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: 3.4M (-2.86%)
Network transactions per second: 96 tx/s (+24.67%)
Daily active users: 1.1M (-31.25%)
Aptos TVL: $436M (+1.5%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.62B (-9.5%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside The Blockchain
🌐 What happened: Aptos’s daily app revenue reached an all-time high of $1.07 million on December 31.
🌐 Why it matters: While a single-day peak does not define a long-term trend, the December 31 high aligns with back-to-back weekly app revenue records on the network. Approximately $1.65 million was generated between December 22 and December 28, 2025, and $1.75 million between December 29 and January 4.
App revenue is earned directly from trading fees, protocol fees, marketplace fees, and other app-level monetization. As a metric, it captures the economic value users are willing to pay for onchain services, rather than surface-level activity.
Compared to raw transaction volume or user counts, app revenue can be viewed as a higher-quality indicator because it reflects economic density, the amount of value generated per unit of activity.
🌐 The big picture: In Aptos’ Quarterly Webinar with Token Relations last month, Aptos Foundation’s SVP and Head of Ecosystem, Ash Pampati, said that the ecosystem values app revenue as a key metric because they believe apps should be getting the majority of the value, eventually becoming bigger than the chain they’re built on.
For Aptos, rising app revenue suggests that activity on the network is increasingly linked to utility and monetization, rather than driven by incentives. Over time, sustained revenue can support ecosystem health by funding application development and improving the daily user experience.
The Ecosystem Is Makin’ Moves
Canza Finance unveiled the Canza Autonomous Payment Protocol, and surpassed $131M in USDT cumulative transactions on Aptos
Pranav Raval, Aptos’s head of infra and GM of Shelby, explained what decentralized hot storage means, how it can improve privacy for users, and how it proves useful for content creators
In 2025, Rhuna was used by 165 events for production, it onboarded 2M users, and saw $90M in transaction volume
Hyperion’s automated market maker saw 1M unique active wallets, $23.9B in DEX volume and $4.26M in fees distributed to users throughout 2025
Aave TVL on Aptos rose to all-time highs of $41.2M on Jan. 2
Ondo Finance’s tokenized US treasury fund on Aptos hit $30.5M on Jan. 7
APRO’s Oracle-as-a-Service is now live onAptos, providing prediction markets real-time data
Aptos Network Wins
USDC transfer volume on Aptos surged 1,244% to $26.79B from $1.99B in 2025
Aptos reached 4B total transactions in 2025, and last week was its best so far, reaching 51.7M
In 2025, Aptos Labs introduced network infrastructure updates like higher-order functions and signed integer types, and reduced block times to as low as 47ms
Join In The Fun
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Check out Delphi Digital’s Aptos report about its technological improvements from 2025
That’s all for now.
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