Six people.
One mission.
We're freelancers who got tired of every client knowing exactly how much money we had. So we built the fix ourselves.
Febi
Kelvin
Farhan
Louis
Benni
DarkoWe're freelancers. Multiple clients, different chains, regular payments. Every time someone needed to pay us, we had to share our wallet address. The same address, over and over.
Which means anyone with that address can see every transaction, every balance, every time someone paid us. Your clients could see what other clients paid you. That's a weird thing to just be okay with.
"That's not how payments should work."
So we started building. The person paying you shouldn't need to install anything. You should know the moment money lands. And the whole thing should just work, without making you feel like an engineer to use it.
Team
Started as two.
Now we're six.
Febi Mettasari
Web3 Educator & Engineer
Kelvin Adithya
Web3 Full-Spectrum Engineer
Louis Arvin
QA Engineer
More people are joining. We're still pretty early.
Timeline
How we got here.
SUI Overflow Hackathon
Payment Track + Community Vote
Honestly, PIVY started as a hackathon thing. We went in with the idea, won the Payment track and the community vote, and then realized we actually wanted to ship this for real. Not be the team that posts a winners photo and quietly moves on.
See the winners postMainnet at SuiFest
Token2049 Singapore
Took the whole thing to mainnet and brought it to SuiFest. The first time strangers tried it, most of them said the same thing without any prompting. They didn't want clients knowing what was in their wallet. That's when we knew it was real.
Funded.
Press Start Capital and the Sui Foundation backed us with a combined $50K. Enough runway to keep building.
People got it within seconds.
Token2049, SingaporeThe Thesis
The agentic economy needs private payment rails. We're building them.
An AI agent paying for tools, buying compute, getting compensated for tasks. Every one of those moves is fully public on-chain right now. We already built the fix for people. Agents are next.
What we're building
Building the rails for the agentic economy.
Stealth addresses were the first piece. They stop people from linking payments back to your main wallet. But a determined observer can still connect the dots if they try hard enough.
Next is a privacy pool. The kind where there's genuinely no way to tell who sent what to whom. And after that, AI agents, which are about to do a lot of financial transacting, all of it public by default right now. Same problem we started with. We're just getting to the bigger version of it.