CoinEx’s growth can affect CET through both supply and use. CoinEx issued 10 billion CET, while its July 2026 Q2 disclosure showed that 7.51 billion had already been burned and about 2.45 billion remained. The exchange now allocates 20% of daily trading-fee income to CET repurchases and burns the purchased tokens monthly. During the first six burn cycles of 2026, about 95.99 million CET were removed. CET is also used for trading-fee deductions, VIP access, CoinEx Smart Chain gas and staking. If platform activity rises while these uses remain active, a smaller CET supply will serve a larger operating ecosystem.
CET started in January 2018 and later moved from the Ethereum ERC-20 standard into the broader CoinEx ecosystem. CoinEx Smart Chain arrived in 2021, with CET serving as its native gas asset, so CET is used beyond exchange trading. That history matters because the token now sits across several separate activities rather than depending on a single fee-discount feature.
The supply record gives a clearer picture. CoinEx reported an original issuance of 10 billion CET; by July 2, 2026, cumulative burns had reached 7,510,648,473.10 CET, equal to about 75.11% of the original issuance. Reported remaining supply was 2,450,060,895.08 CET, or roughly 24.50% of the original 10 billion.
| Reported CET metric, July 2, 2026 | Amount | Share of original 10B issuance |
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| Original issuance | 10.00 billion CET | 100% |
| Cumulative burned | 7.511 billion CET | 75.11% |
| Remaining amount | 2.450 billion CET | 24.50% |
| Cumulative repurchased | 2.430 billion CET | 24.30% |
The remaining amount deserves more attention than the original 10 billion figure when studying future burns. Removing 100 million tokens from 10 billion cuts the base by only 1%; removing 100 million from 2.45 billion cuts it by about 4.08%. As the reported remaining amount falls, a similar absolute burn removes a larger percentage of what is left.
That supply reduction is tied to exchange activity rather than a fixed annual token schedule. Under CoinEx’s current published arrangement, 20% of daily trading-fee income is used to repurchase CET, and all CET acquired through that process is burned at the end of the calendar month. A month with more fee income can therefore provide a larger dollar budget for purchases, although the number of CET acquired will also depend on CET’s market price during those purchases.
The distinction between dollars spent and tokens burned matters. A $500,000 repurchase buys 25 million CET at $0.02 per token but only 10 million CET at $0.05. Higher exchange fee income can enlarge the repurchase budget, while a higher CET price can reduce the number of tokens purchased with the same budget.
CoinEx’s June 2026 disclosure provides a real example. The exchange reported repurchasing and burning 27,249,214.05 CET on July 2, with a stated market amount of $465,774.18. Dividing those figures gives roughly $0.0171 per CET for the reported burn amount, while the 27.25 million tokens represented about 1.11% of the 2.45 billion CET reported as remaining after the event.
The first half of 2026 also shows how monthly amounts can change rather than follow a straight line. CoinEx reported burns of about 13.44 million CET for January, 16.98 million for February, 9.49 million for March, 12.66 million for April, 16.16 million for May and 27.25 million for June. Combined, the six periods removed about 95.99 million CET.
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January 2026: about 13.44 million CET
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February: about 16.98 million
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March: about 9.49 million
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April: about 12.66 million
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May: about 16.16 million
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June: about 27.25 million
Relative to the 2.450 billion CET reported on July 2, that six-month total equals about 3.92%. June alone accounted for roughly 28.4% of the approximately 95.99 million CET burned across those six monthly rounds, so using one month as an annual projection would give a weak estimate. Fee income, CET pricing and trading conditions can all change the amount purchased from month to month.
Usage provides the other side of CET’s development. CoinEx allows CET to be used for trading-fee deductions, while qualifying CET holdings can be associated with VIP fee levels and platform privileges. CET holders may also participate in selected promotional activities, and CET operates as gas on CoinEx Smart Chain. A token used in several routine platform activities has a different demand profile from one held only in expectation of future burns.
Staking adds another use that did not exist when CET was launched in 2018. Through CoinEx Staking Earn, CET can be placed into CoinEx’s staking service, with rewards coming from on-chain block production. CoinEx’s documentation updated in January 2026 lists CET alongside ETH, SOL, ADA, TRX, DOT and SUI among supported assets.
