# Account-State Continuity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Accounts / State Persistence **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus bridge ## Definition **Account-State Continuity** is preservation of a user's authenticated account identity, balances, records, entitlements, and recoverability through service disruption, migration, or insolvency. ## Continuity Significance Remote regulated accounts are proto-examples of persistent digital beneficiary state. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Gaming, banking, brokerage, payments, and platforms maintain account-state continuity under various rules. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note An account is not a person, but account continuity demonstrates how legally significant digital state survives operator turnover. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Beneficiary State Continuity|Beneficiary State Continuity]] · [[wiki/Authoritative Operational State|Authoritative Operational State]] · [[wiki/Continuity Registry|Continuity Registry]] · [[wiki/Digital Legacy|Digital Legacy]]