Weekly economy report

Week 35, 2026

24–30 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
64.22 ref
-0.34% from 64.44 ref at the open
Items repriced
31,811
62.1% of the 51,259-item catalogue
Price changes recorded
419,109
Distinct changes, not trades
New to the catalogue
66
SKUs priced here for the first time

Key rate ranged 63.8865.55 ref across 63 observations in the week.

Biggest risers

ItemBeforeAfterChange
Electrostatic Détective Noir
8 observations
10.4 keys41.5 keys+299%
Molten Mallard Tsarboosh
7 observations
8.13 keys32.5 keys+298.98%
Haunted Cremation Taunt: The Scaredy-Cat!
7 observations
5.80 keys23.0 keys+297.4%
Viridescent Peeper Cool Capuchon
8 observations
9.29 keys36.8 keys+295.85%
Lost Signal Taunt: Roar O'War
4 observations
2.33 keys9.21 keys+295.06%
Bewitching Bugs King Cardbeard
4 observations
10.8 keys42.5 keys+292.3%
Shining Bokeh Tropical Brim
6 observations
12.6 keys49.2 keys+290.76%
Fifth Dimension Sky High Fly Guy
5 observations
8.32 keys32.5 keys+290.54%
Frostbite Vive la France
6 observations
15.4 keys59.8 keys+289.07%
Horsemann's Hack Cool Capuchon
3 observations
9.26 keys36.0 keys+288.28%
The Ooze Handyman's Handle
5 observations
8.52 keys33.0 keys+287.97%
Haunted Phantasm Taunt: Kazotsky Kick
9 observations
17.3 keys66.6 keys+285.83%

Biggest fallers

ItemBeforeAfterChange
Hellfire One-Man Army
4 observations
624 keys12.7 keys-97.97%
Knifestorm Heavy Duty Rag
3 observations
349 keys8.26 keys-97.64%
Knifestorm Hottie's Hoodie
6 observations
377 keys9.48 keys-97.49%
Infernal Flames Taunt: The Meet the Medic
7 observations
104 keys2.64 keys-97.47%
Something Burning This Way Comes Ye Olde Baker Boy
4 observations
397 keys10.6 keys-97.32%
Hellfire Napper's Respite
4 observations
386 keys10.4 keys-97.31%
Harvest Moon Waxy Wayfinder
3 observations
301 keys8.14 keys-97.3%
Something Burning This Way Comes Bonk Leadwear
7 observations
291 keys8.18 keys-97.19%
Time Warp Western Wear
7 observations
283 keys8.16 keys-97.12%
Demonflame Your Worst Nightmare
7 observations
396 keys11.6 keys-97.09%
Demonflame Bone Dome
4 observations
307 keys9.47 keys-96.91%
Demonflame Glengarry Bonnet
7 observations
305 keys9.49 keys-96.89%

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. 27,270 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 2026-08-31 05:05 UTC from our own price history.