Prefix Consensus research paper accepted to CCS 2026 conference, described as the first leaderless consensus protocol with proven censorship resistance, implemented on Aptos to enable fair onchain trading.

APT futures launched by Bitnomial, marking the first U.S. futures product for the token and meeting a prerequisite for potential spot ETF approval under SEC generic listing standards.

unlocks $13.8M worth of $APT tokens on 2026-04-19

Integrated with Tria's Global Trading Engine, onboarding 500,000+ users worldwide through this collaboration.

Reached 47.9M on-chain holders for APT token.

Integrated with DigiShares to expand real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure for institutional-grade asset tokenization.

Unlocks 9.97M APT tokens (0.68% of circulating supply) valued at $8.54M on April 12, 2026.

Aptos Labs' CBO participated in a fireside chat about RWAs at Blockworks DAS conference in NYC on March 26, 2026.

Partnered with Archax to bring over 100 tokenized securities onchain to Aptos, starting with Members Capital Management's Tokenized Global Reinsurance Income Fund (MCM Fund I).

USD1 stablecoin crossed $100M in total volume on Aptos since its launch.

Acquired Meek Mill's AI startup for $1 billion.

Unlocking 24.8 million APT tokens during the week of March 23-29, 2026.

Binance Futures delists COIN-M APTUSD perpetual contract on 2026-03-25.

Classified digital commodity by SEC and CFTC on March 17, 2026, and non-security in SEC interpretive guidance; features fully onchain and decentralized architecture aligning with SEC staff guidance on DeFi interfaces.

Integrated Bubblemaps on mainnet on March 10, 2026.

Became a founding partner in Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program focused on onchain payments on March 11, 2026.

USDT-USDC pool on ThalaLabs achieves 13.61% APR with $2.03M TVL and 30-day average APY of 19.99%.

Co-Founder/CEO Avery Ching is moderating a panel discussion featuring U.S. Majority Whip Tom Emmer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on 2026-03-18 at the DC Blockchain Summit Main Stage.

Integrated with LayerZero to connect Move architecture to cross-chain value movement rails.

Partners with Allium to analyze stablecoin activity, capital flows, and institutional participation across the network.

Has a token unlock scheduled for the week of March 12-18, 2026, representing approximately 1.4% of circulating supply.

Has 69% of token supply currently staked.

Has reached approximately $322M in Total Value Locked (TVL).

Has integrated Real World Asset (RWA) protocols including Securitize, Ondo, and Echo.

Signed a deal with Microsoft.

Developer activity has declined approximately 60% since early 2025 according to GitHub commit data.

Partnered with Backpack.

HTX exchange enabled USDT withdrawals via Aptos chain with zero withdrawal fees as a limited-time promotion starting on 2026-03-09.

Unlocks 11.31 million APT tokens (0.69% of supply) on March 12, 2026, valued at $10.5 million.

Processes over 10 million transactions per day on the network.

Has an average transaction cost of approximately $0.00007.

Listed for trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood in the EU.

Holds $1.8 billion in total stablecoin supply onchain, ranking 8th among blockchains.

Generated $406 in 24-hour revenue while maintaining a fully diluted valuation of $1 billion.

Launched Early Access on Shelby testnet on 2026-03-06 for verifiable global object storage for AI, co-developed with Jump. Mainnet to follow.

Launched Decibel, a fully on-chain CLOB perpetuals exchange on Aptos, with $57 million in deposits.

USDC pre-deposits to Decibel on Aptos are live through February 24, 2026, with participants eligible to earn Season 0 Decibel points (AMPs), USDC-denominated rewards, priority access to Mainnet Beta, and early allocation to Decibel Liquidity Provider (DLP) vault.

Updates tokenomics to usage-linked structure, lowers staking rewards.

Reduced staking APY from 5.19% to 2.6% through AIP-140 on 2026-04-14, with higher rewards for longer lock-up periods.

Targets burning over 32M APT annually, scaling via Decibel at 100 markets, following new ecosystem DEX launch.

Implemented tokenomics revamp, reducing inflation, increasing gas fees 10X to $0.00014 per transaction with gas paid in APT and fully burned, effective March 17-23, 2026, completing token unlocks in October 2026.

Updated tokenomics, setting hard supply cap at 2.1B APT on 2026-04-14, permanently locking 210M APT. Reduced staking APR from 5.2% to 2.6%, increased gas fees, burns all transaction fees, and investor vesting ends October 2026.

Proposed permanently locking and continuously staking 210M APT held by the Foundation.

Changed grants program to KPI-based, performance-triggered distributions on 2026-04-14 as part of tokenomics changes.

Proposed programmatic buybacks for APT tokens as part of tokenomics changes.

18 protocols consumed Switchboard feeds on Aptos in January 2026.

Received strategic equity investment from Circle Ventures.

Hosts X AMA March 24, 2026 with Alin Tomescu on Confidential APT; APT token increased 11% March 24th.

Achieved a maximum throughput of 12,933 transactions per second measured over 100 blocks.

Launches USDCBL, a protocol-native stablecoin designed for collateral in decentralized derivatives trading on an upcoming mainnet DEX.

Demonstrated tokenized financial infrastructure with BCG and Hang Seng Bank at Consensus Hong Kong, showing tokenization could double Hong Kong's fund industry.

Generated $15M revenue in January 2026 and $22.75M in Q1 2026. Ranked #12 in 7-day fees across all blockchains.

