Here's exactly how it's made — and how to read it.
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It starts with your echo — three words, dot-separated and lower-cased (big.blue.heart). Those words are run through SHA-256 to produce a seed, and that seed is what builds your EchoStamp. Same echo in, same seed out, same EchoStamp every time — forever, anywhere, language-agnostic.
big.blue.heart
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Every echo begins as a 6×6 grid of 36 greyscale dots. Each cell's TONE (Light / Mid / Dark) and SIZE (Small / Medium / Large = 60% / 80% / 95% of the half-cell) is read straight from the seed. Adjacent dots that would touch are capped at 92% (kiss-guard) so they never merge.
This greyscale skeleton is the unique, print-safe fingerprint and the identity channel.
The skeleton never changes — it is the permanent fingerprint. On top of it, certain cells come alive with colour, shape, rings and notches, and each one carries a real fact about the echo: the year it was born, its block, its number, whether the Founder witnessed it, and more.
Today, eight of the 36 cells are awake. The other twenty-eight stay skeleton-grey, waiting. Over time Gimoku adds new senses — fresh cells light up and new ways to read an echo emerge. Nothing is rushed; restraint is the point.
Some cells are fixed at birth — your Soul — and never change. Others grow with you — your Life — as the echo ages and as you witness others into being.
So no EchoStamp is ever truly finished. Each one is a living tapestry that keeps evolving for as long as Gimoku endures — and because new senses arrive over the years, the earliest echoes carry the longest, richest history of all. What you see today is a single frame of something that will go on changing for eternity.
Eight of the 36 cells carry meaning; the rest stay skeleton-grey for now, with new senses to come. SOUL cells are fixed at birth and never change. LIFE cells grow as you use your echo.
Row 1, column 1
Encodes: the year you were born into Gimoku.
How to read it
Colourways
Every passing year mints a new combination — yours is locked to the moment you claimed.
Row 1, column 2
Encodes: your Gimoku block (echoes are minted in blocks of 1,000).
How to read it
Colourways
This echo: Block 1
Learn to read it and you can name the block any echo was born in.
Row 1, column 3
Encodes: your place in line — the Nth echo ever claimed.
How to read it
Colourways
This echo: Echo #42
Fixed the instant you claimed, and never changes.
Row 1, column 6
Encodes: whether the Founder witnessed your echo.
How to read it
Colourways
A mark only the rarest echoes will ever carry.
Row 2, column 6
Encodes: membership of the very first Gimoku Block.
How to read it
Colourways
True scarcity — the Genesis cohort, closed forever.
Row 5, column 1
Encodes: your birth moment on Gimoku's own φ-clock.
How to read it
Colourways
A clock only Gimoku keeps.
Row 6, column 1
Encodes: how long your echo has endured.
How to read it
Climbs named tiers with age — Seedling (under 10 years), Sapling (10–24), Tree (25–49), Oak (50–99), Ancient (100–249), Eternal (250–499), Ancestral (500–999), and Immortal at 1,000 years and beyond.
Colourways
A living measure that deepens for generations.
Row 6, column 6
Encodes: the echoes you have witnessed (witnesses given).
How to read it
Climbs the metal-and-gem tiers as you witness others — Graphite (0–9), Carbon Steel (10–99), Bronze (100–999), Silver (1,000–9,999), Gold, Rose Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Diamond, and Crown at 10 million and beyond.
Colourways
The one cell you can move today — witness another echo and watch it rise.
Glance at any EchoStamp and you can spot the rare ones — a Genesis badge, the Founder's gold diamond, a low echo number, a deep Witness Band. And your own echo is never finished: its LIFE cells keep changing as it ages and as you witness others.
Example echoes.
first.ever.echo
Echo #1 — Genesis badge and the Founder's gold diamond together. The rarest combination there is.
wished.upon.star
Inside the first 1,000 — the Genesis badge glows Ocean Blue. Closed forever after echo 1,000.
gives.and.gives
A gold Witness Band — this echo has witnessed thousands of others into life.
old.standing.oak
A century old — its Ancestry cell has climbed all the way to Ancient.
Echoes are free and yours forever. Claim the ones that mean something — your name or handle, a film you love, a wish, your mantra, a love phrase, a band you adore, an inside joke — and witness others to bring their echoes to life.
Every echo claimed early gains meaning over time — as new senses light up, the first echoes are the ones that were here before them.