For creators
You decide a token's rules once, at creation — and the chain enforces them for the rest of the token's life. No marketplace can opt out of your royalty, and nobody can mint a token pretending to be you.
From idea to minted token
1 · Choose the token’s rules (policies)
Royalty percentage and payout account, one-of-one or edition, collection membership, transfer rules, whether the artwork link can ever change. These choices are permanent.
2 · Create the token
The ledger derives the token’s id from your guard (your on-chain identity) and the token’s details. Only you can create it, and it can only ever exist once.
3 · Mint
The token is written to its owner — you, or a buyer if the marketplace mints on sale.
4 · It lives its life
Sold on any marketplace, auctioned, moved between chains — your royalty terms travel with it and are enforced at every sale, everywhere, forever.
Your identity is the anchor
Every token id is derived from its creator's guard — the cryptographic identity that only you control. Two things follow:
- Forgery is impossible. Nobody can create a token whose id claims your authorship — the creation would fail because they cannot satisfy your guard.
- Double-minting is impossible. One id, one row, forever. The same token cannot be created again — on the same chain or any other.
Collectors do not need to trust a marketplace's word about who made a token: the id itself proves it.
The policy menu — your rules, made permanent
| Policy | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Royalty | A percentage of every sale (up to 50%), paid to the account you name, on the chain where the sale happens. Enforced by the settlement engine itself — a marketplace cannot skip it, and an auction cannot dodge it. Prices that would round your royalty down to zero are rejected outright. |
| Sale-only (royalty opt-in) | The token can change owners only through a sale. Free transfers are rejected, and a cross-chain move cannot change the owner — so there is no royalty-free way out. Choose it for work where the royalty is the point; skip it if you want owners to be able to gift freely. |
| One-of-one | A strict single edition: supply is one, minted once, ever. |
| Collection | Membership in an operator-gated collection with an optional size cap — provable scarcity for a series. |
| Operation guards | Fine-grained control: separate guards for minting, burning, selling, and transferring — for tokens that need custom authorization rules. |
| Artwork link (URI) rules | By default a token's metadata link is immutable. You can attach a policy that allows guarded updates (you keep a key), or one that vetoes updates unconditionally — a veto always wins over a permit. |
Permanence works in your favor. The policy set is fixed when the token is created and canonically ordered — it cannot be extended, re-ordered, or composed away later. A rule you set at mint cannot be undone by a future marketplace, upgrade, or clever combination of policies.
Your royalty travels
When a token moves to another chain, every policy packs its state — your royalty terms, the guards, the edition marker — into a passport that travels with the token and re-binds on arrival. A token that sells on another chain still pays you there. The royalty account you name should be one you control on every chain (a standard k: account works everywhere; the settlement creates it on a chain the first time a royalty arrives there).
What creators should double-check before minting
- The royalty account and percentage — both are permanent for that token.
- Sale-only or freely transferable — permanent, and it changes what your collectors can do (gifts, private moves).
- The artwork link stance — if you attach no URI policy, the link is frozen forever; if your art is meant to evolve, attach the guarded-update policy at creation.