Monthly unlocks lead. Team and investor unlocks just ended.
APT runs Aptos: 883.05M coins circulate, 73% of all supply. The rest unlocks monthly until 2032.
Sell pressure. Unlocks added 33.93M APT in 90 days and stakers got 4.74M new APT. The last team and investor unlock was Oct 12, so unlocks drop to 13.63M next.
Buy pressure. Gas fees burned a net 403.5K APT. There is no buyback.
Net. Net, supply grew 4.33% and should grow about 2.03% next.
Every two hours the protocol mints new APT for stakers at a fixed 2.6% a year, a rate halved by a vote in March 2026. About 755M APT is staked with 83 validators. Added up over the 1,067 payouts in the window, stakers received about 4.74M new APT — roughly 52,600 a day. The rate stays at its floor, so the next 90 days should look the same.
The launch tokens unlock on the 12th of every month. Until October that was 11.31M APT a month (3.96M core contributors, 2.81M investors, 3.21M community pool, 1.33M Foundation): Aug 12, Sep 12 and Oct 12 2026 add up to 33.93M. Oct 12 was the last team and investor release. From Nov 12 only the community and Foundation pools keep unlocking, about 4.54M a month until 2032 — 13.63M in the next 90 days.
Still locked: about 231.1M APT in the community pool and 96.0M in the Foundation pool, both released only on the monthly calendar above — no unscheduled bucket remains. The Foundation has pledged to keep 210M APT staked forever and never sell it; no wallet list is published. Grants and Foundation sales come from coins already counted as circulating, so they add no new supply.
No bankruptcy estate, trustee or court-ordered lock holds APT, and no other long lock is due to release.
There is no buyback yet. The Foundation said in February 2026 that it is exploring one, paid from its cash or revenue, but nothing has started and no wallet or size is published.
Every gas fee is destroyed when it is paid, and a vote in March 2026 made fees ten times higher. Part of it is minted back to the validators who propose blocks. Net, 403,519 APT left the supply in the window (about 484,600 burned, 81,100 paid back) — about 4,500 a day. That is less than a tenth of the new staking coins.
Nothing this window shows the Foundation, Aptos Labs or any treasury buying APT in the market.
About 755M APT is staked and the Foundation has pledged to keep 210M APT staked for good. Both stay counted as circulating, so they take nothing out of the float — the pledge only means the Foundation will not sell those coins.
Two sides: how much people want APT right now, and how much buying could come later.
It shows how hot APT is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about APT for two reasons:
On Oct 21 2026 Aptos Labs said Decibel, a trading app built on Aptos, now supports the Encrypted Mempool, which went live on the Aptos main network on Oct 12 2026. A trader can choose to hide an order's details until the block is final, so others cannot jump ahead of the trade. People ask if safer trading like this will pull more volume to Aptos.
On Oct 22 2026 Aptos Labs joined Chainlink Labs, Hedera, Ava Labs, the Stellar Development Foundation and the Cardano Foundation in a letter on the SEC's proposed crypto rule. They asked for a clear "digital commodity" definition in the rule itself, after the SEC named APT a digital commodity in March. People ask whether clearer US rules could make it easier for big funds to hold APT.
Checked Oct 24 2026
Aptos (APT) is inflationary right now: its supply changes +2.03% over the next 90 days and +8.16% over the next year (checked Oct 16 2026). More APT is added than removed.
About +8.16% a year: that is how much Aptos (APT) supply changes over the next 12 months, with +2.03% in the next 90 days (checked Oct 16 2026). That puts APT #32 of 101 coins we track for new supply (#1 = the most new supply).
The next Aptos (APT) unlock we track is on Nov 12 2026: about 4.54M APT, 0.51% of the APT in circulation (Monthly unlock (community + Foundation pools)). Checked Oct 16 2026.
Yes. In our count, about 404K APT is expected to leave the market over the next 90 days through burns, buybacks or locks (checked Oct 16 2026). How it works: Every gas fee is burned: a net 403.5K APT in 90 days after the share paid back to validators. No buyback runs yet.
In our count, about 18.4M new APT reaches the market over the next 90 days (checked Oct 16 2026). How it works: Monthly unlocks (33.93M APT in 90 days) plus 4.74M APT of staking pay at 2.6% a year; the last team and investor unlock was Oct 12 2026, so unlocks fall to about 4.54M a month.
About 883M APT is in circulation (checked Oct 16 2026). Over the next 90 days that changes +2.03%, and over a year +8.16%.
Over the next 90 days (checked Oct 16 2026): APT +2.03%, LIT +5.41%, STABLE 0.00%, STX +1.27%. APT sits in the middle of these 4 coins.
Every answer here applies basic economic theory — the law of supply and demand — to this coin's data. It is not financial advice. How we read every coin →
We look at two things: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand shows how much people want the coin. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss. APT supply grows +2.03% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more APT reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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