Arc Testnet / Dead Man's Switch

Your truth
survives you.

A cryptographic dead man's switch for journalists, whistleblowers, and political dissidents.

[INITIALIZE VAULT][VERIFY A VAULT][DOCUMENTATION]

No accounts. No KYC. No servers.Deployed on Arc blockchain. Code is law.

Risk surface

The Problem

Quantum Harvest Attack

State actors collect encrypted communications today. Quantum computers will crack them in 10 years. Your secrets have an expiry date.

Server Seizure

Traditional platforms run on servers with addresses, owners, and legal vulnerabilities. One court order. Everything gone.

Forced Disappearance

If you cannot speak, your evidence dies with you. Intimidation works because silence is easy to enforce. Until now.

Release mechanism

How It Works

Four steps. No trust required.

Step 01

ENCRYPT

Documents never leave your device unencrypted. AES-256-GCM encryption in your browser only.

Step 02

UPLOAD

Only encrypted payload reaches IPFS. The AES key is split into two age-encrypted shares.

Step 03

ARM

Immutable smart contract on Arc blockchain. Sub-second finality. No re-org possible.

Step 04

SURVIVE

Miss your heartbeat and Part B is revealed through the trigger. Beneficiaries recombine both parts in-browser.

Settlement layer

Why Arc Blockchain

Sub-Second Finality

Recorded forever in under one second. No reorganization. No rollback.

USDC Gas

No ETH needed. No exchange KYC. NGOs can sponsor your gas fees.

EVM Compatible

Battle-tested Solidity. Open source. Auditable by anyone.

Post-Quantum Roadmap

[AT MAINNET LAUNCH]

Arc mainnet launches with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s wallet signatures. Arc Privacy adds X-Wing KEM encryption against harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks. Your vault documents stay secure in the quantum era.

Boundaries

Threat Model

What we protect against and what we don't.

PROTECTS AGAINST

  • Server seizure
  • Forced disappearance
  • Document tampering
  • Blockchain reorganization
  • Financial surveillance

DOES NOT PROTECT

  • Compromised device before encryption
  • Coerced heartbeat under duress
  • IPFS unavailability
  • On-chain identity correlation
  • Quantum attacks today (roadmap pending)

Sponsored access

For Organizations

Running a newsroom or NGO? Sponsor gas fees for your journalists. One USDC deposit covers hundreds of vault deployments. Your reporters never touch a crypto exchange.

[CONTACT FOR NGO ACCESS]