Concepts
Concepts
The ideas the rest of the docs assume you already have.
Four things worth understanding before you build against TIP: how a tag is normalized, how it becomes an address, what lives on-chain versus in the mirror, and what the owner/wallet split actually means.
- Tags: the canonical form every tag is reduced to.
- Addresses and PDAs: how a tag becomes an address.
- Source of truth and the mirror: what lives where, and who can write it.
- Ownership: the owner controls the tag; the wallet is only where payments go.