In every cycle, crypto forces us to confront the same uncomfortable question:
Is this truly a store of value — or just a casino with better UX?
Over the past 4–5 months, we’ve seen 50% drawdowns again. Who, in that environment, thinks:
“Yes, I want to store my family’s generational wealth here.”
Almost no one.
And they’re not wrong to hesitate.
But that hesitation is exactly why Miras matters.
Crypto has moved past its “illegal era.”
It’s no longer 2013 darknet myths.
Yet culturally, crypto is still:
This is not bad.
This is a phase.
DeFi is the future of finance.
But finance is not the same thing as wealth preservation.
A true store of value isn’t just about price.
It’s about continuity.
Gold became a store of value not because it only goes up — but because:
Crypto claims self-custody.
But self-custody without inheritance is incomplete.
If your keys die with you, your wealth dies with you.
That’s not sovereignty. That’s fragility.
Miras is not a company.
It is a protocol.
Fully open source. Non-custodial. Built on Ethereum using Safe multisig architecture. Programmable attesters. Optional dead-man’s-switch logic.
It is designed to solve one specific problem:
How do you pass on self-custodied crypto without introducing custody risk?
No centralized vault. No private key escrow. No “trust us” SaaS.
Just programmable logic layered on top of self-custody.
At the bottom of cycles, no one talks about inheritance.
At the top of cycles, everyone assumes infinite upside.
But if crypto is to become:
Then inheritance infrastructure must exist.
Otherwise, rational capital allocators will continue to hesitate.
Right now, when prices are down 50%, no father looks at his child and says:
“I’ll store everything in crypto for you.”
But when crypto matures — and it will — people will want to hold significant portions of their wealth in self-custody.
Miras is built for that future.
It is a play against the idea that crypto is only for yield and speculation.
It asserts:
Crypto is for continuity.
I’ve built companies before.
The last major thing I worked on was Pho Networks — a graph-based way to build applications. Architecturally, it was efficient. In many ways, ahead of its time.
But large language models have changed the application layer landscape dramatically. The road taken there is less relevant now.
What remains relevant is decentralization.
With Miras, I’m not starting with a company.
I’m starting with a protocol.
Maybe there will be a company around it for marketing and growth. Maybe not.
But the base layer must remain neutral.
Open.
Credibly decentralized.
Because inheritance infrastructure cannot be owned like a SaaS dashboard.
It must be public infrastructure.
Crypto today is obsessed with:
That’s fine.
But eventually, civilization builds in layers:
We are somewhere between 2 and 3.
Miras is built for stage 4.
The coming months will be critical for decisions:
But one thing is clear:
Crypto will not become a true store of value until it solves inheritance in a self-custodial way.
Miras is my contribution to that missing piece.
Not a startup pitch.
A protocol.
For continuity.
For families.
For the future.
tags: miras - crypto - inheritance - store-of-value