Aptos Experience in NYC: The network's journey to build The Global Trading Engine
Aptos Weekly Overview - October 16, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos daily txns: 3.1M (-11.43%)
Network transactions per second: 40.43 tx/s (+0.95%)
Daily active users: 762.3K (+8.93%)
Aptos TVL: $714.52M (-8.37%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.13B (+5.61%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐 What happened: To commemorate three years of Aptos’ mainnet, the network’s team on Wednesday kicked off The Aptos Experience, a two-day event in Brooklyn, NYC, featuring live demos, conversations and activations.
🌐 Why it matters: Organized in a decked-out warehouse complete with subways and food carts in keeping with the NYC theme, The Aptos Experience focused on what’s next for the blockchain as it approaches its third anniversary.
Aptos Labs’ CEO, Avery Ching, and its head of ecosystem, Ash Pampati, discussed the blockchain’s vision to become the Global Trading Engine, an ambitious infrastructure layer that seeks to create a “truly global financial system.”
Like many other blockchains, Aptos is on a mission to connect crypto with TradFi. While last year, its North Star was payments, loyalty and advertising, this year the network is focusing on moving all assets onchain, Ching said.
The next phase of Aptos will focus on payments, better performance and data, and will include the launch of Namespaces, a scaling strategy for the network to transform it into a single mesh, Ching said.
Namespaces will be the “private lane on the Aptos super highway,” Sasha Spiegelman, head of research at Aptos Labs, said. It will allow for tailored execution environments and give institutions flexibility without fragmentation.
In sum, the Namespaces architecture is designed to “connect the decentralized world,” Spigelman said.
Historically, capital formation has been restricted to a very small group of investors, Ching said. While the current technology is insufficient for advancements or broader audiences, he said, new advancements will change this. This is “not our final form,” he added.
Aptos currently has about $714.52 million in total value locked, with a stablecoin market cap of $1.1 billion and 24-hour decentralized exchange volume of $156 million, according to DeFiLlama data.
“Crypto is ready for the main stage,” Ching added. “The new administration and financial markets are embracing crypto like never before.”
🌐 The big picture: Aptos is on a journey to build the best Global Trading Engine, Spigelman said, focusing on low latency, high throughput, MEV protection and onchain automation.
“We believe trading is the future of blockchains,” Spiegelman said, adding that the engine is an “execution powerhouse purpose-built for high scalability.”
It’s not just about performance though, it should go from the blockchain’s technology to real world apps, Ching noted. “The [virtual machine] is built for trading and composability.”
The ecosystem is makin’ Moves
World Liberty Financial launched its USD1 stablecoin to Aptos mainnet
NBCUniversal and Aptos Labs announced Backlot Club, a web3 fan engagement and rewards platform
Watchee introduced its platform that turns digital media into programmable assets
Reliance Jio partnered with Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs to bring blockchain-based rewards to the ecosystem
Shelby announced at Aptos Experience its devnet is live
Learn how Geomi’s Backfill enables no-code indexing and streamlines code config changes
Echelon Market shared a recap of its developments from the third quarter
Goblin Finance launched a vault for USD1-USDC pairs, letting users to earn yield
Hyperion has launched HyperAuth, an onchain 2FA system for removing liquidity or claiming frozen assets
Decibel announced its testnet will launch November 2025, with mainnet in 2026 Q1
KGeN integrated with Stargate Finance to enable cross-chain transfers of its token between Aptos and BSC
Panora reached $10M in bridge volume for USD1 through its Flows feature
Aptos network wins
Aptos recorded $251.6M worth of DEX volume on Oct. 10, marking the network’s second most active day ever
Check out this video in which Aptos Labs CEO Avery Ching and technical lead manager Andrea Cappa discuss the network’s security stack
Crypto exchanges Kraken and Crypto.com have enabled deposits for USDT and USDC via Aptos
Aptos Foundation led Rhuna’s $2M raise for its gamified experience platform
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