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# Issuance

Handles all Security Token Issuance related functionality

## Hierarchy

* Namespace‹[SecurityToken](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/securitytoken.md)›

  ↳ **Issuance**

## Index

### Properties

* [context](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/issuance.md#protected-context)
* [parent](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/issuance.md#protected-parent)

### Methods

* [issue](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/issuance.md#issue)

## Properties

### `Protected` context

• **context**: [*Context*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/context.md)

*Inherited from void*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/Namespace.ts:11*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/56921667/src/api/entities/Namespace.ts#L11)

### `Protected` parent

• **parent**: [*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/securitytoken.md)

*Inherited from void*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/Namespace.ts:9*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/56921667/src/api/entities/Namespace.ts#L9)

## Methods

### issue

▸ **issue**(`args`: object, `opts?`: [ProcedureOpts](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/interfaces/procedureopts.md)): *Promise‹*[*TransactionQueue*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/transactionqueue.md)*‹*[*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/securitytoken.md)*››*

*Defined in* [*src/api/entities/SecurityToken/Issuance.ts:35*](https://github.com/PolymathNetwork/polymesh-sdk/blob/56921667/src/api/entities/SecurityToken/Issuance.ts#L35)

Issue a certain amount of tokens to the caller's default portfolio

**`note`** this method is of type [ProcedureMethod](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/interfaces/proceduremethod.md), which means you can call `issue.checkAuthorization` on it to see whether the Current Account has the required permissions to run it

**Parameters:**

▪ **args**: *object*

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

▪`Optional` **opts**: [*ProcedureOpts*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/interfaces/procedureopts.md)

**Returns:** *Promise‹*[*TransactionQueue*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/transactionqueue.md)*‹*[*SecurityToken*](/polymesh-sdk-api-reference/docs-v9/classes/securitytoken.md)*››*