Manage Authorized Watchers
Read-only accounts you authorize to view a legacy without being able to edit, delete, or alter it. Premium only.
An authorized watcher is a read-only spectator on a legacy. They see it under My Watchlist in their 10102 dashboard; they can never edit, delete, activate, or otherwise affect it.
Watchers are a first-class way to coordinate with people who need visibility but shouldn't have control — estate lawyers, family members, advisors, compliance officers.
Configuring
Go to Settings → Authorized Watchers and select a legacy to manage watchers for.
For each watcher you add:
Their Ethereum address (EOA).
A display name (private label for your own reference).
A visibility level — see below.
You can add, remove, or change a watcher's visibility at any time.
For Safe-backed legacies, only the creator can edit the watcher list. The creator is the specific Safe signer who submitted the original creation transaction. Other Safe signers see the watcher list but with editing disabled and a "Notification settings managed by 0x…abcd" badge. This is documented in Concepts — Creator vs. signer; the workaround for handing off creator control is to delete and recreate with the new signer as submitter.
Visibility levels
Limited visibility (default, privacy-preserving)
With limited visibility:
Owner wallet address: hidden. Replaced by a unique private identifier tied to the owner's 10102 account.
Safe co-signer addresses (Multisig legacies): hidden.
Beneficiary addresses: hidden. Names (owner-entered labels) are shown.
Watchers cannot locate the legacy on-chain from what the app shows them — the identifier is 10102-internal, not an Ethereum address.
Use when: you want oversight without exposing the on-chain footprint. Typical for a general-purpose family watcher.
Full visibility
With full visibility:
All addresses are shown: owner, Safe co-signers (Multisig), beneficiaries.
Watchers can look up the legacy contract on Etherscan and see the on-chain activity directly.
Allocations, activation triggers, and asset lists are fully visible.
Use when: the watcher genuinely needs the addresses — typically an estate lawyer coordinating with off-chain documents, or a professional recovery service who needs to be able to act on-chain later.
How watchers see the legacy
Watchers get a My Watchlist section in their dashboard. Each entry shows:
The legacy's status (Needs finalizing, Live, Activated).
Activity trigger and its remaining window.
Asset allocations per beneficiary (at whatever visibility level they're granted).
Any notes the owner has configured.
Watchers cannot act. No edit. No delete. No activation. They can only read.
Contingent beneficiaries are automatically watchers
Second-line and third-line contingent beneficiaries are, by default, added as watchers with limited visibility. The owner can change their visibility at any time (e.g. upgrade an estate-lawyer contingent to full visibility).
Contingents can't be removed from the watcher list directly — they're removed by editing the legacy itself (removing them from the contingent configuration).
When their line activates, they move from My Watchlist to Legacies for Me with full-visibility beneficiary access.
Real-world use cases
Consolidated oversight across wallets. You manage several EOAs and Safes; watchers let a single dashboard see all of them without any one wallet having access to the others.
Estate coordination. A lawyer references the plan from off-chain documents. Limited visibility preserves the owner's privacy while the unique identifier lets documents unambiguously point to a specific plan.
Family peace-of-mind. A spouse or adult child has visibility without control — they know the plan exists, can see it's still active, but can't accidentally tamper.
Monitoring counterparty plans. Professional setups where one party's 10102 legacy is a contingency for another party's obligations.
See also
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