Reading the numbers
Three money figures appear on the vault page and they mean different things.
Three figures, three meanings
Steam Market value is what the held cases would be worth at the current listing price. Acquisition cost is what the reserve actually handed over. Lifetime creator fees is everything the project has ever received, including the operations share.
Steam value is not cash
Money in a Steam wallet cannot be withdrawn to a bank account, and proceeds from a Community Market sale stay inside Steam. So the Steam Market value figure is a reference price for an inventory, and not a balance the project could spend or pay out.
This matters less than it might, because the reserve does not plan to sell. Rule 04 makes the whole question of redemption a season 2 problem at the earliest.
Where each number comes from
| Figure | Source |
|---|---|
| Cases held | The hourly Steam inventory snapshot. |
| Steam Market value | Cases held, multiplied by the lowest current listing. |
| Acquisition cost | The sum of every sweep total, Steam fees included. |
| Lifetime creator fees | Pons fee receipts for the $CS2RS pool. |
| War chest | Fees received, less everything already swept. |
| Cases opened | Zero. There is no code path that changes it. |