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title: "$PRICE — Official Merch"
description: "What $PRICE is for: it's official Price Discussion merch. You can hold it, send it to other PDers and rank on the holders board. It gives no rights, no revenue and no perks."
category: "price-token"
keywords: ["merch", "official merch", "what is $PRICE for", "utility", "no perks"]
last_updated: "2026-10-06"
---

# $PRICE — Official Merch

$PRICE is official Price Discussion merch. That's what it's for.

Think of the shirt from the merch table at a show. A bootleg screen print can look the same, but it isn't the real one. The one from the table is official, and that's the whole point of owning it. $PRICE is the same idea on Ethereum: the official PD token, straight from PD, in the communities PD comes from.

## What you can do with it

- **Hold it.** It sits in your wallet like any ERC-20.
- **Send it.** Pass it to other PDers, any amount, any time — a standard transfer, nothing in the way.
- **Show it.** The [@price](/price) page keeps a Top Holders board, and your balance shows in your wallet settings.

That's the whole list. Owning the official thing is the point.

## What it doesn't do

- **No perks.** No mint priority, no allowlist spot, no early window. Every mint on PD is open on the Project's own terms.
- **No discounts.** The 5% platform share of a primary mint is the same for every collector, whatever they hold.
- **No vote.** PD is not a DAO, and $PRICE is not a governance token.
- **No revenue.** PD's primary fee and secondary royalty go to PD's wallets through its on-chain fee mechanics. Holders get no dividend, no buyback, no profit share and no redemption.
- **No gated anything.** No holder-only views, docs, channels or invitations.
- **No staking.** No staking program, no emission, no yield.
- **No market from PD.** PD runs no market in $PRICE, seeds no liquidity and makes no promises about its price.

## Why merch, and nothing more

**It's not a stake in PD.** A tour shirt isn't a stake in the band. $PRICE carries no ownership or economic interest in Price Discussion as a platform or a business.

**PD shouldn't shift with who holds a token.** What PD does is set by its immutable contracts and its filter, not by who holds $PRICE on a given day.

**Perks invite pressure.** A token that unlocks things invites holders to push for more of them. Merch just has to be the real one.

## How it stays that way

**On-chain.** The $PRICE contract is a plain ERC-20 with no hooks into anything else. PD's factory and Projects never call it or read it. Existing Projects are immutable, so nothing already minted could ever be tied to it.

**In the app.** PriceOS reads $PRICE balances only to show them — your balance in wallet settings, the Top Holders board on @price, and your share of the supply in the Command Stone. Nothing unlocks, changes or sorts differently because of what you hold.

**In writing.** These pages say it plainly and publicly, so it can't be quietly changed.

## Further reading

- [Overview](/docs/price-token/overview)
- [Tokenomics](/docs/price-token/tokenomics)
- [Contract](/docs/price-token/contract)