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On March 1, the Aptos community passed the tokenomics reform proposal with an overwhelming majority, setting the total supply cap of APT tokens at 2.1 billion, shifting from an unlimited supply to a deflationary model. The voting results showed 335.2 million APT in favor, with only 1,500 APT against, and a voter turnout of 39%, slightly above the required 35% threshold.The proposal is currently awaiting execution. The reforms include cutting staking rewards, increasing gas fees, and using transaction fees for token buybacks, aiming to reduce inflation and enhance the value for long-term holders. The APT token has been under pressure recently, with a decline of over 85% year-to-date, dropping as low as $0.79 on February 23. However, driven by a recent recovery in the crypto market, APT has rebounded 17% in the past week.

According to CoinDesk, Decibel, a fully on-chain perpetual contract exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, has launched on the Aptos mainnet.The previous public testnet attracted over 700,000 independent accounts and 132,000 daily active users, with an average daily trading volume exceeding 1 million transactions. Before the mainnet launch, the pre-deposit activity promised over $58 million in funds, with about 40% coming from Ethereum and Solana users. Decibel adopts a centralized limit order book model, with order placement, matching, settlement, and risk management all executed on-chain. The protocol's default collateral is the US dollar stablecoin usDCBL issued by Bridge, a subsidiary of Stripe. Decibel plans to gradually increase spot markets, multi-collateral accounts, and tokenized real-world assets.

According to market news, the decentralized derivatives exchange Decibel, incubated by Aptos Labs, announced the launch of its protocol-native stablecoin USDCBL before its mainnet goes live this month. This token is issued by Bridge and aims to serve as collateral for on-chain perpetual contracts, retaining the earnings generated from cash and U.S. Treasury reserves within the protocol.Decibel stated that users will need to deposit USDC and exchange it for USDCBL for trading after the launch. The USDCBL reserves are supported by a mix of cash and short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and the reserve earnings will be used for protocol development and ecosystem building, reducing reliance on trading fees and incentive programs. The foundation emphasized that this move is not "issuing another stablecoin," but positioning USDCBL as a core exchange infrastructure.

The Aptos ecosystem modular lending protocol Echelon has opened airdrop claims. The airdrop will be distributed to three groups: point holders (3% allocation, must have participated in previous subscriptions), sENA point holders (5% allocation, must delegate to an Aptos address), and veTHL holders (0.5% allocation).

According to statistics from DeFiLlama, Aptos has set a record for on-chain application revenue for two consecutive weeks, generating approximately $1.65 million in revenue from December 22 to 28, 2025, and further increasing to $1.75 million from December 29, 2025, to January 4, 2026.Meanwhile, on December 31, 2025, Aptos achieved a single-day fee revenue of $1.07 million, setting a new all-time high for a single day. Aptos's fee revenue primarily comes from transaction fees, protocol fees, and other application-level monetization, which are considered important indicators of real on-chain usage and economic density.

According to monitoring by onchainschool.pro, tokens worth over $1 billion are expected to be unlocked next week, including several well-known projects such as ONDO, TRUMP, PUMP, and APTOS.

According to Cointelegraph, on Thursday, Aptos announced a proposal to introduce quantum-resistant signatures, AIP-137, aimed at addressing the network's reliance on digital signatures for ownership confirmation, transaction authorization, and overall security.Although existing cryptographic schemes remain secure against traditional computers, researchers warn that one day, sufficiently powerful quantum computers may be able to forge these schemes, potentially retroactively compromising account security. If the proposal passes governance review, AIP-137 will introduce SLH-DSA (a hash-based digital signature scheme standardized as FIPS 205) as an optional account signature type. This will make Aptos one of the earliest blockchains to natively support quantum-resistant accounts. However, existing accounts will remain unaffected, and quantum-resistant accounts will be available for users to choose. Previously, it was reported that Solana would collaborate with Project Eleven to build quantum-resistant signatures.

