On April 15th, 2018, Binance - the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world- completed its burn of 2,220,314 BNB (roughly $30 million equivalent) in the Third quarter.
Why did
Binance burn its tokens? In order to push up BNB price, Binance has planed to burn its tokens on a quarterly basis and spend 20% of its profit to buy back the tokens, thus reducing the market supply. The exchange is likely to earn more profits cause it can provide user-friendly system widely. Exchange having its own tokens is also a great thing because the token holders can enjoy a discount of 50% of the transaction fees. It is such an attractive incentive and encourages more investors to hold the token.
BNB is an ERC-20 based token, developed on Ethereum network. However, Binance claimed to build up and develop its own blockchain named Binance Chain.
How does Binance burn tokens?
The report stated that Binance would make the burns on a quarterly basis, depending on the exchange’s profit. The company will spend 20% of its profit on buying BNB back and burn them until there are only 50% of the total supply in the market. Up to now, Binance have completed 2 burns:
The first one was on October 15th, 2017 with 986,000 BNB burned.
The second one was on January 15th, 2018 with 1,821,586 BNB burned.
and the third one was on April 15th, 2018 with 2,220,314 BNB burned.
At press time, BNB is trading at $13 and 2,220,314 BNB have just been burned.
Rothscointeam.