WYTYC began with a simple question: if someone dies, or loses the capacity to manage their own affairs, holding a meaningful balance of cryptocurrency, what actually happens to it?
The honest answer is usually that it gets lost. Either nobody finds the keys, or nobody knows the legal instrument under which the keys can be lawfully touched. Both happen, daily, and the sums involved are no longer small.
The Property (Digital Assets etc.) Act 2025 made that a duty rather than a courtesy. Across England and Wales, digital assets are property; personal representatives are liable for them, and the tools to discharge that duty in any serious form for firms do not yet exist.
WYTYC is building them. It custodies nothing: it holds a single key within a quorum, and the architecture makes it impossible for it to act alone. What it gives private client firms is the means to act, and the audit trail to defend the action.
WYTYC has two directors: its founder, and Ian Hewitt, a qualified accountant of forty years' standing. If your firm is looking at the same question, please get in touch.
The mark
Custody you don't have to hold. Legacy you don't have to lose.
A key, with a tree of life inside it. The key is custody, held in trust and turned only on the terms set when the vault was made. The tree is the legacy that passes through it. WYTYC sits between them.