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As such, they have crashed the price of the latter items and, according to tracking app Price Empire, wiped billions of US dollars off the value of the CS2 skins market. As passed on by Gamesradar, the update in question extends the functionality of the 'Trade Up Contract', which allows players to swap common 'Covert' items obtained from purchaseable cases for much rarer knives or gloves, including 'StatTrakTM' gear that, as the name implies, tracks certain play statistics when equipped. The Trade Up contract now lets people exchange five StatTrakTM Covert quality items for 'one StatTrakTM Knife from a collection of one of the items provided', or five regular Covert items for 'one regular Knife item or one regular Gloves item from a collection of one of the items provided'. The result is that Covert skins have shot up in price, while the price of knives and gloves has plummeted.