# Dormant Digital Asset Custody **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Dormancy / Custody **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established regulatory pattern / continuity bridge ## Definition **Dormant Digital Asset Custody** concerns balances, accounts, keys, or other digital assets that remain legally attributable to a beneficiary even after prolonged inactivity. ## Continuity Significance Dormant-property rules provide an analogue for preserved but inactive continuants whose interests must survive without active service. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Gaming and financial systems have dormant-account procedures; unclaimed-property law addresses abandoned assets. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Dormant money is not dormant personhood. The analogy concerns persistence of claims through inactivity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Dormancy Rights|Dormancy Rights]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]] · [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] · [[wiki/Continuity Trust|Continuity Trust]]