DDEXE · Ethereum + BNB Chain
Inflation analysis
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DEXE · the protocol minted nothing all year — the pressure came out of a team wallet instead.

DEXE is the governance token of DeXe Protocol, a DAO-building toolkit on Ethereum whose trading happens mostly on BNB Chain. Supply is fixed at 96.5M, about 35.3M of it freely tradable.

Sell pressure. 0.76M DEXE, none of it newly created. Two project-linked wallets filled from empty and emptied onto an exchange between Jul 15 and Jul 25 2026. The protocol issued nothing.

Buy pressure. Zero on every row. No buyback fired, nothing was burned, and every wallet where bought coins would land moved by a few hundred units on balances in the millions.

Inflation
Last 90 Days
+2.17%
updated · Aug 18 2026
Net flow: 2.17% of supply goes to market over 90 days
Next 90 Days
0.00%
estimate
Net flow: 0.00% of supply stays in the market (roughly neutral) next 90 days
Supply was growing · trend cooling
monitor gap · Supply at 0xde4ee8057785a7e8e800db58f9784845a5c2cbd6 read 96,504,599.34 unchanged on Aug 18 2025, Feb 15 2026, May 20 2026 and Aug 17 2026; the counted-supply feed stepped 46.75M to 96.34M on Aug 4 2026 and to 35.26M on Aug 14 2026, so the monitor's fall is a reclassification of the DAO-held buckets, not a supply change.
Sell pressure
1. Protocol inflation
0

Nothing creates new DEXE. The supply on the main contract read the same figure at both ends of this window and again a year earlier — unchanged to the last unit — and the contract carries no way to mint at all, checked in its code rather than taken on trust. DeXe pays rewards out of allocations that already exist, so there is no issuance stream to switch on. The version traded on BNB Chain can be upgraded, which is why this row is read fresh from the chain rather than closed for good.

updated · Aug 18 2026
2. Vesting unlocks
0

The release calendar is finished and the escrow proves it. Trackers mark DEXE fully unlocked since Oct 18 2025, but that is a statement about a calendar, so the lock reserve held inside the token contract was read directly instead: 12,770,918.12 at the start of the window and 12,770,916.63 at the end. That is 1.50 released in 90 days and 233.80 in a whole year. The reserve is real, it is 12.77M, and nothing is draining out of it.

updated · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation + unscheduled unlocks
0.76M DEXE

Two project-linked multisig wallets on BNB Chain were filled from empty between Jul 15 2026 and Jul 20 2026 and drained onto Binance within days — 510,217.81 into one and 253,690.59 into the other, both back at zero by Jul 25 2026, roughly 14 hours before the price fell about 85% on Jul 22 2026. Both read zero at both ends of the window, so only sampling inside it finds them. Reporting at the time put the same movement at 624,999 and at 797,917 across a wider set of transfers; the wallet reading of 763,908 sits between the two. Both wallets are empty now and so are the two that funded them. Still watched: the DAO governance pool at 48.47M and the lock reserve at 12.77M, neither of which moved.

checked · Aug 18 2026
4. Long-term locked or bankruptcy
0

There is no estate and no trustee holding DEXE. DeXe is a live protocol with no insolvency proceeding attached to its token, and no court-supervised distribution names it. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.

checked · Aug 18 2026
Buy pressure
1. Programmatic buyback
0

No buying programme fired. DeXe describes treasury buy-backs as something holders may vote for, and being able to do a thing is not the same as doing it — so the test was to read the wallets where bought coins would have to land. Over the full 90 days the DAO governance pool moved by 243 and the second governance pool by 105, on balances of 48.47M and 6.12M. That is noise, not a purchase. Carried at zero and watched.

updated · Aug 18 2026
2. Protocol fee burn
0

Nothing was destroyed. The token does carry working burn entry points, so this was checked as a number rather than assumed: the supply on the contract read 96,504,599.34 on Aug 18 2025, Feb 15 2026, May 20 2026 and Aug 17 2026 — the same value every time. A burn can cut supply outright without ever sending coins to a dead address, and neither route was used. The 410,146 drop on the BNB Chain side is coins moving back across the bridge, matched almost exactly by the Ethereum lock that backs them.

updated · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation buy
0

No entity was accumulating. The DAO governance pool, the second governance pool and the lock reserve all held effectively identical balances at both ends of the window, and no treasury purchase was disclosed anywhere. The project made no public statement at all through the window, including about the Jul 2026 wallet movements. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.

checked · Aug 18 2026
4. New long-term lock
0

Nothing new was locked away. The DAO pool that holds staked and delegated DEXE went from 48,471,866.99 to 48,472,110.16 across the window — a change of 243 on a 48M balance, which is not a lock event. Those coins are already excluded from the tradable count, so movement into the pool would have to be large before it registered here.

updated · Aug 18 2026

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Supply check · sell, buy & net
 
Last 90D
Next 90D
Sell total (M DEXE)
0.764
0.000
Buy total (M DEXE)
0.000
0.000
Sell % of circ
+2.167%
0.000%
Buy % of circ
0.000%
0.000%
Net inflation %
+2.167%
0.000%
Score (0–2)
0.7
1.7
Verdict
mixed
favor
Circulating supply: 35.262M DEXE
Read the inflation analysis
The full Pressure Framework write-up for DEXE.
What the chain says about the Jul 2026 wallet movements, why the minting allegation does not survive a supply read, and what the 61M held off-market means from here.

MrNasdog Pressure Framework analysis of DEXE, Metric 1 (Inflation Monitor). Data + explanation only. Not financial advice. Updated Aug 18, 2026.