BitTorrent finally sets BTT buyback and burn in motion for Q3 2026

BitTorrent announced early Monday that the project will formally launch buybacks and burn its BTT token, starting from the third quarter of this year. According to the announcement, BitTorrent will be directing virtually every revenue from its decentralized services into buying its own tokens once every quarter.

BitTorrent clarified that the funds for the program will come entirely from operating revenue, and it does not plan any fresh fundraising or dipping into its treasury holdings to support the buy-backs.

TRON bought BitTorrent in July 2018 and reports more than 100 million active users across over a billion devices.

How will BitTorrent’s buyback program work?

BitTorrent Inc. laid out the plan for its buyback and burn program in a Medium post.

• Every quarter, revenue from services such as BitTorrent Speed and the newly launched BTTInferGrid will be used to buy BTT at market price.
• Those tokens then land in a burn address, which takes them out of circulation permanently.

The project expects the growth of BTTInferGrid to steadily ramp up its purchasing power over time.

According to the Medium post, the first round of BTT buybacks will start in Q3 2026, but the first burn is not expected until at least mid-October. It is at that point that BitTorrent said it will disclose the amount destroyed, the share of total supply it represents, and the on-chain transaction hash.

Every round of buybacks and burns is expected to follow the same pattern every quarter, with the amount of tokens burned to be revealed in the middle of the first month of the next quarter.

Will BitTorrent’s token burns raise BTT price? 

BitTorrent tokenholders are the most interested in today’s announcement, as they hope that the project might finally be turning a corner after prices touched a local low on June 30. The BTT token was trading near $0.00000027 as of this report, down more than 90% from the all-time high price of $0.0000034 it reached way back in January 2022.

The decision to make the token buyback and burn program a recurring event instead of a one-time gesture is a design that the market has historically rewarded. It also tethers a project’s future to a metric such as demand: the more money BitTorrent’s services bring in, the more BTT tokens that will be permanently removed from the open market.

BTT holders who have watched the token slip more than 90% below its 2022 peak will hope the long-anticipated announcement finally sparks a change in the project’s fortunes.

Whether that catalyst does anything is the harder question, and recent history on crypto buybacks cuts both ways.

Do token buybacks work?

The clearest success story is Hyperliquid, which routes 97% to 99% of its trading fees into open-market HYPE purchases through its Assistance Fund. The perpetual exchange has now spent more than $1.1 billion buying back its token since the program began, pulling roughly 4.4% of total supply out of circulation.

Aster has taken a similarly aggressive line, pairing a 99% fee buyback with a matching burn from reserves as it works its supply down from 8 billion toward 3 billion.

But mechanical buybacks are not a price guarantee. Pump.fun directed 100% of its revenue into PUMP repurchases for nine months and burned roughly $370 million worth of the token, about 36% of its circulating supply, according to figures cited by Cryptopolitan.

The token still traded around 81% below its all-time high and spent most of 2026 near record lows before the team cut the buyback allocation to 50% of revenue.

Even Aster’s own burns have coincided with price slides on more than one occasion, a reminder that supply reduction and price action do not move in lockstep.

BitTorrent’s version sits somewhere in the middle: fully revenue-funded and on-chain verifiable like Hyperliquid’s, but starting from a token whose price has struggled for years and a revenue base that leans heavily on a product, BTTInferGrid, that has only just launched.

The first real data point arrives in mid-October, when BitTorrent publishes how much BTT its Q3 revenue actually retired. Until then, the size of the burn and whether it moves the needle for a token this deep below its highs remains an open question.

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