Burn Mechanism

How FORGE becomes more scarce over time through automatic and permanent token burning.

How Burns Work

A portion of every trading fee collected by the platform is used to permanently destroy FORGE tokens:

User places a trade on a prediction market
The 5% platform fee is collected from the losing side upon resolution
A percentage of that fee is allocated to FORGE buyback
Purchased FORGE tokens are sent to the burn address (0x000...dead)
Burned tokens are removed from circulation forever

Burn Mechanics

Property	Value
Burn Method	Automatic — triggered by platform fees
Burn Address	`0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD`
Reversible?	No — permanently destroyed
Re-mintable?	No — hard cap enforced by smart contract
Manual Burns	Any holder can burn their own tokens via `burn(amount)`

Deflationary Impact

More trading = more burns — as platform volume grows, burn rate accelerates
Supply shrinks permanently — 1B is the theoretical max, actual supply only decreases
Increasing scarcity — remaining tokens become more scarce over time

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Transparency: All burns are on-chain and verifiable on BscScan. You can track total tokens burned at any time by checking the dead address balance.

Treasury Buyback & Burn

In addition to automatic fee-based burns, the treasury reserve allocation (10% / 100M FORGE) can be used for periodic buyback & burn campaigns:

The protocol treasury can buy FORGE from the open market and burn it
This is a discretionary mechanism controlled by the team multi-sig
Buyback events are announced and executed transparently on-chain