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Burn a token

Burns fungible and non-fungible tokens owned by the Treasury Account. If no Supply Key is defined, the transaction will resolve to TOKEN_HAS_NO_SUPPLY_KEY.
  • The operation decreases the Total Supply of the Token.
  • Total supply cannot go below zero.
  • The amount provided must be in the lowest denomination possible.
    • Example: Token A has 2 decimals. In order to burn 100 tokens, one must provide an amount of 10000. In order to burn 100.55 tokens, one must provide an amount of 10055.
  • This transaction accepts zero unit token burn operations for fungible tokens (HIP-564)
Transaction Signing Requirements
  • Supply key
  • Transaction fee payer account key
Transaction Fees
  • Please see the transaction and query fees table for base transaction fee
  • Please use the Hedera fee estimator to estimate your transaction fee cost

Methods

Method
Type
Description
Requirement
setTokenId(<tokenId>)
TokenId
The ID of the token to burn supply
Required
setAmount(<amount>)
long
The number of tokens to burn (fungible tokens)
Optional
setSerials(<serials>)
List<long>
Applicable to tokens of type NON_FUNGIBLE_UNIQUE.The list of NFT serial IDs to burn.
Optional
addSerial(<serial>)
long
Applicable to tokens of type NON_FUNGIBLE_UNIQUE.The serial ID to burn.
Optional
Java
JavaScript
Go
//Burn 1,000 tokens
TokenBurnTransaction transaction = new TokenBurnTransaction()
.setTokenId(tokenId)
.setAmount(1000);
//Freeze the unsigned transaction, sign with the supply private key of the token, submit the transaction to a Hedera network
TransactionResponse txResponse = transaction.freezeWith(client).sign(supplyKey).execute(client);
//Request the receipt of the transaction
TransactionReceipt receipt = txResponse.getReceipt(client);
//Obtain the transaction consensus status
Status transactionStatus = receipt.status;
System.out.println("The transaction consensus status is " +transactionStatus);
//v2.0.1
//Burn 1,000 tokens and freeze the unsigned transaction for manual signing
const transaction = await new TokenBurnTransaction()
.setTokenId(tokenId)
.setAmount(1000)
.freezeWith(client);
//Sign with the supply private key of the token
const signTx = await transaction.sign(supplyKey);
//Submit the transaction to a Hedera network
const txResponse = await signTx.execute(client);
//Request the receipt of the transaction
const receipt = await txResponse.getReceipt(client);
//Get the transaction consensus status
const transactionStatus = receipt.status;
console.log("The transaction consensus status " +transactionStatus.toString());
//v2.0.7
//Burn 1,000 tokens and freeze the unsigned transaction for manual signing
transaction, err = hedera.NewTokenBurnTransaction().
SetTokenID(tokenId).
SetAmount(1000).
FreezeWith(client)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
//Sign with the supply private key of the token, submit the transaction to a Hedera network
txResponse, err := transaction.Sign(supplyKey).Execute(client)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
//Request the receipt of the transaction
receipt, err = txResponse.GetReceipt(client)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
//Get the transaction consensus status
status := receipt.Status
fmt.Printf("The transaction consensus status is %v\n", status)
//v2.1.0