Subnet 84

Hardware design teams face significant barriers to validation and manufacturing: design tools require expensive licenses, testing silicon involves months of fabrication lead times and costs exceeding millions of dollars, and there's no efficient marketplace for quality design talent. Engineers often work in isolated environments without exposure to competing implementations or objective performance comparisons.

A distributed design platform solves this by creating an open competition where engineers submit implementations of well-defined challenges. Designs are evaluated consistently using industry-standard EDA tools (synthesis, place & route, timing analysis) against shared specifications and testbenches. This approach lets teams see how their work compares on objective metrics—functionality, resource efficiency, timing performance, and power consumption—without requiring expensive fabrication cycles.

ChipForge implements this as an on-chain subnet. Miners (hardware engineers) submit Verilog/SystemVerilog designs for active challenges like AI accelerators and cryptographic processors. Validators run standardized EDA evaluations and score submissions. The highest-scoring design wins rewards; submitted designs become manufacturable IP that can be fabricated and monetized, with revenue reinvested into the ecosystem.

ChipForge is a decentralized hardware design subnet where miners submit Verilog/SystemVerilog implementations of silicon designs (AI accelerators, cryptographic modules, processors) for active challenges. Validators evaluate submissions using industry-standard EDA tools (Verilator, Yosys, Icarus, Openlane) based on functionality and performance metrics, with rewards distributed in a winner-takes-all mechanism to the highest-scoring design.