> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tokenterminal.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Assets

> Assets, the chains each one is issued on, and what each one tracks.

An asset is a financial instrument someone has put onchain: a stablecoin, a tokenized fund, a tokenized share. Someone issues it, it exists as token contracts on one or more chains, and it tracks or wraps something else: a currency, a stock, a commodity, another cryptoasset.

## Pages

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  <Card title="Registry" icon="table-list" href="/docs/catalog/assets/registry">
    Asset names, where each is issued, and what each one tracks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Senders" icon="bolt" href="/docs/catalog/assets/senders">
    Every sending address behind every active-user count.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Metrics" icon="chart-line" href="/docs/catalog/assets/metrics">
    Daily asset tables: supply, holders, transfers, price, yield and the gap from peg.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Assets and deployments

An asset belongs to no particular chain. A deployment does: it is one token contract on one chain. USDC is a single row in `dimensions.assets`, and each of its onchain contracts is a row in `dimensions.asset_tokens`. Supply, holder and transfer measures are counted per deployment and added up to the asset. Price and the gap from peg exist only for the asset, because a price belongs to the instrument rather than to any one contract.

An asset also points at something. `dimensions.reference_assets` names what an instrument tracks or wraps, and pointing at a currency is what makes an asset a currency-pegged stablecoin. [Registry](/docs/catalog/assets/registry) covers all three tables, and [Metrics](/docs/catalog/assets/metrics) says which measure answers which question.