Aptos ranks #36 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #96: 60 of the 95 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted. Of the 82 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 56% are claims on other assets, 39% are tokens and 5% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | B · 64/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #36 |
| Rank counting claims | #96 |
| Market capitalisation | $605M |
| Price | $0.6842 |
| Circulating supply | 883,627,537 APT |
| Maximum supply | 2,100,000,000 APT |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | AptosBFT (PoS) |
| Network purpose | Smart-contract platform |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
| Regulatory class | Commodity |
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B — 64 out of 100, provisional (from 19 of 20 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 61 to 67 (C to B).
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.4 | group average, 11 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 7.3 | 4.4 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | 3.7 | fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion, but an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule: supply scale 7.3, cap 0 |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✗ | 4 full years since its first recorded price, one halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | ✓ | typical fee $0.004; about 160 transactions a second, 5.5 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $6.8e-9 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | node software open source; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.1 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 8 | typical fee $0.004 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 5.5 | about 160 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 0 | a block every 0.15 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 6.7 | 2 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | ✓ | AptosBFT gives deterministic finality in under a second. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | aptos-node ledger and state-merkle pruners delete data outside a prune window by default. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Aptos ledger infos carry validator signatures, but no light client that checks them ships for users; wallets trust fullnode APIs. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 5 | 5 of 9 points source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not mined |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | ✓ | 3.4% |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | ✓ | 10.2% |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 1 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | aptos-core (Apache 2.0) is developed by Aptos Labs, which employs nearly all of its core developers and drives the AIP roadmap. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | ✓ | about 8,960,000 a day |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 5.5 | section average, 7 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No key can freeze or claw back ordinary APT; framework changes go through stake-weighted on-chain governance, and the 2023-10-18 halt was a bug. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: aptos-core (Apache 2.0) is developed by Aptos Labs, which employs nearly all of its core developers and drives the AIP roadmap. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 6.4 | 83 active validators or block producers (source: Aptos) |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 1.7 | 82.6% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 1B APT allocated at the Oct 2022 genesis (community 51.02%, core contributors 19%, foundation 16.5%, investors 13.48%), against 1,210,512,613 APT on-chain supply (Aptos 0x1::coin::supply view, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising | 1.7 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 82.6% of supply was theirs to sell, 11.1% sold so far. Investors in Aptos Labs' 2022 rounds ($200M seed, $150M Series A, Binance Labs strategic) received token rights to 13.48% of the 1B genesis supply = 134.8M APT; no public sale. 134.8M / 1,210,512,613 APT (on-chain supply, 2026-10-23) = 11.1%. Aptos Labs raised a $200M seed (a16z, Tiger, Multicoin) and $150M (July 2022), with Binance Labs adding a strategic investment in Sept 2022; investors received 13.48% of genesis supply. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. New APT is minted only as staking rewards, paid each epoch to validator stake pools and through them to delegators (stake.move). No foundation, developer or treasury share is taken from issuance. source |
| Privacy | 4 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Anyone can create keys and receive and send coins; the protocol carries no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✗ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Transactions are submitted to fullnodes and forwarded to validators directly. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✓ | Confidential APT (AIP-143), activated via governance proposal #188 (Apr 2026): opt-in encrypted balances and transfer amounts with ZK proofs. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Confidential APT leaves sender and recipient addresses public. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 7.8 | 7 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance (At protocol level) | 2 | Move fungible assets (and the legacy Coin standard) from modules any account can publish. |
| Smart contracts (General-purpose) | 2 | Move modules publishable by any account, running DEXs and lending on mainnet. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | On-chain multisig_account module (K-of-N) plus timestamp conditions in Move. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | Move modules can hold funds against a hash preimage with a timeout refund (HTLC). |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange in the Aptos framework; DEXs are user modules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | No protocol messaging to other chains; bridges are third-party. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✓ | Digital Asset standard in the framework (aptos_token at 0x4). |
| Supply & Demand | 7.7 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 8.1 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 44 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 6.9 | $14,630,353 traded in 24 hours; #74 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $28,838,431) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.5 | 4.1% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.1 | $3,263,927 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.54% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 7 | $605M, 7 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6.3 | futures, options and margin positions 14% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.3 | fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion |
| Record | 6.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 9 | 2 positive, 1 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| Negative record | ||
| Halt, freeze or reversal, 2023-10-18 | ✗ | Block production stopped at block 104,621,314 for about 5 hours; exchanges suspended APT deposits and withdrawals. |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 4 | 4 full years since 2022-01-11, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 7 | 2 positive, 0 negative, 2 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 6,011 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core); Aptos Node v1.49.6 (mainnet) released 2026-10-16. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | Dec 2025: mainnet block times under 50 ms (Baby Raptr consensus). |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
883,627,537 of a maximum 2,100,000,000 APT are in circulation — 42.1% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 82.6% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 11.1% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Nodes or validators | 83 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
1B APT allocated at the Oct 2022 genesis (community 51.02%, core contributors 19%, foundation 16.5%, investors 13.48%), against 1,210,512,613 APT on-chain supply (Aptos 0x1::coin::supply view, 2026-10-23).
Aptos Labs raised a $200M seed (a16z, Tiger, Multicoin) and $150M (July 2022), with Binance Labs adding a strategic investment in Sept 2022; investors received 13.48% of genesis supply.
Investors in Aptos Labs' 2022 rounds ($200M seed, $150M Series A, Binance Labs strategic) received token rights to 13.48% of the 1B genesis supply = 134.8M APT; no public sale. 134.8M / 1,210,512,613 APT (on-chain supply, 2026-10-23) = 11.1%.
New APT is minted only as staking rewards, paid each epoch to validator stake pools and through them to delegators (stake.move). No foundation, developer or treasury share is taken from issuance.
Sources: tokenomist.ai · coingecko.com · github.com · aptos.dev · en.wikipedia.org · mexc.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
Named a digital commodity in the joint SEC-CFTC interpretation (Mar 17, 2026).
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
Aptos is #36 among cryptocurrencies and #96 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 60 places between Aptos's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
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