Supply news · Oct 21 2026
Crypto supply news, Oct 21 2026
On Oct 21 2026 we found 13 supply stories across 13 coins: 2 burns, 6 buybacks, 2 unlocks, 3 new-supply stories. Coins that burn or buy back take supply off the market; unlocks and new coins add to it.
Written the night of Oct 21 2026 from each project's own news, checked at the source. Each coin's page has its full supply numbers.
- AERO AerodromeNew supply
New AERO rewards are tied to exchange income, and supply grows a little.
With the merger, total AERO supply rises from about 2 billion to at most about 2.13 billion, and staked AERO earns a share of exchange revenue. The team expects yearly inflation of about 12%, with a 20% ceiling, and Binance plans to stop VELODROME trading on Nov 3 2026 as it converts tokens. People ask if fee income can grow fast enough to balance the new coins.
AERO supply research → - APT AptosNew supply
A new report says Aptos cut its supply growth by about 70%.
A research report published on Oct 20 2026 says net new APT supply fell from about 5% to about 1.5% a year. It comes from votes earlier in 2026: staking rewards cut to 2.6%, a 2.1 billion supply cap, 210 million APT locked forever, and 10x higher gas fees that are all burned. People ask if Aptos could soon burn more APT than it creates.
APT supply research → - BNB BNBBurn
BNB finished its 37th quarterly burn.
On Oct 19 2026 the 37th quarterly burn removed about 1,646,196 BNB, worth over $1 billion. Burned coins are gone for good, so the total supply keeps getting smaller. People ask how much this helps the price while the market is weak.
BNB supply research → - BTT BitTorrentBuyback
BitTorrent burned 21.6 trillion BTT using its own revenue.
On Oct 16 2026, BitTorrent sent about 21.62 trillion BTT, worth about $7.6 million, to a burn address that no one can spend from. It was the first quarterly buyback and burn, paid for with Q3 2026 revenue. People ask how big the next burn will be.
BTT supply research → - ENA EthenaBuyback
About 275 million ENA unlock on Nov 1 2026, and buybacks have not started yet.
Team and investor ENA unlocks every month, and the next one, about 275 million ENA, is due on Nov 1 2026. The ENA buyback approved this year only starts when USDe supply reaches $7.5 billion, and it is still below that. People ask who will absorb the new coins before the buyback switches on.
ENA supply research → - FIL FilecoinUnlock
The big early unlock of new FIL ended on Oct 15 2026.
Since launch, Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation unlocked about 66.7 million FIL a year, and that stopped on Oct 15 2026. New FIL drops by about 75%, so block rewards of about 22 million FIL a year are now the main source. People ask if less new supply will help FIL once this selling is gone.
FIL supply research → - JST JUSTBuyback
JUST finished its fifth JST buyback and burn.
On Oct 16 2026, JustLend DAO bought back and burned 170.7 million JST, worth about $23.5 million, paid from its own income. In total, 19% of all JST has now been burned. People ask what the next phase of the burn plan will look like, which the team says it will share soon.
JST supply research → - KAIA KaiaBurn
Kaia set a burn of about 2.46 million KAIA for Oct 21.
Kaia's foundation burns reward tokens that are not paid out: about 2,463,579 KAIA was set to burn on Oct 21 2026 and 2,441,567 KAIA more on Nov 21 2026. That is about 4.9 million KAIA in total. People ask if burns this size are big enough to matter for supply.
KAIA supply research → - LDO Lido DAOBuyback
Lido holders debate how to start LDO buybacks.
Lido's buyback tool has been live since Aug 10 2026, but it had not bought any LDO by Oct 7 2026. A forum proposal asks to cut the 2027 budget by about 30%, to around $30 million, so buybacks can start, and the team said on Oct 9 2026 it will take the idea into the 2027 budget request. People ask if a smaller budget will finally turn on LDO buybacks.
LDO supply research → - LEO UNUS SED LEOBuyback
Will the hack bitcoin turn into LEO buybacks?
US government wallets moved 264.86 BTC on Oct 6 2026 in what reports call the Bitfinex restitution, and about 12,267 BTC on Oct 8 2026. Bitfinex has promised to use at least 80% of the net money it gets back from the 2016 hack to buy back LEO, but it has not confirmed receiving any coins. People are asking when, and how much, will really arrive.
LEO supply research → - NEAR NEAR ProtocolNew supply
NEAR holders are voting on cutting new NEAR supply from 2.5% to 1.6% a year.
A House of Stake proposal (HSP-029), posted Oct 7 2026 and now in its vote, would lower the yearly issuance step by step over 24 months. Its author estimates about 11.8 million fewer new NEAR in two years, while the staking yield would slowly fall from about 4.8% to near 3.1%. People ask if the vote will pass, and whether small validators can live on lower rewards.
NEAR supply research → - SYRUP Maple FinanceBuyback
SYRUP slid this week even with buybacks running.
SYRUP fell from about $0.23 on Oct 14 2026 to about $0.19 on Oct 19 2026, around 16% down, before a small bounce to about $0.20. Maple's buyback plan, live since Jul 13 2026, uses 10% to 30% of monthly revenue to buy SYRUP. People ask why the buybacks are not stopping the drop.
SYRUP supply research → - XPL PlasmaUnlock
About 228 million XPL unlock on Oct 25.
On Oct 25 2026, about 228 million XPL leave their locks in the monthly schedule for the team, investors and the ecosystem fund. That is about 2.3% of the 10 billion total supply. People ask if new sellers will weigh on the price around that day.
XPL supply research →
Coming unlocks for every coin, by date: Token unlocks in the next 90 days.