1. Introduction: When Digital Assets Outlive Human AgencyBlockchain systems are built on an implicit assumption: the user is always alive, reachable, and capable of acting. This assumption is false. Humans are finite. Keys are lost. Accounts go inactive. Yet blockchain assets do not decay, expire, or self-resolve. They remain indefinitely locked, frozen in time, removed from economic circulation. The result is a structural paradox of Web3:Value is immortal, but agency is not.The Ethical Fallb...

1. Introduction: When Digital Assets Outlive Human AgencyBlockchain systems are built on an implicit assumption: the user is always alive, reachable, and capable of acting. This assumption is false. Humans are finite. Keys are lost. Accounts go inactive. Yet blockchain assets do not decay, expire, or self-resolve. They remain indefinitely locked, frozen in time, removed from economic circulation. The result is a structural paradox of Web3:Value is immortal, but agency is not.The Ethical Fallb...