Technology connected us to everyone — and somehow, we got lonelier. PIF12 is my experiment in using onchain blessings to bring the people I admire into one circle, across twelve years.
See What I'm Building | 佩福12年What is Omamori?
For years, I've kept a quiet ritual — sending blessings to people I care about around Lunar New Year. PIF12 brings that ritual onchain. The form is inspired by Japan's omamori (御守) — small temple charms holding a hand-written wish. PIF12 isn't religious; it just borrows the spirit of the gesture — something small, deliberate, and yours. Each year I mint one as a Soulbound Token, given to those willing to walk this twelve-year journey with me. You can't buy it. You can't transfer it. Its only value is that you actually came.
Why 12 Years?
Horse to Snake. Twelve years completes one cycle in East Asian cosmology — a closing, and a return.
Research suggests deep trust takes 7–10 years of shared experience. Twelve years gives strangers enough time to become a community.
Has technology made us lonelier? If we use the same technology to build real connection — what happens after twelve years? This is the question I want to answer.
About the Founder
Just a homo sapiens who likes projects that pull double duty.
PIF12 is the first thing I've fully committed to building.
Also known as 佩福12年 in Chinese — a 12-year commitment of my blessings, onchain, for people I admire.
What stays, when people leave?
Their blessings — kept onchain.
What can one homo sapiens build, with AI and no funding?
That's the experiment.
What is blockchain for, if not just institutions?
A playground. Ours.
Build the playground — and all three answers arrive at once.
The algorithms aren't going anywhere. I'm turning their magic against the loneliness they brought — and inviting you in.
How It Works
A new Omamori design mints on Base each year. Year One: Horse.
Thanks to Privy, no seed phrase needed. No gas fees, for now. Sign in with email, claim with one click.
At least one in-person gathering each year. Different city each time. Real faces, real trust.
I'm hoping you're the kind of "weird" that actually likes helping — where help means what they need, not what you want to give.
Every act of kindness is a star,
Together, we are drawing a constellation that will light up the dark.
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