# TINU TINU follows the value of UNIT, which represents **the principal part of the crypto market**. It creates a currency utility on top of UNIT, giving the unit of account UNIT the power of a cryptographic token. As a result, crypto participants can go **long** by holding TINU and **short** the entire crypto market **for the first time** by borrowing it and selling it. Now, we can easily and efficiently make decisions on the entire value of the market **by only using TINU**. The following articles describe how TINU is **collateralized, minted, and burned**. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.unitindex.org/theunit/unit-etf/intro.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.