According to official news, Aptos revenue infrastructure Goblin Finance announced the completion of a $1 million strategic financing round, led by OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures, and BlockBooster, with participation from Aptos Foundation and ecosystem partner Hyperion. Avery Ching, co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs, participated in the investment in a personal capacity.It is reported that Goblin Finance is committed to building Aptos's native enhanced yield infrastructure through a multi-strategy Yield Hub and yield-enhanced LSTs. Over the past two months, Goblin Finance's platform TVL has achieved a fivefold increase, with the current TVL reaching $13.73 million, and it attracted over $3 million in funding during the core treasury subscription event in September. The platform has integrated several core protocols, including Hyperion, with more than 10 active strategies covering mainstream trading pools such as USDT-USDC, APT-USDC, and USDC-USD1.Goblin Finance stated that this round of financing will be used to continuously improve Aptos's yield infrastructure, expand a diversified CeDeFi strategy suite, and accelerate the launch of goAPT and ecosystem integration, promoting the formation of a native LST yield closed loop in the Aptos ecosystem and building a professional-grade yield network that spans on-chain and cross-market.

Aptos ecosystem's native enhanced yield infrastructure Goblin Finance officially launched its core product GoAPT today, aiming to build a yield infrastructure for Aptos centered around real strategy profit sharing.Unlike traditional LSTs that only map the basic staking APR, GoAPT not only retains about 6.5% of the network's basic yield but also channels the real yield from the strategy vault GoVault back to the token price, with the overall APT annual yield potentially reaching up to 1.3 times the original. Goblin stated that while the basic modules such as DEX, lending, and stablecoins in Aptos have gradually matured, the yield layer is still in a blank stage.Goblin creates a "sustainable yield flywheel" through the GoAPT + GoVault combination: strategy yield enters GoAPT price → attracts more APT staking → drives Vault yield growth → continuously benefits users. Currently, GoVault has deployed diversified professional strategies, such as Automated Liquidity Management (ALM). Additionally, Delta-Neutral hedging and CeDeFi robust arbitrage strategies will soon be launched, with annual coverage in the range of 20%--50%.Users only need to stake APT to participate in the strategy system and obtain compounded yields. Goblin will continue to expand the strategy matrix in the future, promoting GoAPT to become a high-trust asset and liquidity standard in the Aptos ecosystem, empowering various scenarios such as lending and re-staking, further unlocking the yield potential of the Aptos network.

Stablecoin lending platform CreatorFi announced the completion of a $2 million strategic funding round, with participation and collaboration from the Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs. The new funds will support the acceleration of platform development, utilizing the Aptos cross-chain transfer protocol to help creators and businesses borrow and receive payments in USDC.

According to Cointelegraph, Artemis data shows that in the past 24 hours, Sui has led in stablecoin supply changes with a net inflow of $2.4 billion, followed closely by Aptos and Ethereum.

The Aptos-based full-chain trading engine Decibel has officially launched on the testnet. This protocol is jointly built by the Decibel Foundation and Aptos Labs, leveraging Aptos's high-performance infrastructure, aiming to provide a new execution and risk control framework for programmable and composable on-chain trading scenarios.The testnet supports several core capabilities, including: sub-second transaction execution, a full-chain risk engine co-developed with Gauntlet, programmable order flow, encrypted memory pool, gas-free cross-chain deposits, batch orders, sub-accounts, and real-time price data and risk monitoring based on Chainlink. In addition, the Decibel testnet has opened a backend trading API containing developer code for developers to build programmable trading applications and obtain transaction fee sharing through developer code. Users can now participate in testing, experience related features, and submit feedback and suggestions.

According to Cointelegraph, in the changes of stablecoin supply over the past 24 hours, Aptos has surpassed Ethereum.

