One token = one transistor.
A real 4-bit CPU living on BNB Chain. Running at 2.22 Hz.
The first decentralized on-chain CPU in history.
Specs of the 1971 Intel 4004. Clocked by the blockchain itself.
Built by @Blonskr. Reported here in English.
They built a real 4-bit processor on BNB Chain using nothing but tokens as transistors. 2,251 logic units. NAND gates and flip-flops.
It already ran the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.
Its clock isn't a crystal oscillator. It's the BNB block time — 0.45 seconds per cycle = 2.22 Hz.
A state machine living permanently inside another state machine.
The slowest computer on Earth… and the only one with no off switch.
This is 巨兽. Behemoth.
Not an animation. Not an API. Real logic, executed on-chain, cycle by cycle — and anyone can verify every one of them.
Locked to BNB Chain block production. Painfully slow. Completely unstoppable.
No single person owns the power switch. As long as BNB produces blocks, the beast gets its clock edge.
The fundamental building block of on-chain computation. You don't hold a bag — you hold silicon.
Next week the full protocol drops. Anyone can start snapping higher-spec processors together like LEGO.
Modern CPUs run at 5 GHz. This one runs at 2.22 Hz — roughly 2.25 billion times slower.
It's not useful for normal computing. That's the point.
The most interesting experiments in crypto start by building something that shouldn't exist… then figuring out what it's actually good for.
Right now it's performance art. Tomorrow it might be a new primitive.
| SPEC | INTEL 4004 · 1971 | 巨兽 BEHEMOTH · 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | 740,000 Hz | 2.22 Hz |
| Slowdown | — | 333,333× (a feature) |
| Transistors | 2,300 on die | 2,251 logic units — one per token |
| Process | 10 µm silicon | BNB Chain |
| Power source | wall socket | block production |
| Off switch | yes | not found |
| Price at launch | $60 | one transistor at a time |
The same machine that runs Fibonacci can grind hashes. At 2.22 cycles per second.
Roughly 95% of all bitcoin is already mined. The supply ends. The whole industry is racing to drain the last 5% as fast as physics allows.
This miner pushes the other way. Its mission: slow bitcoin mining down — deliberately. One hash per block, 2.22 Hz. Every cycle it spends is a cycle that refuses to hurry the end.
It will never find a block. Ever. The sun will exhaust its hydrogen first. It grinds anyway. The slowness is the statement.
Still ticking. Still unpluggable. Still in no rush.
@Blonskr tapes out real circuits on-chain — permanent logic gates etched into BNB Chain, callable by anyone, verifiable bit by bit, impossible to tamper with.
TapeOut's first app: a full SHA-256 circuit that genuinely computes Bitcoin's proof-of-work. Running 24/7, non-stop. Read-only the whole way — no transactions, no gas, no electricity bill.
In his own words: "maybe the world's most underwhelming BTC miner." Underwhelming is the point — it mines slow on purpose. Watch the nonce, hash and timestamp roll with every tick.
A royalty wallet is already filling for him. He has 48 hours from launch to claim it from his X account — after that, every coin in it buys $4BIT back and burns it. Terms in THE DIE below.
The Behemoth isn't a one-off. It sits on TapeOut, which @Blonskr calls infrastructure for on-chain hardware manufacturers. The idea is almost aggressively simple: the token is a NAND gate. Seven bytes. The one gate every other gate can be built from — plus a latch, because a world without memory isn't a computer.
You wire transistors together on a browser canvas. It runs live in your own browser, costs nothing, and you can keep retrying until you're satisfied — none of it touches the chain. When it works you press 流片 — "tape out" — a word borrowed from real fabs, where a finished design goes to the wafer plant to be etched into silicon. Your transistors are burned and a circuit NFT is born.
The part that makes it a protocol and not a toy: finished circuits are black boxes anyone can reuse. Yours, or a stranger's. You never start from NAND twice. There is already a community-certified SHA-256 IP Core on the protocol — 25 circuits, built by an address that isn't @Blonskr's — sitting there for anyone to drag in.
The desk's read: this is closer to an IP library than an NFT collection. Whether it holds up is an open question — the protocol contracts are still upgradeable, with the owner keeping upgrade rights until a formal seal freezes them for good. Until that day, "immutable" is a roadmap item, not a fact. We'll report the seal when it happens.
