Frequently
Asked Questions.

Yes — you own a real, legally structured stake in the car.

PCS gives you fractional ownership in a curated, high-value vehicle through a compliant ownership structure.

Your stake is tied to the asset itself, not a promise, not a vibe, not a screenshot. No keys on your keychain, but real exposure, real rights, and a clean path to liquidity when you choose to exit.

You're not renting the dream. You own a piece of it.

Every vehicle goes through a multi-stage curation process before it's considered for fractionalization.

We evaluate marque significance, production rarity, documented ownership history, condition grade, and projected collector demand over a 5–10 year horizon.

Cars are sourced through a vetted network of dealers, private collectors, and auction specialists — not scraped from classifieds.

If a car doesn't clear our threshold for cultural and financial significance, it doesn't list. Simple.

Every PCS vehicle is housed in a climate-controlled, specialist facility appropriate for its value and provenance.

Storage partners are audited for humidity control, security infrastructure, fire suppression, and insurance coverage.

The car is maintained in display-ready condition — not driven, not loaned, not risked.

You can view your asset's current condition reports and facility details through your collector dashboard.

Traditional ownership means buying the whole car and carrying everything — capital lock-in, storage, insurance, maintenance, depreciation risk.

PCS changes that. You invest fractionally in blue-chip, collectible-grade cars without managing the operational side.

The platform handles preservation, compliance, and asset care while you gain exposure to high-value automotive assets.

It's about owning a piece of culturally and financially significant machines — without the garage headache.

Each vehicle is held within a dedicated special purpose vehicle (SPV) — a legally isolated entity that holds title to the car.

Your fractional units represent a proportional equity interest in that SPV, documented and enforceable under applicable securities law.

This structure insulates your stake from platform-level risk. If PCS ceases operations, the SPV and its underlying asset remain intact.

All documentation is prepared by qualified legal counsel and available for your review before you commit capital.

Yes — by design. The SPV structure means the car's title is never held by PCS directly.

In a wind-down scenario, an independent administrator takes over management of the SPV and facilitates either a sale or transfer of the asset.

Proceeds are distributed to fractional owners in proportion to their stake.

Your investment isn't contingent on PCS's operational continuity. The asset exists independently of the platform.

You're not stuck.

PCS provides structured liquidity options — including a secondary marketplace where you can sell your fractional units to other verified investors, and periodic liquidity windows facilitated by the platform.

If the full vehicle is sold, proceeds are distributed proportionally to all owners.

It's not instant like public stocks, but it's significantly more flexible than trying to sell an entire rare car yourself.

The $PCS token is the platform's native membership and governance token.

Your token holdings determine your membership tier — which unlocks access to premium vehicle listings, priority allocation windows, reduced platform fees, and governance voting rights.

You don't need $PCS tokens to browse, but higher-tier vehicles and early-access drops are gated by stake level.

Think of it as the key to the collection — the more you hold, the deeper your access.

Governance voting activates in Phase 2 alongside the marketplace. In Phase 1, on-chain protocol changes flow through the multisig + 14-day Treasury Timelock.

Appreciation is the primary return mechanism — PCS vehicles are selected for long-term capital growth, not income generation.

That said, if a vehicle is part of a curated exhibition or insured display program, any licensing fees or event proceeds are distributed proportionally.

In Phase 2, governance token holders will share platform fee revenue from the PCS Marketplace, distributed quarterly through Treasury Timelock operations.

Returns are asset-driven, not promised. We don't manufacture yield — we source value.

Every car undergoes rigorous due diligence before it's fractionalized.

Independent automotive historians, marque specialists, and certified valuation experts review provenance, service history, restoration records, chassis and engine numbers, and comparable global sales benchmarks.

Only vehicles that pass strict authenticity and documentation checks make it to the platform. No guesswork.

No inflated narratives. Just verified, investment-grade assets.

Each vehicle is re-appraised on a defined schedule — typically annually — by the same class of independent specialists who cleared it for listing.

Appraisals reference recent comparable auction results, condition changes, restoration activity, and broader collector market trends.

Updated valuations are published to all fractional owners through the dashboard, with full methodology attached.

