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# Your first Cast

*From a blank page to a star in someone's sky — the whole journey, step by step.*

## 1 · Bring something that matters

Start with your X — anything you do, or want to do, for this earth. A morning you spent clearing a trail. A river cleanup you're organizing. Your family's tradition of planting on birthdays. The protocol doesn't measure how big it is — only that it's yours.

## 2 · Compose your station

Open a station around your X. **NaviCanvas** — the AI composer — takes what you write and give it, and shapes it into a living page. You author; it composes. (It writes your expression only — it never invents facts. See *Composing with NaviCanvas*.)

## 3 · Broadcast it (optional, free)

Want the world to see it? **Broadcast** — your station gets an open link anyone can visit. Free, off-chain, no commitment. Many stations live happily here for a while before anything else happens.

## 4 · mint it — and choose what it carries

When you're ready for permanence, **mint** your station. This is its on-chain birth: from here it is anchored, sovereign, yours — forever. At the mint, one choice:

* **Carry a YuCROWN mission** — your payment becomes a charitable **Drop**, the full amount to the 501(c)(3), funding a real, verified action for this earth. Your station is now **grounded** — tied to a real place where real work happened.
* **Mint plain** — the station anchors with nothing but itself; an ordinary purchase.

Either way: one payment, one destination, stated on your acknowledgment. (Details: the *Payment & Refund Policy* and *Donation Terms*.)

## 5 · Cast

Now the moment the protocol was built for. Choose a person. **Cast** — a **NaviStar** is minted from your station to them: an on-chain, permanent, two-way link. They get an email; no keys, no crypto knowledge needed on their side. The star waits safely in custody until they claim it into their **Realm** — their own sky, born the first time someone Casts to them. Maybe born by you, just now.

## 6 · Cast again

A station is minted once; stars travel from it again and again. Each new Cast joins the station's **constellation** — one circle, scattered across many skies.

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*That's the whole arc: compose → Broadcast → mint → Cast. The mint anchors; the Cast connects.*

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*A protocol anchored by YuCROWN Corporation · 501(c)(3) — anchored, never owned.*


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