From zero to your first chat in five minutes.
Total cost: about $5–10. No subscription, no email signup, no “account” to create. The whole point is that you don't have one.
- ✓ A Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel) or an iPhone running iOS 16+
- ✓ A debit card or bank account, if you don't already have crypto
- ✓ About $5–10 to start (you can do less if you really want)
- ✓ 5 minutes
Install Node Neo
Free. Signed and notarized. No telemetry.
On macOS: open the .dmg, drag Node Neo to Applications,
launch. On iPhone: TestFlight invite required while App Store review is in progress
— ping us via the GitHub link above.
Create your wallet
One tap in the app. Keys never leave your device.
Open Node Neo and tap Create wallet. The app generates your keys locally and stores them in your device's secure enclave (Keychain on Mac/iOS). You'll be shown a 12-word recovery phrase — write it down somewhere safe. There is no “forgot password” flow. There is no support email that can recover your wallet for you. That's the whole point.
Already have a wallet? Tap Import wallet instead and paste your private key (raw 0x-prefixed hex). Re-importing the same wallet on a different device restores your encrypted conversation history too.
Get a few dollars of ETH on Base
For network gas. Think: postage stamps. $2 lasts weeks.
Node Neo runs on Base, an Ethereum L2 with very low fees. You'll need a tiny amount of ETH on Base to pay for opening sessions, signing transactions, and the occasional swap. Make sure you choose Base as the network on whichever on-ramp you use — ETH on Ethereum mainnet won't work without bridging it first (and bridging is more expensive than just buying it on Base directly).
The most-trusted on-ramp for US visitors. Sign in, buy ETH on the Base network, withdraw to your Node Neo address. ~10 minutes end-to-end.
Open Coinbase →Skip the exchange. Use Coinbase Wallet's built-in card-buy widget to put ETH directly on Base, no withdrawal step.
Get Coinbase Wallet →Card or bank, supports ETH on Base directly. Often the right choice if you're outside the US, UK, or EU. Slightly higher fees than Coinbase, much wider country coverage.
Open MoonPay →Swap some ETH for MOR
MOR funds your inference sessions. $5 worth covers many hours of chat.
MOR is the Morpheus network token. When you open a chat session, a small amount of MOR is staked to the provider; when you close the session, what's unused comes back. Sessions are typically a few cents.
Pre-loaded with ETH → MOR on the Base network. Connect your wallet (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Rainbow, etc.), enter an amount, swap. About 30 seconds.
Open Uniswap →Canonical Morpheus site — alternate venues, bridge instructions, staking, and the broader ecosystem if you want to dig deeper.
Visit mor.org →Open Node Neo, pick a model, chat
You're done with the boring part.
Back in Node Neo:
- Tap Models. Browse the active model list. If you want to be strict about privacy, flip the MAX Privacy filter on — that limits the list to TEE-attested providers only.
- Tap a model and Open session. The app will quote you the stake (typically a few cents in MOR) and open it on-chain in a few seconds.
- Type. Stream. Chat. Your messages are encrypted at rest with a wallet-derived key — nothing in the local database is readable without your wallet.
- When you're done, you can leave the session open (it stays warm) or close it. Closing returns any unused MOR to your wallet.
We know “buy crypto first” is real friction. We're building free starter credits so you can try Node Neo before you ever touch an exchange. Sign up to be told when it ships.
Email me when it's ready →Common questions
Varies by model and provider, but typical sessions cost a few cents. $5 of MOR gets you many hours of chat with most models. You see the stake quote before you open every session, so there are no surprises.
Then your funds are gone and your encrypted chat history is unrecoverable. Treat the phrase like cash — write it down on paper, ideally in two places. There's no help desk that can fix this; that's the cost of self-custody and also the whole reason it works.
Yes — bridge.base.org is the official Coinbase bridge. Cheaper than buying for users who already hold significant ETH on L1.
Not for Node Neo itself — the app has its own wallet baked in. You'll only need an external wallet (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Rainbow) to connect to Uniswap for the ETH→MOR swap. After the swap, send the MOR to your Node Neo address and you're done with external wallets.
Node Neo itself has no KYC, no signup, and no geographic restriction — it's just an app talking to a public protocol. The on-ramp services (Coinbase, MoonPay) have their own KYC and country restrictions. If you already have ETH on Base from anywhere, you can skip on-ramps entirely.
Email nodeneo@absgrafx.com or open an issue on GitHub.