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# Burn & Buyback

RAKE's market-buy and burn flows for $RAKE and $PONS.

## Burn & Buyback

Burn and buyback are related user actions. Burn destroys tokens you already hold. Buyback purchases tokens with ETH, then burns those purchased tokens.

### Burn

Burn applies to your own tokens.

```
@rake_agent burn 1000 $RAKE
```

```
User specifies token amount
    ↓
Echo confirmation
    ↓
User's own tokens are burned
```

Burn requires Echo confirmation. RAKE prepares the requested amount for exact confirmation before burning occurs.

### Buyback

Buyback combines a purchase with a burn.

```
@rake_agent buyback 0.02 ETH of $MOON then burn
```

```
ETH amount
    ↓
Buy token
    ↓
Burn purchased token
```

Buyback also requires Echo confirmation. The ETH amount in the confirmation must match the prepared draft. [Echo Confirmation](/rake/how-rake-works/echo-confirmation.md) defines the confirmation model.

### User actions and protocol fee mechanism

The commands on this page are user-triggered utilities:

* `burn`
* `buyback`

They differ from the protocol fee mechanism. Harvested fees allocate 15% toward market-buying and burning `$RAKE`. They also allocate 15% toward market-buying and burning `$PONS`.

[Tokenomics](/rake/tokenomics.md) and [Fee Split](/rake/how-rake-works/fee-split.md) cover that fee mechanism.


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