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# Issuance

Handles all Security Token Issuance related functionality

## Hierarchy

* Namespace‹[SecurityToken](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/securitytoken.md)›

  ↳ **Issuance**

## Index

### Properties

* [context](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/issuance.md#protected-context)
* [parent](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/issuance.md#protected-parent)

### Methods

* [issue](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/issuance.md#issue)

## Properties

### `Protected` context

• **context**: [*Context*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/context.md)

*Inherited from void*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/Namespace.ts:11*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/1221e467/src/api/entities/Namespace.ts#L11)

### `Protected` parent

• **parent**: [*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/securitytoken.md)

*Inherited from void*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/Namespace.ts:9*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/1221e467/src/api/entities/Namespace.ts#L9)

## Methods

### issue

▸ **issue**(`args`: object): *Promise‹*[*TransactionQueue*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/transactionqueue.md)*‹*[*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/securitytoken.md)*››*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/SecurityToken/Issuance.ts:14*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/1221e467/src/api/entities/SecurityToken/Issuance.ts#L14)

Issue a certain amount of tokens to the primary issuance agent

**Parameters:**

▪ **args**: *object*

| Name     | Type      | Description                                             |
| -------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| `amount` | BigNumber | amount of tokens to be issued to primary issuance agent |

**Returns:** *Promise‹*[*TransactionQueue*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/transactionqueue.md)*‹*[*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v3/classes/securitytoken.md)*››*