You're never guessing. You're working with documented, expert-backed numbers.

From Phase 2 onward, a full sale can be triggered in three ways: a supermajority NFT-holder vote, a platform-initiated liquidity event, or an unsolicited offer clearing the reserve threshold. In Phase 1, no full-sale path exists — there are no fractional NFTs yet.

All owners are notified before any sale proceeds, with full disclosure of the offer terms and projected net distribution.

You retain voting rights proportional to your stake — no single party can force a sale without sufficient collective agreement.

When a sale closes, proceeds are distributed within the settlement window defined in the SPV agreement.

Phase 1 confers tier covenant + presale-allocation eligibility; Phase 2 perks activate alongside the Vienna estate.

Yes. the estate is a working private members club, not a concept or a render.

Tier 1 members receive two complimentary day-passes annually to tour the museum and vault in person. Tier 2 and above unlock overnight stays in the castle suites.

The grounds include the high-security glass vault, the automotive museum, a private dining room, a cigar humidor, and dedicated member lounges — all reserved exclusively for active PCS members.

Vienna International Airport is thirty minutes away. Arrival and transfer logistics are handled by the concierge desk for Tier 2 and Tier 3 members.

Phase 1 confers tier covenant + presale-allocation eligibility; Phase 2 perks activate alongside the Vienna estate.

Track Days are a Tier 3 exclusive — the Curator's Circle's highest privilege.

Selected vehicles from the active PCS fleet are made available for supervised driving sessions on premier European circuits. Think Spielberg, Spa, or equivalent-grade venues.

Sessions are structured, safety-briefed, and conducted with professional instructors. These are not track rentals. They are curated experiences designed around the cars' specific character and history.

Logistics — travel, accommodation, circuit access — are coordinated entirely by the PCS concierge team.

Staking means locking a defined amount of $PCS tokens in the Society's smart contract for a set epoch — typically 6 to 12 months.

While staked, those tokens are held on-chain, inaccessible for trading. In return, you earn staking yield distributed from the Staking Reserve allocation, and your membership tier status is active.

At the end of your staking epoch, you can choose to unstake, re-lock, or increase your position. Unstaking drops your active membership tier until you re-stake.

The lock-up is a feature, not a trap — it reduces circulating supply, which benefits every holder.

(Staking yield activates in Phase 2; the bucket is funded but not yet distributed.)

When the Dynamic Oracle launches in Phase 2 alongside the experiential utility…

All PCS experiences — suite bookings, concierge services, the Annual Estate Levy — are priced in a fixed fiat amount (USD or EUR).

When you go to pay, the platform queries a live Chainlink price oracle at the exact moment of checkout, determines the current $PCS market price, and calculates how many tokens you owe.

You never pay a dollar figure — you pay tokens. But the experience has a fixed real-world cost, so the number of tokens required moves with the market.

The practical result: early holders who accumulated $PCS at lower prices access the same experiences for a fraction of the tokens a late buyer would need. That's the incentive to enter early.

You hold legally documented Economic Rights to the vehicle — not a promise, and not a token with no backing.

Under the Economic Rights Agreement between the Austrian holding entity and the Dubai SPV, NFT holders are entitled to their proportional share of any proceeds if the vehicle is sold, appraised, or liquidated.

This structure exists for practical reasons: transferring physical car title across jurisdictions every time a fraction trades would be legally cumbersome and prohibitively expensive. Economic Rights tokenization solves that.

The agreement is prepared by qualified international legal counsel and is available for review. If you want to read it before committing capital, you can.

The Economic Rights Agreement will be executed alongside the Phase 2 vehicle acquisition; until then, no fractional NFT exists for the agreement to bind.

Franz Hahnl is the Consultant and Curator of PCS — the person whose network, judgment, and reputation the entire acquisition strategy is built around.

He operates from the Vienna estate and leads the Acquisition Committee, which evaluates every vehicle before it enters the collection.

His significance is access. Investment-grade classic cars rarely reach public auction. The most significant transactions happen through private networks — 'whisper sales' between collectors who've spent decades building trust.

