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Burn an NFT

The owner of the NFT may choose to burn it to retrieve the storage deposit of the NFT Output. Burning on protocol level simply means that the NFT Output is unlocked in a transaction, but it doesn't appear on the output side.

danger

Before burning an NFT, always check whether its NFT Address owns something in the ledger. Otherwise, you may lose those funds forever!

Example Transaction

Transaction E shows how to burn an NFT and claim its storage deposit into a Basic Output.

Transaction E - Burning an NFT