Securing digital legacies with Hedera

Problem

In a digital-first world, individuals and organizations struggle with securely storing, transferring, and verifying critical documents and assets. Traditional storage and legal processes are fragmented, slow, and vulnerable to loss, fraud, or tampering—leaving a gap in how digital legacies and legal services are managed.

Solution

DIFC Courts’ suite of services—including the Tejouri global digital vault, blockchain-powered Digital Assets Will, and Notary Service—provide secure, legally recognized solutions for managing documents and digital wealth.

The DIFC Courts, together with its public and private sector partners, is proud to spearhead some of the UAE’s most progressive government legal services, supported by smart technology implementations.

Justice Omar Al Mheiri

Director

A new era of digital legacy and legal services

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts identified a pressing challenge: how to securely manage, verify, and transfer critical documents and digital assets in an increasingly digital economy. In response, they launched Tejouri—a global digital vault designed to safeguard everything from wills and title deeds to financial certificates and multimedia files—alongside blockchain-based Digital Asset Will and Notary services. These solutions collectively transform the way individuals and institutions handle digital documentation and legacy management.

Tejouri and DIFC’s services leverage biometric authentication, advanced encryption, and Hedera to ensure secure, verifiable, and globally accessible recordkeeping. With Tejouri, users can store and transmit documents with confidence, designating conditions for access and inheritance. Meanwhile, the Digital Assets Will and Notary service enable non-custodial management of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and tamper-proof notarisation of documents through NFT conversion and immutable audit trails.

By digitizing vaults, wills, and notarisation on Hedera, DIFC Courts are redefining how the world manages its most critical assets. These services eliminate geographic restrictions, reduce fraud risk, and establish a scalable model for legal systems globally—cementing Dubai’s position as a trailblazer in digital legacy and judicial innovation.

Why Hedera

Hedera’s high-speed, low-cost, and energy-efficient architecture provides the backbone for these innovations, offering transparent verification, predictable costs, and compliance with advanced security standards. This collaboration between DIFC Courts, Tejouri, The Hashgraph Association, and Deca4 Advisory ensures a balance of legal recognition, technical sophistication, and user accessibility—making Dubai a leader in smart legal tech innovation.