Gate completes Q2 2026 GT burn worth more than $17.75 million

The exchange said 2,570,063.3829548 GT were sent to a burn address, taking cumulative GateToken burns since 2019 to 189,947,219 GT worth over $1.311 billion.

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Summary

Gate said it has completed the on-chain burn (permanently removing tokens from circulation) of 2,570,063.3829548 GT for Q2 2026, with the destroyed tokens valued at more than $17.75 million. The company said the tokens were sent to a burn address, a standard mechanism used to make crypto assets unrecoverable and reduce circulating supply. Since the launch of Gate Chain mainnet in 2019, cumulative GT burns have reached 189,947,219 GT worth over $1.311 billion, cutting total supply from 300 million by about 63.32%.

Terms & Concepts
  • on-chain burn: Permanent token removal recorded on a blockchain.
  • burn address: Wallet address used to make tokens unrecoverable.
  • Gate Chain mainnet: Gate's live public blockchain network.