Participated in a panel discussion titled "The Unseen Playbook: What the West is Missing About Asia Going On-Chain" at Consensus HK conference on 2026-02-12 at 1:20 PM HKT at HKCEC Frontier Stage.

ThalaSwap v3 crossed $1,000,000,000 in cumulative trading volume across v2 and v3 following sUSDe integration.

Ranked 7th in development activity over the past 30 days in Santiment's analysis.

Unlocks 11.33M APT tokens on February 10, 2026, valued at $12.3M USD, representing 0.69% of circulating supply.

Shipped Hardhat and Foundry functionality for developers.

Achieved 5.2 million average daily transactions during H2 2025.

Reached 350,000 to 2 million daily active addresses during H2 2025.

Recorded 54.8 million transactions over the past week ending February 4, 2026, representing a 42% increase from the previous week.

Scaling BlackRock BUIDL integration.

Mentioned as a non-EVM chain supported by RHEA for cross-chain lending through NEAR Intents integration, allowing native supply and borrow functionality.

Switchboard v2 support ends on 2026-01-24, requiring builders to update to a newer version.

Lost users throughout 2025, classified as "Divergent" with transaction volume up but MAU down or flat.

Achieved approximately $9 billion or more in DEX volume during at least one quarter in 2025.

Aptos futures became available for trading on Bitnomial, marking the first regulated Aptos futures contracts in the U.S.

ThalaSwap v3, a concentrated liquidity DEX on Aptos, crossed $500,000,000 in total trading volume.

Deployed keyless accounts using ZK proofs to hide the link between Google/Apple logins and on-chain accounts for self-custody.

Implemented composable privacy primitives as Move primitives for developers to build custom privacy features.

Deployed MEV defense features including encrypted mempools and confidential assets, preventing front-running and structural MEV.

Became the #1 EVM chain by weekly Unique Active Wallets, surpassing Polygon, Sui, and Aptos according to a16z in 2025.

Lifetime transaction count exceeded 4 billion with zero downtime.

Partnered with Mastercard for a program connecting crypto with global banking, PayPal (PYUSD), NBCUniversal, and regional payment rails.

Deployed Velociraptor consensus, achieving 39 ms median block times on February 24, 2026.

X-Chain Accounts feature is currently in testnet, allowing Ethereum and Solana users to create Aptos accounts using existing wallets without new seed phrases, bridging, or acquiring APT for gas.

Has a large cliff unlock exceeding $5 million scheduled for the week of January 5-11, 2026.

Processed 1.9 billion transactions in 2025 with average fees below $0.001 per transaction.

Franklin Templeton deployed on the chain.

Achieved 22% transaction growth over the 7-day period ending December 29, 2025, ranking third among major chains tracked by Nansen.

Ranked fifth among Layer 1 blockchains by daily active users in 2025 according to CryptoRank data.

Featured in Messari's 2025 report as one of the high-performance L1s highlighted for fast finality, high throughput, and low costs alongside Solana, Sei Network, and Sui Network.

Nominated in the "Best In Payments" category for an awards ceremony scheduled for December 30th, 2025.

Reached a market capitalization of $1.1B and ranked #88 on CoinGecko as of December 19, 2025.

Listed on Crypto.com's Earn program offering 9% annual percentage rate rewards for staking APT tokens.

Implemented post-quantum cryptography readiness using SLH-DSA to protect user funds and assets

Has a staking ratio of 96.0%, the highest among major blockchain projects.

Anchorage Digital provides qualified custody for Aptos-native RWAs.

AgentLISA security platform integrates engineers from Aptos Labs into their team, alongside engineers from Meta and CertiK, to conduct protocol audits.

Binance removes APT/FDUSD from cross-margin trading effective December 23, 2025, at 09:00, though the pair remains available for isolated margin trading.

APT token declines 83% since Trump took office, ranking among the worst performers compared to major cryptocurrencies including BTC (-18%), ETH (-10%), and SOL (-52%).

Aptos insider states the competitive gap with Solana and other major L1s has grown by orders of magnitude since launch, acknowledging difficulty for new L1s to gain market share against Solana.

Stablecoin supply grows to $1.9B (3x increase from $600M in early 2025), now ranking 10th among all chains by stablecoin supply, with $386M in stablecoin inflows recorded. Paxos institutional stablecoin USDG0 launches on the platform.

SantaBrowser, backed by Aptos, Polygon, and Bitfinex, has 2 million active users and begins an airdrop campaign through xeet.ai with no official TGE date announced.

APT surpasses SOL in 24-hour stablecoin inflows.

Aptos Labs backs Santa Browser, a privacy-focused browser with over 2M users that allows users to earn while browsing.

World Liberty Financial launches USD1 stablecoin on Aptos, reaching $40M TVL with integrations including Thala, Echelon, Hyperion, Tapp, Decibel, and EchelonMarket. Aptos holds $1.7B in stablecoin liquidity and $1.2B in RWA metrics.

Native yield infrastructure Goblin.fi secures $1M funding round with participation from Aptos cofounder and CEO Avery Ching alongside OKX Ventures and Gate Ventures.

Allscale, a self-custody neobank, raises $5M led by YZI Labs with participation from Aptos Labs.

APT features in CoinShares Altcoins ETF (DIME, U.S.), providing institutional investors with ETF-based exposure to the token.

Stablecoin market cap on the network adds $292.9M in 24 hours and approaches a new all-time high.