The Aptos ecosystem has been bustling with key developments during the first week of February 2025 that are pushing the Aptos blockchain platform itself into the spotlight.
Partnerships of global significance along with accelerator programs and user adoption that has skyrocketed in just a few months have put the Aptos network on the radar of those in the know. Here’s the rundown on updates and events of note that have taken place in the Aptos ecosystem in the last week.
Key Highlights of the Week
One of the most remarkable changes comes from Nansen, a well-known on-chain analytics firm, which, not too long ago, announced that it was going to support the Aptos ecosystem as a validator. This is a huge deal for Aptos because it strengthens its presence in the blockchain space. Nansen is a go-to company for data-driven insights and analytics in the space, and it was previously not at all clear how much, if anything, Nansen even thought of Aptos. Now, with Nansen apparently backing the network by running a validator node, Aptos is looking much more credible.
Aptos Horizon has announced a new initiative in Osaka, Japan, as part of its global expansion. Aptos Horizon, the first-ever Web3 accelerator program in Japan, will launch from April 14 to June 23, 2025, and is set to run annually. Backed by the Japanese government, the program aims to help developers build and launch projects on the Aptos platform. More than likely, the event will play a significant role in the adoption and growth of the Aptos network in Asia, which is showing a burgeoning interest in Web3 technologies and blockchain development. With governmental support, Aptos Horizon might well set the foundation for an impending wave of next-generation projects on the Aptos blockchain.
An exciting development for Aptos came from one of the most well-known asset management firms in the industry, VanEck. VanEck issued a price prediction for Aptos that really turned some heads. According to the firm, Aptos’ native asset, $APT, could reach a price point of $22 by the end of 2025. That’s a pretty soaring bull case, and it seems almost inevitable that this will attract some institutional and retail attention when it comes to investing in Aptos.
The Aptos network recently passed the milestone of having 32.6 million token holders. This signals that the platform is experiencing an uptick in adoption and that it’s becoming more ubiquitous, with real people engaging with and holding real assets on the network. This isn’t diving into the numbers too much, but it looks like a solid foundation, and the platform itself has plenty of appeal, too, since they recently launched Token Terminal, a means of providing enhanced financial data and analytics for projects on the network.
Key Upgrades and Milestones
This week, the Aptos ecosystem had a significant update to its Aptos Liquidity Aggregator, known as KanaLabs. This update promises to deliver something that is crucial to DeFi applications: faster transactions with better rates and an overall better user experience when using the platform. At a time when liquidity and transaction speed are primary concerns for DeFi developers, this puts Aptos in a more competitive position than it was before. As with any protocol out there, going forward, it all comes down to developer and user choice. KanaLabs is a part of Aptos now, and seemingly a better part of it than it used to be.
One of the tall achievements of the week was the performance of LiquidSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Aptos network. LiquidSwap recently hit an impressive $2.2 billion in total trading volume, showcasing its rising popularity and usability within the DEX ecosystem. On February 3, LiquidSwap saw a remarkable trading volume of $13.2 million and well over 197,000 transactions—its highest spike of the past two months, DEX or not—potentially indicating increased speculator confidence in both LiquidSwap as an exit liquidity provider and the Aptos network’s overall capacity for decentralized finance with more users coming to its decentralized exchanges.
💥Weekly $APT @Aptos Recap – Tuần 1, tháng 02/2025
🫴 Nansen hỗ trợ Hệ sinh thái Aptos với vai trò là Validator: https://t.co/95sewk4nSC
🚀Aptos Horizon ra mắt tại Osaka, Nhật Bản từ 14/4 đến 23/6/2025 🇯🇵.
Đây là chương trình tăng tốc Web3 đầu tiên được chính… https://t.co/XDO2gEKHC6 pic.twitter.com/5lPZavDxju
— Blog Tiền Ảo (@blogtienao_hq) February 10, 2025
The AptosAllAccess program returned this week, bringing with it the new stars from recent accelerator programs and putting them in the spotlight once again. AptosAllAccess has become a major vehicle for displaying and showing off the projects built on the Aptos blockchain, and its return has now paved the way for excitement to once again emerge in the Aptos community. What projects are highlighted on AptosAllAccess? What sort of support do they receive? And how can we, as community members, help them gain even more visibility?
Looking Ahead: The Future of Aptos
February 2025 began with Aptos on a clear upward trajectory. It was getting a lot of love from not only industry leaders but also the broader crypto community. Work by Nansen showed that Aptos’s validators were doing the big basic job of keeping a blockchain up and running. And work by Fumio Kishida’s government and a bunch of Japanese financial firms seemed to be paying off, with Aptos attracting 200 million yen (roughly $1.4 million at the time) in investment to set up a blockchain accelerator program in Japan.
Aptos’s outlook is bright, propelled by the real and major adoption that we are seeing with the ecosystem. I have always said that real usage is the best marketing, and Aptos has that. The upgrade to KanaLabs and the off-the-charts success of LiquidSwap (can’t wait to see what they do next) have positioned the network as a true DeFi contender. And more importantly, the community keeps growing. Between the vibrant number of token holders, the accelerator program that has recently come online, and the number of developers I see, think, and know are building in the Aptos ecosystem, this is a community that is innovative and has real momentum.
In 2025 and beyond, the Aptos blockchain platform promises to attract plenty of attention as a vehicle that showcases high throughput, efficient design, and applications built to serve in the real world. Validator support, along with sustained growth in liquidity and trading volume, has Aptos well on its way to natively evolving into whatever it is going to become in this space. Meanwhile, a newly announced Japan accelerator program is one of a number of fresh initiatives that Aptos is pursuing to build its ecosystem.
For developers, investors, and users, the Aptos ecosystem offers plenty of chances to investigate and interact with the advanced technologies of Web3 and decentralized finance. The Aptos team is making steady progress and is clear about its commitment to a laboratory ethos—attempting new things and learning from their mistakes. The combination of these factors makes Aptos an interesting read in this chapter of blockchain history.
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