BNB Chain has successfully completed its 36th quarterly token burn, permanently removing 1,615,827.795 BNB from circulation. According to the official announcement on July 15, 2026, the burned tokens were worth approximately $932 million at the time of the transaction. This event marks the third quarterly burn of the year and brings the total remaining supply to 133,166,127.91 BNB.
The burn was executed directly on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) as part of the BNB Chain Fusion process. All future quarterly burns will follow the same method, sending BNB to the verifiably inaccessible blackhole address (0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD). The Auto-Burn system uses a formula based on BNB’s market price and the number of blocks produced on BSC during the quarter, ensuring transparency and independence from the centralized exchange.
The latest burn amount surpasses the previous quarter’s event in April 2026, which destroyed 1,569,307.34 BNB (worth $1.02 billion at the time) and left the supply at roughly 134.79 million. With the new burn, BNB Chain moves closer to its long-term target of 100 million BNB — ultimately halving the original maximum supply.
Alongside the quarterly Auto-Burn, BNB Chain continues its real-time fee-burning mechanism under BEP-95. Since its introduction, validators have burned a fixed portion of each block’s gas fees, permanently removing around 291,000 BNB. While supply reduction can influence scarcity, BNB’s market price also depends on demand and broader conditions.
The supply contraction comes as institutional interest in BNB grows. Earlier this year, VanEck launched the first U.S. spot BNB exchange-traded fund on Nasdaq, further integrating the asset into regulated financial products.
