Aptos has had an exciting 2 months since the launch of its mainnet. Here are 5 facts about the new blockchain, including performance, top holders, and NFTs.
Five Aptos facts since launch
Launched almost two months ago, the much-hyped Aptos blockchain has been praised by supporters and criticized by skeptics.
Aptos is the first blockchain based on Facebook’s Move programming language and scrapped stablecoin project Diem.
Here we give you five facts about Aptos’ performance since its inception, derived from NodeReal’s TraceMove blockchain explorer.
1. $APT is down 65% since launch
On Oct. 19, Aptos’ native coin, $APT, first traded at $13.73. Currently the value of $APT is $4.83. That’s a drop of 65%.
However, according to CoinMarketCap, $APT is up 34% from its all-time low on Nov. 9. Due to coin issuance, the current market cap of $APT ($628 million) is “only” down 37% since launch.
2. Aptos is approaching 50 million transactions at 8 TPS
Since the launch of mainnet, the Aptos chain has processed 46.7 million transactions, with daily transactions remaining steady at just over 600,000 over the past two weeks.
Source: TraceMove
According to TraceMove, Aptos averaged 7.7 transactions per second (TPS), which is well below the promised top speed of 160,000 TPS. Since launch, however, Aptos developers have countered the TPS criticism by saying that the actual TPS is so much lower than the max TPS because there is not yet enough activity on the network to test the chain’s limits.
3. Binance holds $16M APT
Centralized exchange Binance is one of the largest holders of Aptos coins with $16.4 million APT in a wallet TraceMove refers to as “Binance”.
That’s nearly 13% of the total $APT in circulation.
For comparison, a wallet attributed to the “OKX” exchange holds $2.1 million APT, less than 2% of the circulating supply.
4. There are 2.6 million $APT holders
More than 2.6 million addresses currently contain Aptos coins. Most of the other popular tokens on Aptos are either stablecoins or wrapped native coins from other blockchains like Ethereum and Solana.
However, Aptos-specific tokens like $MOJO and $APTOGE are also among the top tokens by number of holders, as well as liquid versions of $APT from staking platforms like Tortuga and Ditto.
5. Top Aptos NFTs include monkeys, bears, and punks
Aptos has seen a lot of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) activity, with TraceMove listing hundreds of NFT collections with a significant number of transactions.
The top NFT collections on TraceMove’s list are Aptos Monkeys, Bruh Bears, AptoPunks, Aptos Undead, Aptos Toad Overload, Aptos Land Genesis, Aptos Dragons, VORP Pass, Aptomingos, and Aptos Rats.
What is Aptos:
Aptos is a new, independent project focused on providing the world’s most secure and production-ready Layer 1 blockchain. The team consists of the original creators, researchers, designers and builders of Diem, the blockchain first built for this purpose.
Where to find Aptos Labs:
Website | Twitter | Telegram | Medium | discord |
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