Welcome back to the Aptos’ Biweekly Overview, the best place for Aptos community members to get up to speed on the chain’s latest updates, metrics, releases, insights, ecosystem developments and more. All in one place.
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By The Numbers
Aptos daily txns: 4.6M (+43.7%)
Network transactions per second: 82 tx/s (+5.1%)
Daily active users: 1.1M (+31.2%)
Aptos TVL: $336.2M (-22.3%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.51B (-6.21%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside The Blockchain
🌐 What happened: Alchemy has added support for Aptos, giving developers access to its tools for building apps on the network. This includes infrastructure tooling like node access, real-time data connections, and debugging features.
🌐 Why it matters: Every crypto app requires technical infrastructure to keep things running smoothly. By supporting Aptos, Alchemy is looking to make it easier for developers to build on the network using tools they may already be familiar with.
Aptos is designed to handle large numbers of transactions quickly and at low cost, which is useful for apps focused on trading, payments and consumer products. Alchemy provides the backend services that lets developers focus on building products instead of having to manage servers and connections.
🌐 The big picture: Alchemy’s integration with Aptos lowers the barrier to entry for developers. Teams can now experiment on Aptos without having to build their entire tech stack from scratch.
Overall, integrations like these reflect how blockchain ecosystems mature: incremental upgrades for developer functionality make it easier to move from experimentation to real-world applications.
The Ecosystem Is Makin’ Moves
Echelon released its ELON token, which will be used for governance and distributing network fees back to users
Aptos has a blog about the token’s functionality and how it fits into the broader lending ecosystem
Rhea integrated with Aptos to provide X chain lending and X Chain DEX aggregation. Users can supply assets on Aptos and use them for collateralized borrow positions across networks
Ekiden updated its hybrid orderbook DEX to include cross-margin perpetual trading for pairs like BTC, ETH, and HYPE
Pictor Network plans to create a GenAI creative layer to lower infrastructure costs by sharing GPU resources
Hyperion addedpasskey recovery code as a security option for its Aptos-powered DEX
Aptos Network Wins
Aptos’ peer-to-peer stablecoin transaction volume hit a 12-month high of $2.8B on Feb. 3
Pre-deposits for Decibel’s composable onchain perp trading DEX will unlock on Feb. 10
USDC issued and bridgedon Aptos is up 17.7% to $275M from a month earlier
Join In The Fun
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Shelby is hosting an event during Consensus Hong Kong on Feb. 12 with DoubleZero and NODIT
That’s all for now.
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