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How to burn SUI Tokens?
How can I burn SUI tokens and what is the correct burn address?
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To burn SUI tokens, simply send them to the official burn address: `0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000005`. Sending tokens to this address locks them permanently, removing them from circulation and reducing the total supply. You can do this through your wallet’s transfer function by entering the burn address as the recipient. Be careful to confirm the address since burning is irreversible and may incur transaction fees. For more details, see: [Sui Tokenomics and Burn](https://docs.sui.io/concepts/tokenomics)
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6The burn address is 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
You can either continue to ignore it or send it to the burn address. The burn address is 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
To burn SUI tokens, you simply send them to the official burn address on the Sui blockchain. Any tokens sent there are permanently removed from circulation because the address has no private key and cannot be accessed.
The official burn address is:
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Burning is typically used for reducing supply or discarding unwanted test tokens. Always double‑check before sending, as this process is irreversible.
You can either continue to ignore it or send it to the burn address.
If you want to burn SUI tokens, you can't simply send them to a generic "burn address" like you might on some other blockchains. The SUI network has a different way of handling this through its core architecture. SUI uses a system of "Treasury Capabilities" to control the creation and destruction of tokens. For SUI specifically, the TreasuryCap was destroyed when the SUI token was first created, which means there is no central mechanism to officially "burn" SUI in a way that is reflected in the total supply on charts. However, you can effectively remove SUI tokens from circulation by sending them to an inaccessible address that nobody can use, which is a common practice for burning tokens on other chains. While this won't change the official total supply number on the network, it does make the tokens unusable and is a way for you to permanently take them out of circulation. The gas fees paid for transactions on the SUI network are also partially burned, which helps to reduce the total circulating supply over time in an automated way.
You can read more about this process and the Sui Network's object-based design at: https://docs.sui.io/standards/coin
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