The fee treatment is notable. CoinEx states that CET staking carries a 0% service fee, whereas staking supported non-CET assets generally carries a service charge equal to 10% of staking rewards. For a hypothetical 1,000-unit reward before service fees, the difference would be 1,000 units retained under a 0% fee and 900 units under a 10% fee, before considering token prices or network-specific conditions.
CoinEx also states that staking calculations start from the next full hour after staking becomes effective, or T+1 hour, with rewards settled hourly. Distribution is scheduled for about 00:30 UTC on the following day, while redemption timing depends on the asset and information displayed on the staking page.
Staked CET cannot simultaneously be traded or transferred until redemption is completed, according to CoinEx’s FAQ. That creates a practical distinction between total CET supply and CET immediately available for exchange use. CoinEx does not publish enough information in the cited material to claim that staking permanently reduces liquid market supply, because users can redeem their assets, but temporary staking can change how holders use their CET during a given period.
Trading activity still matters because the repurchase policy is funded from trading fees. Consider a simplified illustration rather than a forecast: if eligible daily fee income averaged $100,000, a 20% allocation would correspond to $20,000 per day for CET purchases; at $500,000 in fee income, the same percentage would correspond to $100,000. Over 30 days, those examples would amount to about $600,000 and $3 million respectively, assuming identical fee income every day.
Actual CoinEx revenue is not established by that illustration, so the figures should not be read as reported company performance. They show why exchange usage matters mathematically under the published 20% policy: percentage-based repurchases scale with the fee pool from which they are funded, while token quantities purchased still depend on market pricing.
CoinEx growth also has to be measured by more than registrations. A user who creates an account in 2026 but never trades contributes little to trading-fee income, while an active user making spot or futures transactions can contribute repeatedly. For CET, trading frequency, volume, fee rates and the percentage of customers using CET-related services can therefore be more informative than a large headline user count without activity data.
The same distinction applies to CoinEx Smart Chain. CET became the chain’s gas asset after CSC launched in 2021, so more on-chain transactions require CET for network fees. Yet chain growth only adds meaningful usage when applications and users actually generate transactions; simply adding more listed projects does not establish how much CET is being spent on gas.
Three measurable areas can therefore be followed over time: the dollar amount allocated to repurchases, the number of CET burned, and the remaining CET amount after each monthly event. A fourth figure—CET used or committed across fee payments, VIP requirements, staking and CSC gas—would help show whether usage is expanding alongside the declining supply.
The June 2026 report already shows why comparing several figures is preferable to watching only one. A 27.25 million CET burn sounds large by itself; against 2.45 billion remaining CET it represents about 1.11%, while against the original 10 billion issuance it represents only about 0.27%. Both percentages describe the same burn but answer different questions about CET’s supply history.
Price cannot be inferred from burn percentages alone. A token with 25% less supply does not automatically become 25% more expensive because buyers, sellers, market liquidity, broader crypto conditions and actual platform use also affect trading prices. CoinEx’s 75.11% cumulative burn is therefore better treated as a documented supply change than as a mechanical price forecast.
CET’s development can instead be assessed against figures CoinEx publishes repeatedly. If the remaining amount moves below the July 2026 level of 2.450 billion while monthly repurchases continue under the 20% trading-fee policy, supply contraction remains observable; if staking participation, fee use and CSC activity also expand, more CET would be involved in operational uses rather than relying only on reduced issuance.
By comparison, weaker exchange activity would affect the same mechanism from the opposite direction. Lower trading-fee income would provide less money for purchases under a fixed 20% allocation, and fewer active users could reduce demand for fee deductions or other CoinEx services. CET therefore remains closely exposed to the commercial activity of the exchange even after more than 7.51 billion tokens had been burned by July 2026.
For readers following CET through 2026 and later years, monthly disclosures offer cleaner information than long-range price targets: CET purchased, dollars reported for the burn, cumulative burned supply, remaining supply and any revision to the 20% policy can all be checked against previous months. The June 2026 event, with 27.25 million CET burned and $465,774.18 reported for the event, is one data point; a sequence of 12 or 24 monthly observations would provide a much stronger basis for judging how CoinEx’s business expansion is feeding into CET’s supply and platform use.