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# Broadcast a station

*Share it open, share it free — the protocol's widest door.*

A **Broadcast** puts your composed station in front of anyone, with a link you can share anywhere. It is the open layer of the protocol: web2, off-chain, free. Nothing is minted, nothing is permanent yet, and nothing is bought. Everyone can play.

## What a Broadcast is

* **Open** — anyone with the link can visit your station's living page.
* **Free** — Broadcasting costs nothing.
* **Off-chain** — the page lives on the web, not on the chain. You can update it, unpublish it, or let it grow.
* **Yours to direct** — share the link by message, by social, by QR at your event; the station travels wherever you send it.

## What a Broadcast is not

A Broadcast is **not** an on-chain record. It carries no verified-fact layer, mints nothing, and must never be presented as if it did (that's the one rule above the others — see the *Acceptable Use & Content Policy*). If a Broadcast is the open courtyard, the mint is the foundation stone: different acts, in that order.

## When to Broadcast

* Your station is alive and you want reach before permanence.
* You're gathering people around an activity — an event, a cleanup, a tradition — and the page is the meeting point.
* You're simply not ready to mint. There's no clock; stations can stay in Broadcast as long as they like.

## What comes next

When the moment deserves permanence, **mint** your station — its on-chain birth, and the place where you choose whether it carries a mission. (See *Mint your station*.)

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


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