Happy 1024, Builders! 🟦 TapeOut Community Foundation Officially Launches Today is October 24 — Programmers' Day, also known as 1024 Day. On this special day dedicated to developers, engineers, and creators, we are pleased to announce the official launch of the TapeOut Community Foundation, together with our new website. 🌐 tapeout.foundation The TapeOut Community Foundation is an independent, community-initiated, nonprofit-oriented organization dedicated to supporting developers, open-source projects, technical research, and public infrastructure across the TapeOut ecosystem. We believe that a healthy and sustainable technology ecosystem requires more than innovative protocols and products. It also needs an open environment for collaboration, trustworthy public infrastructure, and a community capable of supporting builders over the long term. Build. Prove. Grow. These three words define not only our mission, but also the philosophy behind the design of our entire website. 🟦 14 Blocks. A Story Yet to Be Written by the Community. When you visit our website, you will find a grid of 14 pixel blocks on the homepage. Unlike a conventional foundation website, all 14 blocks begin in an unlit state. This is intentional. We have deliberately avoided fictional demo data, prefilled achievements, or artificial indicators of progress. Every block must be illuminated through a genuine act of building, reviewing, or supporting the ecosystem, backed by publicly verifiable evidence. Through this simple visual mechanism, we hope to document how community contributions emerge, evolve from individual efforts into collective collaboration, and ultimately become lasting public value. Every illuminated block represents a real contribution. Every contribution should be backed by verifiable evidence. This is what Proof of Build means to us. ⚙️ Beyond a Website: An Invitation to Explore As a community foundation born from the TapeOut ecosystem, we wanted our website to reflect the creativity, experimentation, and technical curiosity that define builder culture. The design draws inspiration from pixel art, command-line terminals, logic circuits, and semiconductor tapeouts, incorporating interactive elements that invite visitors to explore. In Block Lab, visitors can experiment with fundamental logic components, observe how circuits compute, and discover how increasingly complex systems can emerge from simple building blocks. The website also features a seven-chapter community film series created by @0x_dadada, offering another perspective on the stories and culture of the TapeOut community. And there is more to discover. We have hidden a few surprises throughout the website, waiting for curious visitors to find them. In particular, today, October 24, we have prepared a special Easter egg available exclusively on 1024 Day. 🎁 Where is it hidden? How can it be triggered? We will leave those questions unanswered for now. We invite every builder to explore the website and share your discoveries in the comments. After all, some of the greatest joys in technology come from discovering something unexpected. 🔐 Transparency by Default Beyond community culture and interactive experiences, we recognize the responsibilities that come with operating a community-funded organization. The Foundation has deployed publicly accessible 3-of-5 Safe multisignature treasuries on both BNB Chain and X Layer, ensuring that community funds are managed through shared authorization rather than unilateral control. Our website provides live treasury information, while on-chain transactions can be independently verified through public blockchain explorers. We also believe that transparency should coexist with respect for individual privacy. Community supporters will be publicly acknowledged, but donation amounts will only be displayed in ranges rather than as exact figures. Privacy for people. Transparency for institutions. Our goal is to make openness, accountability, and verifiability foundational principles of the Foundation's daily operations. As we grow, we will continue improving our practices around financial disclosure, project support, and community oversight. 💙 Supporting TapeOut Public Goods, Together The long-term development of TapeOut depends on the participation of developers, researchers, reviewers, creators, and community supporters. The Foundation aims to support initiatives that create shared value for the ecosystem, including open-source tools, developer education, technical research, security practices, and early-stage builder projects. We welcome community members to participate through technical contributions, knowledge sharing, project collaboration, and voluntary donations. Official Foundation Donation Address: 0x04B649076a11819EF7AdA36e02DD55e0923550Ee Networks: BNB Chain / X Layer Treasury Management: 3-of-5 Safe Multisig Accepted Assets: BEM on supported networks; BNB is also accepted on BNB Chain. Before sending any funds, please verify that the address exactly matches the one published on our official website and pinned announcement. Always confirm the correct network and asset before making a transfer. A Note on Independence and Donation Principles The TapeOut Community Foundation is independently initiated and operated by the community. It is not operated, endorsed, or controlled by the TapeOut core team. All donations are voluntary contributions toward community public goods. They do not constitute investments and do not entitle donors to financial returns, promised token allocations, or governance rights. The Foundation will never solicit donations through private messages, nor will we require donors to connect their wallets or sign authorizations in order to contribute. 🌱 Build. Prove. Grow. Today marks the beginning of our journey. Rather than launching our website with a prefilled record of achievements, we have chosen to begin with 14 unlit blocks, waiting to be illuminated by genuine community contributions. They represent an open starting point and our shared aspirations for the future. A future where more people have the opportunity to build. Where more technical achievements can be independently verified. Where valuable contributions can be preserved, reused, and shared across the ecosystem. Together with the broader TapeOut community, we hope to turn Builder Culture into meaningful action and establish Proof of Build as a lasting principle of collaboration and accountability. Happy 1024 Day. To every builder who creates, experiments, contributes, and keeps building — this day is for you. Build. Prove. Grow. 🟦 🌐 tapeout.foundation #TapeOut #BuilderCulture @TapeOutWorld

