Weekly economy report

Week 33, 2026

10–16 August 2026. Every figure below is computed from prices we recorded and timestamped ourselves — nothing here is estimated, and where we hold too little to say something, the page says so instead of showing a zero.

Key rate, close
64.55 ref
+0.00% from 64.55 ref at the open
Items repriced
34,821
Price changes recorded
36,616
Distinct changes, not trades

We were not collecting during this week. These figures were reconstructed afterwards from prices whose last recorded change falls inside it, so an item repriced more than once that week is counted once. Treat the counts as a floor, not a census. The movers and the key rate use only observations we actually hold.

Key rate ranged 64.5564.55 ref across 1 observation in the week.

Biggest risers

ItemBeforeAfterChange
Spectral Fire Mean Captain
4 observations
21.4 keys83.3 keys+288.96%
Haunted Forever! Blast Defense
4 observations
15.5 keys59.5 keys+283.89%
Otherworldly Weather Puffy Polar Cap
4 observations
8.06 keys30.3 keys+275.69%
Misty Skull Virus Doctor
3 observations
40.0 keys150 keys+274.88%
Pumpkin Party Universal Translator
4 observations
11.1 keys41.3 keys+273.59%
Hellfire Napper's Respite
3 observations
198 keys728 keys+267.51%
Shining Stag Mooshanka
4 observations
9.48 keys33.5 keys+253.52%
Charging Catalyst Taunt: The Soviet Strongarm
3 observations
1.17 keys4.07 keys+249.3%
Eldritch Rift Taunt: Pool Party
4 observations
6.53 keys22.8 keys+248.99%
Anti-Freeze Berliner's Bucket Helm
5 observations
10.3 keys35.7 keys+248.49%
Haunted Phantasm Jr Hong Kong Cone
3 observations
35.0 keys118 keys+237.73%
Dazzling Constellations Thousand-Yard Stare
4 observations
19.4 keys64.0 keys+229.72%

Biggest fallers

ItemBeforeAfterChange
Darkblaze Grenadier's Softcap
4 observations
434 keys11.4 keys-97.36%
Demonflame Harmburg
4 observations
328 keys10.7 keys-96.75%
Bewitched Taunt: Second Rate Sorcery
4 observations
46.9 keys2.35 keys-94.99%
Infernal Flames Taunt: The Balloonibouncer
5 observations
45.8 keys2.43 keys-94.71%
Sunbeams Reggaelator
4 observations
277 keys14.9 keys-94.63%
Accursed Taunt: Second Rate Sorcery
4 observations
37.4 keys2.35 keys-93.72%
Frostbite Brown Bomber
4 observations
237 keys15.1 keys-93.64%
Magical Spirit Taunt: The Schadenfreude
4 observations
213 keys14.0 keys-93.42%
Green Black Hole Chieftain's Challenge
4 observations
183 keys12.1 keys-93.4%
Scorching Flames Black Watch
4 observations
177 keys12.2 keys-93.1%
Something Burning This Way Comes L'Inspecteur
3 observations
135 keys9.30 keys-93.09%
Death at Dusk Company Man
3 observations
214 keys15.1 keys-92.98%

How these numbers are made

Movers compare the median of an item’s recorded prices during the week against the median of its prices over the four weeks before it — not the first reading against the last. Upstream occasionally emits a single nonsense quote, and one item read at 9 keys after trading at 1,100 is enough to put a fake +7,200% swing at the top of an endpoint-to-endpoint list. Items are only compared when they have at least three observations across the two windows and were worth at least one key to start with, and moves beyond ±300% are dropped as bad data rather than shown. 28,870 items met that bar this week.

Values are held as whole keys plus whole scrap and compared in scrap at the key rate recorded alongside each price, so a week where the key itself moved shifts every figure by that much on top of the item’s own move.

“Items repriced” is not trade volume. Nobody publishes volume for this catalogue — Steam reports it only for names that map to a single market listing, which rules out all 41,000 unusuals, because the market name leaves the effect off. What this counts is how many items changed price, which is a measure of how busy the pricing was, not of how much changed hands.

Generated 2026-08-22 15:12 UTC from our own price history.