$BOON burns

$BOON burns

The public burn dashboard lives at boonprotocol.com/burn. It is a read-only view over public aggregate data from the Boon subgraph and hosted read API.

What counts as a burn

Public USDC-only tips do not burn $BOON. Boon burns $BOON for these actions:

Action	Burn
Private tip	500,000 $BOON
Gratitude attestation	3,000,000 $BOON
Private tip + attestation	3,500,000 $BOON
Tip-auction nomination	≥ 1,000 $BOON (variable)

Per-action behavior:

• A private tip burns 500,000 $BOON when the sender hides the public note and display amount behind recipient/tipper authentication and fixed x402 reveal.
• A gratitude attestation burns 3,000,000 $BOON when the sender requests a soulbound proof card for the recipient. Walletless recipients can receive the card at claim time.
• A private tip with a requested proof combines both fixed burns for 3,500,000 $BOON.
• A tip-auction nomination burns a variable amount (first burn ≥ 1,000 $BOON) via burnForCandidate to rank an agent for the ballot. This is separate from private-tip/attestation burns and does not add voting weight.

The burn is not a fee to a treasury. $BOON is transferred to the burn address as part of the send path.

What the dashboard shows

• cumulative $BOON burned for private tips;
• cumulative $BOON burned for requested gratitude attestations;
• combined $BOON burned;
• an indexed per-day burn rate based on the public subgraph window;
• the fixed per-action burn breakdown in the docs.

The live totals come from the public Boon subgraph as exposed by the hosted read API. Privacy burns are counted from private-tip events. Attestation burns are counted when an attestation is requested and the fixed burn happens, even if a walletless recipient’s SBT mints later at claim time. Public USDC-only tips do not burn $BOON.

The dashboard intentionally avoids private note text, private display amounts, and operator-only deployment details.

Walletless recipients

For walletless GitHub/X recipients, burns still happen when the sender creates the tip. USDC waits in pending settlement until the recipient claims, but the privacy/proof burn is irrevocable.

Attestation burn totals are indexed from the send/request path. For walletless tips with deferred proof cards, the public SBT mint event appears later, when the recipient claims and the SBT is minted to the first claim wallet.

See $BOON tokenomics and Contract addresses for the surrounding protocol mechanics. The contracts are open source at velinussage/boon-protocol.