# Price Floor The combination of the Token Freeze and Token Thaw mechanisms enable the Commons the opportunity to engineer a **price floor**, which significantly decreases the investment risk associated with purchasing TEC tokens vs other digital assets, increasing the attractiveness of our token and thus the probability of reaching our funding goal. Simply put, a **price floor** is the guaranteed minimum possible price at which TEC tokens may be priced at a specific point in time. Early buyers of TEC tokens benefit from the price floor in that their investment will never drop below a certain threshold amount, thus reducing the market risk inherent in the purchase of a digital asset.