Decibel plugs Chainlink into Aptos, enabling sub-second data and Wall Street-grade feeds
Aptos Weekly Overview - November 13, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos daily txns: 2.3M (-30.3%)
Network transactions per second: 39 tx/s (-25.73%)
Daily active users: 1.1M (-31.25%)
Aptos TVL: $567.27M (-15.86%)
Aptos stablecoin market cap: $1.39B (-13.13%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 14-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐 What happened: Decibel, an Aptos-incubated perps DEX optimized for performance and capital efficiency, integrated Chainlink’s Data Streams and DataLink on Aptos, giving developers access to low-latency market data.
🌐 Why it matters: Reliable, high-frequency data is foundational for protocols focused on trading. Chainlink’s Data Streams provide sub-second price updates from traditional finance sources like bid/ask spreads, confidence intervals, and market status metadata. This enables Decibel to maintain accurate mark prices and prevent manipulation during volatile periods.
Meanwhile, DataLink offers secure, verifiable publishing of premium datasets from providers such as S&P Global and Deutsche Börse, ensuring compliance for institutional use cases.
This integration plans to reduce oracle-related risks, a critical factor in perpetuals, where minor delays or inaccuracies can trigger liquidations. Chainlink’s decentralized aggregation with Aptos’ parallel execution can allow Decibel to achieve near-instant settlement with centralized-grade precision.
Given how other trading protocols from other networks that incorporated Chainlink have performed, Chainlink stands to strengthen Decibel’s position as an enterprise-ready protocol. For example, GMX on Avalanche saw its TVL increase from $506 million to $600 million a month after adopting Data Streams, and Jupiter on Solana grew from $888 billion in DEX aggregator volume to $920 billion a month after integrating real-time feeds.
🌐 The big picture: This launch looks to strengthen Decibel’s position as an enterprise-ready protocol for DeFi use cases, particularly in derivatives and tokenized markets.
Decibel’s adoption of Chainlink’s services reflects the convergence of traditional market data and blockchain rails. As a result, it can drive greater composability, reduce systemic risk and accelerate the maturation of onchain trading ecosystems.
The ecosystem is makin’ Moves
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Aptos network wins
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