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The BNB Foundation has reached its 31st quarterly token burn, taking 1,579,207 tokens out of circulation. This colossal decrease, valued at about $916 million at today’s prices, reaffirms the project’s long-standing dedication to reduce its overall supply.

Burn Size Records Marginal Decline From All-Time High

The latest burn is reported as a dip from the previous quarter’s all-time record. The 30th quarterly burn destroyed 1.634 million tokens worth approximately $1.16 billion. The earlier burn destroyed 1.524 million tokens via the Auto-Burn system and approximately 110,000 units via the Pioneer Burn Program. The latest burn didn’t see any tokens from the Pioneer program.

The 31st quarterly $BNB token burn has been completed directly on BNB Smart Chain (BSC).

1.57M BNB has been burned 🔥

View burn details 👇https://t.co/u6HT0dLyFe pic.twitter.com/7jWUC9DgC0

— BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) April 16, 2025

Token Supply Close To Halfway Point To Achieve Target Goal

By means of this last cut, BNB has collectively burned around 40.89 million tokens now. At a price of $581 per token, this equates to the value of some $23.75 billion eradicated from supply forever.

The original plan in the ecosystem as described in its whitepaper has been to halve the entire supply from 200 million down to 100 million tokens. The supply that exists now amounts to about 139.311 million tokens, leaving the token almost halfway toward its final mark.

Market Position Continues Strong Even Amid Community Worries

The circulating supply continues to be the fifth-largest in market capitalization, with its value at around $81 billion. It is the leading exchange token in the market.

Some of the community members have raised the issue of whether it is rational to burn amounts this big when the money can be used to fund marketing initiatives instead.

Many have asked: Why don’t you use that money for marketing instead?

Me: It’s not up to me. It was in the whitepaper. A promise is a promise.🤷‍♂️

— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) April 16, 2025

Asked how these issues can be addressed, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao replied that the burn mechanism is a promise set forth in the token’s whitepaper, remarking simply: “A promise is a promise.”

Multiple Burning Methods Drive Systematic Supply Reduction

According to data from the foundation, BNB has two mechanisms in place to control its token supply. The first is the quarterly Auto-Burn which varies according to price and network usage. The second occurs real-time via BEP95, burning tokens within gas fees network-wide. All tokens burned are directed into a provable “black hole” address where they are irretrievable from circulation.

The Binance coin token has various roles in its ecosystem, fueling transactions on BNB Smart Chain, opBNB, and Greenfield networks. In addition to paying for transaction fees, it is used as a governance token and reserve asset and also fuels ecosystem growth.

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Coinbase exchange has made significant improvements to its Solana network infrastructure to enhance speed, resiliency, and scalability. The exchange further said that certain technical improvements have been implemented that have boosted performance numbers for Solana transactions on the exchange.

Coinbase doubles down on Solana ecosystem commitment

As per Coinbase’s announcement, the enhancements comprise asynchronously processing transactions. This has seen block processing throughput increase five times. The company has also introduced bare metal machines that have seen RPC (Remote Procedure Call) performance improve four times. These enhancements come with better failover mechanisms, liquidity optimizations, and enhanced operating controls to enhance the overall system resilience.

We’ve been hard at work scaling our @Solana infrastructure to be faster, more resilient, and more scalable.

We have upgraded our systems to:
→ Process transactions asynchronously, leading to a 5x improvement in block processing throughput.
→ Leverage bare metal machines for 4x… pic.twitter.com/WFINzCutNK

— Coinbase Platform (@CoinbasePltfrm) April 17, 2025

Coinbase upgraded its infrastructure, which means it wants to improve its Solana features as more and more people use the blockchain. The exchange highlighted that these technology upgrades will enable it to process transactions more effectively and dependably for senders and receivers of SOL and Solana tokens.

Coinbase said that this work is part of their dedication to achieving the best performance for Solana transactions. The company said that they will keep working on it and plan to invest more in Solana infrastructure to keep up with the growing demand as the network grows.

The upgrades are happening now because more institutional investors and developers are becoming interested in Solana. Coinbase has changed how it manages Solana’s fast blockchain by processing transactions at the same time. The announcement comes as Canada is set to approve multiple spot Solana ETFs this week.

SOL price shows bullish indicators amid institutional interest

As Coinbase improves its technical infrastructure for Solana, analysts are noting positive price action for SOL. Analyst Andrew Griffiths has identified several bullish technical indicators in his recent analysis of Solana’s price movements.

According to Griffiths, Solana has broken out of a descending parallel channel on the daily chart, retouched the trendline, and begun moving upward. The price has remained above the 21-day exponential moving average (EMA) for several days and remains above solid support around the $117 level.

#SOL Solana is showing signs of bullish momentum:

**Daily Analysis:**
– Price has broken out of a descending parallel channel, retouched the trendline, and is on the rise.
– Closed above EMA21 for several days, overcoming an initial hurdle!
– Price is above strong support around… pic.twitter.com/phvoODMj5o

— Andrew Griffiths (@AndrewGriUK) April 17, 2025

Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicators are still in a bearish trend on daily charts but are moving closer to the positive axis.

MACD and RSI are both bullish on the 4-hour time frame. Price is over the 22-period EMA, and the 21-period EMA is over the 55-period EMA. The 200-period EMA has been stable with current price action, and current candles have closed over all EMAs.

Institutional interest in SOL also appears to be growing, with analyst Gordon reporting that real estate firm Janover has purchased an additional 80,567 SOL worth approximately $10.5 million. This acquisition brings Janover’s total Solana holdings to 163,651 SOL in its treasury.

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Vignesh Karunanidhi

Vignesh Karunanidhi is a seasoned crypto journalist with nearly 7 years of experience in the cryptocurrency industry. He has contributed to numerous publications, including WatcherGuru, BeInCrypto, Milkroad, and authored over 10,000 articles

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