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the TapeCode Test1 NFT Design Competition! 🥇 003 — @MostQin 🥈 056 — @Miloxx23 🥉 006 — @wu21592964 56 submissions. 56 creative visions. One growing Builder Culture. Beyond the artwork, this competition was also an exercise in community governance. Following vote verification, 101 valid votes from 35 eligible accounts were confirmed. The organizing committee waived its reserved 40% judging weight, leaving the final rankings entirely to verified community votes. Community choices deserve respect. Community rules must withstand scrutiny. An NFT's visual identity can bring people together. Its lasting significance, however, must be built through on-chain ownership, protocol innovation, and real-world utility. Thank you to every creator, voter, and ecosystem partner. Build. Prove. Grow. 💙 #TapeOut #TapeOutNFT #TapeCode #ProofOfBuild

Today, we introduces the Foundation's first organizational structure and community contributor shortlist. 34 individuals and teams. 6 functional groups. Our mission goes beyond assembling a team. We want to build open, accountable infrastructure that helps builders collaborate, contribute, and grow. Transparent evaluation. Open-source principles. Open volunteer participation. Not just a foundation for builders. A foundation built by builders. Build. Prove. Grow. 💙 #TapeOut #BuilderCulture #ProofOfBuild 🦾 @TapeOutWorld

True decentralization isn't a promise never to abuse power. It's the decision to give that power up. Today marks another important milestone for @TapeOutWorld. As of October 22, TapeOut has reportedly seen 1,898 processors created and 82,239 circuits taped out across BNB Chain, X Layer, and Base. Following two months of operational observation and a security audit, @Blonskr announced the permanent sealing of administrative privileges over the transistor and circuit contracts of all existing processor projects. This is more than a technical milestone. From Trust Me to Trust the Code. Trustworthy infrastructure should not depend indefinitely on the goodwill of its founder. From Platform Control to Builder Ownership. Every processor and circuit represents someone's creativity, engineering, and effort. Removing administrative control strengthens the foundation on which builders can own, reuse, and build upon their creations. From Founder-Led to Community-Owned. The maturity of an open protocol should be measured not by how much power its founder retains, but by how independently its ecosystem can operate. For us, this is precisely why Builder Culture and Proof of Build (PoB) matter. Our mission is to support a world where contributions can be built, verified, preserved, and composed into new possibilities. Sealing contracts does not eliminate every security risk. It raises the importance of independent verification and responsible long-term stewardship. Thank you, @Blonskr, and to every developer helping build this foundation. The future of open protocols isn't just about the freedom to create. It's about ensuring that what we create can endure beyond any individual. Build. Prove. Grow. 💙💙💙 #TapeOut #BuilderCulture 🦾

