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Five days ago, the Aptos blockchain went live after the project received an influx of capital from venture capital (VC) firms and crypto exchanges such as a16z, Binance and FTX. In the last 24 hours, aptos (APT) is up more than 19% against the US dollar and up 11.1% against the value of bitcoin. The VC-backed blockchain token has managed to place itself within the 60 largest crypto market capitalizations in existence.
A new token has entered the top 100 crypto market capitalizations after Aptos Labs developers announced the project’s mainnet launch on Monday, October 17, 2022. Prior to the mainnet launch, the layer one (L1) blockchain project has been backed by millions of tribes from VC firms and crypto exchanges such as Multicoin Capital, Binance, FTX and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
The co-founders of Aptos Labs, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, worked for Facebook (now Meta) on the now defunct Diem blockchain project. After the mainnet went live, Aptos took a lot of flak from the crypto community, as the blockchain dubbed a “Solana killer” was immediately criticized upon launch.
An engineer from Paradigm stressed in a tweet that “Aptos is broken” and further noted that “Aptos is currently having lower [transactions per second (TPS)] than Bitcoin and a majority of tokens are either staked or ready to be dumped on retail investors.” At the time, the Paradigm engineer said that Aptos handled 4 TPS, but promised 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) in its final version.
At the time of writing, Aptos registers around 16.68 TPS and 8,188,514 APT transactions have been completed to date. The current 16 TPS tracked by the Aptos explorer is faster than Bitcoin’s 2.87 TPS recorded on October 22.
Meanwhile, the Aptos blockchain is very new and its native token APT has managed to place itself in the top 60 rankings in terms of market capitalization. Currently, aptos (APT) is ranked 52 out of more than 13,000 listed cryptocurrency projects today.
APT has a circulating supply of around 130,000,000 tokens and its total supply could reach 1,000,935,772 APT tokens. As of Saturday October 22nd, APT has seen $322.34 million in global trading volume and its market capitalization today is just over a billion at approximately $1,060,489,188.
Market statistics show that the APT token has traded for prices between $7.24 today up to $8.65 per unit. The Aptos blockchain currency is up more than 20% from its low recorded three days ago at $6.73 per coin.
Huobi Global is currently the most active exchange on Saturday, and Huobi is followed by Binance, Okex and Digifinex respectively. Tether (USDT) is the most active trading pair with APT today, and USDT pairs are followed by BUSD, USD and BTC.
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