The Hidden Risk in Modern Estate Administration
An increasing number of estates now include cryptocurrency, NFTs or other digital assets — yet most solicitors, executors and probate practitioners have no reliable way to confirm whether such assets exist, what they are worth, or how to access them once a person has died. Unlike a bank account or property, digital assets leave no paper trail unless deliberately documented, and a lost private key or seed phrase can mean an asset is unrecoverable forever.
Prometheus Insights provides specialist digital asset estate administration support, combining blockchain forensic capability with an understanding of probate process and executor duties — helping ensure no beneficiary is short-changed by an estate's digital footprint being missed.
Crypto Estate Planning & Probate Services
Systematic searches of a deceased person's devices, emails and known accounts for evidence of cryptocurrency holdings.
Identifying exchange accounts, wallets and on-chain holdings linked to the deceased, even with incomplete documentation.
Point-in-time valuation reports for probate and inheritance tax purposes, defensible to HMRC.
Supporting recovery of accessible wallets using available keys or exchange credentials, with full chain of custody.
Helping individuals and families document digital assets now, so executors are not left searching after death.
Investigating suspected undisclosed or diverted cryptocurrency in contested probate and inheritance disputes.
Who We Support
Solicitors & Probate Practitioners
A specialist technical resource helping you meet your duties to beneficiaries without becoming a blockchain expert yourself.
Executors & Personal Representatives
A clear, structured process for identifying and securing digital assets found among an estate's belongings.
High-Net-Worth Families
A discreet, sensitive service focused on protecting inherited cryptocurrency wealth from loss or misappropriation.
Why Specialist Expertise Matters in Crypto Probate
Digital assets behave nothing like traditional estate property. There is no central registry to query, no bank to write to, and often no warning that an asset exists at all until a stray reference is found in an email or browser history.
Mistakes are frequently irreversible — an incorrectly handled private key, a deleted exchange account, or a missed deadline on a time-locked smart contract can permanently extinguish an inheritance.
Our approach is led by Scott Pounder, who brings over 20 years of UK law enforcement and digital asset investigation experience — including expert witness testimony in High Court proceedings — to what is still a relatively new and unregulated corner of estate administration. Every inherited crypto forensic audit is conducted with the same evidential rigour we apply to fraud and litigation casework, because disputes over inherited digital assets increasingly end up in court.
A Practical First Step
If you are a solicitor or executor who suspects an estate may include cryptocurrency — even based on something as small as an old exchange confirmation email or a hardware device of unknown purpose — an early, focused conversation can clarify what is realistically recoverable before time, access, or evidence is lost.