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🧾 Zaphenath Business White Paper

What is Zaphenath?

Zaphenath is a smart contract protocol that protects sensitive information until a period of user inactivity has passed. Designed for Ethereum-compatible blockchains, Zaphenath lets users store encrypted data (a "key") and define exactly when and under what conditions it should become accessible to others.

It's a solution built for wills, emergency data access, legal disclosure, and organizational continuity. If the original user becomes inactive—measured by the absence of periodic "pings"—data can be automatically released to trusted parties.

Problem & Opportunity

❌ Current Systems Fail

  • Cloud storage doesn’t know if the user is alive or not.
  • Legal will execution is slow, bureaucratic, and fallible.
  • No blockchain-native solution exists to unlock encrypted content conditionally.

✅ What Users Need

  • A verifiable liveness protocol.
  • Fine-grained control over access and delegation.
  • Something simple, secure, and non-custodial.

Zaphenath is the first programmable solution to combine these elements in a decentralized way.

How It Works

  1. The user stores encrypted data in a smart contract key.
  2. The user defines a timeout and optional "read before timeout" flag.
  3. They assign custodians (trusted people) with roles like Reader, Writer, or Pinger.
  4. If the user doesn’t "ping" within the timeout, the data becomes accessible to Readers.

All logic is on-chain, verifiable, and enforced via Ethereum timestamps.

Use Cases

Sector Use Case
Legaltech Digital wills, estate planning
Fintech Emergency key custody, account unlock triggers
Enterprise Internal continuity for founder/keyholder data
DAOs Governance documents unlock post-inactivity
Education/IP Delayed release of confidential research

Why Blockchain?

  • Guarantees verifiable time (via block.timestamp)
  • Trustless role enforcement and access delegation
  • No centralized custodian or backend required

Zaphenath provides the right to remain private, until proven inactive.

Market Strategy

  • Open-source core, free to use and fork
  • Premium consulting for legal, enterprise, and DAO integrations
  • Ecosystem grants and governance to be launched in 2026

Team & Partners

Zaphenath is developed by contributors at Astervia, a research collective building decentralized infrastructure for privacy-respecting automation.

  • Ruy (Rfluid) Vieira – Lead Solidity Engineer
    Architect of Zaphenath's smart contract infrastructure, with deep expertise in cryptographic protocols, distributed systems, and automation logic.

  • Pedro Caninas – Head of Business Development & Strategic Alliances
    Leads external relations, partner ecosystems, and product-market fit strategy across legaltech, DAO tooling, and digital estate infrastructure.

  • João Victor Zaniboni – Director of Strategy & Ecosystem Growth
    Drives long-term vision, funding alignment, governance modeling, and cross-sector adoption of Zaphenath across web3 and institutional platforms.

Roadmap Highlights

Milestone Date
MVP & Test Suite ✅ Q2 2025
Public Docs ✅ Q2 2025
Contract Audit Q3 2025
UI Launch Q4 2025
DAO Ecosystem Fund Q1 2026

Zaphenath lets you control what happens when you can’t.

Visit zaphenath.astervia.tech or contact zaphenath@astervia.tech for collaboration, adoption, or integration inquiries.