Market Snapshot: 31 Aug — green day, red month
CS2Cap snapshot, 31 Aug 2026, 09:23 UTC. Tracked cap $5.449B across 42,090 items and 41 marketplaces. 24h volume $634.3M.
This is a session print, not a regime change. The day is green. The week is barely green. The month is still red.
The tape
- 24h: +0.65%
- 7d: +1.09%
- 30d: −3.03%
- Cap: $5.45B
- 24h volume: $634M
A $634M day is busy. Busy is not the same as bid. Volume can print while the 30-day line stays underwater. That is what this month has looked like since the first snapshots we ran on this site.
What actually moved the cap
Weapons are $5.4B of that $5.45B and printed +0.65%. When the weapon bucket moves, the headline moves with it. Everything else on the tracker is a rounding error next to that line, even when the percent looks violent.
Tools +3.37% and graffiti −9.08% will dominate short posts. They should not dominate this one. Tools are $31.6K on this book. Graffiti is $60.7K. You can lose 9% of graffiti and the cap does not notice. You cannot ignore weapons.
The rest of the book
- Patches +1.14% ($345K)
- Stickers −1.61% ($20.7M) — second-largest bucket, this one matters
- Crates −0.05% ($14.1M) — flat
- Agents −3.15% ($8.2M)
- Charms −3.29%
- Music kits −1.67%
- Collectibles −1.78%
- Keys −0.91%
Two books
Last week a Pricempire window sat near $6.9B. Today CS2Cap sits at $5.45B. That is not an overnight $1.5B wipe on the same index. Different method, different supply rules. Pick a source and stay on it for the week. If you quote both, label both.
Sentence for the day: green session, green week, red month. Not “recovery.” Not “crash.”
Not financial advice. Source: CS2Cap, 31 Aug 2026.
