BNB Chain burns $932M worth of BNB in 36th quarterly token burn

$BNB Chain has completed its 36th quarterly token burn, permanently removing 1,615,827.795 $BNB worth approximately $932 million from circulation as the network continues its long term plan to reduce the token’s total supply to 100 million $BNB.

Following the burn, $BNB’s remaining total supply stands at 133,166,127.91 tokens. The latest burn marks the third quarterly burn carried out in 2026 and slightly exceeded the estimated burn amount of roughly 1.615 million $BNB.

The 36th burn also marks a change in execution following $BNB Chain Fusion. Beginning with this event, quarterly burns are now carried out directly on $BNB Smart Chain, with the burned tokens sent to the network’s blackhole address instead of using the previous process.

$BNB’s Auto Burn mechanism determines the amount of tokens destroyed each quarter using a formula based on the average $BNB price and the number of blocks produced on $BNB Smart Chain.

The process is designed to operate independently of Binance’s centralized exchange and will continue until half of $BNB’s original 200 million token supply has been permanently removed.

In addition to the quarterly Auto Burn, $BNB also features a real time burn mechanism introduced through BEP95, which permanently removes a portion of gas fees from every block. According to $BNB Chain, roughly 291,000 $BNB have been destroyed through that mechanism since its launch.