05 / What this is not
There is no vault of metal and no share register.
The exposure is synthetic. It settles on a venue whose operator runs its own oracle, and that operator is a counterparty. We will name it plainly, with its numbers, before anyone is asked for a dollar.
The token itself is the plainest thing here: fixed supply, no mint function, no owner, no pause, no blocklist, no fee on transfer. It cannot take custody of anything, which is why it is the only contract with no way to withdraw.