Architecture, Cryptography, and Physical Survival Instructions.
The Digital Life Raft is engineered to securely store sensitive plaintext information and release it to you or the important people in your life.
Traditional backups fail under extreme circumstances. The Digital Life Raft was designed to survive severe physical, political, and biological events that render normal digital security obsolete.
Your main identity stays hidden. Each backup you make gets a completely unique, mathematically unconnected "public face" to ensure absolute privacy on the blockchain.
To maintain absolute privacy and prevent linkability, the system never tracks emails or real names. Instead, it uses a strict hierarchical key design:
The Owner's Master Key is split into three independent 24-word shares. To decrypt the raft, use the owner's master passphrase or any 2 of these 3 heir passphrases:
Since Phrase A is hosted on Solana, it must be securely encrypted. Solana maintains two separate encrypted copies of Phrase A:
If the blockchain or internet is completely offline, or if both Heirs are physically present, they can bypass the network entirely. By entering Phrase B and Phrase C manually into the offline app, it reconstructs the Master Key immediately.
NEVER type your Master Passphrase into an internet-connected device or store it in a password manager. The key to "shirt on your back only" recovery is carrying your 24 words in your head.
The Raft application's printable outputs provide helper tools: owner_randomized_word_grid and RECOVERY_PATTERN_SHAPES. These help you visually learn your words without writing them out in plaintext. Storing these two documents in separate physical locations provides a secure, decentralized backup of your master passphrase without exposing it to local physical theft. Never keep the grid and the pattern together.
Don't worryβthere are offline physical backups held by your heirs and any printed offline storage you keep. But memorization is your ultimate failsafe.
People are not naturally good at remembering 24 random words all at once. However, humans can easily remember 6 words. Master one small batch of 6 words at a time before moving on to the next.
The Memory Palace (Method of Loci) is a proven technique. Think of a physical place you know well, walk through it in your mind, and place mental links to the batch of 6 words as objects in the room.
The Digital Life Raft operates a fully decentralized, non-custodial, and sovereign architecture. To perform secure writes on-chain (creating, editing, check-ins, or unlocking), your raft relies on native gas resources. Review the field manual below to understand how funding works:
Unlike corporate backups that run on centralized servers, your raft is fully independent and lives directly on public peer-to-peer networks. Performing actions on the blockchain (such as publishing your raft, registering updates, sending check-in pulses, or allowing heirs to request recovery) requires small network transaction fees (gas) natively paid in Solana (SOL).
β’ Assisted Mode (Relayer Gateway): When paying via the RaftCo Relayer (Bitcoin Lightning), your funds purchase a Lifetime Membership voucher. No SOL is stored in your Raft Public ID address on-chain; the Relayer sponsors all transaction fees from its treasury.
β’ Sovereign Mode (Direct SOL): All deposited SOL funds go directly to your unique, private Parent Raft Public ID address on the Solana blockchain. This wallet is derived in local memory from your Master Passphrase. **No company, relayer, or developer has access to this address or can touch your funds.**
β’ Assisted Mode (Relayer Gateway): Navigate to the β΅ Funding tab to view your active membership status (e.g. ACTIVE_LIFETIME). Your on-chain Raft Public ID address balance will remain 0 SOL.
β’ Sovereign Mode (Direct SOL): You can check your live SOL balance inside the β΅ Funding tab (click π REFRESH BALANCE STATUS) or paste your Parent Raft Public ID address into any public Solana block explorer (like Solscan).
β’ Assisted Mode (Relayer Gateway): Vouchers are redeemed permanently. Since no SOL was deposited to your Raft Public ID address, there is no on-chain balance to withdraw.
β’ Sovereign Mode (Direct SOL): You can withdraw your remaining SOL at any time. Import your 24-word Master Passphrase into any standard Web3 wallet application (such as Phantom, Solflare, or Backpack) as an existing recovery phrase and transfer your remaining SOL to any other address.
Note on data hygiene: When you click the CLEAR button on the top menu, all active keys and local credentials are immediately wiped from your browser's temporary memory.
To appreciate how the Digital Life Raft stays alive forever without a central hosting company, it is essential to understand the underlying engines (Solana & Arweave), the role of the Relayer Gateway, and Sovereign deployments.
Your raft relies on two separate decentralized networks:
β’ Solana (SOL): Tracks your Dead Man's Switch timer, check-in pulses, and metadata.
β’ Arweave (AR): Permanently and immutably stores your encrypted secrets payload.
The Relayer proxy is a stateless, privacy-preserving helper. Instead of setting up complex wallets, you use Bitcoin Lightning. The Relayer exchanges the funds and handles network interactions on your behalf.
[User Browser] ββ( 1. Encrypts Raft locally )
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ββ( 2. Requests invoice for gas & storage )
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[RaftCo Relayer] (Stateless Proxy Gateway)
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βββΊ [Irys Gateway] βββββββΊ [Arweave] (Permanent Data)
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βββΊ [Solana RPC] βββββββββΊ [Solana] (Time-Lock State)
Why it's Trustworthy:
If you value absolute self-reliance, you can run a private gateway proxy. Your browser talks only to your custom endpoint URL, and your gateway's hot-wallet funds all requests.
[User Browser] ββ( 1. Encrypts Raft locally )
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ββ( 2. Sends payload to Custom Gateway )
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[Sovereign Gateway] (Private Node)
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βββΊ [Irys Gateway] βββββββΊ [Arweave Storage] (Permanent Raft Data)
β (Paid by Gateway Hot Wallet)
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βββΊ [Solana RPC] βββββββββΊ [Solana DMS Program] (Time-Lock Switch State)
(Paid by Gateway Hot Wallet)
How Sovereign Mode operates:
For absolute zero-connectivity, you can select the None - Offline gateway. This disables all network requests.
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Visit digitalliferaft.com/partners βIMPORTANT SECURITY WARNING: To protect your raft against local computer compromise, the 24-word Master Passphrase is never stored digitally in this file. Write it down here using a pen only, or rely strictly on your physically separated Owner Specific word grid & patterns.
Scan this QR code with any mobile device to immediately perform your check-in on-chain without revealing your private 24-word master passphrase. Completely safe to carry in your wallet.
STORE THIS CARD SECURELY. ANY 2 OF 3 COOPERATIVE SHARES RECONSTRUCT THE RAFT. DO NOT STORE WITH OTHER SHARES.
STORE THIS CARD SECURELY. ANY 2 OF 3 COOPERATIVE SHARES RECONSTRUCT THE RAFT. DO NOT STORE WITH OTHER SHARES.
STORE THIS CARD SECURELY. ANY 2 OF 3 COOPERATIVE SHARES RECONSTRUCT THE RAFT. DO NOT STORE WITH OTHER SHARES.