In Brief:
- Nexpace plans to burn about 95.7 million NXPC at once in December 2026, roughly 30% of the token’s disclosed circulating supply.
- Weekly Contribution Rewards unlocks will be burned for at least 52 weeks, removing about 83.7 million more NXPC from future supply. The Reactor mechanism is being discontinued.
- The changes come with a whitepaper revision. Nexpace said protocol revenue in the first half of 2026 exceeded gameplay reward spending, and that none of the updates adds new supply.
Nexpace plans to burn about 95.7 million NXPC in a single transaction in December, roughly 30% of the MapleStory Universe token‘s circulating supply.
The burn is part of a tokenomics overhaul and whitepaper revision that the company announced on Nov. 9. The tokens will come from the Recycle Vault.
We're taking our biggest step yet toward a deflationary NXPC this December. To start, we're burning about 95.7M NXPC at once. That's roughly 30% of our circulating supply.
We're also cutting emissions from Contribution Rewards, the pool we use to fund ecosystem and game rewards,
“Our $NXPC burn plan and whitepaper revision take effect in December 2026. None of the updates adds new supply, and player rewards in MapleStory N continue,” Nexpace said in a post from its @Nexpace_HQ account.
Weekly burns replace new reward supply
The second part of the plan targets Contribution Rewards, the pool Nexpace uses to fund ecosystem and game rewards. Starting in December, every weekly unlock from that pool will be burned for at least 52 weeks and won’t be added to circulating supply.
The account Keith | MSU (@nexpacetime) put numbers on it in a thread on the announcement.
“Those weekly burns will take roughly 83.7M NXPC out of future supply over the first 52 weeks. Together with the December burn, that’s about 179.4M NXPC,” the account said.
That thread opened with the headline figure. “We’re taking our biggest step yet toward a deflationary NXPC this December,” the account said. “To start, we’re burning about 95.7M NXPC at once. That’s roughly 30% of our circulating supply.”
Reactor goes, quarterly burns stay
Nexpace will discontinue the Reactor mechanism. It’s keeping the fixed exchange rate between NXPC and NESO, the in-game currency.
The quarterly burn of 20% of protocol revenue also stays in place. The Keith | MSU thread said those burns will continue on top of the December burn and the weekly Contribution Rewards burns, “pushing NXPC into full deflation.”
Maximum supply stays capped at 1 billion NXPC.
Revenue case
Nexpace tied the decision to what it called “the operational maturity of the MSU economy.” The company said protocol revenue in the first half of 2026 exceeded gameplay reward spending.
The reported figures are about 31 million NXPC in protocol revenue for the half, against about 28.1 million NXPC in game reward expenditures over the same period.
Future player rewards will be funded from existing token reserves and protocol revenue, not from new Contribution Rewards issuance. Nexpace said rewards in MapleStory N will continue.
Scale against past burns
The December burn is much larger than anything the quarterly program has done. Nexpace introduced quarterly burns in November 2025, and Whitepaper version 1.2 added a reference description of the mechanism. That version also said execution and parameters could be adjusted through official public disclosure.
The first quarterly burn took place Nov. 27, 2025, and removed 3.84 million NXPC from supply. The Q3 2026 burn removed 3.162 million NXPC.
In May 2026, Nexpace announced a buyback of up to $10 million in NXPC. The bought tokens weren’t slated for burning. Nexpace said it would hold them in its treasury for future ecosystem use.
Nexpace’s disclosures page at nexpace.io and its whitepaper at docs.nexpace.io carry the official terms. The revised whitepaper takes effect in December.
One reply to the Keith | MSU thread, from @maplehell, read: “Burn level: Godzilla.”
