In Brief:
- Nexpace has finished its NXPC burn for Q3 2026, taking 3.162 million tokens out of circulation for good.
- Across five cycles since the program started, a total of 14.812 million NXPC has now been destroyed.
- Under a policy Nexpace rolled out in November 2025, each burn is set at 20% of the revenue MapleStory Universe (official site) generates from user activity.
For the third quarter of 2026, Nexpace has sent 3.162 million NXPC to be burned, pushing the cumulative amount destroyed since the program’s launch to 14.812 million tokens.
News of the burn came through a post on X, which pointed to a disclosure on Nexpace’s website. According to the disclosure’s web address, this marks the fifth NXPC burn.
Things have been busy in the Universe.
Here’s another 3.162M $NXPC burned to show for it.MapleStory UniverseView on X ↗
In its post, Nexpace wrote: “This quarter’s burn reflects continued activity across the MSU ecosystem as we keep building for long-term growth.”
How the burn is sized
The size of every burn is tied to 20% of the revenue the MSU ecosystem collects from user activity, meaning fees from things like marketplace trades and in-game enhancement. Grants, treasury operations and external financing are excluded from that calculation.
The tokens are sent to the standard burn address, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD, on the Henesys chain. Because Henesys lacks a native burn function, anything sent to that address is unrecoverable.
After each burn, Nexpace has pledged to release a public report that includes on-chain proof of the transaction.
Five cycles so far
The program kicked off on Nov. 27, 2025, with a burn of 3,840,417.39021874 NXPC, valued at $1.65 million at the time. That initial round spanned two full quarters, Q2 and Q3 of 2025, during which user activity generated 19,202,087 NXPC.
The debut burn eliminated roughly 0.38% of total supply and 1.7% of circulating supply.
A second cycle followed, burning 1.61 million NXPC. The third, on May 21, 2026, drew on Q1 revenue and destroyed about 2.88 million tokens, while the fourth, on July 16, was based on Q2 revenue and removed about 3.33 million.
That July burn remains the biggest to date. On June 24, Nexpace reposted a community account pointing out that the quarter’s burn amount had already topped 3,000,000 NXPC. The bulk of that came from Mapler Shop revenue during the 1st Universary promotion, which ran from May 14 to June 10.
While the latest Q3 burn falls short of July’s figure, it exceeds every other cycle apart from the first.
First-half numbers
In its first-half 2026 report, published Sept. 9, Nexpace reported protocol revenue of 30.98 million NXPC for the period. Over the same timeframe, players earned 28.14 million NXPC in gameplay rewards.
As of June 30, cumulative protocol revenue stood at 58.22 million NXPC. According to the company, roughly 95% of that revenue came from players voluntarily spending on item synthesis and enhancement.
The MSU Marketplace processed 2.74 million transactions during the half, amounting to about 32.1 million NXPC in volume. Nexpace tallied 855,500 wallets created since launch, with 564,700 of them, or 66%, having carried out on-chain transactions.
Nexpace also stated in the report that it plans to continue directing 20% of quarterly revenue toward NXPC burns.
Buyback runs separately
Burning isn’t Nexpace’s only tool for managing supply. In May 2026, the company unveiled an NXPC buyback program worth up to $10 million.
Tokens repurchased under that program, however, are not destroyed. Instead, Nexpace keeps them in its treasury for future use within the ecosystem.
NXPC’s total supply is capped at 1 billion tokens, of which about 225 million, or 22.5%, were in circulation at launch.
The MapleStory Universe account quoted Nexpace’s announcement with a brief two-line message: “Things have been busy in the Universe. Here’s another 3.162M $NXPC burned to show for it.”