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What Bifrost does for a coin house — the vault, the certificate, the royalty on every resale, the book — and how a house comes aboard.
7 min read·Issuing houses·6 steps
01What Bifrost is, for a house#
Bifrost is where a coin house's series live a second life. Each coin you issue is vaulted with us — sealed, photographed, insured and audited — and carries a certificate on Base, a public ledger no one can quietly rewrite. Collectors buy, hold, gift and resell the certificate while the metal stays on its shelf. For a house, that means your series keeps a living, verifiable market long after the first strike sells out, with provenance that proves itself to every future buyer without anyone having to trust a filing cabinet.
02The royalty on every resale#
This is the part that changes the arithmetic of issuing. Every time one of your coins changes hands on Bifrost, your house receives its creator royalty automatically — written into the collection's contract, paid the moment the trade settles, for the life of the series. You set the rate when the series is created, and it is shown on every coin's page. You never invoice, chase or calculate it; the split happens in the open and the money arrives in your wallet moments after each sale. The fee schedule sits in one place — the fee table — and nothing is taken that is not printed there.
03The book, and the vault behind it#
Behind every certificate is a real coin under seal. Your studio shows you the book across all your series: the live for-sale depth, the resting bids, and the last settled price for each design — the state of your market at a glance. It is a mirror, not a lever: you watch, you are never asked to run the vault yourself. Custody, insurance, authentication on intake, and the audit against the ledger are Bifrost's to keep — so a buyer anywhere can trust that the coin exists, matches its certificate, and ships on demand.
04Coming aboard: the four steps#
Onboarding is a short, careful path, and your studio walks you through it on an engraved rail. You sign in, and a wallet is created for you. You verify the company — the account-opening step, held to a private-bank standard: the legal entity, its registered address, the authorised representative, and anyone owning a quarter or more, with the registration extract and an ID. You accept the Bifrost Issuer Agreement, signed by your wallet and recorded on Base as a bound agreement. And your wallet is engraved as the house's — the address every royalty and every proceed flows to. Then the studio opens.
05What happens after you're aboard#
You do not publish collections yourself — a Bifrost curator prepares and publishes your series for you, so the catalogue, the imagery and the on-chain contracts are done to one standard. When a drop goes live, it appears in your studio and your public house page, and the first strikes begin to settle into your proceeds. From then on the studio is your window: recent sales, the book across your series, the pledge books collectors have signed toward future strikes, and your earnings ledger — every royalty and primary sale, newest first.
06Where the money lands, and how to draw it#
Your proceeds and royalties arrive as digital dollars in the house wallet you engraved at onboarding — read live from the chain, not held on a Bifrost ledger. From the Proceeds view you can see the wallet's balance and its full earnings history. Drawing it to a bank works the same honest way it does for a collector: send to a regulated exchange on the Base network, convert, and withdraw by transfer — the cash-out guide walks the cheapest route step by step. Bank onboarding for direct house payouts is arranged with our team; until then the wallet holds everything, and nothing is locked away from you.