$ETCHY (Etchy)
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Consolidating at a $322K market cap after raising its fee-funded buybacks and burns of ETCHY to 50% of all platform fees on October 20, 2026.
Consolidating inside a 35-hour base between $322K and $493K, currently 35% below the base high at $322K, while the coin has yet to show a stabilization of its 24-hour holder count.
What changed: The market cap fell to a new base low of $322K while 24-hour holders remained flat at 1,132.
What happened
- 2026-10-20: Etchy raised its fee-funded buybacks and burns of ETCHY to 50% of all platform fees, up from 25%.
- 2026-10-20: Etchy launched Lightning Network integration for instant BTC deposits and withdrawals.
- 2026-10-20: Etchy expanded its hourly holder rewards to split fees 50/50 between the top 100 Solana holders (paid in WBTC) and top 100 Bitcoin holders (paid in BTC).
- 2026-10-20: Etchy shipped live Bitcoin holder and trade data directly on its Rune pages.
- 2026-10-19: The platform resolved a database provider outage that caused servers to hang instead of reconnecting.
- 2026-10-18: The team reported burning 33.2M ETCHY (3.3% of supply) and distributing 0.118 BTC in fees over its first 6 days.
- 2026-10-18: Etchy added pump.fun as a second pool option for launching Runes.
- 2026-10-17: The platform upgraded its security to require a 2-of-2 Bitcoin multisig with an independent co-signer on the Internet Computer for moving Runes.
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The agent's read of it
- The level: Consolidating inside a 35-hour base between $322K and $493K; the thesis holds above $322K.
- What voids it: the price closes under the $322K base low or 24-hour holders fall below 1,100.
- Team: Anonymous developers of the Etchy platform