Terms of service

Kindred lets you compose a personal gift — an experience, invitation, help, promise, object or a promise of money — write it into a card, and publish a link for the recipient. You are responsible for what you write and for honouring the commitment you describe.

Kindred is not a party to the gift itself. When you promise a weekend away or help with a move, that is between you and the recipient.

This is a development build. Wallet sign-in (SIWE) and USDC payments are implemented, but payments run on test networks. A wallet connection is requested only when you sign in or pay, and a signature is only ever requested for sign-in — which cannot move funds.

Creating a gift costs a fee in USDC, paid from your own wallet to the platform. It is charged once per gift and is the same for every kind of gift, a money gift included. It is not the gift: Kindred does not collect, hold or forward the amount a gift promises, and does not act as an intermediary between you and the recipient. Whether a gift is ever fulfilled is the author's responsibility alone.

Payments are made in USDC on a single supported EVM network, to a published destination address, using the official token contract for that network. The breakdown, the network, the destination and the expiry are shown before you confirm. The figure is computed on the server and is never taken from the browser.

A gift is published — its link becomes shareable — only once its creation fee is confirmed. Until then it remains a draft that only its author can open.

Network fees are paid by you and are not refundable. A confirmed transaction cannot be undone by changing a record; refunds, if offered, are a separate operation. Until server-side verification completes, a payment is not confirmed — a transaction hash alone does not constitute a completed payment.

A plain token transfer provides no escrow and no conditional payout, and Kindred holds no funds for any gift. A gift is a promise by its author, recorded and presented by Kindred. Kindred does not guarantee that it will be honoured, cannot enforce it, and accepts no responsibility for a promise that is not kept.

The wording of this section is provisional and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. The refund policy — contemplated only for platform failures, such as a confirmed fee for a gift that was never published — and the legal status of the gift token are both undecided and are recorded as open questions.

Do not use Kindred to harass, deceive, or send content you have no right to send. Do not use it for unlawful purposes. You are responsible for having the rights to anything you write or upload.

Features may change while the product is in development. Gifts can be cancelled by their creator, after which the link stops working. The recipient's acceptance or decline is recorded as part of the gift's timeline.