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PAR uses its best means to be SEC compliant. Do not promise that a price will go up, or promise a return.

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FAQs

What each part does, and how the parts meet.

Where is the coin created?

The front page creates a coin. The real-world asset page records one object. The coin is created first, on the front page. Its token address is then pasted into the object page. The object page does not create the coin.

A coin can exist on its own. An object can exist with a coin attached, or with no coin. Painting is one example of an object. The same steps fit a card, a kite, a watch, or anything else one person can hand over.

What is PAR on, and what is PAR off?

PAR on is one price. Most of the tokens buyers receive stay within 10% of it, so a buyer now and a buyer later pay nearly the same. That stretch is the shelf. It lasts until those tokens are bought. The last slice of the sale then rises to the pool price. Both prices are on the form before anyone buys.

PAR off lets the price rise from the first token to the last. The opening price and the pool price are still on the form. That rise is the whole sale.

The shelf ends when its tokens are bought. A falling fee ends when its clock runs out. Each one ends on its own. Slow buying can reach the ending fee while the price is still on the shelf. A fast sale can be rising toward the pool while the fee is still falling.

Both climbs end at the same lock.

What does the curve fee do?

The curve fee is what a trade pays while the coin is still for sale. Fee falls starts at the percent you type and steps down to the ending fee. Fee stays flat keeps one percent for the whole sale. The price curve stays on the card. The ending fee and the clock are hidden while the fee is flat.

Curved fall and straight fall stay on the form. They apply when the fee falls. Curved drops faster at the start. Straight drops the same amount at each step. The clock is 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, or 7 days. A buy at the open pays the opening fee. A buy after the clock pays the ending fee. A flat fee charges the same percent on every trade until migration.

The Meme card starts at 10% and falls on a curve to 1% over 48 hours. The other cards start from the fee already on the form. The prices and the fee are written into the template. They cannot be edited later.

What is the lock?

The lock is graduation. It happens when the curve is full, with PAR on and with PAR off. The quote raised on the sale and the tokens still left move into a Meteora DAMM v2 pool. That pool is locked. The quote and those tokens stay in it. They are not paid out.

A locked pool is required. The creator keeps coins through creator supply. That supply is reserved beside the pool. Claiming it does not pull tokens out of the pool.

One claim at the lock pays the full amount except 1 token, then that 1 token one second later, so the program can store the claim. A year schedule is 12 monthly claims after a 30-day wait. The lock signature comes after the curve fills and before the trading pool opens. It does not start when the coin is created.

What happens after the lock?

Trading continues on this site, on Meteora, and on Jupiter, Axiom, and Photon. A buy can move the price up. A sell can move it down. The curve fee has stopped, even if time is left on its clock. Every later trade pays the pool fee chosen on the form. The default is 0.25%. The Meme card uses 1%.

A share of that pool fee can be put back into the pool. The quote and the tokens that locked stay locked either way. At 100% put back, nothing from that pool fee is left to claim.

Of each trading fee, Meteora keeps 20%. The platform and the creator share the rest. At a 20% platform fee, the whole fee is Meteora 20%, platform 20%, and creator 60%. Those fee shares wait until they are claimed. A claim takes the fee. It does not take the locked quote or the locked tokens.

Meteora keeps 0.2% of the quote and 0.2% of the tokens that move into the pool. That protocol fee stays on. The optional extra migration fee on this desk stays at zero.

What do the cards set?

Meme is a rising coin. PAR stays off. A slider sets the lock from $10,000 to $50,000, or the same sizes in SOL. The supply stays 1,000,000,000. A 5% creator bag is the start, paid when the coin locks. The bag can be changed up to 20%.

Starter, Solid, and Deep are one shelf at three locks: $10,000, $25,000, and $50,000, or 10, 25, and 50 SOL. PAR starts on. The sliders move the price. The lock stays.

Thin is a $750 curve, or 1 SOL. On the real network, $750 is the smallest USDC curve Meteora opens by itself. 1 SOL is under that keeper line, so someone has to open the trading pool by hand.

Par fixed is 1,000,000,000 tokens from $0.00005 to $0.00006. Custom is where a supply and two prices are typed. A rising curve that tries to lock half the supply is rejected.

What is the object?

