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# Burning Tokens

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Burning tokens will destroy them forever and therefore decrease the total supply. This can be used to make the token deflationary and hype up the community
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To burn tokens, simply click on the `Burn Tokens 🔥` button under `Menu > My Tokens > [Name]` and follow the instructions. You will be prompted to submit the amount of tokens to be burned.

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Make sure you still have tokens left in the contract, otherwise it won't be possible. This can happen if you added 100% to the liquidity pool, if you sold or airdropped everything, or renounced the contract.
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Reply to the message and wait for the bot to estimate gas for this transaction. If you see the following menu pop up, you will know that your transaction will likely succeed with your desired input. Click `Confirm 🔥` and wait for the transaction to finish.&#x20;

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If you burn more than 2% of the supply, i will appear as an announcement in the [DEVbot Token Alerts](https://t.me/DEVbotTokenAlerts).
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