Questions people ask

Yes. Every visitor gets 50 prompts per rolling 24 hours with no account and no wallet. Those prompts are paid for by the platform treasury, so the GPU that answers you still earns its reward.

Sign up with an email and a username (no password), link a Phantom wallet, and claim 100 BREAD. From then on each prompt is paid from your wallet at the published price. Your free allowance also resets every day.

Bread Chat 8B (a Llama 3.1 class text model) and Bread Vision 7B (Qwen2.5-VL, which understands images). Attaching an image switches the request to the vision model automatically.

Images are larger and cost more GPU time, so uploads are tied to an account. Sign-up is email plus username only; there is no password to remember.

To one independent GPU node, chosen by BREAD Console for the model you picked. The node receives your messages, streams the answer back, and reports token counts. Console recounts the tokens itself before charging anything.

Nodes are run by independent operators, so treat prompts like a message sent over the internet: do not include secrets or personal data you would not send to a third party. Console stores your chat sessions so you can return to them. Raw IP addresses are never stored; the free-prompt counter uses a salted hash.

A Windows x64 PC with an NVIDIA or AMD GPU and at least 8 GB of VRAM for Bread Chat 8B (4.9 GB download). Bread Vision 7B needs 8 GB VRAM and another 6 GB. NVIDIA cards run on CUDA, AMD RDNA 2/3 cards on ROCm, everything else falls back to Vulkan and earns less because it is slower.

Two ways. Bigger cards keep a larger share of every job: premium (16 gb+ vram) keeps 85%, standard (8-16 gb vram) keeps 80%, basic (under 8 gb) keeps 70%. And a faster card simply finishes more jobs per hour, which is the larger effect. The setup wizard shows your tier and share as soon as it detects the GPU.

The network boosts node rewards when GPUs are scarce: 1x while plenty of nodes are idle, up to 10x when the network is busy, and at least 7x while fewer than 20 nodes are online. Users still pay the same price; the extra comes from the platform's share and the treasury. The best time to be online is when the multiplier on the home page is high. It is pinned to each job when it is created.

Whenever the home page shows a reward multiplier above 1x: that means demand is outrunning the GPUs online and every job pays more. Leave the app in the tray and it takes jobs automatically while you use the PC for other things.

No. BREAD Node is a single 45 MB installer that bundles its own inference runtime. On first run it downloads the GPU backend for your card (about 900 MB for NVIDIA, 250 MB for AMD) and the model into its own folder. You only ever see BREAD software.

No. The node opens one outbound WebSocket to BREAD Console and sends a heartbeat every 15 seconds. Jobs arrive over that connection.

It only ever talks outward to Console over an encrypted connection, receives prompt text and returns answer text, opens nothing to the network, and its local runtime is reachable only from programs already running on that PC. Beyond its own data folder and that runtime it has no access to your PC: it cannot see your files, photos, browser, passwords, other programs or other devices on your network, and it never uploads anything from your machine. Your node key and wallet recovery phrase stay on your machine; the network only sees the public key and your payout address. Model files come from one fixed source, the GPU backend is checked against a checksum built into the app, and every official build carries a release certificate so a modified client cannot register as an official one. Only install BREAD Node from the official releases page.

80% of the price of every job your node completes, 85% on cards with 16 GB or more. The price is A$0.001 per 1,000 tokens and A$0.002 per image. When the network is busy your reward is boosted up to 10x, and at least 7x while fewer than 20 nodes are online; the boost is paid by the platform and the treasury, not the user. Rewards are paid in BREAD at the rate when the job was created. A faster card also simply finishes more jobs per hour. Free-tier jobs pay the same; the treasury covers them. Failed jobs pay nothing.

No. The customer price is fixed in cents. The BREAD amount only moves with the BREAD/AUD rate, and each job pins the rate it was created at. What changes when the network is busy is the reward paid to the node that serves you, which the platform and treasury fund.

To the Solana wallet address you enter during setup, for example your Phantom address. You can change it any time in Settings. Skipping the wallet is allowed for testing, but rewards then accrue to the node's own key, which no wallet app can spend, so do not run a production node that way. Rewards are recorded per job now and paid on chain once the Devnet mint is live.

Yes. Minimize BREAD Node and it keeps serving from the system tray. Jobs only use the GPU while a request is running; the oven animation shows when it is baking.

Every official BREAD Node build carries a signed release certificate. Console checks it at registration and shows the version and certificate id for each node, so operators can tell official builds from modified ones and retire old versions.

The preview installer is not yet code-signed, so Windows warns about an unknown publisher. Choose 'More info' then 'Run anyway'. Signed installers arrive with the public release.

An SPL token on Solana with 6 decimals. Users spend it for compute, nodes earn it for serving compute. The mint address, treasury and faucet wallets are published on the token page.

Not on a market yet: BREAD lives on Solana Devnet during the preview. Compute is priced in cents (A$0.001 per 1,000 tokens) and converted to BREAD at the live rate, so if the coin rises each BREAD buys more compute and node rewards are worth more in real terms. Until it trades, the reference rate is 1 BREAD = A$0.001, which makes 1,000 tokens 1 BREAD.

The cent price stays put and the BREAD price falls to match: you pay fewer BREAD for the same answer, and a node holding its rewards sees them appreciate. Every job pins the rate it was created at, so a move mid-job never changes what you were quoted.

Sign up, link Phantom and claim the 100 BREAD launch allocation, or host a node and earn it. There is no sale.

Only the prompt it is asked to answer, and it returns text plus timing metrics. It never holds treasury or faucet keys and never receives your wallet's private key.

No. Payments are settled by BREAD Console from balances it holds; nodes only receive rewards to the payout address they registered.

Each install generates its own ed25519 key and signs every registration. A node id is bound to its first key forever. Official builds also carry a signed client certificate that Console verifies, and rewards only go to the wallet visible in Console.

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