Pricing

The price is a function of the drawing, not of demand. The unit price and the caps were fixed when the foundry opened.

The formula

parts  = gates × 0.0000234 BNB
fees   = 0.0001 (protocol) + 0.0002 (tapeout)
total  = parts + fees

Gas is separate and goes to the chain. Nothing in the formula depends on how many cards have sold, who is buying, or when.

All eleven prices

Drawing	Gates	Parts	Fees	Total
MUL12	2,118	0.049561	0.0003	0.049861
ALU16	1,196	0.027986	0.0003	0.028286
DIV8	976	0.022838	0.0003	0.023138
MUL8	916	0.021434	0.0003	0.021734
CMP64	842	0.019703	0.0003	0.020003
CMP4	62	0.001451	0.0003	0.001751
EQ8	58	0.001357	0.0003	0.001657
SUB4	51	0.001193	0.0003	0.001493
ADD4	46	0.001076	0.0003	0.001376
MUL2	43	0.001006	0.0003	0.001306
SHIFT4	40	0.000936	0.0003	0.001236

What the price implies at cap

At cap, Series 01 represents 67.55 BNB of parts and 1.04 BNB of protocol and tapeout fees, spread across every buyer rather than paid to one place at once.

Comparisons that work

Comparison	Ratio	Why it holds
MUL12 vs SHIFT4	53×	2,118 gates vs 40 gates, same unit price
MUL12 vs ADD4	46×	Same reason, both verifiable on chain
Any Series 01 card vs any other	gate ratio	One unit price for the whole series

What cannot change

The per-gate price — set when the foundry opened.
The 12,000,000-gate capacity.
The edition caps for each drawing.

A later series on a new foundry can choose a different unit price. This one cannot be repriced, by us or by the protocol.

Reading it on chain: mintPrice() on the parts contract returns 23,400,000,000,000 wei per gate. protocolFee() returns 0.0001 BNB. The tapeout fee is enforced by the processor at 0.0002 BNB.

Getting started

Series 01

Technical

Foundry One

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