{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/apt",
  "name": "Aptos",
  "links": {
    "github": "https://github.com/aptoslabs",
    "website": "https://aptoslabs.com/",
    "whitepaper": null
  },
  "dScore": 41,
  "market": {
    "priceUsd": 0.6259225495553254,
    "marketCapUsd": 520789617.6792437,
    "volume24hUsd": 60781591.89009133,
    "priceChange7dPct": -2.92983789,
    "priceChange24hPct": -2.84711793
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  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
    "max": 2100000000,
    "circulating": 832035238.3042097,
    "circulatingPct": 39.620725633533795
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  "ticker": "APT",
  "founder": "Mo Shaikh, Avery Ching",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:17.759562+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2021,
  "description": "Aptos is a Move-based, high-performance Layer-1 blockchain project founded by former Meta/Diem engineers with the stated mission of providing a secure, upgradeable, and highly scalable substrate for mainstream web3 adoption. The project was incubated by teams with deep experience in payments and large-scale systems and launched its mainnet in October 2022 after several incentivized testnets (AIT1–AIT4). Aptos positions itself as an infrastructure layer optimized for decentralized applications requiring low latency and high throughput, and it has attracted substantial venture funding and ecosystem support from major backers and foundations. The core team operates within a commercial developer entity (Aptos Labs) alongside a community-focused Aptos Foundation that manages allocations and ecosystem grants.\n\nTechnically, Aptos differentiates itself through the Move smart-contract language and a modular execution pipeline that emphasizes parallel transaction execution (Block-STM style / parallelized execution) and a roadmap toward storage sharding and other horizontal scaling primitives. Its consensus is a PoS, HotStuff-family BFT variant (AptosBFT) that separates execution and consensus to enable optimistic parallel processing and other performance optimizations. The implementation stack references Rust for core node software and the Move VM for safe, resource-oriented smart contract semantics. Testnet and previewnet runs have demonstrated sustained high TPS peaks (testnets exceeding 30k TPS in reported runs) and project claims of a theoretical design capable of much higher throughput with full sharding and aggregator techniques.\n\nIn terms of use cases and ecosystem, Aptos has targeted DeFi, stablecoin liquidity, gaming, and developer tooling as primary adoption vectors. By 2025, the ecosystem included notable integrations such as Aave on Aptos, Chainlink feeds, LayerZero bridge support for cross-chain asset flows, and significant stablecoin liquidity with DeFiLlama-reported TVL snapshots indicating strong activity. The platform has also pursued developer programs and accelerators (e.g., Aptos Horizon) and has been home to NFT and gaming activity that contributed to daily transaction volumes and DAU metrics. Exchange coverage is broad, with Tier-1 centralized exchanges listing APT, which supports market access and liquidity.\n\nThe tokenomics of APT reflect an initial supply schedule of 1,000,000,000 APT with an on-chain circulating snapshot around ~748,971,855 APT in observed data. The genesis allocation described community, foundation, core contributors, and investor allocations (community ~51.02%, core contributors ~19.00%, foundation ~16.50%, investors ~13.48%) with vesting schedules and governance proposals managing emission and staking reward rates. Staking rewards are inflationary and subject to governance changes through the AIP process. The project is not identified as a fair-launch or premine project in the provided sources; no explicit premine percentage was reported in the combined materials and pre-mine is treated as 0% in the extracted fields.\n\nGovernance at Aptos mixes foundation stewardship and on-chain proposal mechanics: the AIP (Aptos Improvement Proposal) process has been used to propose framework upgrades, staking economics changes, and cryptographic resilience options (e.g., post-quantum signature proposals). The Aptos Foundation and validator community coordinate on upgrades and proposals; the combined summaries reference active proposal activity, on-chain votes, and multiple node/software releases through 2024–2025. Security posture and operational history show several identified VM/consensus bugs that were remediated (integer overflow discovery in Oct 2022, non-determinism/transaction delay incident in Oct 2023, and a Move verifier bug fixed in Mar 2025), alongside routine audits and third-party reviews. Overall, Aptos presents as a rapidly evolving Layer-1 ecosystem with strong developer focus, significant VC backing, and a governance path that combines foundation stewardship with on-chain proposal mechanisms.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 1",
    "isToken": false,
    "consensus": "PoS",
    "parentChain": null
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 5,
    "ageHistory": 11,
    "governance": 15,
    "nodeDistribution": 10,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Moderately Decentralized"
}