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Burn Tokens on Arc

Name: Burn Tokens on Arc
Price: 50 USDC
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Burning removes tokens from circulation permanently. Unlike sending them to a wallet you control, a burn is verifiable: total supply falls, and the tokens can never come back. Projects burn to reduce supply after a buyback, to destroy unsold allocation, to correct a minting mistake, or to give a deflationary token its mechanics. This tool burns a chosen amount from your balance and shows you the new total supply before you sign.

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Token Burn

Onchain tool

Service fee: 50 USDC flat
Network: Arc Mainnet
Gas token: USDC (18 decimals)
Custody: Non-custodial

One 50 USDC payment per use, charged on Arc Mainnet. No percentage of your token, no subscription.

Workspace

Burn tokens and watch supply fall

Pick the token, choose whether the tokens come from your wallet or from the contract's own balance, and see the resulting total supply before you sign. After the receipt lands the tool re-reads totalSupply() so the reduction is a verified number, not a claim.

What a burn actually does

Four steps, one irreversible transaction.

1Point at the tokenArctools reads the token's own interface — name, symbol, decimals, total supply and whether your wallet is its owner — so the figures you see come from Arc Mainnet, not from a cached estimate.
2Choose the source of the tokensBurn from your own balance, or, when you are the owner and the token supports it, burn tokens the contract holds itself such as an unsold allocation.
3See the resulting supply before you signThe preview subtracts your amount from total supply, so the reduction is a number you approve rather than a surprise in the block explorer.
4Verify the new supply afterwardsOnce the receipt lands, the tool reads totalSupply() again and shows the confirmed figure beside the burn transaction.

1. Token and amount

Any ERC-20 on Arc Mainnet that exposes a burn function.

Token address*

Arctools never asks for a private key and never holds your tokens — the burn is signed in your wallet and settles directly on Arc.

Amount to burn*

Connect a wallet to read the balance you can burn from.

Current supply

tokens

Burning

—

enter an amount

Supply after

—

tokens

Reduction

—

of total supply

2. Burn mode

Both modes reduce total supply. They differ in whose balance is destroyed.

What the transaction itself costs

A burn calls the token contract directly — there is no Arctools contract in the path — so the only cost attached to the transaction is Arc network gas, which is denominated in USDC like every other asset on Arc. It is one ordinary transaction, and it is final as soon as it is included.

3. Burn

Connect a wallet to continue

You stay in control — Arctools never takes custody of your tokens or liquidity.

Mode

Wallet

burn(amount)

Burning

—

tokens

This cannot be undone

A burn is irreversible by construction. The amount above leaves total supply permanently — no owner function, no upgrade and no recovery tool can bring it back. Check the amount and the mode before you sign.

Enter the token contract address you want to burn from.

Service fee50 USDC

NetworkArc Mainnet · chain 5042

Gas tokenUSDC (18 decimals)

CustodyNon-custodial

Burn or dead address: what actually changes

Sending tokens to 0x…dead and calling burn() look similar in a wallet and are very different onchain. One changes the token's supply; the other leaves the supply untouched and only moves tokens out of your balance. The table below is the difference that matters to anyone reading a blockchain explorer, a market-cap listing or a holder snapshot.

Comparison of a real burn against sending tokens to a dead address
What you measure	Real burn() — this tool	Sending to a dead address
totalSupply() on the token	Falls by exactly the amount burned. The number is a fact you can read back from the contract.	Unchanged. The tokens still exist — they simply sit at an address nobody controls.
Supply shown on the Arc Explorer	Reflects the smaller supply, because the explorer reads the same totalSupply() you just changed.	Still reports the original supply, since no contract state changed.
Market-cap and supply metrics	Trackers that multiply supply by price record the reduction as soon as they refresh.	Anything that divides by supply still counts the dead-address tokens, so supply understates the burn.
Holder distribution	The burned amount appears in no holder's balance and in no snapshot of holders.	The sink address becomes one of the largest holders, which is why snapshots let you exclude it.
Onchain evidence	A Burned event emitted by the token plus a lower totalSupply() — two independent proofs.	An ordinary Transfer event to a well-known address. Nothing distinguishes it from a normal payment.
Can the tokens come back?	No. The contract's own accounting destroyed them; there is no function that recreates them.	No, but the supply still claims they exist, so the books never balance again.

