diff --git a/packages/scripts/burnTotal.ts b/packages/scripts/burnTotal.ts
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+import child_process from "child_process";
+import { program } from "commander";
+
+import { mustGetCosmosNetwork } from "../networks";
+import { prettyPrice } from "../utils/coins";
+
+// TODO: retry policy
+
+const batchSize = 100;
+
+const main = async () => {
+  // FIXME: use typesafe commander
+  program.argument("<network-id>");
+  program.option("-p, --pretty", "human readable output", "");
+  program.parse();
+  const [networkId] = program.args as [string];
+  const { pretty } = program.opts() as { pretty?: boolean };
+
+  const network = mustGetCosmosNetwork(networkId);
+
+  const rawEndpoint = new URL(network.rpcEndpoint);
+  let port = rawEndpoint.port;
+  if (!port) {
+    if (rawEndpoint.protocol === "https:") {
+      port = "443";
+    } else if (rawEndpoint.protocol === "http:") {
+      port = "80";
+    } else {
+      throw new Error(`Unsupported protocol: ${rawEndpoint.protocol}`);
+    }
+  }
+  const endpoint = `${rawEndpoint.protocol}//${rawEndpoint.host}:${port}${rawEndpoint.pathname}`;
+
+  // we need to use teritorid since the js client timeouts
+
+  const statusCmd = `teritorid status --node '${endpoint}'`;
+  const res = child_process.spawnSync(statusCmd, { shell: true });
+  const statusJSON = res.stderr.toString();
+  const status = JSON.parse(statusJSON);
+  const latestBlockHeight: string = status.SyncInfo.latest_block_height; // FIXME: sanitize
+
+  let page = 1;
+  const totals: { [key: string]: number } = {};
+
+  while (true) {
+    const cmd = `teritorid query txs --height ${latestBlockHeight} --events message.action=/teritori.mint.v1beta1.MsgBurnTokens --node '${endpoint}' --limit ${batchSize} --page ${page} -o json`;
+    const burnTxsJSON = child_process.execSync(cmd).toString();
+    const txs = JSON.parse(burnTxsJSON);
+
+    for (const tx of txs.txs) {
+      const burnValue = getEventValue(tx.events, "burn", "amount");
+      if (!burnValue) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const burnAmount = parseInt(burnValue, 10);
+      const denom = burnValue.substring(burnAmount.toString().length);
+      totals[denom] = (totals[denom] || 0) + burnAmount;
+    }
+
+    if (page >= +txs.page_total) {
+      break;
+    }
+
+    page++;
+  }
+
+  if (pretty) {
+    for (const [denom, amount] of Object.entries(totals)) {
+      console.log(prettyPrice(networkId, amount.toString(), denom));
+    }
+  } else {
+    console.log(totals);
+  }
+};
+
+const getEventValue = (events: any, type: string, key: string) => {
+  for (const event of events) {
+    if (event.type === type) {
+      for (const attribute of event.attributes) {
+        const attrKey = Buffer.from(attribute.key, "base64").toString();
+        if (attrKey === key) {
+          return Buffer.from(attribute.value, "base64").toString();
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+main();