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Market cap$7.1B

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24h volume$500M

Circulating supply576.00M APT

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All-time high$19.00

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About Aptos (APT)

Layer-1 blockchain

Aptos (APT) is a Layer-1 blockchain — a base network with its own consensus, validators, and native coin (APT) used to pay fees and secure the chain. Developers build applications directly on it, and APT is the asset that powers the whole ecosystem.

How does Aptos work?

The Aptos network is maintained by a distributed set of participants who validate transactions and add them to the blockchain. APT is required to pay for transactions and, on many networks, to stake and help secure the chain in exchange for rewards.

What is APT used for?

APT pays network fees, can often be staked for yield, and serves as the core unit of value across apps built on Aptos. Demand for APT tends to track activity and adoption on the network itself.

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Aptos (APT) swap profile

This profile explains how Aptos swaps work on SwapRocket: the network APT settles on, what an exchange costs, how long it usually takes, and which pairs are published. Rates are aggregated live from every connected provider and shown in full before you commit to anything.

APT key facts

Ticker: APT
Settlement network: Aptos
Category: Layer-1 blockchain
Custody: Non-custodial — coins move from the provider straight to your wallet
Cost to you: Zero added fees; you see the provider rate
Verification: No KYC for crypto-to-crypto swaps
Typical completion: Most swaps finish in under 10 minutes
Rate options: Best rate, fastest route or fixed rate
Published pairs: 4 published APT pairs

How a APT swap works

Enter the amount you want to exchange, pick the asset on the other side, and SwapRocket queries every connected exchange partner at once. You choose an offer, paste the wallet address that should receive the funds, and send APT to the deposit address shown. The partner executes the trade and pays out to your address — SwapRocket never holds your coins, and there is no account to create before you start.

Choosing a rate for APT

Three offers are presented for every APT exchange. The best rate returns the largest amount for the size you entered. The fastest route favours the partner with the shortest expected settlement time, which matters when the market is moving. The fixed rate locks the quoted amount for the duration of the order, so what you are shown is what arrives, at the cost of a slightly smaller payout. Floating offers can move with the market between deposit and settlement.

Networks and addresses for APT

Aptos settles on Aptos. Always send from and to an address on that network: a deposit sent over a different chain cannot be recovered by the exchange partner. When an asset exists on several chains, pick the matching network in the widget before copying the deposit address, and send a small test amount first if you are unsure.

Popular APT pairs

Each pair below has its own page with a live quote, the current rate and the limits that apply to that route.

What is APT? · Sourced guide · Updated 2026-09-23 · 11 sources cited

Aptos was built by former Meta engineers who had worked on the Diem project, and it carried the Move language forward after Diem was shut down. Why did the team bet on parallel transaction execution and a resource-oriented language, rather than simply forking an existing chain, and what does that bet still leave unresolved?

When Meta wound down its Diem stablecoin project in early 2022, the Move programming language it had commissioned did not disappear with it. Two of Diem's engineering leads founded Aptos Labs and used Move, along with a transaction-execution engine called Block-STM, as the technical core of a new layer-1 network. The pitch was that a language designed around ownership of typed resources, combined with an engine that executes transactions in parallel and only re-runs the ones that actually conflict, could process a block faster than executing every transaction one after another. That architecture is now three years into production, and it has produced a specific, well-documented set of trade-offs rather than a settled verdict.

From Diem's ashes to a new mainnet

Aptos was created by engineers who had worked on Meta's Diem blockchain project before that project ended. Diem's codebase, including the Move language it had built for expressing digital assets, was open source, and the Aptos team used Move as the foundation for a new, independent network rather than starting the language from scratch.

