Aptos integrates Chainlink CCIP to bridge 60+ blockchains
Aptos Weekly Overview - September 18, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos daily txns: 3.6M (+9.09%)
Network transactions per second: 54.61 tx/s (+5.36%)
Daily active users: 866.6K (-2.58%)
Aptos TVL: $795.82M (+6.04%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.19B (+2.59%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐 What happened: Aptos integrated Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable secure and high-throughput bridges across the ecosystem.
🌐 Why it matters: This integration brings Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network to Aptos, enabling direct asset transfers across 60 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and non-EVM chains. Aptos is the first Move-based blockchain to adopt CCIP, and it will also benefit from Chainlink’s reach since the platform has enabled transactions worth more than $25 trillion so far.
Aptos is gaining institutional-grade security thanks to this integration, which also allows DeFi protocols like Aave to expand stablecoins natively to Aptos, as well as asset issuers like Bedrock to bring wrapped bitcoin tokens to the network.
CCIP leverages the Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard to convert ERC-20 tokens into cross-chain assets with more layers of security. This setup enables deployments to provide tamper-proof data flows in as less as 60 seconds, allowing scalability for applications across the ecosystem.
In addition to the interoperability features, this integration unlocks tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) by connecting Aptos to major chains within the Chainlink ecosystem, like Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base.
🌐 The big picture: Aptos’ CCIP integration demonstrates how general-purpose blockchains can evolve into unified trading hubs. The combination of Move’s safety-focused coding language with Chainlink’s cross-chain reliability can drive institutional adoption by enabling secure, scalable and interoperable DeFi applications that can be used across the global financial market.
Beyond more liquidity, Chainlink’s integration gives Aptos users access to advanced trading across DEXs and lending protocols, such as atomic swaps for arbitrage, or collateral portability to minimize slippage and unlock underutilized capital.
Collectively, this fortifies Aptos’ vision to grow into a global trading engine that provides developers with the infrastructure for compliant, high-speed DeFi capabilities.
The ecosystem is makin’ Moves
Echelon Market TVL rose 27% throughout the month to $200.5M
Hyperion’s daily DEX volume reached a new high for the month, hitting $151M on Sept 13
Tapp Exchange saw its TVL reach an all-time high of $8.37M for its Aptos DEX
TVL on Moar Market, an onchain credit layer for the Move ecosystem, hit a high of $3.77M
Weekly user activity on KGeN spiked as:
Unique active wallets increased by 18% to 2.4M
Dapp transactions rose 10.4% to 4.08M
Dapp volume rose 2.56% to $556.71K
Read Echo Protocol’s report about its developments between April - August 2025
Pictor Network launched the mainnet of its decentralized GPU compute and AI rendering protocol
Safeheron integrated support for Aptos and its Fungible Asset (FA) standard used for digital asset self-custody
Ekiden launched its hybrid orderbook DEX to the Aptos mainnet
Backpack has an article about Shelby and its storage solution cloud-grade performance
Tevi user activity surged, with daily active addresses up 353% to 108.6K, and total transactions up 367% to 14.9M this month
QuickNode hosted a coding session with Aptos DevRels, Greg Nazrio and Sneha Mishra
Aptos network wins
Check out these upcoming Aptos events:
Korea Blockchain Week from Sept 22-24
Cocktail hour events in Singapore for Token 2049 from Oct 1-2
Watch this coding video from Aptos Labs DevRel, Chris Kim, about the Move language and how to set up smart contracts
Aptos introduced Event-Driven Transactions so applications can schedule and compose actions based on time or price triggers
Join in the fun
Want to dive into the ecosystem full-time?
Find the latest job postings on Aptos Foundation here
Meet up with the community at Aptos Experience, a two-day event in NYC designed to highlight the builders and ecosystem founders
Participate in the Aptos Experience Builder Scholarship if you’re a student, recent grad, or an early builder on the network
Applications for the Aptos Ctrl+Move online hackathon are open until Oct 3
Check out the OKX Wallet campaign, featuring up to $50K in APT rewards for users who deposit xBTC on Aries Markets, Echelon Markets, Echo Protocol and Hyperion
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