Franz's position inside that network is what allows PCS to source vehicles that simply aren't available to platforms without that provenance.

Every vehicle in the PCS vault is fully insured at its independently appraised value through specialist classic car insurance coverage.

In the event of damage, the insurance payout flows to the SPV holding the vehicle's title. Fractional NFT holders receive their proportional share of the settlement, distributed within the timeframe defined in the SPV agreement.

For partial damage, the vehicle undergoes professional restoration — costs covered by insurance — and is re-appraised once restoration is complete. Your NFT's metadata updates to reflect the revised valuation.

The asset is protected whether you're watching the live feed or not.

PCS operates under the VARA regulatory framework in Dubai and complies with applicable EU law for the Austrian physical layer.

Participation is restricted in jurisdictions subject to OFAC sanctions, FATF blacklisted territories, and a defined list of legally incompatible markets.

Restricted-jurisdiction screening is performed by the KYC operator at onboarding; the on-chain KYCRegistry records only a binary Verified status plus an informational region code. The exclusion is enforced before a Verified status is granted, not by a contract revert.

If you're unsure whether your jurisdiction is eligible, the KYC onboarding process will confirm your status before you commit any capital. No ambiguity, no surprises.

The floor is lower than you'd expect for an asset class that normally requires eight figures to enter.

Fractional car NFTs are minted at a minimum of $100 per share — so you can hold a documented stake in a multi-million dollar vehicle for the cost of a dinner.

To activate Tier 1 membership and unlock club privileges, you'll need to hold at least one car NFT, stake 10,000 $PCS tokens, and cover the $500 annual estate levy — payable in $PCS.

The $PCS alpha presale opens at $0.10 per token, scaling upward across rounds at multisig-set intervals. All early rounds price below $1.00. At the alpha price, 10,000 $PCS — the Enthusiast stake — represents a $1,000 commitment.

The presale is gated. You don't just connect a wallet and send ETH.

Step one is KYC — identity verification through our compliance partner. This is mandatory and non-negotiable. restricted jurisdictions are filtered at this stage.

Once cleared, the buyer is allocated for their eligible round and receives esPCS receipt tokens at purchase — a 1:1 non-tradable claim ticket.

After the Token Generation Event, KYC-verified buyers convert their esPCS into a per-round $PCS vesting schedule. Conversion is a single atomic call to the PresaleConverter contract — no manual processing, no trust-me agreements.

It's a fair question and one we'd rather answer directly than sidestep.

In Phase 1, $PCS utility is bounded — a fixed presale allocation, KYC-gated post-TGE conversion, and the covenant-enabled tier qualification. Staking yield and on-chain governance activate in Phase 2 alongside the marketplace.

The token's Phase 1 value is anchored by three things: a hard-capped supply with no governance path to expand it, a KYC-gated conversion mechanic that meters supply through vesting schedules, and the presale price differential creating early-holder upside even before the estate opens.

Phase 2 is not optional or speculative — it is the direct deployment destination of 25% of raised capital. Phase 2 capital deployment passes through the 14-day Treasury Timelock — every disbursement is visible on-chain before execution.

$PCS has a permanent hard cap of 100,000,000 tokens — fixed in code at deployment, with no governance path to lift it.

Only one address can mint $PCS: the PCSDistributor contract, which is hard-wired into the token at deploy time. The six fixed allocations (Presale 35M, Ecosystem 25M, Team 15M, Liquidity Reserve 10M, Staking Reserve 10M, Listing Liquidity 5M) sum to exactly 100M, and none can be exceeded.

$PCS is burnable: any holder can permanently destroy their own tokens, and the contract tracks the cumulative burn count publicly. There is no protocol-enforced burn floor — burns are user-initiated, not automated.

Phase 2 introduces ecosystem-level burn flows tied to estate revenue and physical-asset profits. Those mechanics activate alongside the marketplace and the Vienna estate through governance and Treasury Timelock operations; they are not active in Phase 1.

Cap, minter, and burn are the three primitives. Nothing else can move the supply.

PCS operates a bespoke secondary marketplace built on the Polygon network — this is the primary and preferred venue for trading fractional car NFTs.

