods, and every amount on every chain.
Chain Signatures
Lets the plan control its own Ethereum and Bitcoin addresses. The contract builds each transaction, so the MPC network can only sign what your plan allows.
NEAR Intents
Heirs can receive into their Intents account and swap to almost any asset. On mainnet, plan fees can be paid with almost any asset too.
Email or any wallet, no gas
Sign in with an email address, a NEAR wallet, MetaMask or another Ethereum wallet. Behest pays NEAR gas and plan storage; executors that broadcast signed transfers are replaceable.
Everyone has a job. Nobody can redirect.
Only the owner sets destinations, only while no release is open, and big edits can wait a notice period. A delegate or DAO can check in for the owner; a standby can take a quiet guardian's seat.
- Set heirs, amounts, destinationsOwner
- Check in, or cancel before the cutoffOwner
- Approve a heir's new addressOwner
- Propose and approve a releaseGuardians
- Prove an address, or ask for a new oneHeirs
- Reveal a private heir once the owner is overdueHeirs
- Receive after the waiting periodHeirs
- Broadcast a signed transferHeirsExecutors
- Pay NEAR gas for othersGas relayer
- Change where funds go once a release is openNobody
| Action | Owner | Guardians | Heirs | Executors | Gas relayer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set heirs, amounts, destinations | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Check in, or cancel before the cutoff | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Approve a heir's new address | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Propose and approve a release | — | Yes | — | — | — |
| Prove an address, or ask for a new one | — | — | Yes | — | — |
| Reveal a private heir once the owner is overdue | — | — | Yes | — | — |
| Receive after the waiting period | — | — | Yes | — | — |
| Broadcast a signed transfer | — | — | Yes | Yes | — |
| Pay NEAR gas for others | — | — | — | — | Yes |
| Change where funds go once a release is open | — | — | — | — | — |
Not a will
Pair it with legal estate planning that refers to it.
Doesn't determine death
It only knows check-ins stopped. Guardians decide whether to propose.
Private, not secret forever
Private heirs stay hidden until you're overdue. Once revealed, and once paid, they're on the public record.
Testnet today
Unaudited, and Behest can still upgrade the contract. NEAR, Sepolia ETH and WETH, wNEAR and Bitcoin testnet4. NEAR Intents payments are mainnet only.
Pay once, for what your plan needs.
One heir and NEAR cost nothing. Add more when you need it.
Frequently asked questions
Want to see a real plan? Look one up by its owner's account.
What is Behest?
An inheritance protocol for crypto. You set heirs, guardians and timing; a public contract on NEAR coordinates the inheritance across NEAR, Ethereum and Bitcoin, signing for each chain itself. No company or custodian sits in the middle.
Do I have to trust Behest?
No. The contract holds the funds, enforces the timers and can only pay the addresses you set. Behest pays gas and can't move anything. If Behest disappeared, every signed transfer is public for anyone to broadcast, and each heir's printed packet explains how to claim without this website. One caveat today: on testnet Behest can still upgrade the contract's code; mainnet plans put upgrades behind a time lock and several keys.
What if I forget to check in?
Nothing can start until you're overdue and the grace period has passed. Even after guardians propose, you can cancel or check in until the waiting period ends.
Could guardians team up and take the funds?
No. They decide when a release may start, never where funds go: they can only approve the plan exactly as written, to your heirs' fixed addresses.
What if someone gets my key?
Set an edit notice. Changes to heirs, addresses, shares and guardians then wait that long before they take effect, everyone on the plan is told, and you can cancel. Add a second key to your account or a check-in delegate as a way back in.
Can I keep my heirs private?
Yes. Choose Private when you set up the plan. The chain then holds only a fingerprint per heir, so nobody can read who inherits, how much or where. Each heir gets a recovery record to reveal once you've stopped checking in; if you check in again, the plan is hidden again. Standard tier.
Do heirs need crypto experience?
No. Name a heir by their email address: when a release reaches them they sign in with a code from their inbox, receive their share, and can send it on to an exchange or a wallet. That share is as safe as their inbox and Privy, the wallet service that keeps the account, though neither Privy nor Behest can release a plan early or redirect a share. Heirs who already have a wallet can be named by its address instead and depend on neither.
What does it cost?
A plan with one heir and NEAR is free. More heirs, Ethereum and Bitcoin, private heirs and release rules are Standard; automatic release and delay signers are Complete. Each is a one-time USDC fee that anyone can pay for you, and upgrading costs only the difference. Behest pays plan storage and NEAR gas; Ethereum and Bitcoin network fees come out of the plan's own vault. On testnet, payments use free test USDC.
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