Minting is issuance: the act that brings new tokens into existence, recorded on-chain, authorized by the mint authority the token designates. Who can mint, and when, is the supply-side question every holder should ask: an unrestricted minter can dilute you to zero.
Disciplined issuers publish their mint policy: frozen supply, mint-only-against-reserves, or authority renounced outright. On chains with programmable tokens the authority itself is a public configuration, so the policy is verifiable, not aspirational.
Diligence sections on the asset pages state each token's mint and freeze authorities and the verified supply, pulled from the chain at generation time, so the supply-side facts precede the trade.
Every term behind the rails, the assets, and the settlement.