# Completed Roadmap

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In this section we dive deeper into the GenWealth roadmap as it stands now. As with any startup, the roadmap may change as we search for product–market fit and work to become a necessary and useful solution for both Crypto Inheritance & Recovery and Real World Inheritance.

We start with the completed roadmap to give context on progress so far and what has been achieved up to this second version of the whitepaper. Then we outline the future roadmap (next 2 years) to show planned work.

## Completed work and learnings

* Early 2024: development of the first version of the Inheritance smart contracts and a basic proof-of-concept for testing. These efforts validated the concept and the feasibility of the technology.
* First Dapp release (based on the initial smart contracts). A demo video is [available here. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GIwvt1jCA4)
  * In that version users could:
    * Create a vault using a wallet.
    * Define a proof-of-life deadline.
    * Create sections for different beneficiaries and store crypto in those sections.
    * Provide beneficiaries with a receipt allowing them to claim assets once conditions were met.
    * Retain full self-custody and access to their crypto at any time.
    * Create additional Vault admin tokens for recovery (e.g., give tokens to other wallets you control or create a vault with a shorter deadline claimable by other wallets you control).
* Private 1-on-1 testing sessions with a diverse set of crypto users (varied technical backgrounds) and inheritance professionals.
  * Testing included professionals from large law firms and independent practitioners across different countries.
  * Professionals reacted enthusiastically and indicated that, with some improvements, they would use the solution for Real World Inheritance.
* Key insights from testing led to new functional requirements that motivated a major architectural redesign.

## Architectural revamp

To address the needs discovered in testing, the smart contract architecture was reworked from a single large contract into a modular system of seven smart contracts that interact to provide a complete inheritance solution.

This new architecture enables several important capabilities that were missing in V1:

* DeFi compatibility
  * The architecture allows a simple CIP to enable DeFi integration for GenWealth and other smart contract wallet solutions on Cardano.
* Lawyer / executor permissions
  * Optional permissions let trusted professionals help create and execute a will while limiting their access to assets. (See the how it works sections for more detail.)
* Fractionalization of RWAs and NFTs
  * Enables division of NFTs and tokens representing real-world assets or property ownership.
* More asset division options
  * The system now behaves more like a regular wallet with an added Will functionality:
    * Identify beneficiaries and mark specific assets for them.
    * Define shares of the inheritance to distribute a percentage of the total wallet across the different beneficiaries.
    * Use these options separately or combined for flexible estate planning.
* Second layer for inheritance
  * If a beneficiary does not claim their inheritance within a significant time period, remaining assets can be redistributed among active beneficiaries according to the original proportional weights.


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