Welcome back to another edition of Move the Mic, where we sit down with builders pushing the boundaries of Move and the Aptos ecosystem.
This week, we spoke with Tapp Exchange, a DeFi project building a new kind of liquidity platform on Aptos.
Let’s get into the interview and see what they’ve been working on.
Neşe: Can you tell us about your project and its main objectives within the Aptos ecosystem?
Tapp: Tapp Exchange is building the liquidity hub Aptos still lacks. We pair Move-native “hook” pools with Aptos’ parallel execution engine so swaps clear in milliseconds and scale toward the 1 M TPS benchmarks Aptos Labs has published. Hooks let us support several pool families — constant-product AMMs, concentrated-liquidity (CLMM) pools, stable-swap curves, and even an on-chain order-book or anything other DeFi protocols can dream up! — through a single router. Our goal is to concentrate TVL behind one efficient venue, share fee income with the community via a ve(3,3) model, and give every new Aptos token a way to acquire liquidity efficiently.
Neşe: What’s one thing about your project that you think would surprise people who aren’t familiar with it?
Tapp: Because Move has no dynamic dispatch, we can’t just “hot-swap” pool logic at runtime the way Ethereum’s Uniswap v4 eventually will. Instead, Tapp curates a registry of pre-audited hooks. When a project wants a new pool type, we deploy the hook through our HookFactory, wire it to the router (which already knows that hook’s type definitions), and spin up fresh pools—all without forking liquidity or redeploying tokens. The surprise is that this still feels modular to users while remaining 100% static-typed under the hood, an approach only possible because of Move’s strict resource model.
Neşe: If your project were an animal, what would it be and why?
Tapp: We picked the elephant for good reason. Elephants are famous for their long memory—mirroring the permanence of on-chain data—and for carrying immense weight effortlessly, much like Tapp’s engine moving high order-flow efficiently and sustainably. Elephants are also deeply social, a nod to our ve(3,3) design that rewards the whole herd – traders, LPs, and builders.
Neşe: What’s the funniest or most unexpected thing that’s happened during your development process?
Tapp: While stress testing Tapp in testnet we accidentally seeded some pools like the BTC pool with low liquidity, which quickly made the TVL of pools and LP positions report TRILLIONS on the testnet front-end. Telegram exploded with “I’m rich!” screenshots from our community. If only testnet was real.
Neşe: What is your future plans?
Mainnet Launch: Very soon.
SOR and Dex Aggregation: In 1-2 months
ALM and Perps / Options: 3-4 months
ve(3,3) incentives: Q4 2025
The elephant never forgets—and neither will Aptos once Tapp goes live.
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for more exciting stories from the Move and Aptos ecosystem. To keep up with the latest updates from Tapp Exchange, be sure to follow their official channels. Don’t miss out on their upcoming launches and announcements!
X Account: https://x.com/TappExchange
