Aptos APT
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CM Profile: Aptos
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about APT, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.44% and 0.55%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold APT. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell APT
Selling $100,000 of APT into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase APT/USD | 0.44% | $99,565 | 2026-10-09 |
| Kraken APT/USD | 0.55% | $99,447 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps APT on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Aptos is
Aptos launched in October 2022, built by engineers who had previously worked on Diem, the blockchain project Meta announced as Libra and eventually abandoned under regulatory pressure. It inherits that project's most durable output: Move, a programming language designed specifically so that digital assets cannot be accidentally duplicated or destroyed by ordinary coding mistakes.
Its performance approach is to execute transactions in parallel rather than one at a time, detecting conflicts and re-running only the transactions that actually touched the same data. Combined with Move's safety properties, the pitch is throughput without the classes of bug that have cost other ecosystems heavily.
The criticism at launch was about distribution rather than technology. A large share of the supply went to investors and the core team on multi-year vesting schedules, the details were published late, and the resulting unlocks have been a persistent overhang on the price. It also competes directly with Sui, built by a different group from the same Diem team using the same language — two well-funded chains with similar architecture pursuing the same developers, which is a difficult position for both.
What Aptos can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.44% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
APT can be staked by adding it to a delegation pool, and the rewards come minus the operator's commission. The stake can be unlocked at any time but withdrawn only when the pool's lock-up period, set by Aptos governance, runs out. The docs say slashing is not currently implemented.
Sources: Aptos docs: delegated staking, Aptos docs: staking · checked 2 October 2026
APT has a maximum supply of 2.1 billion, and Aptos says none can be created beyond it without governance approval. New APT is issued as staking rewards, and all transaction fees are burned.
Source: Aptos: APT supply · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where APT lives
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Aptos data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell APT.