August + Aptos = Peak. Here’s a full look at what went down this past week:
Ecosystem Events & Partnerships
- Aptos × Boys Club World — Travel Scholarship announced, 3 winners will attend Aptos Experience: NYC, all expenses paid
- WebX Asia (Tokyo) — Aptos ecosystem showed up strong
- Build on Aptos Hackathon (Pune) hosted by Aptos India, with CTRL+MOVE: Bangalore set for Sept. 6–7
- Aptos Indonesia hosted SUNSET CONNECT
- Aptos Collective Fall 2025 Cohort applications are open + AMA with APTree celebrating 100K activities in Aptos Forest
Adoption & Growth
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Expo 2025 Japan’s official digital wallet (powered by Aptos + HashPort) surpassed 546K users and 4.3M stamp transactions
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Aptos became the 3rd largest transport layer for USDT
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Aptos blocktimes hit 90ms and continue to get faster
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Year-over-year metrics:
- Stablecoin supply ↑ 500%
- USDT supply ↑ 14x
- Weekly DEX volume ↑ 10x
- Weekly app revenue ↑ 10x
Funding & Markets
- Panora Exchange closed a funding round led by Frictionless VC, with participation from Avery Ching and Greg Nazario
- OKX launched $3.4M rewards for xBTC deposits & liquidity across Aries, Echelon, Echo, and Hyperion
- MoarMarket introduced the Leverage LP Simulator and crossed $1M borrowed
Tech & Standards
- Baby Raptr Consensus Upgrade — faster, more resilient finality
- Echelon & Thala upgraded to the latest Chainlink data standard on Aptos
- Fungible Assets 101 blog + new FA Token Standard released by Aptos Labs
- InfinityG AI rolled out seamless AI integration for Aptos developers
Community & Builders
- Move the Mic featured APTreeio on the Aptos Forum
- Token Relations continued its Aptos Weekly Overviews
- Minds DAO × Kofi Finance hosted a content contest
- APTopia released “Meet the Builders” (APTree) + Community Spotlight on Captain Gates
- Alpha Team Aptos highlighted Aptos at Vietnam Blockchain Day 2025 (Da Nang)
- Compx Labs joined the Aptos ecosystem
- Raptrs shared NFT mint updates
- Kana Labs hit a new trading milestone + backed Aptos Campus Onboarding at Jos University
Content & Media
- Shelby Serves dropped new Aptos video content featuring rpranav
- Sneha published Part 2 of Building Cross-Chain Apps with Wormhole and Aptos
- YinusaWeb3 released a new Move Stories episode with ValeBrent
- Aptos Labs blog: Fungible Assets 101
- Aptos Foundation spotlight: Pact Consortium $500M+ in on-chain loans
Upcoming
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Aptos Experience NYC | October 15–16, 2025
- Early bird tickets are live
- Partners like Stripe, Jump, DoubleZero, and BlackRock confirmed
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Aptos Ecosystem Hangout | September 3, 12:30 PM ET