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Protocol treasuries and revenue-indexed programs used to repurchase governance tokens.
Hyperliquid's first AQAv2 payout, about $14.58 million in USDC reserve yield, is headed to the fund that buys and burns HYPE. That money is interest on deposits, so part of HYPE's buyback bid now moves with balances and rates as well as with trading.
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Kinetiq is ending its kPoints program by letting holders buy 50 million unlocked KNTQ at $0.26, up to 18% of circulating supply. Every claimer who sells at once pockets the gap to market, so the size of the claim decides how hard KNTQ is pulled toward $0.26 before the window closes.
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MANTRA Chain holders vote by October 8 on Proposal #39, a plan to spend stablecoin fees from its NVNM validator on open-market buys of $MANTRA. Issuance, last reported at 8% a year, stays untouched, so the new buyer's size depends on how busy a separate network gets.
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SEC staff said on September 25 that token buybacks on functioning networks and staking receipts that only record ownership do not create investment contracts. Because they are staff views, live networks can plan repurchases around them while a future SEC or a private plaintiff could still contest them.
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Ethena is cutting ENA rewards for USDe stakers to zero after paying out more than $750 million, with USDe supply below $5 billion from a $15 billion peak. The supply that remains now earns funding-rate yield alone, so the coming months test whether a synthetic dollar keeps its holders without a subsidy.
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Hyperliquid Strategies has drawn $646.6m at an average $8.70 a share to build a 29.3 million HYPE treasury, and the new ceiling is $2.5bn, but below $12.02 a share only 42.6 million further shares can go out without a holder vote.
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Cryptobriefing reports PENDLE emissions down about 92% since January and annual inflation at 0.2%. At the price implied by the protocol's own buyback figures, 80% of a $13m revenue year retires under 3% of supply.
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The Foundation screened for holders above 0.25% of supply who had sold after 10 October 2025, bought their unvested tokens over the counter, and set 5 October 2026 as the date the unlock calendar stops. Non-sellers were offered their cost back and refused.
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Open interest reached $14.669bn while builder-deployed HIP-3 markets shrank by about $200m, so core perps added roughly $4bn in a month, and core routes about 99 per cent of its fees into HYPE buybacks.
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The aggregate says buybacks buy nothing, which is true of the median program and false of the two protocols that are almost all of the spending, one of them up 145% in a market down 11.9%.
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NEST routes half of any revenue above a $40M annual baseline into buying LDO, capped at $10M a year. DefiLlama puts Lido's annualised revenue near $38M.
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