Journal No. 1 · Solana mainnet · kept in public
Check if a coin’s burns are real.
Many coins say they “burn” tokens to make the rest scarcer. Paste any Solana coin and see how much has really been destroyed, the proof for each burn, and whether you are looking at a copycat.
Reads live supply and burn transactions from Solana, and listings from Jupiter. Connect a wallet only if you want to clear out your own leftover tokens.
- Launch supply (1B standard)
- Supply today
- Destroyed
How it works Three steps, no account needed.
- 01You give it
A coin’s address or name, or connect your wallet.
- 02Emberbook reads
Its real supply and burn records, straight from Solana.
- 03You get
How much was destroyed, the proof, and copycat warnings.
Looking is free and needs no wallet. Nothing is moved or charged unless you choose to sign something in your own wallet.
Schedule I
How much has really been burned?
What this does: compares how many coins exist today with how many existed at launch.
Paste a coin’s mint address. The ledger reads its supply and mint authority from mainnet, the tokens parked at the incinerator, and the metadata Jupiter indexes. A burn only means something if nobody can mint the supply back, so the mint authority is checked first.
Launch supply defaults to 1,000,000,000 for pump.fun, LaunchLab, Bags and similar 6-decimal launches. Change it if the project minted a different amount.
Schedule II
Every burn and buyback, with receipts.
What this does: lists recent burns of a coin, or a project wallet’s buy-and-burn activity, with proof links.
Point it at a mint to list recent burns of that token, or at a treasury wallet to audit its buybacks: tokens bought in (debit) and tokens destroyed (credit), each with a Solscan receipt. It reads up to 25 transactions per page, four at a time.
Schedule III
Is it the original, or a copy?
What this does: finds other coins using the same name, so you do not buy a fake.
Search a ticker, a name or a mint. Emberbook lists every token Jupiter indexes under that name, scores how closely each one imitates it (letter swaps and look-alike characters included), and ranks them by age, holders and liquidity. Connect a wallet and it marks the ones you hold.
Schedule IV
Burn your own worthless leftovers.
What this does: lets you permanently destroy unwanted tokens in your own wallet, after a clear review.
Connect a wallet to list the tokens it holds. Pick one, enter an amount and review the sheet. The transaction is a standard burn on your own token account plus a memo receipt. It is built in this page and signed in your wallet. Nothing is sent to anyone.
No wallet connected.
The desk only ever burns from the connected wallet’s own token accounts.
Schedule V
Get back SOL from empty accounts.
What this does: finds small SOL deposits stuck in empty token accounts and lets you take them back.
Every token account holds a small SOL deposit, called rent. Once its balance is zero, a standard CloseAccount returns that deposit to you. Emberbook lists your empty accounts, prices the refund with the live rent figure, and closes up to eight per transaction, always back to your own wallet.
Connect a wallet, or paste any address to see how much rent is sitting in its empty accounts.
Schedule VI · model
What would the buyback actually burn?
What this does: estimates how fast a buy-and-burn plan would shrink a coin’s supply, if trading stayed the same.
A projection, not a promise. It takes a token’s live 24-hour volume and price from Jupiter, applies the fee share you set, and works out how much supply a buyback-and-burn would remove if volume and price held. Change the inputs and the curve redraws.
Load a token to fill in the live inputs.
The anatomy of a burn
Four entries, one transaction.
- Debit the holder. The token account’s balance falls by the burn amount. The owner’s signature is the only authority that can do this.
- Check the decimals. BurnChecked states the mint’s decimals, so a wrong-mint or mis-scaled amount fails instead of burning the wrong figure.
- Credit the supply. The mint’s total supply falls by exactly the same amount. That is the line Schedule I reads.
- Stamp the receipt. A memo carries the human-readable reason. The signature becomes the permanent receipt anyone can audit.
Method
How the books are kept.
- 01
Read, never trust
Every figure comes from Solana mainnet through a read-only RPC proxy, or from Jupiter’s public token index. If a call fails, you see the failure and a retry, never a guessed number.
- 02
Parse the instructions
The journal opens each transaction, walks top-level and inner instructions, and records every
burnandburnChecked, including burns run inside swap or buyback programs. - 03
Balance the columns
Buybacks are measured from the treasury’s token balance before and after each transaction. Burns are measured from the instruction itself. Both link to Solscan.
- 04
Sign only what you see
The burn desk and the rent closer build a plain legacy transaction in this page, show you every field, and hand it to your wallet. Emberbook never holds keys or funds.
Glossary
The words, in plain English.
- Mint address / contract address (CA)
- The coin’s own address on Solana. Two coins can share a name, never an address.
- Burn
- Destroying tokens for good, so fewer exist. It is recorded on Solana and cannot be undone.
- Incinerator
- An address nobody controls. Coins sent there are stuck, but still counted in the supply, so it is not a real burn.
- Mint authority
- A key that can create new coins. If it is still active, burns can be cancelled out by minting more.
- Token account
- The sub-account your wallet opens for each coin it holds.
- Rent
- A small refundable SOL deposit that keeps an account open. Closing an empty account gives it back.
- Transaction and signature
- A transaction is one recorded action on Solana; its signature is the unique receipt number you can look up on Solscan.
- Memo
- A short public note attached to a transaction.
- Token-2022
- A newer version of Solana’s token standard. Emberbook reads both versions.
- Dust
- Tiny or worthless leftover token balances, often from airdrops you never asked for.
Questions
Notes in the margin.
What is this, in one sentence?
A free checker that shows how much of a Solana coin has truly been destroyed, with proof, plus a way to clear worthless tokens out of your own wallet.
Is it safe? Does it touch my money?
Checking coins is read-only and needs no wallet. If you connect one, the site only sees your public address. It can never move anything by itself: a burn or account closure only happens if you review it and sign it in your own wallet, and it never sends tokens or SOL to anyone else. You pay only the normal Solana network fee (about 0.000005 SOL). Burns are permanent, so the review sheet asks you to confirm.
Is “sent to a dead wallet” the same as burned?
No. Tokens sent to the incinerator address still count in the mint’s supply; they are only unreachable. Schedule I lists them separately as “parked”, and counts only real supply reduction as destroyed.
Why does the mint authority matter?
If someone still holds the mint authority, they can mint new tokens at any time, which can undo any burn. A token whose mint authority is disabled has a supply that can only fall.
Why only 25 transactions per page?
The public RPC limits bursts of transaction reads. The journal reads 25 at a time, four in parallel, and lets you page further back. Busy mints may need several pages to find a burn.
What exactly does the burn desk sign?
One BurnChecked instruction on your own token account (amount, the mint’s decimals, you as the owner) and one SPL Memo instruction with a short receipt line. The review sheet shows the account, mint, raw amount and quoted fee before your wallet opens.
Can Emberbook burn tokens I did not approve?
No. Only your wallet can sign for your token accounts, and it shows you the transaction first. The site only ever sees your public key.
How are copycats scored?
Each result’s ticker and name are normalised (case, spacing, look-alike characters such as 0/O and 1/l) and compared by edit distance. The oldest, most-held listing is marked as the likely original. It is a heuristic, so always check the mint.
Is the buyback model a forecast?
No. It is arithmetic on today’s volume and price under the assumptions you set. Real volume and price change every minute, so treat it as a sense of scale.