Aptos ranks #35 of 508 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #95: 60 of the 94 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 | C · 63/100 · provisional |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #35 |
| Rank counting claims | #95 |
| Market capitalisation | $617M |
| Price | $0.6982 |
| Circulating supply | 883,615,329 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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C — 63 out of 100, provisional (from 16 of 17 criteria, 28 October 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 59 to 66 (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 | 6.1 | group average, 5 of 6 measured |
| Properties (10 whitepaper checks) (Source) | 5.6 | 5 of 10 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Anyone can mint (permissionless) | ✓ | AptosBFT (PoS) |
| Limited supply | – | an issuer or vote can mint outside the schedule |
| No pre-issuance or developer mint | ✗ | |
| No developer tax | ✓ | |
| No authority that 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. |
| No central team | ✗ | aptos-core (Apache 2.0) is developed by Aptos Labs, which employs nearly all of its core developers and drives the AIP roadmap. |
| Fees under one cent | ✓ | typical fee $0.004 |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✓ | AptosBFT gives deterministic finality in under a second. |
| UTXO ledger | ✗ | |
| Privacy built into the protocol | ✗ | |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space) | 5.1 | average of 3 measures source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 8 | typical fee $0.004 |
| Throughput (1,000 transactions a second or more 10) | 7.3 | 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 |
| Security (9 checks) | 5 | 5 of 9 passed source |
| Miners paid over $1 million a day | ✗ | not mined |
| Miners paid over $100,000 a day | ✗ | |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 3.4% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 10.2% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 1 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | aptos-core (Apache 2.0) is developed by Aptos Labs, which employs nearly all of its core developers and drives the AIP roadmap. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✓ | about 8,960,000 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation: who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Decentralisation: nodes (Source) | 6.4 | 83 active validators or block producers (source: Aptos) |
| Decentralisation: holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Capabilities (protocol features) | 3.3 | 2 of 6 passed source |
| Decentralisation | ||
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Transactions are submitted to fullnodes and forwarded to validators directly. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✗ | Aptos ledger infos carry validator signatures, but no light client that checks them ships for users; wallets trust fullnode APIs. |
| Scalability | ||
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | aptos-node ledger and state-merkle pruners delete data outside a prune window by default. |
| Native payment channels or instant payments | ✗ | No payment channels. |
| Security | ||
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✓ | Confidential APT (AIP-143), activated via governance proposal #188 (Apr 2026): opt-in encrypted balances and transfer amounts with ZK proofs. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Confidential APT leaves sender and recipient addresses public. |
| Issuance | 4.5 | group average |
| 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 |
| Supply & Demand | 6.6 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 7.5 | average of 6 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 44 exchanges |
| Volume rank among the top 200 | 6.25 | $13,902,700 traded in 24 hours; #76 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (ranked 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 | $3,276,555 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.53% of its market cap, median of the last 2 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 7 | $617M, 7 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Futures exposure (open interest ÷ market cap, less is better) | 3 | perpetual open interest 14% of its market cap |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 5.7 | fixed maximum supply of 2.1 billion |
| Record | 7.3 | 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) | 9 | 3 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). |
| Token issuance at protocol level, validated by its own nodes, +2 | ✓ | Move fungible assets (and the legacy Coin standard) from modules any account can publish. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years | – | |
Seventeen criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards group four parts: properties (ten checks drawn from the Bitcoin whitepaper), scalability (four measures), security (nine checks) and decentralisation (three scales). 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.
883,615,329 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 #35 among cryptocurrencies and #95 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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