You are buying subscription access to a piece of software, at a discount, before it exists. It is the same structure as any other pre-order, and it is deliberately nothing more than that.
Which means what you get does not move. If the network does extraordinarily well, you have the months you paid for. If it does badly, you have the same. There is no version of this where the reward grows because the project did.
What you are getting
What you are not getting
Buy as many as you like
$49
Buy as many as you like
$149
First 3,500 backers
Limited places, buy or gift any number
$399
First 500 backers
Limited places, buy or gift any number
$1,499
How buying works
Deep Freeze and Absolute Zero: limited places
Three and a half thousand places and five hundred places. The limit is on how many exist, not on how many one person may hold, so you can take several and gift them. Each place commits us to serving somebody for a long time, which is why there is a number at all.
Frostbyte and Permafrost: as many as you want
Neither is capped and the months add up. Three Frostbyte is six months of Pro. Two Permafrost is twelve. Buy them whenever, in whatever combination.
What does not add up
Time stacks. Nothing else does. A second purchase does not give you a second Founders' Registry entry, a second badge, a second Discord role or a second name on the wall, because there is only one of you. Permafrost’s twenty percent off for life also stays twenty percent however many you buy: it is a discount on what you pay us later, and five of them would be a free account forever, which is not a thing we can honour and so not a thing we will offer.
Your pledge
Frostbyte
$49 · 2 months of Pro
Permafrost
$149 · 6 months of Pro
Deep Freeze
$399 · 12 months of Elite
Absolute Zero
$1,499 · Elite for life
Nothing selected yet. Add as many of any tier as you like and the months add up. Deep Freeze and Absolute Zero have a limited number of places, which is a limit on how many exist rather than on how many one person may hold.
Neither works yet. They are shown switched off rather than hidden so you can see what will be there. When they do open, you get fourteen days to change your mind, no questions asked.
Stretch goals
None of these are features invented to hit a number. They are items already identified as needed, sitting on the roadmap waiting for funding.
$50,000
A second independent audit pass on the GPU mining lane, the newest algorithm in the system and the one already flagged as needing extra scrutiny.
$150,000
Funds the MEV-resistant ordering research for the exchange order book, which is otherwise sitting on the post-launch roadmap.
$350,000
An additional cross-VM router audit pass, on top of the minimum already required.
$750,000
Every backer's registry entry gets a permanent Launchpad Cohort designation, plus funding to localize the app into more languages.
Read this before you back anything
The wait is long. The trading engine is not expected in beta until roughly month nine of the plan. That is not fine print, it is the central fact of this campaign. If a wait of that length is not acceptable, do not back it, and we would rather say so here than have you find out in a year.
Timelines move. Every date on this site is an estimate against a plan, and plans in this category slip. The tracker exists so you can watch whether ours is slipping rather than take our word for it.
You do get things early. Closed testnet access at the top two tiers, registry entry, and marketplace beta access all land well before the full product. That is deliberate, so this is not a year and a half of nothing followed by a promise.
None of the permanent bits are collectibles. The registry entry, the badges, the genesis block inscription and the named node are all non-transferable, all cosmetic, and all carry no stated or implied resale value. You cannot sell them and we will not help you try. We are not calling them anything else, because calling a badge something else is how it quietly turns into a financial instrument.
Want to see whether we are actually building it first? That is the right instinct.
Open the live build tracker