In Brief:
- In December 2026, Nexpace NXPC $0.1445 ▼ -10.3% intends to burn roughly 95.7 million NXPC in a single move, equal to about 30% of the token’s disclosed circulating supply.
- For a minimum of 52 weeks, weekly Contribution Rewards unlocks will be burned, taking about 83.7 million additional NXPC out of future supply. Nexpace is also shutting down the Reactor mechanism.
- A whitepaper revision accompanies the changes. According to Nexpace, protocol revenue in the first half of 2026 exceeded gameplay reward spending, and none of the updates adds new supply.
A single December transaction will send about 95.7 million NXPC to be burned, Nexpace says. That is close to 30% of the circulating supply of the MapleStory Universe token.
The company announced the burn on Nov. 9 as one piece of a wider tokenomics overhaul and whitepaper revision. The Recycle Vault is the source of the tokens.
We're taking our biggest step yet toward a deflationary NXPC this December. To start, we're burning about 95.7M NXPC at once. That's roughly 30% of our circulating supply.
We're also cutting emissions from Contribution Rewards, the pool we use to fund ecosystem and game rewards,Keith | MSUView on X ↗
In a post from its @Nexpace_HQ account, Nexpace wrote: “Our $NXPC burn plan and whitepaper revision take effect in December 2026. None of the updates adds new supply, and player rewards in MapleStory N continue.”
Weekly burns replace new reward supply
Contribution Rewards, the pool that funds Nexpace’s ecosystem and game rewards, is the focus of the plan’s second part. From December, each weekly unlock from the pool will be burned for no less than 52 weeks instead of entering circulating supply.
A thread on the announcement from the account Keith | MSU (@nexpacetime) gave the figures.
“Those weekly burns will take roughly 83.7M NXPC out of future supply over the first 52 weeks. Together with the December burn, that’s about 179.4M NXPC,” the account said.
The headline number came first in that thread. “We’re taking our biggest step yet toward a deflationary NXPC this December,” the account said. “To start, we’re burning about 95.7M NXPC at once. That’s roughly 30% of our circulating supply.”
Reactor goes, quarterly burns stay
The Reactor mechanism is being retired. The fixed exchange rate between NXPC and NESO, the in-game currency, is staying.
So is the quarterly burn of 20% of protocol revenue. According to the Keith | MSU thread, those burns will keep running alongside the December burn and the weekly Contribution Rewards burns, “pushing NXPC into full deflation.”
The 1 billion NXPC cap on maximum supply does not change.
Revenue case
Nexpace linked the move to what it described as “the operational maturity of the MSU economy.” In the first half of 2026, the company said, protocol revenue was higher than gameplay reward spending.
For that half, the reported numbers are about 31 million NXPC in protocol revenue and about 28.1 million NXPC spent on game rewards.
Player rewards going forward will draw on existing token reserves and protocol revenue, with no new Contribution Rewards issuance. Nexpace said MapleStory N rewards will carry on.
Scale against past burns
No quarterly burn so far comes close to the size of the December one. Nexpace started quarterly burns in November 2025, and Whitepaper version 1.2 added a reference description of how they work. The same version said execution and parameters could be changed through official public disclosure.
On Nov. 27, 2025, the first quarterly burn took 3.84 million NXPC out of supply. The Q3 2026 burn removed 3.162 million NXPC.
Nexpace announced a buyback of up to $10 million in NXPC in May 2026. Those tokens were not set aside for burning: Nexpace said it would keep them in its treasury for later ecosystem use.
The official terms are on Nexpace’s disclosures page at nexpace.io and in its whitepaper at docs.nexpace.io. The revised whitepaper takes effect in December.
A reply to the Keith | MSU thread from @maplehell read: “Burn level: Godzilla.”