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Buying a card

What it costs, what your wallet will ask, and how to read the numbers before you sign.

The full cost of one card

ComponentAmountWhere it goes
Gatesgates × 0.0000234 BNBFoundry (withdrawable by the creator)
Protocol fee0.0001 BNBTapeOut protocol
Tapeout fee0.0002 BNBTapeOut protocol
Gasnetwork rateBNB Chain validators

Worked examples — the full table of eleven is on Pricing:

DrawingGatesPartsFeesTotal
SHIFT4400.0009360.00030.001236
ADD4460.0010760.00030.001376
MUL122,1180.0495610.00030.049861

Three wallet prompts

  1. Buy parts — value is the parts price plus the protocol fee.
  2. Tape out — value is exactly 0.0002 BNB.
  3. Stamp edition — value is zero; gas only.

Each prompt shows the amount before you sign. The page never batches them into one invisible transaction.

Buying several copies

The quantity control mints the parts once for the whole batch, then tapes out and stamps each card separately. Ten copies means one parts transaction and twenty card transactions, in sequence, each with its own wallet prompt.

Why not one transaction? Each card is a separate token with its own netlist write and its own registry number. Batching would require a router contract holding your gates between steps.

Before you sign

Buying the whole set

The set is one card from each of the eleven drawings. Today that is 6,348 gates: one parts purchase, eleven tapeouts, eleven claims, and the set mark at the end — 24 confirmations in total.

ComponentAmount
6,348 gates0.148543 BNB
Protocol fee (once)0.000100 BNB
Tapeout fee × 110.002200 BNB
Total0.150843 BNB

If you already hold some of the drawings, My cards shows which ones are missing and offers to buy only those — same sequence, fewer cards, and it reuses any parts already in your wallet.

The button sits under the single-card panel. It runs the whole sequence, prints progress per drawing, and claims the mark when the eleventh card lands. If it stops part-way, the finished cards and the unburned parts stay in your wallet.

After the purchase

The card appears in My cards. The page reads the chain index, which refreshes every two minutes; for a freshly bought card the page also reads the processor directly, so it can appear immediately.

From there you can wrap it for external marketplaces, list it on the protocol's market, or leave it as a raw circuit. See Markets and wrapping.