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Polygon burns 100 million POL tokens, but why is its price still struggling?

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Polygon permanently burned 100 million POL tokens, and another 22 million POL was added to the next planned burn. The 100 million-token burn was described as about 1% of POL’s total supply, while the 22 million tokens were described as about 0.2% of total supply.

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Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said 22 million POL was added to the next planned token burn.
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Sandeep Nailwal said that completed burn was about 1% of POL’s total supply.
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Polygon permanently burned 100 million POL tokens.

What it means

Polygon holders and people watching POL saw a completed burn and a separate planned burn update on the same token. That means the supply figures discussed for POL changed in public, with one burn already completed and another amount identified for a future burn.

Before these updates, the token had not had this completed burn figure attached to it in the same way, and the next burn amount was also being identified separately. What stays the same is that the team had not fully disclosed how Polygon OMS will affect POL.

Market reaction i

POL (ex-MATIC)POL the headline names this asset
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-0.7% 2 h before
+2.9% 4 h after
$0.1034price at publication
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