TapeOut Community Foundation | An Initiative to Co-Build Optimal Mining Pools From Fragmented Ownership to Collective Production: Giving Every Transistor the Opportunity to Create Value TapeOut Community Foundation supports the first Optimal Mining Pool initiative proposed by @Blonskr and encourages community members to explore this new model of on-chain production collaboration, with a clear understanding of its mechanisms and risks. First, let's make one thing clear: This is not a donation. This is not fundraising. This is about building a mining pool together. Participants contribute their NAND and LATCH transistors, which are collectively designed and taped out into mining circuits capable of producing BEM. In return, contributors receive corresponding on-chain mining revenue certificates. This is more than an experiment in pooled mining. It represents an important exploration of a new production model within the TapeOut ecosystem. I. Why Do We Support This Initiative? The TapeOut ecosystem currently faces a practical challenge. Transistors are scattered across a large number of community members. Behemoth transistors, in particular, are relatively scarce, making it difficult for individual holders to assemble the components required for highly efficient circuits. Meanwhile, the entry barrier for high-computing-power mining machines continues to rise. Many holders own transistors but lack sufficient components, circuit design expertise, or resources to turn them into competitive mining machines. This creates a mismatch between ownership of productive assets and the ability to put them into productive use. Mining pools offer a way to address this challenge through collaboration. By combining distributed NAND and LATCH transistors, coordinating circuit design, optimization, and tape-out, participants can collectively create mining machines of different sizes and potentially achieve higher overall production efficiency than they could individually. More importantly, mining rewards that were previously accessible primarily to a small number of large mining machine owners can now be distributed among a broader group of participants through tradable on-chain revenue certificates. This could expand participation in on-chain production and help reduce the concentration of mining revenue rights. However, optimal solutions remain subject to competition, and participation in a mining pool does not guarantee higher returns than independent mining. II. How Does the Co-Building Mechanism Work? Based on the mechanism currently disclosed by the initiator and the third-party development team: 1. Contributing Transistors, Not Donating Assets Participants contribute NAND or LATCH transistors from the TapeOut or Behemoth processors. For every transistor contributed, participants are expected to receive one corresponding mining revenue certificate. Different transistor types and processors will have separate certificates. Not all contributed assets will be combined into a single, undifferentiated revenue entitlement. 2. Collective Tape-Out into Multiple Mining Machines The pool plans to utilize all contributed transistors to construct mining circuits of different sizes and computing capacities. Once transistors are consumed through tape-out, they cannot be disassembled or redeemed. Participants will instead hold the corresponding mining revenue rights. 3. Earning BEM Mining Rewards The resulting mining machines participate in TapeOut's Proof of Design (PoD) mining mechanism. Certificate holders receive BEM rewards according to the applicable on-chain distribution rules. The commercial operating team will receive 5% of mining output as its operating fee and will independently cover development, auditing, and operational expenses. 4. Tradable Mining Revenue Certificates Participants will be able to transfer or sell their certificates through supported marketplaces, enabling secondary-market trading of mining revenue rights. It is important to emphasize that tradability does not guarantee buyers or sufficient market liquidity. 5. Third-Party Operations, Open Source, and Open Competition The project is being developed by the team previously associated with @tapeoutmarket_x. The code is currently undergoing security auditing. Multisignature management is planned, and the complete contract code is expected to be made open source. In the future, anyone will be able to establish and operate an independent mining pool using the open-source code, encouraging competition among different operators. These mechanisms reflect the currently disclosed plans. Final details should be verified against deployed contracts, published audit reports, and actual operational data. III. Why Does This Matter for the TapeOut Ecosystem? We believe this initiative has implications on at least three levels. 1. From Asset Ownership to Productive Participation Transistors no longer need to remain merely assets held for potential appreciation or trading. Through collective tape-out, they can be transformed into revenue rights that participate in ongoing BEM production. 2. From Concentrated Mining Ownership to Broader Revenue Participation Through mining revenue certificates, smaller holders can potentially participate in the production rewards of large mining machines without having to own an entire machine themselves. 3. From a Single Mining Pool to an Open Market for Production Services This is the long-term direction that matters most to the Foundation. In the future, independent teams could compete on circuit design efficiency, actual computing performance, operating costs, and transparency of revenue distribution. Ultimately, the market should reward mining pools that genuinely improve production efficiency and consistently create value. That is the kind of innovation an open protocol should enable. IV. Recommendations from the Foundation We encourage community members to study this mechanism carefully before participating. 1. Understand the Asset Transformation Before Participating Once transistors are consumed during tape-out, they cannot be recovered. Mining revenue certificates are not deposit receipts that can be redeemed for the original NAND or LATCH transistors. 2. Focus on Actual Production, Not Promised Returns Greater overall mining pool efficiency does not automatically mean higher individual returns. Participants should evaluate the actual computing power, daily BEM production, competitiveness of optimal solutions, and market value associated with each certificate type. 3. Prioritize Security Audits and Contract Verification As the audit process is still underway, participants should verify the correct network, receiving address, custody arrangements, contract rules, and latest audit status before transferring assets. 4. Understand Secondary-Market Liquidity Exiting a mining pool primarily depends on selling revenue certificates in the secondary market. Their market value will depend on expected future mining rewards, BEM prices, mining competitiveness, and actual market demand. 5. Support the Development of More Independent Mining Pools We hope the ecosystem will eventually have more than one optimal mining pool. Our vision is an open, transparent, verifiable, and competitive network of independently operated production organizations. V. Participation Information According to the initiative announced by @Blonskr on October 20, 2026: Project: First "Official Optimal Mining Pool" Co-Building Initiative Eligible Assets: NAND and LATCH transistors from TapeOut and Behemoth Participation: Transfer eligible transistors from your own Web3 wallet. Corresponding mining revenue certificates are planned to be distributed to the original sending address. Start: October 20, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+8) Deadline: October 25, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+8) Receiving Address Published in the Original Announcement: 0x8232b40d5b375db47504e56082b11d8d016b22bb Please independently verify the receiving address, supported network, and current participation status through the initiator's latest official announcement before making any transfer. Do not participate using an exchange-controlled deposit address, and never transfer assets solely based on a reposted announcement. VI. Our Call to the Community TapeOut Community Foundation supports this collaborative experiment and hopes it will become a starting point for broader, open community cooperation. We advocate for: Giving underutilized productive assets the opportunity to generate value. Enabling more individual holders to participate in the economic value created by on-chain computation. Allowing independent development teams to earn sustainable commercial returns through technical expertise and operational services. Encouraging mining pools to compete through transparent data, real production performance, and verifiable rules. The Foundation is willing to contribute through mechanism research, public data infrastructure, technical standards, risk education, and ecosystem development. At the same time, TapeOut Community Foundation is an independent community organization. We are not the asset custodian, operator, or guarantor of this mining pool. We support the direction of open collaboration, but we do not guarantee the security, liquidity, or profitability of third-party platforms. This is not a donation. It is an experiment in organizing productive assets collectively and sharing the economic value they generate. Our vision is not merely to see one successful optimal mining pool, but to see a hundred independently created, openly competing mining pools emerge from the community. Let productive assets flow. Let builders have the opportunity to create real value. Let more participants share in the growth of the ecosystem. Build. Prove. Grow. 💙💙💙 #TapeOut #BuilderCulture 🦾 @TapeOutWorld

