A new era has begun for CS2 skin sellers: your pending balances are now protected against USD exchange-rate fluctuations!

Following ByNoGame Buyer Protection—designed to remove any doubts for buyers in skin trades—we’ve now built $ USD-Protected Pending Balance for our Sellers.

What is the $ USD-Protected Pending Balance?

This system, which will be effective as of September 1, as you know, ever since Steam’s “Trade Protection” announced on July 15, the balances from your CS2 Skin listings and “Sell to Us” deliveries that are in the “Trade Protection Process” are held for 7+1 days in the ByNoGame Secure Pool. From now on, we peg your earnings to USD during this waiting period.

We lock your skin revenue to USD at the exchange rate on the day you sell. When the protection period ends (7+1 days), we convert it back using the USD/TRY rate of that day and transfer it to your ByNoGame Wallet.

If the exchange rate rises, your earnings increase; if it falls, your TL value at the time of sale is protected!

💡 Example Calculation

You sell a skin worth 1,000 TL.

Let’s say the TCMB (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası) USD rate on the sale day is 40 TL. 1,000 TL / 40 = 25 USD → your earnings are locked at 25 USD.

If, after 8 days, the TCMB (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası) USD USD rate is 41 TL → 25 USD × 41 = 1,025 TL, and 1,025 TL is credited to your account. Don’t stress about the dollar rate if the rate goes up, your earnings go up too! 🚀

What if the rate drops?

No worries at all.

If the dollar rate rises, your earnings increase; if it falls, your earnings stay fixed!

For example: Your 1,000 TL revenue corresponded to 25 USD at aTCMB (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası) rate of 40 TL on the sale day. But after 8 days, the USD rate dropped to 39 TL.

To protect you, ByNoGame stops the USD calculation and credits 1,000 TL to your account.

In short, even if the rate drops, your payout will never go below the TL amount you earned on the sale day. ✅

Where can I track my FX-protected balance and sales?

You can review all your transactions in detail under My Account > Trade Protection > Pending Transactions.

• Sales & My Listings > In the “Past Deliveries” section, you can check your deliveries marked as “STEAM TRADE PROTECTION” and see the number of days remaining for your balance to be transferred.

ByNoGame Secure Pool?

• NO. The Buyer cannot withdraw the payment. Your money is 100% under ByNoGame guarantee and is held for you for 8 days.
• What happens if the BUYER cancels a trade that is under trade protection? What are ByNoGame’s penalties?
• ATTENTION! All your protected trades will be canceled, all skins with an ongoing trade protection period will be returned, and your account will receive a 30-day trade ban; you will also be unable to transact on the Steam Community Market.
• In such a case, ByNoGame may temporarily/permanently suspend this membership.
• ByNoGame deducts 25% of the product amount from the BUYER as a transaction security fee and transfers it to the SELLER’s wallet to remedy the SELLER’s loss.
• ByNoGame charges the BUYER a service fee equal to 10% of the amount of the product purchased.

Update (22.09.2025): The transaction security fee rate has been increased from 5% to 25%.

Advantages

If the exchange rate rises, your profit increases:

If the USD/TRY rate goes up during the waiting period, your amount locked in USD is credited to your account at a higher TL equivalent.

Your earnings stay fixed even if the rate falls:

If the rate drops, the calculation is finalized based on the USD value set on the sale day. When the waiting period ends, the TL amount you earned on the sale day is transferred to your account as-is.

Your earnings are 100% under ByNoGame protection:

During the payout period, your earnings are held in the Secure Pool and are protected against possible disputes and cancellations.

Dual risk protection:

You’re protected against both economic volatility and the risk of trade cancellations.

⚖️ Both sides of the trade are safe

At ByNoGame, our goal is to make CS2 Skin trading both secure and profitable.

No more “exchange-rate erosion” on your sales your earnings can even appreciate while you wait! 🚀