Terra Classic burns pick up pace after the community tripled its transaction tax
Terra Classic's $LUNC burn rate has accelerated after the community passed Governance Proposal #12223, tripling the on-chain transaction tax to 1.5%. Binance's monthly burn program and on-chain activity have now removed over 456 billion tokens from circulation.
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Terra Classic's $LUNC token traded at $0.00005497 on August 27, up 4.44% on the day, as renewed attention falls on the network's accelerating token burn program. The move follows one of the most significant governance decisions on the chain in over a year.
Community triples the burn tax
The Terra Classic community enacted its largest tokenomics change in over a year, raising the on-chain transaction burn tax from 0.5% to 1.5% via Governance Proposal #12223, effective August 2, 2026. The proposal passed with 96.2% approval. Under the new structure, 1.2% of every on-chain transaction is permanently burned, with 0.15% directed to the Community Pool and 0.15% to the Oracle Pool.
The tax applies only to on-chain transactions, while exchanges like Binance run separate voluntary burn programs. The governance change led to the burn of over 2.04 billion $LUNC in August alone, bringing the historical cumulative burn above 455 billion tokens. LuncScan data puts cumulative burns at 456.1 billion tokens, representing 6.6% of total supply.
Binance adds to deflationary pressure
Binance completed its latest monthly Terra Classic buy-back-and-burn on August 1, 2026, permanently removing 275,649,084 $LUNC from circulation. The burn represents 50% of trading fees generated from LUNC-linked pairs on the exchange during July 2026. The exchange's monthly program has now contributed roughly 87.43 billion $LUNC to the overall supply reduction since its inception.
Thursday's on-chain burns alone passed 72 million tokens against a circulating supply of 5.54 trillion. The pace of reduction remains slow relative to supply: meaningful price impact would require sustained high transaction volumes, stronger demand, and broader ecosystem developments beyond burns alone.
Sources:
CoinMarketCap: Terra Classic Latest Updates and Governance Proposal #12223
CoinReporter: Binance Executes Monthly LUNC Burn, August 2026
DailyCoin: LUNC Burn Rate Erupts 300% After Governance Vote
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