Polygon is preparing a permissionless contract that allows any user to permanently burn 100 million POL tokens. The contract is currently on testnet and will move to mainnet after final signatures from the Security Council.
The burn represents approximately 83 percent of tokens held in Polygon's base-fee collector, which contains 121 million POL, according to Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal. The 100 million tokens equal 1 percent of POL's initial supply of 10 billion tokens. Based on Blockscout data, the total supply stands at approximately 10.716 billion POL, making the planned burn roughly 0.93 percent of current supply.
Following this initial reduction, Polygon plans to implement quarterly burns triggered permissionlessly by the community. Base fees on the network are automatically burned; each transaction adds POL to the collector.
The burn will not impose a hard cap on POL supply. Polygon's token documentation outlines 2 percent annual emissions beginning after June 2025. The one-time reduction of 0.93 percent is less than half the projected annual emission rate. Future supply contraction or expansion will depend on the volume of subsequent fee burns relative to new token issuance.
Nailwal said POL has been deflationary since January 2026.
