How can I Trade Red skins to knifes
With the latest Counter-Strike 2 Update, you can now trade-up your CS2 covert skins for Knives or Gloves. In this guide, we will tell you what you have to do to change your covert skins for a Knife or even a pair of Gloves!
How does it work?
How this works is you simple need 5 “Covert skins” to trade up to a Knife or Glove from one of the collections of the skins that you put in. This is exactly how normal trade-ups work. But now you only need 5 instead of 10 skins.
If you put 5 StatTrak™ skins in the trade-up contract, you will get a Knife which has StatTrak™ applied to it, tracking the kills you get with it.
If you put 5 StatTrak™ skins in the trade-up contract, you will get a Knife which has StatTrak™ applied to it, tracking the kills you get with it.
Can you trade up to Knives in CS2?
The answer is yes! As of 2025 you CAN trade-up your covert Red skins for a Knife and even for Gloves!
Patchnotes
[ CONTRACTS ]
Extended functionality of the "Trade Up Contract" to allow exchanging 5 items of Covert quality as follows:
5 StatTrak™ Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak™ Knife from a collection of one of the items provided
5 regular Covert items can be exchanged for one regular Knife item or one regular Gloves item from a collection of one of the items provided
Wonder about the impact of the new trade-ups?
Wonder about the impact of the new trade-ups?
There are ~20 million coverts (excluding knives and gloves).
Even if you traded up every single lower-tier skin to a covert, it only adds ~9M more.
In the worst-case scenario, if all ~29M of those Coverts were traded up, it would roughly double the supply of Knives & Gloves from ~5.5m to ~11m.
However, that would require every single skin to be traded to a Knife/Glove. It is more likely that the total supply increases far less. @csfloatcom
There are ~20 million coverts (excluding knives and gloves).
Even if you traded up every single lower-tier skin to a covert, it only adds ~9M more.
In the worst-case scenario, if all ~29M of those Coverts were traded up, it would roughly double the supply of Knives & Gloves from ~5.5m to ~11m.
However, that would require every single skin to be traded to a Knife/Glove. It is more likely that the total supply increases far less. @csfloatcom
