FAQ

The page checks your computer first and tells you plainly if something is missing. Rough guide:

Use the latest Chrome or Edge on a computer. Safari needs version 18 or later with WebGPU turned on in settings. Phones can’t run it yet. Leave 2 to 4 GB of disk space free.

No. The first time, your browser builds the whole circuit on your computer and saves it. After that it is ready in ten to twenty-odd seconds.

It rebuilds when we release a new version, when you clear browser data, in a private window, or when disk space runs short.

No. The gate brain runs only on your own computer. Nothing goes on chain and no on-chain asset is created for you.

It is simply too big: one word takes about 260 billion gates, while one on-chain circuit holds roughly 25,000 today. That is why only small circuits go on chain.

The Bard is a real chip design: a small AI that tells short English stories, made directly into a circuit. What it learned is carved into the chip, and it starts talking as soon as it powers on.

The gate brain simulates gates on your graphics card; the Bard is meant to be manufactured as a physical chip. Its model is far smaller, about one million parameters, so the whole chip is only 15 square millimetres.

Not made yet, and not for sale. On 12 October 2026 its design passed every manufacturing-rule check the factory requires, and the complete blueprint was stored on X Layer. Which fab, at what cost and when are all undecided.

What you can do now: fetch its blueprint from chain and check the fingerprint yourself. The blueprint and tools are public, so anyone can inspect it, change it, or even send it to a fab.

1. Try it and tell us, which helps most. “Settings → Test your computer” submits your speed in one click; if you hit an error, send us the message shown.
2. Make a small circuit of your own and go through tapeout on TapeOut yourself.
3. Buying transistors or opening a Container is the cost of making a circuit, not an investment.
4. Holding tokens does not directly help the project; see “Tokens” below.

Technically yes, and we do it internally, but our tools aren’t ready for outside users and there is no public tutorial for now.

For cost: we put a circuit of about 3,800 gates on X Layer for about 0.0023 OKB net. On someone else’s processor you also pay their price for transistors. Start very small; see Build for the steps and costs, and send us concrete ideas for an estimate.