---
title: "Burn tokens"
method: POST
path: "/tokenization/collections/{id}/tokens/burn"
tags: ["Tokenization"]
---

# Burn tokens

`POST /tokenization/collections/{id}/tokens/burn`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.fireblocks.io/v1`
- URL: `https://api.fireblocks.io/v1/tokenization/collections/{id}/tokens/burn`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/fireblocks/apis/fireblocks-api/docs/tokenization/collections/:id/tokens/burn/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Burn tokens in a collection

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- CollectionBurnRequestDto
  - `vaultAccountId` string, required: The id of the vault account that initiates the burn function
  - `tokenId` string, required: The token id
  - `amount` string: For ERC721, amount is optional or should always be 1 and for ERC1155, amount should be 1 or greater
  - `externalId` string: External id that can be used to identify the transaction in your system. The unique identifier of the transaction outside of Fireblocks with max length of 255 characters

## Response `202`

Tokens burned successfully

- CollectionBurnResponseDto
  - `txId` string, required: Transaction Id for the burn operation

## Other responses

- `default`: Error Response

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/fireblocks/apis/fireblocks-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/fireblocks/apis/fireblocks-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/fireblocks/apis/fireblocks-api/revisions/4eba9965659a?raw)