# Burn an Inscription

### Burn HCS-20 Structure

This is the stucture that is used to send to the topic, this payload has been humanised to be more understandable.

```
{
  "p": "hcs-20",
  "op": "burn",
  "tick": "unique_point_identifier",
  "amt": "number_of_points",
  "from": "recipient_hedera_address",
  "m": "optional_memo"
}
```

### Overview

There are 2 required fields needed to burn an inscription:

* from
* amount

These are the optional fields you can use:

* topic\_id (your private application for controlling all points or inscriptions)
* memo (an additional memo at the deployment level)

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://hedera-serverless-consensus.vercel.app/api/inscription/{ticker}/burn`

Mint an Inscription

#### Query Parameters

| Name                                     | Type   | Description                      |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------ | -------------------------------- |
| ticker<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | Unique ticker of the inscription |

#### Headers

| Name                                        | Type   | Description                                                       |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| x-api-key<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | The **API\_SECRET\_KEY** from the client's environment variables. |

#### Request Body

| Name                                     | Type   | Description                            |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------ | -------------------------------------- |
| amount<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | Int    | amount to mint in one transaction      |
| topic\_id                                | String | your private topic for limiting access |
| memo                                     | String |                                        |
| from                                     | String | from address to burn                   |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200: OK Inscription Minted" %}

```javascript
{
    // Response
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401: Unauthorized Header Auth Missing/invalid" %}

```javascript
{
    // Response
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="422: Unprocessable Entity Missing params in body" %}

```javascript
{
    // Response
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}