The NFT is the record of one object: the token address, the pool, the proofs, the rules, and the picture. When a coin is attached, the coin is the payment token and the meme. It pays for the title. The meme is the joy and heart of the object. The coin is not a share of the object, and it pays nothing. The creator sets the title price later, in the coin.

Two NFTs are made, and the record sheet is on both. The master goes to the program vault and stays there, frozen. One edition is the title. It goes to the creator, or into escrow on the practice network. The chain NFT and the record sheet are the proof. PAR keeps a copy of those proofs.

With a coin attached, the title can be sold only after graduation, and only after a clock the creator chose, from 1 to 365 days. The day is set at graduation and locks into the title. With no coin, the creator names the payment token and the wait.

A normal wallet sells the title through Tensor on both networks, and can buy a title that is already for sale. Tensor takes that sale. PAR takes none of it. The escrow path holds the title and sells it at a fixed price or by bid. On the practice network it is open to the two test wallets. On the real network the escrow button says coming soon.

The creator signs the terms and owes the handoff. PAR is software. It does not hold, insure, or guarantee the object. The declared value on the sheet is the amount owed if the object is not handed over.

What does creating a coin cost?

Creating a coin on the real network signs twice. The first signature writes the template. The second writes the mint and the pool. The review shows the SOL rent, the network fee, and a small tip inside the real-network transaction. USDC spent to create is 0. Nothing is sent until the wallet confirms.

The name can be 32 characters. The symbol can be 10. The description box stops at 80. The chain stores one metadata link of at most 200 characters. A long description is left off that link when the name, the symbol, and the picture already fill it.

What does PAR do?

  • Creates the coin on a Meteora bonding curve and shows both climbs before anyone buys.
  • Writes the prices, the supply, and the fee into a template that cannot be edited later.
  • Locks the quote and the remaining tokens in the trading pool when the curve is full.
  • Keeps trading open on this site after the lock, and on Meteora, Jupiter, Axiom, and Photon.
  • Records one object on two NFTs, with the master frozen in the vault and one title for the creator.
  • Shows the exact amounts and waits for a second confirmation before a real-network wallet opens.
  • Keeps a copy of the proofs. The chain NFT and the record sheet are the proof a buyer can read.

What does PAR not do?

  • It does not hold, insure, or guarantee the object, the coins, or the handoff.
  • It does not promise that a price will go up, or promise a return.
  • The coin is not a share of the object, and it pays nothing to the holder.
  • A fee claim does not withdraw the locked quote or the locked tokens.
  • Creator supply does not come out of the pool.
  • The object page does not create the coin.
  • Escrow is not a real-network option yet.
  • PAR takes none of a Tensor sale.

How do the parts tie together?

A person creates the coin on the front page, or skips the coin. If the thing is an object, they open the real-world asset page, paste the coin address when there is one, and sign the record. Buyers then fill the curve. When it is full, one signature locks the creator supply if there is any, and a later signature opens the trading pool. The quote and the remaining tokens stay in that pool. Trading continues.

If a coin is attached to an object, the title waits until graduation and until the creator's clock ends. The title can then be listed. The person named on the sheet hands the object to the holder of the title. The coin can keep trading after that handoff. The pool stays locked.

Where does this sit with the law?

The record below is the same structure shown on the object page.

Structure and the law

The object, the title, and the coin

One object that already exists. One title is the claim to it. One coin trades on a Meteora bonding curve. The coin is a payment token and a meme. Payment means the coin is how the title is bought. The meme is the joy and heart of the object. The coin is not a share of the object, and it pays nothing.

Two NFTs are made, and the record sheet is on both. The master is sent to the program vault and stays there, frozen. One edition is made. That edition is the title, and it is sent to the creator. The sheet names the object, the serial, the person, the pitch, the handoff, and the price path. The NFT on the chain is the proof. PAR keeps a copy of those proofs. In the SEC's March 23, 2026 interpretation, a white paper is a document that describes the technical design of a crypto project. This sheet is the locked record of one object.

After graduation the coin trades for a number of days the creator set, from 1 to 365. The title can be sold when those days end. The day is fixed when the coin graduates. On the Tensor path, the creator then lists the title through Tensor's marketplace, paid only in this coin, and burns 25% of the price within 7 days. On the escrow path, the PAR escrow holds the title and sells it. (The escrow path is not a mainnet option yet. Coming soon.) The creator hands the object to the holder of the title. PAR is software. It does not hold, insure, or guarantee the object. The person named on the sheet owes the handoff.

