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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

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