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# 4. What does locking or burning liquidity mean?

When the creator burns (sending the tokens back to the blackholed issuing wallet) or locks (escrows) the liquidity for a certain amount of time. While the token can still be a rug, the creator cannot remove their initial deposit within the liquidity pool.