The curve publishes par and the pool price before anyone buys. That path is the mechanism of the sale. The pitch and the redemption card bar a line that the price will go up, or that a return is promised.

What the courts call a security

In SEC v. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293 (1946), an investment contract is money placed in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits from the efforts of others. The groves in that case were sold in pieces, with a service contract and a share of the crop.

In United Housing Foundation v. Forman, 421 U.S. 837 (1975), a purchase made in order to use or consume the item stands outside that test. In SEC v. Edwards, 540 U.S. 389 (2004), the profits in Howey are capital appreciation from development of the investment, or a share of earnings. A fixed sum can still be profit when buyers pay in order to receive that sum. The declared value on this record is the amount owed if the object is not handed over.

SEC v. Life Partners, Inc., 87 F.3d 536 (D.C. Cir. 1996), and later cases, separate essential managerial efforts from ministerial ones. Record-keeping can be necessary and still fall short of management.

The SEC interpretation of March 23, 2026

Release No. 33-11412, effective March 23, 2026, applies Howey to crypto assets. A digital collectible, such as art, a card, or a meme, is not itself a security when it pays no yield and gives no right to the income, profits, or assets of a business. A hope that popularity or scarcity moves the price is treated like a hope about a physical work, when the creator has not promised managerial efforts to produce that profit. A creator royalty on a resale does not, by itself, make the collectible a security.

A digital tool is a crypto asset with a practical function. The release names a membership, a ticket, a credential, and a title instrument. A digital tool is not itself a security when people take it for that function and it pays no yield and gives no claim on a business.

Fractionalizing one collectible, or otherwise selling pieces of a single object, can be a security. The release points back to Howey: the whole grove in one owner's hands can be a sale of land, and pieces managed by one promoter for a profit share were the investment contract.

A collectible or a tool can still be sold subject to an investment contract. The asset does not become the security. The offering does, when the issuer promises essential managerial efforts from which a buyer would reasonably expect profits. The channels named in the release include the issuer's website, its regular public statements, and a white paper. A promise to build future functionality, with a plan for how holders gain from that work, is the pattern the release describes.

NFT orders and one court case

Impact Theory, LLC, Release No. 33-11226 (August 28, 2023). NFTs called Founder's Keys were sold with statements that buyers would profit if the company built "the next Disney," and that the keys would deliver "tremendous value." The order treats the NFTs as investment contracts. The settlement was more than $6.1 million.

Stoner Cats 2, LLC, Release No. 33-11233 (September 13, 2023). An NFT drop of about $8.2 million sold out in 35 minutes. The order finds a reasonable expectation of profit from the seller's managerial efforts.

Flyfish Club, LLC, Release No. 33-11305 (September 16, 2024). The NFT was the means of membership in a restaurant club. The offering raised about $14.8 million. The order finds the NFTs were marketed for resale profit and for leasing as passive income, and that about 42% of buyers bought more than one NFT though one was enough for membership. The civil penalty was $750,000.

TurnKey Jet, Inc. (April 3, 2019) and Pocketful of Quarters, Inc. (July 25, 2019). Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance said it would not recommend enforcement where the token worked for its purpose on the day of sale, the price stayed fixed, transfers stayed inside that system, and sale proceeds were not used to build the system. The marketing in those letters was confined to use.

Friel v. Dapper Labs, Inc., No. 21 Civ. 5837 (S.D.N.Y. February 22, 2023). The court denied a motion to dismiss a claim that NBA Top Shot moments were securities. The pleading described one company's control of its own chain and of the only marketplace, together with marketing about value. The court called the question narrow. A final judgment approving a settlement was entered on October 25, 2024.

Where this structure sits

The payment use and the meme are written on the NFT when the coin is created. The record sheet on that NFT pins them. The hash on the NFT pins the sheet. PAR keeps a copy of those proofs. The coin trades on Meteora, on Solana. The title lists through Tensor after the day the clock sets, or through the PAR escrow. (The escrow path is not a mainnet option yet. Coming soon.) The object moves when the named person keeps the handoff. The form blocks a price promise and a promised return on the pitch and on the redemption card.

Release No. 33-11412 · Impact Theory · Stoner Cats · Flyfish Club · TurnKey Jet · Pocketful of Quarters