# Renounce the ownership

**URL:** <https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/renounce-the-ownership/8369>\
**Category:** Contracts\
**Tags:** erc20, erc721\
**Created:** [May 14, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/renounce-the-ownership/8369 "2021-05-14T08:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yoshiko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.openzeppelin.com/yoshiko/32/6858_2.png) [@Yoshiko](https://forum.openzeppelin.com/u/Yoshiko)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/renounce-the-ownership/8369/3 "2021-05-14T09:19:51Z")

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Does your contract inherit ownable?

Is your contract ownable?

It should have a function called `renounceOwnership`

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Read through the documentation.

[https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/](https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/)

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