# Is it possible to burn SUI

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**Created:** [October 20, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/is-it-possible-to-burn-sui/46246 "2024-10-20T18:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mr.Jones](https://forums.sui.io/u/Mr.Jones)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/is-it-possible-to-burn-sui/46246/1 "2024-10-20T18:19:36Z")

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I have an idea of a dapp that would motivate people to burn SUI, reducing its supply and driving deflation.

I need a way to burn the SUI token, something that would show up on charts.

Is it possible?

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**Author:** ![alinachan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sui/user_avatar/forums.sui.io/alinachan/32/30563_2.png) [@alinachan](https://forums.sui.io/u/alinachan)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/is-it-possible-to-burn-sui/46246/2 "2024-10-21T07:14:37Z")

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Technically, it’s possible to “burn” SUI, but not in the same way as other tokens.

In Sui’s design, burning a token usually involves calling the `coin::burn` function, which reduces the total supply via the `TreasuryCap`. However, for SUI specifically, the `TreasuryCap` was destroyed at genesis when the SUI token was created, which means that there’s no `TreasuryCap` to decrease the supply anymore.

This means that while you can create a mechanism in your dApp to send SUI to an inaccessible address (effectively removing it from circulation), it won’t reflect in charts as a reduction in the total supply of SUI. It would still show up on the blockchain, but it wouldn’t impact the overall supply in a way that directly drives deflation through a decrease in the official token supply.

If you’re looking to create a deflationary mechanism, you might need to work on a system that achieves this indirectly, for instance by encouraging users to lock or make SUI inaccessible in some other way.

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**Author:** ![snfaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@snfaya](https://forums.sui.io/u/snfaya)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/is-it-possible-to-burn-sui/46246/3 "2025-05-01T21:58:38Z")

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From what I’ve seen online, there is a burner option here: Sui Manager website (suimanager . com)

Is this official and reliable? Thanks