Compressed Burn

ZK Compression · Abyss

Permanently destroying tokens held in a compressed account (Merkle tree leaf) via Light Protocol's cToken program. Unlike standard SPL burn which reduces an ATA balance, compressed burn nullifies the leaf and decrements the on-chain mint supply atomically. Requires a validity proof demonstrating the account exists in the state tree. Uses discriminator byte 8 on cToken V2.

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