ChainCatcher news, BlackRock's Digital Liquid Fund BUIDL has added $500 million in tokenized assets deployed to Aptos, elevating its adoption ranking in BUIDL fund deployments to second place, only behind Ethereum. As of the time of this writing, the scale of RWA tokenized assets on the Aptos chain has exceeded $1.2 billion, ranking third across the network.The BUIDL fund was jointly launched by BlackRock and the tokenization infrastructure platform Securitize, with underlying assets including cash, U.S. Treasury bonds, and repurchase agreements, which are low-risk and high-liquidity assets. It was initially deployed on Ethereum in March 2024 and expanded to chains like Aptos in November 2024. This move reflects the accelerating trend of traditional financial giants shifting towards blockchain infrastructure. With its advantages of high performance, security, and low fees, Aptos is becoming an important entry point for institutional asset tokenization.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized trading platform Decibel announced that its testnet will launch next month, with the mainnet expected to go live in the first quarter of 2026.Decibel is built by the Aptos Labs team and aims to create a high-performance on-chain trading engine that integrates features such as spot trading, perpetual contracts, lending, and vaults, supporting cross-chain accounts and an Encrypted Mempool to enhance privacy and trading efficiency. The platform will leverage the high throughput and low latency of the Aptos network, aiming to achieve a million transactions per second, and will promote higher capital efficiency and open liquidity through the development of a multi-collateral vault system in collaboration with Gauntlet.

According to ChainCatcher news, the official announcement states that the gradual release is considering including an asset list for future grayscale investment products, as well as a latest asset list that has already been incorporated into its product lineup.The considered asset list includes Aptos (APT), Arbitrum (ARB), Binance Coin (BNB), Celo (CELO), Mantle (MNT), MegaETH, Monad, Polkadot (DOT), Toncoin (TON), Ethena (ENA), Euler (EUL), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Jupiter (JUP), Kamino Finance (KMNO), Lombard (BARD), Maple Finance (SYRUP), Morpho (MORPHO), Pendle (PENDLE), Plume Network (PLUME), Sky (SKY), Bonk (BONK), Playtron, Flock (FLOCK), Grass (GRASS), Kaito (KAITO), Prime Intellect, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL), Worldcoin (WLD), Geodnet (GEOD), Jito (JTO), Layer Zero (ZRO), Wormhole (W).

ChainCatcher news, the on-chain infrastructure layer Rhuna announced the completion of a $2 million seed round financing, led by Aptos Labs, with participation from Acc Ventures, X Ventures, NewTribe Capital, Keyrock, CoinMarketCap Labs, FunFair, Lémanique, and others.According to the introduction, Rhuna is a universal entertainment pass supported by stablecoin settlement and on-chain identity. It provides operators with a single programmable layer for wallet-native checkout and POS systems, ticketing and access control, membership and identity verification, as well as real-time stablecoin settlement.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto asset management company Bitwise has officially submitted the S-1 registration file for the Aptos ETF to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to advance its potential ETF product.Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley confirmed the news via the X platform, noting that while he cannot disclose more details due to the quiet period, he is "excited" about the momentum of the Aptos ecosystem. This move is a formal step following Bitwise's initiation of the Aptos ETF regulatory process earlier this year, and the final approval of the application may take several months.

ChainCatcher news, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley posted that Bitwise has submitted the S-1 filing for the Aptos ETF. "There’s not much to say during the quiet period. But I’m excited about the momentum of the Aptos ecosystem." As of the time of writing, APT is priced at $5.3834, with a weekly increase of 29.86%.

According to ChainCatcher news and the official blog, Aptos Labs has officially launched a unified multisig wallet solution called Petra Vault on the Aptos network. This product is designed to provide enterprise-level security and an intuitive design for teams and individual users.The main features of Petra Vault include: Compatibility: Supports direct import of vaults from existing Aptos multisig platforms such as Rimosafe and MSafe without the need to reset governance. Security: Built-in transaction simulation feature allows users to preview transaction results before broadcasting to mitigate risks; can also be used in conjunction with Aptos Keyless to distribute signing authority across different platforms such as Ledger, Google, and Apple accounts. Usability: Provides preset proposal templates for common operations like sending tokens and updating owners to accelerate execution speed.