BNB Chain completed its 37th quarterly burn on October 19, 2026 and in doing so removed 1,646,196.44 BNB from circulation for good. Total supply has stood at 131,512,085 BNB ever since. At the time of the operation, the burned amount was worth around $1.197 billion.
For you as a holder, the billion-dollar figure matters less than the direction: the supply of the fourth-largest cryptocurrency keeps shrinking under a fixed procedure, and the price has barely reacted to it. BNB is quoted at $741.49, 3.36 percent higher than a week ago. This article sorts out what exactly happened, how the procedure does its arithmetic, and what a tighter supply means for your decisions.
Quarterly Burn of October 19: 1,646,196 BNB Are Out of Supply
A burn is the final destruction of tokens: the tokens land at an address from which nobody can withdraw anything again, and they therefore disappear from supply. BNB Chain documented the operation on its blog and also linked the transaction on BNB Smart Chain there, so the destruction can be verified publicly. The entry is dated Monday morning, October 19, 2026.
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