Upland announced in a post on X on Friday that it had burned 2.9M SPARKLET following a community vote. "As voted for by all of you, we have now burned the 2.9M Sparklet," Upland said. "This is the second time we've done this now, and we'll keep polling you in the future to see if you want to keep doing so!" Upland did not share a vote tally or transaction details in the post.
The proposal appeared on Upland's official feedback board. It recommended burning the roughly 2.9M SPARKLET that players had spent on seed generation and Uppie merges so far in 2026, with a yes vote meaning that amount would be burned. According to Upland, earlier community feedback shaped the recommendation. Commenters on the board supported the burn; one argued that removing the tokens from circulation permanently would offset upcoming unlock schedules and reduce dilution, and another said they were voting yes and held more than 300,000 SPARKLET.
Upland's first vote of this kind was held in the spring and dealt with approximately 1.9M SPARKLET spent on seed generation and Uppie merges during Q1 2026. The voting window ran from 9 a.m. PT on Friday, May 1, 2026, to 9 a.m. PT on Monday, May 4. Upland recommended that the tokens "be burned and permanently removed from circulation," saying its existing reward and incentive pools had plenty of funding and that shrinking supply "supports the long-term sustainability of SPARKLET." Had players rejected the plan, Upland said it "will return with alternative suggestions for how this SPARKLET should be handled." At the time, Upland described it as the first in a planned series of votes on future SPARKLET spent through in-game activities.
According to Upland's 2023 SPARKLET white paper, spent tokens collect in a dedicated account, and the company said it would decide with the community whether to burn them, shift them to the grants or incentives allocations, or combine those options. That framework requires the community to vote on and approve a proposal before the pooled tokens can be touched. In a later developer update, Upland said SPARKLET spent on new features would flow into a community-controlled pool, with players voting on what to do with it; a burn is one possible outcome and does not happen by default. SPARKLET is an ERC-20 token, and Upland players began spending it in 2025 on seed generation, Uppie merges and blueprint creation, activities that filled both burn pools.