To list: connect your wallet to the PCS member dashboard, select the fraction you want to sell, set your price, and confirm. The listing is live immediately. Settlement is on-chain with near-zero gas fees.

When the PCS Marketplace launches in Phase 2, a standard marketplace fee will apply to all trades; fee rates and waivers (e.g. for $PCS-denominated transactions) are set by governance through the Treasury Timelock. A secondary-market royalty fee is hard-coded into the marketplace contract at deployment — rate and recipient are set then, not retrofitted.

PCS NFTs are also compatible with major open marketplaces such as OpenSea and MagicEden, though the PCS platform offers the lowest-friction, lowest-cost environment by design.

Every vehicle in the PCS vault is covered by specialist classic car insurance at its full independently appraised value — not book value, not a depreciated estimate.

The underwriting is arranged through providers with specific expertise in high-value automotive collections, covering physical damage, theft, and total loss scenarios.

The vault itself is engineered to institutional standards — climate control, fire suppression, structural security, and 24/7 monitoring are baseline requirements, not optional upgrades.

In a total loss event, insurance proceeds flow into the SPV holding the vehicle's title and are distributed proportionally to fractional NFT holders within the settlement window defined in the SPV agreement. The insurer's identity and policy terms are disclosed to members upon request.

In Phase 1, on-chain governance is restricted to the multisig + 14-day Treasury Timelock — every proposal is visible on-chain for 14 days before it can execute. The community Governor contract activates in Phase 2; from that point, staked $PCS holders vote on acquisitions, liquidations, and protocol parameter changes, with outcomes binding on the multisig.

Staked $PCS tokens carry voting weight proportional to your stake. members vote on three primary categories: acquisition proposals (which vehicles the committee should target next), liquidation events (whether to sell a specific car from the vault), and protocol parameter changes (fee structures, staking epoch lengths, burn mechanics).

The Acquisition Committee — led by Franz Hahnl — identifies targets and presents proposals. Members vote to approve or reject. A supermajority threshold is required for any liquidation or major protocol change. The board cannot unilaterally force either.

Votes are recorded on-chain. The outcome is binding. If a proposal fails, it fails — regardless of the committee's preference.

Tax treatment for fractional RWA ownership, utility tokens, and NFTs varies significantly by jurisdiction — and PCS does not provide tax advice.

What we can tell you: the structure involves two distinct assets ($PCS tokens and fractional car NFTs) operating under two distinct legal frameworks (VARA in Dubai, Austrian law for the physical layer). Each may be treated differently by your local tax authority.

Common considerations include income tax on staking yield, capital gains on token appreciation or NFT sales, and VAT or GST implications on experiential purchases made in $PCS.

We strongly recommend engaging a tax advisor with cross-jurisdictional experience in digital assets before you invest. PCS provides members with full transaction records and documentation to support whatever reporting obligations apply to you.

The collection targets vehicles where historical significance, production rarity, and documented provenance converge.

In practical terms: think a 1960s Ferrari in a numbered limited series, a factory-lightweight Porsche 911 RS, a historically verified Le Mans competitor, or a pristine Mercedes-Benz gullwing with unbroken ownership history.

These are not restored show cars sourced from classifieds. They are acquisition-committee-approved assets with verified chassis numbers, service histories, and comparable auction benchmarks — sourced through private networks before they reach public sale.

The Genesis Collection — the first 3 to 5 vehicles fractionalized on the platform — will be announced ahead of the primary mint. Members will have full provenance documentation before a single fraction is offered.

No — and this separation is the architectural point of the dual-layer economy.

The value of a fractional car NFT is pegged strictly to the independently appraised value of the underlying physical vehicle. It does not track $PCS price, crypto market sentiment, or broader token volatility.

A 1960s Ferrari doesn't care what ETH is doing. Its appraised value is determined by automotive historians, comparable auction results, and condition reports — all of which are documented, on-chain, and updated quarterly.

The $PCS token and the car NFTs are deliberately decoupled. One is a high-velocity growth asset driven by membership demand. The other is a stable, real-world-anchored store of value. You can hold both, either, or neither — the risk profile of each is independent.