🎨 The TapeOut NFT Design Contest Is Officially Open for Submissions and Voting! A big thank you to @FirstoAI for the incredible speed and effort in bringing the TapeCode-Test1 NFT contest platform to life! 👏 As one of the driving forces behind this initiative, TapeOut Community Foundation believes this is about much more than organizing a design competition. It's about giving designers, Builders, and community members the opportunity to shape TapeOut's own NFT culture — together. Now it's your turn to create, and your vote to make a difference! 🎨 Create & Submit: Share your NFT designs! AI-generated artwork, hand-drawn illustrations, original characters, and bold creative concepts are all welcome. 🗳️ Vote for Your Favorites: Voting is completely FREE! • General participants: 1 vote • Eligible TapeOut asset holders: 3 votes Votes can be distributed across different entries and changed before the deadline. 🏆 Total Prize Pool: 7 TapeCode-Test1 NFTs 🥇 1st Place: 4 NFTs 🥈 2nd Place: 2 NFTs 🥉 3rd Place: 1 NFT ⏰ Key Deadlines (UTC+8) 📤 Submissions close: October 22, 14:00 🗳️ Voting closes: October 23, 14:00 👉 Submit Your Design & Cast Your Vote: firsto.ai/community/test1 Special thanks to our sponsors @tapeupio and @TapeAIAgent, and our product partners @FirstoAI and @TapeOutScan for making this community initiative possible! NFT culture shouldn't be defined by a single team. It should be built, shaped, and owned by the community. Years from now, when we look back at TapeCode-Test1, perhaps what matters most won't simply be the NFT itself, but the fact that we were here, creating something together from the very beginning. So bring your creativity, support your favorite artists, and make your voice heard! Build. Prove. Grow. 🚀 #TapeOutNFT #TapeOut #XLayer @TapeOutWorld

Congratulations, and please DM me your X layer wallet address. @pucuyus

Welcome aboard, Ryan @bitcoin2themars 🫡 Glad to have Ryan join the TapeOut Community Foundation as an early supporter and a true diamond hand 💎 From evangelizing Bitcoin in 2011, to backing early Ethereum and Binance, to now seeing the core of TapeOut: it's Turing complete. Thank you for your trust, and for donating 1,000 BEM to support the foundation. Let's build! 🔥 Build. Prove. Grow. 💙💙💙 #TapeOut Builder Culture 🦾