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
| Component | Amount | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Gates | gates × 0.0000234 BNB | Foundry (withdrawable by the creator) |
| Protocol fee | 0.0001 BNB | TapeOut protocol |
| Tapeout fee | 0.0002 BNB | TapeOut protocol |
| Gas | network rate | BNB Chain validators |
Worked examples — the full table of eleven is on Pricing:
| Drawing | Gates | Parts | Fees | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHIFT4 | 40 | 0.000936 | 0.0003 | 0.001236 |
| ADD4 | 46 | 0.001076 | 0.0003 | 0.001376 |
| MUL12 | 2,118 | 0.049561 | 0.0003 | 0.049861 |
Three wallet prompts
- Buy parts — value is the parts price plus the protocol fee.
- Tape out — value is exactly 0.0002 BNB.
- 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.
Before you sign
- Network is BNB Chain, chain id 56.
- Processor address matches
0x5a4eaff589c9e410260a61d658a893876710ba83. - The quoted total matches your own calculation: gates × 0.0000234 + 0.0003.
- Your balance covers the total plus gas.
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.
| Component | Amount |
|---|---|
| 6,348 gates | 0.148543 BNB |
| Protocol fee (once) | 0.000100 BNB |
| Tapeout fee × 11 | 0.002200 BNB |
| Total | 0.150843 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.