Stablecoin minting is the technical creation of new stablecoin tokens on a blockchain or distributed ledger.
Minting occurs when a contract or authorized issuer increases token balances or total token supply according to the system's rules. In a fiat-backed arrangement, minting often follows receipt of funds through the primary issuance process. In crypto-collateralized systems, a smart contract can mint tokens after eligible collateral is locked. Bridge contracts can also mint representations of an existing stablecoin on another network, so technical minting does not always create a new base liability.
Minting is a ledger action. Economic issuance concerns creation of a new stablecoin claim. SBMP-01 separates native issuer-recognized issuance from bridge or wrapper representations that may also be minted on-chain.
Separating technical minting from economic issuance prevents double counting when the same underlying stablecoin claim appears in represented form on another network.
An issuer can mint 1 million native tokens after an eligible customer funds issuance. A bridge can separately mint 1 million wrapped tokens representing tokens locked on another chain.