# Burns The Burns Tool notifies you when a liquidity or token burn happens. This is useful because tokens that have been burned (that being NFTs, liquidity tokens or normal tokens), can't be retrieved.\ This helps with **scarcity** and in case of liquidity, if the [Contracts](/home/tools/eth-suite/contracts.md) are clean, will technically allow the **trading to go on forever as long as there is no exploit or massive one sided selling.** When a burn happens, the sentiment for the token is usually positive and the community appreciates it very much. ### What defines a "Burn"? A "burn" is the process of **sending some token to one of the "DEAD" addresses**. {% hint style="info" %} A dead address is an address that is not accessible by anyone and, considering the probability of cracking a private key / mnemonic phrase, is impossible to access. {% endhint %} The burned tokens will in all effects be "locked" away forever and cannot be retrieved. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://cerbero-tools.gitbook.io/home/tools/eth-suite/burns.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.