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BitTorrent will allocate 100% of revenue from its decentralized services to quarterly BTT token buybacks and burns starting in Q3 2026, the company said July 6.
"All revenue generated by BitTorrent's decentralized services will be allocated to buying back BTT tokens on the open market every quarter, with the repurchased tokens permanently removed from circulation," BitTorrent said in an official announcement.
The first buyback cycle begins in Q3 2026, with the corresponding burn scheduled for mid-October. BitTorrent will publish the total tokens destroyed, the percentage of total supply affected, and the on-chain transaction hash for verification. Revenue from BitTorrent Speed and the recently launched BTTInferGrid will fund the purchases, with the company expecting BTTInferGrid to boost future buyback capacity. The funding source comes entirely from operating revenue rather than treasury reserves or newly raised capital, the company said.
BTT trades at $0.0000002675 with a $264 million market capitalization and roughly 987 trillion tokens in circulation, according to CoinGecko. The token ranks #140 by market cap and has a 24-hour change of +0.00115%. Its all-time high of $0.000003430 was reached in January 2022, while a recent local low of $0.00000025677 was set on June 30. The deflationary mechanism ties token supply reduction directly to operating revenue, creating a verifiable on-chain record that could strengthen the token's value proposition for holders as quarterly burns reduce circulating supply.
The program marks a shift from BitTorrent's previous approach of holding treasury tokens. All acquired BTT will be transferred to a designated burn address, permanently removing them from circulation after each quarterly cycle. Each burn report will be released mid-month in the first month of the following quarter, allowing independent on-chain verification.
BitTorrent, acquired by the TRON ecosystem in July 2018, serves more than 100 million active users across BitTorrent and µTorrent, with installations on over one billion devices. The platform's decentralized file-sharing network processes tokenized bandwidth and storage transactions, generating the revenue stream that will now fund the buyback program.
The announcement comes weeks after HTX, another Justin Sun-linked entity, delisted the USD1 stablecoin in June following compliance actions by World Liberty Financial, which had frozen certain on-chain addresses associated with the exchange. HTX disputed any connection between the sanctioned Huobi Global S.A. entity and its current exchange operations.
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