Token Features Explained: Burn, Mint, Pause, and More

When creating a token, you can choose from various features that control how your token behaves. Understanding these features helps you design the right tokenomics for your project.

Burn Function

Burning permanently removes tokens from circulation by sending them to a dead address. This reduces total supply over time, which can create deflationary pressure. Projects use burning to reward holders (less supply = each token is worth a larger share), remove unsold tokens after a sale, or create predictable deflation through automatic burns on each transaction.

Mint Function

Minting creates new tokens and adds them to circulation. This gives the contract owner the ability to increase supply when needed. Common use cases include reward distribution for staking or farming, gradual token release according to a vesting schedule, and emergency supply adjustments.

Be careful with minting — unlimited minting ability can erode trust if not communicated transparently.

Pause Feature

Pausing temporarily halts all token transfers. This is an emergency feature that lets you stop trading if a critical bug is discovered, prevent panic selling during a security incident, or freeze activity while implementing important upgrades.

While powerful, the pause feature should be used rarely and transparently.

Blacklist Feature

Blacklisting blocks specific wallet addresses from sending or receiving your token. This is useful for blocking known scammer addresses, complying with regulatory requirements, and preventing malicious actors from manipulating your token.

Buy/Sell Tax (Premium)

Buy/sell tax automatically collects a percentage from every trade on decentralized exchanges. You can set different rates for buying and selling. Common configurations include 2-5% tax that funds a project treasury, higher sell tax to discourage dumping, and collected tax tokens that the owner can withdraw manually for marketing, liquidity operations, treasury, or burns.

Anti-Whale Protection (Premium)

Anti-whale limits the maximum tokens a single wallet can hold (max wallet %) or transfer in one transaction (max tx %). This prevents large holders from accumulating too much supply, single transactions from crashing the price, and market manipulation by wealthy actors.

Typical settings are 1-2% of total supply for max transaction and 2-5% for max wallet.

Manual Tax Withdrawal (Premium)

Manual tax withdrawal lets the owner withdraw collected tax tokens from the contract when needed. The contract does not add liquidity automatically; instead, the project team decides how collected fees should support liquidity operations, treasury, marketing, or burns.

Which Features Do You Need?

For simple community tokens or meme coins, the Basic package is sufficient. For projects that need supply management (staking rewards, controlled inflation/deflation), choose Standard. For DeFi projects with complex tokenomics (taxes, whale protection, manual tax withdrawal), go Premium.

Explore all packages on our Pricing page or create your token now. For a deeper dive into tokenomics, read our Token Economics 101 guide.

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