For Alberta's accountants & estate lawyers
Not stolen. Not hacked. Simply unreachable — because the one person who knew how to get to it is gone. Veravane helps your clients leave a plan their family can actually follow, without ever handing anyone the keys.
When the founder of a Canadian crypto exchange died in 2018 holding the only keys, roughly $190M in customer assets became permanently unreachable. The same failure happens quietly, one family at a time — and a will alone can't fix it.
The gap your clients don't see
The problem looks different from each of your desks. It's the same gap underneath.
On death, the CRA treats crypto as sold that day — a deemed disposition. The tax is owed in dollars, whether or not anyone can actually reach the coins.
If the holdings are illiquid or the keys are lost, the estate can owe tax it cannot pay. And with no cost-basis records, it may badly overpay on gains it can't even prove.
A will that's silent on digital assets can leave the executor with no authority to touch them; a power of attorney that omits them leaves incapacity uncovered.
And even a perfect bequest is empty if no one can locate or open the wallet. Legal authority and technical access have to exist together — or the inheritance is a locked box.
What Veravane is
Veravane is an advisor-mediated digital-life and crypto-legacy service. It captures what a family would actually need — who's authorized, where access is kept, what to do first — and nothing they shouldn't.
It records value bands, the locations of access, and who may act — never the secrets themselves. No seed phrases, no passwords, no private keys ever enter the system. It's a map and an organizer, not a vault — so there's nothing in it that could ever be stolen.
What the family actually receives
Everything Veravane builds points at one moment: the day a family opens it and needs to know what to do. That's what your client is really leaving behind.
"If something happens to me" — who to call first, where everything is kept, and what to never do: don't move the crypto, never share a recovery phrase, don't be rushed. Locations only, no secrets.
A five-minute walk-through the client runs with their spouse. It only returns "passed" when the family is genuinely ready — so the confidence is earned, and the gaps surface while they're still easy to fix.
Their advisor keeps it in step with reality — new wallets, a new executor, a moved document — so the map still works years later, not just the day it was made.
The result is the thing your client keeps meaning to create and never does: a plan their family could act on tomorrow, without a scavenger hunt and without a single secret written down where it could leak.
Why mention it to a client
Every crypto-holding client eventually says "I really should get organized." This is where that goes.
Raising the risk before an estate arrives is the kind of foresight clients remember — and refer their friends for.
An organized digital estate is far less painful to administer than a family arriving with a wallet and no way in.
You don't hold anything or manage the plan. You point the client to it — or to a short call — and Veravane does the rest.
Let's talk
Fifteen minutes is enough to see whether it's a fit for the ones you have in mind. No pitch to your clients until you decide it's worth it.