Hyperion’s TVL and DEX volume surge fuels Aptos’ rise as DeFi powerhouse
Aptos Weekly Overview - June 12, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos transactions this week: 38.2M (-5.5%)
Network transactions per second (TPS): 63.2
Active users: 80.1M (-74.9%)
New users this week: 120.3K
Total staked APT: 874.45M (+0.2%)
Aptos total value locked (TVL): $1.1B (-4.7%)
NFT weekly sales: 4.3K (-11.2%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe from Flipside data as of June 9, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐What happened: Decentralized exchange Hyperion hit an all-time high in TVL at $112.35 million, up 56% on the month. It also recorded its largest single-day trading volume of $149.87 million on June 11, DefiLlama data shows.
🌐Why does it matter: These milestones underscore Hyperion’s growing prominence as a liquidity hub within the Aptos ecosystem for onchain trading activity. Hyperion leverages Aptos’ high-performance infrastructure to provide a more tailored trading experience.
Hyperion’s offers features like swap aggregation and concentrated liquidity market-making, to leverage Aptos’ parallel execution engine. This means Hyperion’s design optimizes capital efficiency and reduces slippage to unify fragmented liquidity pools. In turn, traders are able to access deep market liquidity pools, low-cost execution methods and yield opportunities, attracting both retail users and institutions alike.
Traditionally, the surge in a protocol's TVL showcases robust user confidence and capital commitment. On the other hand, growth in daily DEX volume demonstrates a platform’s capacity to handle substantial transaction throughput, without compromising efficiency.
For Hyperion, its TVL and DEX volume milestones show its ability to attract substantial capital and facilitate high-frequency trading. These metrics highlight Hyperion’s efficiency in aggregating liquidity to enable cost-effective trades with minimal price impact. The surge in activity underscores growing market confidence in its infrastructure, which leverages Aptos to support scalable, high-performance DeFi applications.
In just four months since Hyperion launched on Aptos mainnet, this growth contributes to the DeFi protocol’s plans for a TGE in Q2 2025. This will be supported by Aptos Foundation’s LFM, which helps ecosystem projects preparing for token generation events.
Hyperion closed its strategic funding round, led by OKX Ventures with participation from the Aptos Foundation. This milestone allows the protocol to empower innovative asset mint and distribution within the ecosystem. In turn, it hopes to spark momentum and expand onchain asset use cases.
🌐The big picture: DEXs play a crucial role in onchain financial expansion as the DeFi sector grows. It provides more users with permissionless, transparent and efficient ways to trade.
Hyperion leverages Aptos to provide sub-second finality and a scalable infrastructure to provide low-latency trading options. This unifies liquidity and could position the DEX as a way to attract new institutional and retail capital.
Collectively, with DeFi’s broader ability to rival centralized financial systems and Hyperion’s robust liquidity hub, it reinforces Aptos’ north star to become the global trading engine.
The ecosystem is makin’ Moves
Aptos network dApps, Mereo, Rewardy, Storychat and Tevi, were integrated to the Memorial Stamp Rally digital campaign for World Expo 2025
Hear how Ekiden enables institutional and retail users to trade on Aptos using its institutional-grade Central Limit Order Book
Kana Labs, a perpetual futures trading platform on Aptos, launched its mainnet alongside the integration of the OKX Wallet and DEX API
Panana Predictions launched to testnet for its Aptos-powered predictions market
Gravity Chain shared it is leveraging Aptos’ execution stack to power the Gravity SDK for sub-second finality
Echo Protocol reached a new high in TVL on Aptos at $297M for its bitcoin stake and yield protocol, DefiLlama data shows
Tapos shared it will launch an updated version of its onchain game soon
Aries Markets surged in activity over the month for its Aptos-powered DEX, according to DappRadar data:
Unique active wallets: 41.93K (+336.73%)
Transactions: 198.97K (+349.74%)
Volume: $11.94M (+71.65%)
Aptos network wins
Aptos collaborated with EXPO2025 Digital Wallet to create the Aptos EXPO Memorial Stamp Rally
Aptos Labs CEO Avery Ching testified in front of Congress about American innovation and the future of digital assets
He also spoke on The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast about how its blockchain is building for a new global financial system
Confidential tokens are live on Aptos devnet - some notable features:
Encrypted token balances and transfer amounts so only the sender, recipient and designated auditors can see numeric values
Validators have no visibility on confidential token balances or transferred amounts, but the network still ensures integrity such as no negative balances and no artificial inflation
Aptos reached 4,193 bitcoin (approximately $500M) on the network, up from its previous high of $400M
Join in the fun
Want to dive into the ecosystem full-time? Find the latest job postings on Aptos Foundation here.
Sign up for the Aptos Experience in NYC from October 15-16
Participate in OKX Wallet’s campaign with Aptos featuring $3.4M in rewards for users that bridge xBTC to the network
Bitget Wallet is hosting a trading campaign with Hyperion featuring a token prize pool of $40K in APT
Earn rewards by completing Echo Protocol’s Galxe quests ahead of its TGE
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