Aptos stablecoins break out of DeFi as real consumer apps gain traction
Aptos Weekly Overview - December 11, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos daily txns: 3.3M (+17.86%)
Network transactions per second: 92 tx/s (+8.24%)
Daily active users: 1.4M (+7.69%)
Aptos TVL: $452.74M (-1.17%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.83B (+16.56%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐 What happened: Consumer-facing applications are driving Aptos’ push into everyday payments and finance, Aptos Foundation’s SVP and Head of Ecosystem, Ash Pampati, said during the latest Token Relations Quarterly Webinar.
CreatorFi’s co-founder and CBO, Jack Cameron, and Rhuna’s co-founder and CEO, Sveat Viziti, also discussed how crypto can solve problems for event settlements and creator payments.
🌐 Why it matters: Aptos’ growing consumer ecosystem sits at the center of its rising stablecoin market cap, which increased to $1.83 billion by December 2025 from $430 million at the beginning of 2025. Crucially, this growth is being driven by consumer payments via apps that people already use.
“Stablecoin volume on Aptos keeps growing because the digital dollar goes where it’s treated best,” Pampati said. “When companies with millions of users start routing payments and advances through the chain, a meaningful part of that volume becomes market-resistant.”
Rhuna, which powers payments at festivals, concerts and theme parks, streamlines the $50-$100 that attendees typically spend on food, drinks and merchandise — a crucial source of revenue for event organizers. “Tickets are only 5% to 10% of revenue; the real money is what people spend inside,” Viziti said. “Today, that flow loses 2% to 4% to processors and settles in weeks, but by moving those purchases to Aptos stablecoins, payments settle instantly at near-zero cost, and even secondary ticket transfers become fraud-proof.”
Meanwhile, CreatorFi gives creators such as YouTubers, TikTokers and musicians access to future earnings. Instead of signing publishing deals or giving up equity, creators can borrow against their existing platform revenue and get paid in stablecoins. “Creators are cash-flow-positive businesses,” Cameron said. “They can’t access tomorrow’s earnings without brutal terms, but through stablecoins, it allows for cost-efficient and faster payouts in comparison to bank wires.”
Aptos’ ability to keep the blockchain layer invisible is driving adoption from both sides: companies looking for plug-and-play infrastructure and consumers who simply want a seamless experience. “We’re not onboarding crypto natives,” Viziti said. “90-95 % of our users have no idea there’s a blockchain behind it - and that’s fine.”
🌐 The big picture: Aptos’ invisible-by-design infrastructure naturally aligns with companies that want to facilitate cheap and fast payments to organizers, venues and creators.
Rhuna and CreatorFi are turning stablecoins into the default rail for large slices of the creator and live-entertainment economy. That results in stablecoin supply and transfer volume that grows with a rising user base.
The ecosystem is makin’ Moves
Learn how the PACT Protocol enables a fully on-chain system for origination, monitoring, and enforcement
AllScale raised $5M in a seed round, with participation from Aptos Foundation, for its self-custody stablecoin neobank
Decibel outlined its point incentive, pre-deposit campaign, and upcoming security audits ahead of its mainnet launch
Aave TVL on Aptos hit an all-time high of $38M on Dec. 4
The first episode of Aptos AlphaTeam’s talk show features Lamboo Finance, a trading exchange on Aptos, and it what it aims to solve
Geomi explains how Panora integrates its real-time data infrastructure for wallet lookups and token pool indexing
Echelon’s November update goes into its hourly rewards, stablecoin deposits campaign, and launch of its Dune dashboard
Merkle’s decentralized perpetuals trading platform hit $29B in total volume on Nov. 28
Goblin Finance raised $1M in a strategic funding round from Aptos Foundation, Aptos Labs CEO and co-founder Avery Ching, and Hyperion
Aptos network wins
Aptos’ max TPS surged to 16,162 on Dec. 9, with block times as low as 50ms
Aptos app revenue hit $5.08M in November, the highest so far
Aptos stablecoin market cap hit an all-time high of $1.83B, with USDT on the network reaching $925M, and USDC clocking $321M
Aptos Labs CEO and co-founder Avery Ching spoke with CoinDesk about how Shelby and Decibel fit into its Global Trading Engine during Binance Blockchain Week
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