Burning destroys a token or NFT you no longer want and closes any accounts that held it, so their SOL deposits go back to the owner. Sol Incinerator has been live since December 2021, and our transaction index starts on August 9, 2022. Here's what the 63 million burns recorded since then show.
How many tokens and NFTs have been burned through Sol Incinerator?
From August 9, 2022 to October 6, 2026, Sol Incinerator burned 63,332,728 assets: 41,946,826 token accounts, 21,377,731 NFTs and 8,171 .sol domains. Those burns returned 198,660 SOL in account deposits before fees. Compressed NFTs were the most-burned NFT type, at 9,731,020.
| Asset type | Burned | SOL returned (before fees) | Average per burn |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPL Token accounts | 37,625,040 | 76,641.7 | 0.00204 SOL |
| Token-2022 accounts | 4,321,786 | 9,099.2 | 0.00211 SOL |
| Compressed NFTs | 9,731,020 | 0 | 0 SOL |
| Standard NFTs | 9,037,450 | 93,251.8 | 0.0103 SOL |
| Programmable NFTs | 1,339,335 | 15,388.5 | 0.0115 SOL |
| Core assets | 762,549 | 1,153.6 | 0.00151 SOL |
| Open Creator Protocol NFTs | 366,938 | 1,585.6 | 0.00432 SOL |
| Print editions | 139,973 | 1,332.4 | 0.00952 SOL |
| .sol domains | 8,171 | 187.8 | 0.0230 SOL |
| Tokenized .sol domains | 466 | 19.6 | 0.0420 SOL |
| Total | 63,332,728 | 198,660.3 |
Rows may not add up exactly to the total because of rounding. Standard NFTs were burned less than a quarter as often as token accounts, yet they returned more SOL: 93,251.8 against 85,740.9 for SPL Token and Token-2022 burns combined. Burning a standard NFT returns SOL from its token account plus its metadata and edition accounts, so the average burn returned about five times a token account's deposit.
How have NFT burns changed by standard?
| Year | NFTs burned | Standard | Programmable | Compressed | Core | Editions and other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (from August 9) | 3,879,825 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 | 3,641,397 | 73.1% | 10.5% | 8.2% | 0% | 8.2% |
| 2024 | 8,433,409 | 20.5% | 8.2% | 69.1% | 0.6% | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 4,193,545 | 14.2% | 5.0% | 74.4% | 5.0% | 1.4% |
| 2026 (to October 6) | 1,229,555 | 13.8% | 4.8% | 39.5% | 40.5% | 1.4% |
Every NFT burn in our 2022 data was a standard NFT. Programmable NFTs first appear in March 2023, compressed NFTs in June 2023 and Core assets in August 2024. Compressed NFTs then made up most NFT burns in 2024 and 2025, and 2024 was the busiest year, with 8,433,409 NFTs burned. In 2026, Core assets overtook compressed NFTs for the first time: 498,511 Core burns against 485,531 compressed. The lead is narrow: 9,297 wallets made those Core burns and the busiest 10 made 39% of them, while 35,726 wallets burned compressed NFTs.
Why burn NFTs that return no SOL?
A compressed NFT lives in a shared tree instead of its own accounts, so it has no deposit to give back. Burning one only removes it from your wallet. That was reason enough for 9,731,020 burns, more than any other NFT type in our data, and none of them returned SOL.
Core assets sit in between. Each one is a single account, so a burn returned 0.00151 SOL on average, less than an SPL Token account's deposit.
How did token burns change?
| Year | Token accounts burned | Token-2022 share |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 (from August 9) | 1,198,352 | 0% |
| 2023 | 2,208,753 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 17,629,775 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | 17,035,544 | 12.4% |
| 2026 (to October 6) | 3,874,402 | 46.1% |
Token burns peaked in 2024 and 2025, at more than 17 million token accounts a year. Token-2022's share rose from 2.3% in 2024 to 46.1% in 2026 so far, the same shift toward Token-2022 that our token account closure data shows for empty accounts.
Download the data
The full yearly series is free to use: solana-burns-by-asset-type-2022-2026.csv. Each row is one UTC calendar year and asset type, with the number burned, the lamports and SOL returned before fees, and the first and last day the row covers. The 2022 rows start on August 9 and the 2026 rows end on October 6.
If you use these figures, please cite them as: Sol Incinerator, "Solana Burn Statistics: 63M Burns via Sol Incinerator, 2022–2026," data through October 6, 2026, https://sol-incinerator.com/blog/solana-burn-statistics.
How we counted
- Source: Sol Incinerator's production transaction index, which starts on August 9, 2022. Burns from December 2021 to August 8, 2022 aren't in the index and aren't counted.
- What counts as a burn: one asset destroyed through Sol Incinerator. A token burn is one SPL Token or Token-2022 account whose balance was burned and which was then closed. An NFT burn is one standard, programmable, compressed, Core, Open Creator Protocol, print edition or tokenized .sol domain NFT. A .sol domain burn is one domain. Closes of already-empty accounts, surplus withdrawals and other operations are excluded.
- SOL returned: the lamports each burn released from the accounts it closed or emptied, which go to the asset's owner. Figures are before Sol Incinerator's service fees and the network's transaction fees. Compressed NFTs have no accounts of their own and are recorded at 0.
- Groupings: "Print editions" combines standard and programmable editions. "Editions and other" in the yearly NFT table also includes Open Creator Protocol NFTs and tokenized .sol domains. Counting tokenized domains, 8,637 .sol domains were destroyed in total.
- Scope: these are burns made through Sol Incinerator only, not every burn on Solana. Years are UTC calendar years, and the data was queried on October 7, 2026.
Burn what you don't want
Sol Incinerator's Pro Mode burns tokens, NFTs, editions, compressed NFTs and .sol domains, closes any accounts that held them and shows what you'll get back before you approve anything. Burns can't be undone, so swap anything that still has a market first.
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