- Aptos crosses $1B in TVL by March 2025, marking over 100% growth in just half a year.
- Built from Meta’s Diem, Aptos combines speed, security, and scalability for global adoption.
- Stablecoin market cap on Aptos surged 10x, driven by native USDT, USDC, and USDe growth.
Aptos is a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain that emerged from Meta’s Diem and Novi projects. It crossed a major milestone with over $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) as of March 2025. Aptos launched in October 2022 and has been working on developing a blockchain that offers high performance, security, and scalability. It has turned out to be one of the most popular platforms in the decentralised finance (DeFi) space.
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Backed by $400 million in private funding rounds, Aptos has developed a unique tech stack. It features the AptosBFTv4 consensus, Quorum Store mempool, and the Block-STM execution engine. Its programming language, Aptos Move, builds on Meta’s original Move language, offering enhanced security and greater flexibility for Web3 developers across a growing ecosystem.
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User-Centric Safety Features
The platform focuses on safety through executions like pre-transaction displays, account without keys, and time settings. Such user-centred approaches make it less risky but provide a more natural way for users regardless of their experience with cryptocurrency. The development and support of Aptos is still in the hands of Aptos Labs and the Aptos Foundation.
On Aptos, the amount of locked TVL has seen a consistent rise. From around $300–500 million at the start of 2024, it grew to over double within six months. This has been an increase of 109% year on year in USD and an astounding 562% in terms of APT tokens. Aries Markets holds the largest TVL of more than $ 383 million. Meanwhile, Amnis Finance and Echo Protocol take the second and third positions, respectively.
Source: Messari
Aries crossed the $400 million mark in stablecoin deposits, particularly, the USDT holding has exceeded $210 million, while USDC holdings are above $200 million. Base rewards are now more than 8%, which will be paid in APT and the original token.
New Protocols Expanding Reach
The ecosystem continues to expand with the launch of Aave’s testnet on Aptos—the protocol’s first non-EVM deployment. Other key players like PACT, Merkle Trade, and Echelon are also building solutions that tap into emerging markets and offer walletless trading or synthetic stablecoin options like USDe and sUSDe.
With stablecoin market cap on Aptos rising more than 10x in a year, and scaling solutions like Zaptos and Shardines pushing performance toward one million transactions per second, Aptos is not just growing—it’s accelerating. The chain’s bold ambition to become the global trading engine is now closer than ever to reality.
