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Burn & Buy-Back Report: Q2 2025

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Numbers Protocol completed its fourteenth quarterly Burn & Buy-Back cycle on 30 June 2025, permanently removing 6,000,209 $NUM from circulation. The total supply has fallen from 791,863,650 NUM to 785,861,441 NUM, keeping us on pace to retire 50 % of the original one-billion-token allocation.

What was burned this quarter

  • 6,000,000 NUM from network transactions
  • Transactions recorded between 28 March and 27 June 2025 reached 55,218.
  • Applying our formula min(max(52218, 6 M), 25.5 M) triggered the maximum 6 M burn tranche.
  • 209 NUM from DAO governance
  • The 11th DAO vote closed on 21 April 2025 with 34 approvals and 5 rejection. This meant a total of 209 NUM would be burnt.

Burn tx: https://mainnet.num.network/tx/0x1d433e9ad64c2fc058f145950cd861949d3da1c905874cc699332e96a46a9821

The burn represents roughly US $104,000 in removed value — capital that can no longer re-enter the market.

Why the burn matters for the ecosystem

The Burn & Buy-Back mechanism is one pillar of the “provenance proliferation” strategy outlined in our growth blueprint. By systematically lowering circulating supply while transaction volume rises, the programme:

  • Protects token economics — ensuring that network utility, not inflation, drives value.
  • Rewards active contributors — buy-backs are funded by transaction fees generated when creators register assets through Capture Cam, the Capture API, or upcoming verticals such as ProofSnap.
  • Signals network health — steady deflation combined with climbing on-chain activity offers transparent proof that provenance adoption is growing.

For details on the burn formula and its audit trail, see the public GitHub issue that governs the process: https://github.com/numbersprotocol/community-support/issues/283.

Thank you for participating in the Numbers ecosystem. For questions or suggestions, reach the team at service@numbersprotocol.io or join the discussion on Telegram (English): https://t.me/numbers_ann.

Proof of origin becomes proof of values — one quarter at a time.

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