Why projects burn supply on Arc

The common case is a buyback: tokens are bought back from the market and destroyed instead of being parked in a treasury wallet, so the reduction is visible to everyone rather than a promise about what will happen to a balance you cannot see.

The second common case is unsold allocation. A launch that reserved tokens for a presale, a team, or an incentives program can burn the share nobody claimed, which removes the overhang of tokens that could have been sold later. When those tokens sit with the token contract itself, the treasury mode here destroys them without moving anything through a wallet first.

Tokens with a burn mechanic use the same function as a permanent part of their economics — the Arc Token Launch template can route a share of every collected tax to a burn, which is a real reduction in supply and not an accounting trick.

What a burn does not do

A burn does not create demand. Supply falls, and if demand is unchanged a smaller supply implies a higher price per token, but in practice the effect is mostly signalling: proof that supply will not be used against holders. Treat the arithmetic as arithmetic, not as a price forecast.

It also cannot reach into anyone else's balance. Only the tokens you hold, or that the contract itself holds in treasury mode, can be destroyed — other holders, allowances and pool reserves are untouched by the amount you enter here.

Burning LP tokens is a different operation entirely: it withdraws liquidity from the pool permanently rather than reducing a token's supply. That is handled by the liquidity tools, and the two should never be confused. If you are holding a pool token and want the underlying assets gone, use Remove Liquidity or Liquidity Locker.

Capabilities

What Burn Tokens on Arc does

Every option you need to permanently destroy tokens to cut supply and prove it on the Arc Explorer — configured before you sign, not patched in afterwards.

Burn from any wallet you control

Choose the wallet holding the tokens and the amount to destroy. Any ERC-20 with a standard burn function on Arc Mainnet is supported.

Supply preview

See current total supply, the amount you are about to burn and the resulting supply before you sign, along with the percentage reduction.

Real burn, not a burn address

The tool calls the token's burn function so total supply genuinely decreases, rather than parking tokens at an address where supply stays inflated onchain.

Post-burn verification

After the transaction settles, the new total supply is read back from Arc Mainnet and linked to the burn transaction on the Arc Explorer.

Batch burns

Burn from several wallets in sequence when tokens are spread across treasury addresses, with a running total of supply destroyed.

Nothing else touched

A burn affects only the amount you specify. Allowances, other holders' balances and pool reserves are untouched.

FAQ

Burn Tokens on Arc — frequently asked questions

Straight answers about how this works on Arc Mainnet, what it costs and what happens onchain.

Does burning tokens increase the price?

Burning reduces supply, and if demand is unchanged a smaller supply implies a higher price per token. In practice the effect is usually sentiment rather than arithmetic: a burn is a visible commitment that supply will not be used against holders. It does not create demand on its own.

What is the difference between burning and sending to a burn address?

A real burn calls the token's burn function, which reduces total supply — the supply figure on the Arc Explorer actually falls. Sending to a dead address moves the tokens out of circulation but leaves total supply unchanged, so market-cap and supply metrics still count them. Scanners know the difference.

Can a burned token be recovered?

No. Burning is irreversible by construction. There is no admin function that can recreate the tokens, and no address holds them. Treat a burn as permanent before you sign.

Can I burn tokens I did not create?

Yes, if the token exposes a burn function and you hold the balance. Burning tokens you own is always within your rights; the tool will not let you burn tokens you do not hold, and it will not touch anyone else's balance.

Does burning affect liquidity pools?

Only if you burn LP tokens or tokens held in the pool. Burning tokens from your own wallet leaves pool reserves untouched. Burning LP tokens is a different operation — it withdraws the underlying liquidity permanently, which is handled by the liquidity tools rather than the burner.

How much does a burn cost on Arc?

The Arctools flat fee of 50 USDC covers the burn session, plus Arc network gas which is paid in USDC. Burning is a single cheap transaction on Arc, and because finality is under a second the supply change is visible almost immediately.

More questions? Read the full FAQ or contact the team.

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