APT Gains 51% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether

Aptos's $APT gained 51.1% over the four weeks to Oct. 13, 2026, far outpacing bitcoin and ether, although its return over the final seven days was just 0.8%.

The token rose from about $0.56 at 3 p.m. ET on Sept. 15 to $0.84 at 3:10 p.m. ET on Oct. 13, according to The Defiant's calculations using CoinGecko data. CoinGecko put $APT's market capitalization at about $744 million at the endpoint. $APT is used to pay transaction fees on the Aptos blockchain.

Bitcoin gained 9.5% and ether 4.5% over matched windows. Among selected peers, Solana's $SOL rose 10.1%, while Sui's $SUI gained 52.6%, slightly exceeding $APT. The comparison measures dollar price returns, excluding staking rewards.

$APT held up better in the final week: every other token in the comparison fell, with $SOL and $SUI down more than 10%. Still, its nearly flat weekly return masks fluctuations. $APT was 5.8% below its 3 a.m. ET reading on Oct. 12.

Stablecoin Base Contracts

The token's gain did not coincide with an expanding stablecoin base. DefiLlama's Aptos series shows the dollar value of tracked USD-pegged assets falling 17.5%, from $1.103 billion to $909.6 million, between its daily snapshots dated Sept. 15 and Oct. 13 in UTC. The provider's stablecoin tally also includes BlackRock's BUIDL fund. These balances measure assets onchain, not payment volume.

Aptos Foundation also reaffirmed on Oct. 8 its February pledge to lock and permanently stake 210 million $APT, as The Defiant previously reported. “Those tokens will never be sold or distributed,” it said. The commitment would fund Foundation operations with staking rewards rather than sales of the locked tokens.

The Foundation's February plan says the four-year unlock cycle for initial investors and core contributors ends in October 2026, reducing annualized supply unlocks by 60%.