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Aptos DeFi

Decentralized Finance without Limits

Aptos powers the next generation of on-chain markets and commerce, delivering performance that scales as DeFi evolves and composability that unlocks entirely new financial models.

Powering the next breakthroughs

DeFi isn’t just about rebuilding Wall Street on-chain. It’s about inventing what’s never been possible before.

On Aptos, builders are creating composable markets that run 24/7, products that settle in seconds, and financial primitives that can plug into each other like code. With parallel execution, sub-second finality, and near-infinite composability, Aptos gives DeFi the scale to evolve without limits.

Payments Stats

$4.5B

monthly DEX volume

$785M

TVL

$723M

in RWAs live on Aptos

See who’s building on Aptos

Aave

The leading DeFi lending protocol, with over $65 billion in net deposits, debuted on Aptos mainnet in August 2025, marking Aave’s first-ever non-EVM deployment. Aave V3 was re-implemented in Move to deliver secure, scalable lending infrastructure for builders and users.

Thala Labs

The leading DeFi superapp integrating a decentralized exchange (ThalaSwap), lending markets, a collateralized stablecoin (MOD), and a liquid staking. Thala consistently accounts for more than 30% of the spot trading volume on Aptos, and its advanced pool architecture includes stableswap, weighted, and liquidity bootstrapping pools.

Echo Protocol

Built natively on Aptos, Echo Protocol is a BTC-focused liquidity and yield protocol–transforming BTC from a passive asset into a composable, yield-generating building block for on-chain activity.

Hyperion

As one of the fastest-growing DEXs on Aptos, Hyperion combines the precision of an orderbook with the liquidity of an AMM – built on-chain to support scalable trading. Since its mainnet debut, Hyperion has quickly become one of the top 10 DeFi projects on Aptos by TVL.

decibel

Decibel is a fully onchain trading engine that unifies spot, perps, and margin into a single programmable, global platform. Anticipated to go live Q1 2026, Decibel delivers the performance of centralized exchanges with the transparency, control, and composability of DeFi.

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