Concepts
Core concepts
Three ideas the rest of this documentation assumes: how an instrument relates to its on-chain token, how one API serves every partner, and where eligibility is enforced.
Three ideas do most of the work in the rest of this documentation. Learn them once here, and the other pages stop needing to re-explain them.
| Concept | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| Tokens and pairs | How does the logical instrument, which carries the regulatory identity, relate to the token deployed on one specific chain? Where does the catalog status lifecycle live? |
| Tenancy | How does one multi-tenant Marketplace API serve Assetera and every distribution partner at once without leaking between them, and what does KYC reliance actually transfer? |
| Compliance gating | Where is eligibility enforced? Off-chain KYC decides, and a single-use signed attestation is what makes the on-chain action possible. |
Where each one is defined
Tokens & pairs
Assets vs per-chain tokens (CAIP-2), same-chain trading pairs, and the catalog status lifecycle.
Tenancy
The B2B2C model: tenant resolved from a signed claim, one multi-tenant API, and KYC reliance.
Compliance gating
Off-chain KYC plus on-chain per-action EIP-712 attestations that authorize each trade.