The chief executive of the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume says that the platform has torched $575 million worth of its native asset in its latest quarterly burn.
In a new blog post, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says that the crypto exchange has destroyed a total of 2,064,494 Binance Coin (BNB) in its 22nd overall burning event and first quarterly burn of 2023.
Binance says it plans to perform coin burns every quarter until it eliminates a total of 100 million BNB from circulation – half of the token’s overall supply. The exchange says it destroys its own utility token in an effort to reduce BNB supply and potentially increase its value.
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BNB’s maximum supply did technically rise in October after a hack of
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