The Aptos genesis transaction occurred on October 12, 2022, and public transactions opened the following week. Aptos's whitepaper describes the project explicitly as carrying forward research and engineering from Diem, while adapting the language, execution pipeline and operational model for its own network.^{[1], [2], [3]}

Move: resources instead of balances

Move represents digital assets as typed 'resources' that obey linear-logic-style rules: a resource cannot be copied and cannot be silently dropped, it can only be moved between storage locations by code that has the right to do so. This is a structural difference from the Solidity model used on Ethereum, where a token balance is just an entry in a mapping that any function with the right permissions can edit arbitrarily. Aptos's own Move documentation presents this as a language-level guarantee against classes of bugs, such as accidentally duplicating or destroying an asset, that have caused exploits on account-based virtual machines.

Aptos extended the original Move language with its own standard library and module system, and it maintains its own Move compiler and virtual machine rather than reusing Diem's implementation unchanged. The Aptos Foundation publishes the Move language reference and the Aptos-specific framework as open documentation, which is the primary source for how resource types, module publishing, and access control are meant to work on the network.^{[4], [5]}

Block-STM: parallel execution with optimistic conflict detection

Aptos's execution engine, Block-STM, is described in a paper co-authored by Aptos Labs researchers as an adaptation of software transactional memory to blockchain block execution. Rather than deciding up front which transactions can run in parallel, Block-STM executes transactions within a block speculatively and in parallel, then checks after the fact whether any transaction read a value that a lower-priority transaction later overwrote; only the conflicting transactions are re-executed, in their original order, until the whole block validates.

The Block-STM paper reports benchmark results on synthetic and Diem-history workloads showing substantial speedups over sequential execution on multi-core hardware, with the gains dependent on how much the transactions in a given block actually contend for the same on-chain state. The paper is explicit that the technique's benefit is workload-dependent: a block of transactions that all touch the same few accounts sees far less parallel speedup than a block of independent transfers.^[6]

Consensus: from AptosBFT to Jolteon and Raptr

Aptos's consensus protocol, AptosBFT, is a variant of the HotStuff family of Byzantine fault-tolerant protocols, chosen for its linear communication complexity and pipelined commit rule as validator set size grows. Aptos Labs published a research paper on Jolteon, a refinement that combines HotStuff's simplicity with elements of the DiemBFT view-change mechanism to reduce commit latency, and the Aptos documentation describes the production consensus engine as having evolved through several iterations since mainnet launch.

In 2024, Aptos Labs published research on Raptr, a proposed consensus protocol intended to further reduce latency by combining ideas from DAG-based and chain-based BFT designs. As of the Aptos Foundation's own technical documentation, Raptr is presented as research output rather than confirmed as the mainnet-default protocol, and readers should treat any claim about which consensus variant is currently running in production as something to verify against the live Aptos Improvement Proposal (AIP) records rather than assume from a single paper.^{[7], [8], [9]}

What Block-STM's speedup depends on, and who verifies the state

Block-STM's own paper frames its performance gain as conditional on transaction independence, which means the real-world throughput and latency benefit for any given block of Aptos transactions is workload-dependent rather than a fixed property of the chain. A period of the network dominated by transactions that all touch a small number of popular contracts, such as a single high-volume decentralized exchange pool, is architecturally the case where parallel execution has the least room to help, and Aptos's public materials do not claim otherwise.

Separately, how concentrated stake and governance voting power are among Aptos validators and the Aptos Foundation's holdings is not something this profile can state with confidence from the sources reviewed; specific current percentages of staked APT controlled by the foundation, its team, or a small number of validator operators are UNKNOWN here and should be checked against the Aptos Foundation's own validator and tokenomics disclosures before being treated as fact. Readers evaluating how centralized the network's decision-making actually is should look for a current, dated source rather than relying on this or any other profile's snapshot.^[6]

What this means when you hold or move APT

A standard APT transfer is executed through Aptos framework modules, and gas is paid in APT using a fee model with a gas-unit price and a maximum gas amount specified by the sender. Wallet simulation can estimate that cost before submission, but it does not replace checking the destination address, selected network and receiving service's deposit instructions.

