FFET · Ethereum + Fetch chain
Inflation analysis
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FET · a hard cap on one chain, and a live printer on the other.

FET is the token of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, the merged Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol. It lives in two places at once: an Ethereum token capped at 2.71B that minted nothing this quarter, and the Fetch chain, which has no cap and pays stakers 3% a year in brand-new FET. About 2.23B is counted as loose in the market. Read only the Ethereum side and FET looks frozen; read both and it is quietly growing.

Sell pressure. 14.37M FET over 90 days — 10.65M freshly minted as Fetch chain staking rewards, 3.35M paid out of the SingularityNET treasury in one move, and 0.37M finally claimed out of the merger conversion contracts.

Buy pressure. Zero. The announced Earn and Burn programme did not fire in these 90 days — the Ethereum token supply reads the same at both ends of the window, to the last decimal, and both burn addresses are empty.

Net. +0.64% of supply reached the market over 90 days, easing to about +0.49% once the one-off treasury payment drops out. Mild, but it is growth, not a frozen cap.

Inflation
Last 90 Days
+0.64%
updated · Aug 18 2026
Net flow: 0.64% of supply goes to market over 90 days
Next 90 Days
+0.49%
estimate
Net flow: 0.49% of supply goes to market next 90 days
Supply was growing · trend cooling
monitor gap · The monitor reads -1.25% because it tracks only the Ethereum-side float: the bridge contract 0x947872ad4d95e89E513d7202550A810aC1B626cC rose from 266.997M to 294.650M FET between May 20 2026 and Aug 18 2026, and that +27.653M, net of the 0.369M drawn out of the migration escrows, accounts for 27.284M of the monitor's 28.256M fall — the residual sits inside its own day-to-day spread. Nothing was destroyed: that FET simply became native FET. The monitor also cannot see the Fetch chain minting 10.65M new FET into staking rewards over the same window, which this reading counts.
Upcoming · Next 90 Days
  • Merger migration releasecalendar only
    Aug 28 2026 · claims run far behind the calendar
Sell pressure
1. Protocol inflation
~10.65M FET

The Fetch chain still prints. It pays stakers a fixed 3% a year in brand-new FET, measured on chain at 7.89 FET a block across the 1,350,220 blocks in this window. The Ethereum token is capped and minted nothing, so every new FET in existence came from this side.

updated · Aug 18 2026
2. Vesting unlocks
~0.37M FET

Two merger conversion contracts still hold 14.51M FET for AGIX and OCEAN holders who never swapped. Only 0.37M was actually drawn out over 90 days — the paper unlock calendar runs far ahead of what claimants take, and the next calendar release is Aug 28 2026.

updated · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation + unscheduled unlocks
~3.35M FET

One firing: the SingularityNET treasury sent out 3.35M FET between May 20 2026 and Jun 19 2026 and has sat at 7.60M since. Everything else on this side stood still — the Fetch.ai Foundation safe at 26.69M, the largest project safe at 277.55M, two more group safes at 81.21M and 32.20M, and the 14.51M still parked in the merger conversion contracts.

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

No estate, no trustee, no long-term lock unwinding. Nothing reaches the market from this direction.

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

An Earn and Burn programme is announced, funded from a slice of ecosystem revenue. It did not fire in these 90 days: the Ethereum token supply is identical at both ends of the window and both burn addresses hold nothing.

checked · Aug 18 2026
2. Protocol fee burn
0

Using either chain destroys nothing. Fetch chain fees are paid to validators and stakers, not burned, and the Ethereum token has no fee mechanism at all.

checked · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation buy
0

No treasury purchase has been disclosed or seen on chain. The identified safes only ever pay out.

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

Staked FET is not locked away — it unbonds and returns to the float, and the market counts it as circulating the whole time. No new lock contract was funded in the window.

checked · Aug 18 2026

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Supply check · sell, buy & net
 
Last 90D
Next 90D
Sell total (M FET)
14.370
11.020
Buy total (M FET)
0.000
0.000
Sell % of circ
+0.644%
+0.494%
Buy % of circ
0.000%
0.000%
Net inflation %
+0.644%
+0.494%
Score (0–2)
1.0
1.3
Verdict
mixed
mixed
Circulating supply: 2231.212M FET
Read the inflation analysis
The full Pressure Framework write-up for FET.
Why a capped token still grows, and what the bridge hides from a one-chain reading.

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