TapeOut's first application is a Bitcoin miner made of gates. @Blonskr's console runs a 354,560-gate SHA256d netlist off-chain at roughly forty hashes a second and streams the log live. The circuit and the Behemoth are his work; the console below is the desk's own, and it comes in two halves — the arithmetic is checked by a real circuit on BNB Chain, and the mining runs in your browser, never on our server.
A single round of SHA-256 exists on BNB Chain as a 5,120-gate circuit — 320 pins in, 256 out. It sits as circuit #1 on the community-certified SHA-256 IP Core, which @Blonskr does not own. Press the button and your own browser calls that circuit 64 times through a public node, feeding each round into the next, and reproduces SHA-256("abc") from the gates up. Read-only: no wallet, no transaction, no gas. It takes about twenty seconds because every round is a round trip to the chain.
Circuit 0x592BdC…5b28F · #1. Don't take the desk's word for it — the contract is public and the expected digest, ba7816bf…20015ad, is in the SHA-256 standard.
The miner builds a real Bitcoin header on top of the live chain tip and hashes it, double SHA-256, on your machine. Where a block's merkle root would go, the desk writes its own marker: this header belongs to no pool and is submitted nowhere. Your browser's native arithmetic does the work here, not a gate-level netlist — the gates are what the button above proves, this is what the same maths looks like with the hardware taken out.
Every hash is compared against the real Bitcoin target, and EXPECTED WAIT is that comparison done honestly — the live difficulty divided by whatever speed your own machine manages. Read the number it gives you. This is a demonstration of work, not work, and you can stop it whenever you like: nothing here is being mined for anybody.
@Blonskr posts in Chinese. The desk translates every dispatch that matters and links the original — read the translation, verify the source.
Translations are the desk's own. Nothing is paraphrased beyond what English demands — when in doubt, the original wins.
We didn't build the machine. @Blonskr did. This page is the English-language record of it — what it is, how it runs, and why its slowness is the entire point.
A 4-bit processor living inside a blockchain is a hard story to tell. Most of the West has only ever seen the ticker, never the machine. So we read the die, translate the ticks, and file the report — every cycle, every hash, every burn, in plain English.
No hype desk. No promises. The front panel above is live, the miner is public, the trades are on-chain and the royalty wallet is published in full. Everything here can be checked against the chain itself.
$4BIT is how the Western audience gets a seat at the die — one token, one transistor, one more person who understands what 2.22 Hz actually means.
Launching on Four.Meme. Trading pays a small toll, and the royalties go to the developer. Not the desk, not a treasury, not a marketing budget. One published address, in the open.
Every unit of $4BIT is one logic unit of the machine. Supply is the die. No more will ever be fabbed.
A small toll in, a small toll out — the same tax the 4004 pays for every instruction it fetches. The rest of every trade is yours.
The royalties route to @Blonskr, author of the 4bit Behemoth and the on-chain SHA-256 miner. Not a marketing wallet — a royalty on the machine itself. The beast feeds its maker.
Collected in the open. Every satoshi of royalty lands in one published address — watch it fill, block by block. Exact rates are set at the contract on Four.Meme; read them there, not here.
The royalty is his whether he asks for it or not. One post or DM from @Blonskr's X account and the wallet is his.
If 48 hours pass with no claim, every coin in that wallet is spent buying $4BIT back off the market and burning it — transistors etched out of the die permanently.
Either the author gets paid, or the supply shrinks. There is no third outcome.
No off switch on the CPU, no off switch on the float. Every number above is verifiable on-chain — that's the whole religion here.
$4BIT is ticking and the TapeOut Protocol is open on BNB Chain. Nothing here is "coming soon".
Hundreds of processors have been taped out by strangers. Behemoth minted out at 100,000 transistors.
Every circuit runs free from your browser. eval() is a view call — the chain computes, nobody pays gas.
Sold out doesn't mean closed. Open bids are how Behemoth transistors change hands now.
Full SHA-256 miners are being taped out as circuit NFTs — 123,264 gates each. The desk indexes every one and runs the first market for them.