Because Aptos's execution gains under Block-STM depend on the workload rather than a fixed headline number, a wallet or exchange should rely on committed transaction state and its own confirmation policy rather than infer settlement from a promotional throughput figure. Anyone moving APT should also distinguish a native Aptos account address from addresses on other Move-based or EVM networks; a shared wallet interface does not make those network routes interchangeable.

Sources and evidence (11)

[1] Meta shut down the Diem stablecoin project in January 2022 and sold its remaining assets, after which former Diem engineers founded Aptos Labs. Reuters — Meta's Diem cryptocurrency project sells assets · 2022-01-31 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[2] Aptos recorded its genesis transaction on October 12, 2022 and opened the network for public transactions the following week. Aptos Labs — Aptos Autumn is Here · 2022-10-12 · verified 2026-09-23 Reported
[3] Aptos's technical white paper describes the network as built on the Move language and research originating from the Diem project. Aptos Labs — Aptos White Paper · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[4] Move represents assets as typed resources that cannot be copied or implicitly discarded, only moved between storage locations by authorized code. Move Language Book — Resources · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[5] Aptos maintains its own Move framework, compiler, and virtual machine documentation distinct from the original Diem implementation. Aptos Docs — Move on Aptos · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[6] Block-STM adapts software transactional memory to execute block transactions speculatively in parallel, re-executing only those detected to have read conflicting state, with benchmarked speedups that depend on transaction contention in the workload. Aptos Labs / Gelashvili et al. — Block-STM: Scaling Blockchain Execution by Turning Ordering Curse to a Performance Blessing · 2022-03-14 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[7] Aptos publishes the source for its AptosBFT consensus implementation in the aptos-core repository. GitHub — aptos-core consensus · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[8] Aptos Labs researchers published Jolteon, a consensus protocol combining HotStuff's pipelining with a DiemBFT-style view-change mechanism to reduce commit latency. Aptos Labs — Jolteon: Tolerating Latency in Asynchronous BFT Consensus · 2021-06-18 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[9] Aptos Labs published research on Raptr, a proposed low-latency consensus protocol combining DAG-based and chain-based BFT elements, presented as research output. Aptos Labs — Raptr: High-Throughput and Low-Latency Byzantine Consensus · 2024-11-20 · verified 2026-09-23 Reported
[10] Aptos transactions specify a gas price and a maximum gas unit cap, and fees are paid in APT through the network's gas fee documentation. Aptos Docs — Gas and Transaction Fees · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[11] Aptos documentation defines the network's account model and address format for holding resources and submitting transactions. Aptos Docs — Accounts · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed

Profile last reviewed 2026-09-23. Historical background only — not investment advice.

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APT swap FAQ

How do I swap Aptos (APT) instantly on SwapRocket?

Pick APT as the asset you want to receive, choose what you're paying with, paste your wallet address, and confirm. SwapRocket hands your order to the provider whose quote pays out the most at that moment, and most swaps complete in under 10 minutes — no SwapRocket account needed.

Can I swap APT with no KYC?

No SwapRocket account or identity documents are needed to start a crypto-to-crypto swap of APT. The provider that executes the swap may still request identity verification or hold a swap for review under its own AML and sanctions policy, regardless of amount. Selling to a bank account goes through a regulated payment partner that verifies the payer; card purchases on SwapRocket are coming soon.

Is swapping Aptos on SwapRocket non-custodial?

Yes. SwapRocket never holds your funds. The provider that executes the swap receives your deposit, holds it only for the duration of the swap, and sends APT to the wallet address you provide.

Which network does APT use here?

SwapRocket supports Aptos on the Aptos network. Always double-check that your receiving wallet supports this network before confirming.

What fees apply when I swap APT?

SwapRocket adds no fee or markup to the provider's quote and may earn a commission from the provider on a completed swap. The provider's spread and any network cost it deducts on delivery are already reflected in the APT amount shown; the network fee your own wallet charges to send the deposit is separate. Spreads vary by provider, pair and size, so compare the quoted receive amount.

More on fees, limits, KYC and timing: read the full crypto swap FAQ.