Token Burn
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
Fret not, there are no virtual fires here. A token burn event refers when an amount of tokens are removed from the circulating supply, this is done either by sending the tokens to a burn address "addresses with very improbable private key generation chance", or to a smart contract that is meant to delete the tokens.
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