Planned home appliance / not built yet

If the owner cannot be rushed, forcing them is pointless.

WrenchGuard is a box designed to hold crypto behind slow, cancellable, multi-party withdrawals, so a person made to hand it over cannot move large sums fast.

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Refundable deposit of $250 holds your place in line. Nothing is sold yet.

Withdrawal flow A large withdrawal request enters a time-delay queue inside the box. Guardians can only cancel it. If nobody cancels, it releases after the delay. A small capped amount is available immediately through a fast lane. OWNERrequests DELAY QUEUE waits. no override from the owner. RELEASEafter delay GUARDIANScancel only CANCEL FAST LANEsmall capped amount
Fig. 1. Intended withdrawal path. Illustrative design sketch, not a shipped product.

The problem

A password cannot refuse a person with leverage.

Henley, 2025
241,700

crypto millionaires worldwide, up 40%.

France
~30

crypto-related kidnappings recorded in 2025, and over 40 by mid-April 2026.

Manhattan, May 2025
~17 days

a man was held and tortured for a wallet password.

Figures as reported: Henley 2025; France, 2025 to mid-April 2026; Manhattan, May 2025.

How it is designed to work

Remove the one thing a coercer needs: a fast yes.

The design assumes the owner can be made to do anything in the moment. So the box is meant to make "now" impossible for large amounts, and make "no" available to people the attacker cannot reach.

  1. RequestOwner asks to move a large amount. Nothing moves yet.
  2. QueueThe request enters a long time delay. The owner cannot shorten it.
  3. NotifyGuardians are told. Each can cancel; none can approve early.
  4. WatchThe box checks behaviour across the owner's devices for signs of duress.
  5. ReleaseIf nobody cancels and nothing looks wrong, funds move when the delay ends.
Time-delayed, cancellable

Slow by construction

Large withdrawals are designed to wait. Time is the defence: it lets people who are not under threat step in.

Guardians: cancel only

A lawyer, a relative abroad, a custodian

Guardians can stop a withdrawal. They are designed never to approve a fast one, so persuading them gains an attacker nothing.

Capped fast lane

A walking-around amount

Daily spending uses a small, capped balance. Anything above the cap goes through the queue.

Decoy mode (optional)

A small balance on show

An alternate view can present a modest balance, so the visible amount is not the whole holding.

Fail-closed lockdown

Doubt locks, it does not open

If behaviour across the owner's devices looks like duress, the box is designed to lock down and require people the attacker cannot reach.

Your hardware

Data stays with you

The box lives in your home and keeps its data on your own hardware, not on a service you rent.

Who it is for

Law-abiding holders who would rather not be a target.

IF YOU...THE BOX IS DESIGNED TO...
hold meaningful crypto at homeput a delay and other people between a threat and your funds.
have family or advisors you trustgive them one safe power: stopping a withdrawal.
use crypto day to daykeep a small capped amount instantly available.
want less to be known about your wealthoffer a decoy view with a modest balance.

Honest status

What this is not.

  • It is not built yet. There is no product to buy, and no ship date is announced.
  • It is not a guarantee. Nothing can promise safety; this is a design aimed at making coercion less useful.
  • It is not a way around the law. It protects lawful owners from criminals.

You can reserve a build slot with a refundable deposit ($250). Units are built in the order deposits arrive.

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