Aptos
APTLive since October 2022, about 3 years. Machine-drafted, not yet checked by a person.
Aptos describes itself as the first blockchain built using the Move programming language. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $0.5822, #105 of all coins by size, 97% below its highest ever price.
This week in the news: ETF or institution.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #39 of 339 smart contract platforms. 1 reason to be careful.
Is it real?
Reasons to be careful:Half the supply still to come
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- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Coinbase Ventures; in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $506.04M, 63 times smaller than TRON, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Smart Contract Platform)
Backed by Coinbase Ventures and 3 more
- Origin1 October 2022about about 3 yearsFrom United States (Wikidata)aptosfoundation.org, GitHub, Whitepaper, Wikipedia
- DevelopersMo ShaikhFounders per WikidataCode activity not checked
- BackingCoinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, DragonFly Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)Investor tags from CoinGeckoIndex: GMCI 30 Index, GMCI IndexListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet43 headlines last month, 1 about government138,951 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Smart Contract Platform ($29.27M). To match the leader, TRON ($32.06B), its price would need to rise 6236%, to about $36.89.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- Years younger than the group's leader
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
A platform other apps build on
35 coins we checked say they are for a platform other apps build on, worth $393.62B together. #15 of 35 by worth.
Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to TRON, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Aptos says
- Aptos describes itself as the first blockchain built using the Move programming language.
- TRON says
- TRON is a decentralized blockchain-based operating system designed to accelerate the decentralization of the internet and its underlying infrastructure.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Aptos describes itself as the first blockchain built using the Move programming language.
Its listing puts it this way: Aptos is a new, independent high-performance PoS Layer 1 project focused on delivering the safest and most scalable Layer 1 blockchain in the world.
Problem it says it solves: a platform other apps build on. 52 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $408,727,547,844.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, OKX
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
1 reason to be careful
- Half the supply still to come59% of the maximum supply is still to come
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Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to the group's largest, TRON.
| Aptos | TRON | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 4 years | 9 years |
| Major exchanges | 9 | 6 |
| Named backers | 4 | 0 |
| Headlines, last month | 43 | 93 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: Aptos is a new, independent high-performance PoS Layer 1 project focused on delivering the safest and most scalable Layer 1 blockchain in the world.
It is 1.6% the size of TRON. On the facts above it is behind on years trading. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
Printed the same way as the reasons for: facts from the record, the tags and the market feed. Never a verdict, never the word sell.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $19.92 on 26 January 2023. Today is 3% of that.
41%
of all APT that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 870.28M coins.
59% (1.23B coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Pays for every use of its network
Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.
- Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
- Can be staked to earn a share of network rewards
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 870.28M of 2.1B.
- 1.23Bcoins still to be released, 59% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- 1.4×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $19.92 on 26 January 2023. That is −97.1% from the top.
- #105by market cap, $506,037,457.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
- $54.3M is locked in apps built on it right now
- Users paid $92.21K in fees to use it in the last 30 days, $92.21K of that kept by the network
From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
43 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Price17
- Partnership5
- Unlock4
- Upgrade2
- Tokenization1
- AI1
- ETF1
- Stablecoin1
- Altcoin rally loses steam: Institutional bets fail to save Ethereum, Solana, and Aptos
- Archax integrates with Aptos to tokenize 100+ r...
- Exclusive: Aptos Says Institutional Blockchain Adoption Is Decoupling From Bitcoin Price Cycles
- Exclusive: Aptos Says Institutional Blockchain Adoption Is Decoupling From Bitcoin Price Cycles
- Aptos regains resistance as USDC cross-chain transfers boost network activity
- Aptos schedules first testnet reset for Oct. 7 after 10 billion transactionsUpcoming
- Aptos regains resistance as USDC cross-chain transfers boost network activity
- Aptos (APT) Surges 3.39% on Technical Trading and Derivatives
- Aptos to Conduct Scheduled Maintenance on October 7thUpcoming
- Aptos Commits $50M to AI Agent Infrastructure and Research
- Ondo makes major change to USDY on Aptos and Noble
- Ondo makes major change to USDY on Aptos and Noble
- News Explorer — Aptos Has Surged 9% Following Bitwise ETF Filing Despite Crypto Market SlumpGovernment
- Aptos Price Forecast: APT recovery eyes a breakout rally after crucial blockchain bug fix
- 3 Token Unlocks to Watch in the Second Week of September 2026
- APT Surges 10% as 11.31M Token Unlock Puts Bulls Under PressureUpcoming
- Top 5 Crypto Picks as Apeing Countdown Adds New Wild Card
- Aptos (APT) Volatility: Technical Breakout and Risk-Off Sentiment | Top Stories
- Aptos rallies 10% – Why 11.31M token unlock could test APT bullsUpcoming
- Aptos rallies 10% – Why 11.31M token unlock could test APT bullsUpcoming
- Aptos-powered Decibel gains institutional access through BitGo
- Aptos-powered Decibel gains institutional access through BitGo
- Aptos (APT) Surges 6.64% on Technical Breakout and Social Flows
- Ditto Staked Aptos Price (stAPT/USD) Today | Live Price, Market Cap & Chart
- Switchboard Halts Oracle Operations On SUI And Aptos After Potential Compromise
- Aptos Sees 5.62% Drop Amid Broader Crypto Market Pullback
- Switchboard 暂停 Aptos、Sui、Iota 和 Movement 网络
- Aptos Integrates Circle’s CCTP V2 for Seamless USDC Transfers
- Aptos (APT) Volatility Explained by Broad Macro Factors
- Aptos (APT) Gains 4.24% on USDC Integration, Stablecoin Growth
- Aptos adds Circle's CCTP V2 for seconds-fast USDC transfers
- Aptos (APT) Price Movement: Normal Volatility After Rally
- Aptos Price Lags as Network Throughput Hits Record | News
- Aptos Price Lags as Network Throughput Hits Record
- Aptos (APT) Surges 7.16% on Paxos Listing, DeFi Incentives
- Aptos (APT) Surges 7.19% Amid Broad Crypto Rally
- Aptos (APT) Gains 3.6% Amid Broad Crypto Market Rally
- BlockDAG Pulls in $2M in 24 Hours as Aptos Crypto and Zcash Seek Their Next Rally! Why Buyers Are Rushing In
- Aptos (APT) Drops 3% Amid Bearish Sentiment and Thin Bids
- Decibel goes live on Aptos with fully onchain perpetuals exchange - coindesk.com
43 headlines in the last month.
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Aptos describes itself as the first blockchain built using the Move programming language.
“Launched Aptos Mainnet: the first Move-based blockchain.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Live since October 2022, about 3 years.
No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.
Others in smart-contract platforms: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Ethereum 15 of 20, Ozone Chain 13 of 30, Starknet 10 of 24, and 29 more.No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 10 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.







