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Aptos ecosystem projects: 14 on NAUT, 8 in DEXs and trading

By NAUT Research · · 6 min read

$68.6M Aptos ecosystem TVL on NAUT across 12 of the 14 Aptos-focused projects, read 7 November 2026. Logos: DecibelTrade, Cetus, Echelon Market, Momentum, Amnis Finance, Propbase, Pontem Network, Thala, BlueMove, Hyperion, merkle_trade, TsunamiX, AptosLaunch, mirage_protocol.

NAUT tracks 47 companies tagged with the Aptos chain, and 14 of them are Aptos ecosystem projects building on the chain rather than chain-agnostic infrastructure, read on 7 November 2026. Those 14 Aptos projects sit in 5 product types, 8 of them in DEXs, AMMs and trading, and 12 carry a TVL figure on their NAUT page, $68,650,498 in total.

How this list was built: on 7 November 2026 NAUT read every company row that carries Aptos as a chain tag, 47 rows, and kept a row only when its own stored description names an Aptos or Move product. 28 rows were set aside as chain-agnostic, each listing Aptos as 1 chain among many: Rubic at 41 chain tags, Bitget Wallet (prev. BitKeep) at 37, USDC at 30 and Aave at 26, with 25 of the 28 carrying 4 or more chain tags. The other 3 of that bucket carry 2 or 3 tags and describe products that serve no single chain: Props on community and loyalty token tooling, Cellframe on building and bridging blockchains, and KGeN on a proof-of-gamer engine. 5 more rows came out 1 at a time, each for a reason of its own: the chain's own company row, which is the L1 and not a project built on it; Tomarket, whose row holds no sector tag, no X handle and the description "Decentralized platform", too thin to place; the_goblin_fi, whose NAUT row holds no description at all, so its DeFi tag cannot be read off the row; TruYields (TruFin), whose 1 source check came back contradicted, the source naming liquid staking of ETH and MATIC instead of the Aptos structured products its NAUT row describes; and Tapp Exchange, whose product line was confirmed but whose research row flags the project's own X account announcing a wind-down by 31 May 2026, so a live listing could not be stood up. 28 plus 5 plus 14 is the full 47.

Of the 14 published rows, 13 had 1 claim about their own product put to a public source on 7 November 2026, and 12 came back confirmed. The 1 that came back contradicted is Echelon Market, on chains rather than product: the source names Aptos, Movement and Initia as the chains it is live on, while the NAUT row tags it Aptos, BNB Chain and Movement, so that BNB Chain tag is a defect to fix. The 1 row with no outside check is merkle_trade, published on NAUT's own record alone. 15 checks were run in total, the other 2 covering TruYields (TruFin) and Tapp Exchange, both of which are off the list above. Every TVL figure below is the number the row's own NAUT page holds on 7 November 2026, not a live protocol reading.

Which Aptos ecosystem projects are live on NAUT?

These 14 are the projects building on Aptos that NAUT tracks, ranked by the TVL figure stored on each NAUT page on 7 November 2026, largest first. The Chains column is NAUT's own chain tags for that row, and the TVL column rounds to 2 decimals above $1M.

Project Type Chains TVL
DEX, perps and vaults Aptos $29.18M
DEX, concentrated liquidity Aptos, Sui $24.82M
Money market Aptos, BNB Chain, Movement $5.41M
DEX and liquid staking Aptos, Sui $3.44M
Liquid staking Aptos $2.86M
Tokenised property Aptos, Base $1.38M
AMM Aptos $646,694
DeFi and stablecoin Aptos $571,098
NFT marketplace Aptos, Sui $318,309
Margin and spot trading Aptos $17,122
Launchpad Aptos $1,799
Synthetics and modular money Aptos $652
AMM and DEX aggregator Aptos, BNB Chain Held back
Trading platform Aptos None stored

Hyperion's row carries a TVL field and a stored summary that disagree by roughly 100 times, so neither number is printed here and the row is logged as a defect to fix. Its product is confirmed: a public explainer read on 7 November 2026 calls it a "fully on-chain hybrid orderbook-AMM DEX built natively for Aptos".

Aptos ecosystem projects by TVL on NAUT

TVL on NAUT, the 9 largest of the 12 rows that carry a figure
  1. DecibelTrade$29.18M
  2. Cetus$24.82M
  3. Echelon Market$5.41M
  4. Momentum$3.44M
  5. Amnis Finance$2.86M
  6. Propbase$1.38M
  7. Pontem Network$0.65M
  8. Thala$0.57M
  9. BlueMove$0.32M

The 2 largest rows hold 79 percent of the $68,650,498 total. The 3 smallest rows with a figure are below $20,000 each, TsunamiX at $17,122, AptosLaunch at $1,799 and mirage_protocol at $652, and 2 rows sit outside the total, merkle_trade with no figure stored and Hyperion held back.

What each of the Aptos ecosystem projects does

11 of the 14 are Aptos DeFi projects, 8 in trading and 3 in lending, staking and yield. Each product type below is the group the row's own stored description puts it in, with the 13 outside checks named where they add something a NAUT row does not.

DEXs, AMMs and trading, 8 rows. DecibelTrade is a liquidity hub on Aptos that joins spot, perpetuals, margin accounts and yield vaults, and a launch press release carries the line "Decibel, A New Onchain Trading Engine For Spot, Perps, And Yield Opportunities". Cetus is a concentrated-liquidity DEX for Move chains and is tagged on Aptos and Sui. Hyperion runs an AMM with a swap aggregator. Momentum began as Sui-native liquidity and its own NAUT line describes scaling to cross-chain assets, so a BD team should treat Aptos as its second chain. Pontem Network runs the Liquidswap AMM, whose docs say "Liquidswap is the first AMM on the Aptos blockchain". Thala is a DeFi protocol native to Aptos with a stablecoin tag. TsunamiX offers margin trading and a spot exchange. merkle_trade is tagged as a decentralised trading platform on NAUT's record alone.

Lending, staking and yield, 3 rows. Echelon Market is a Move money market, and its 1 outside check is the contradicted one: the source puts it live on Aptos, Movement and Initia, not the Aptos, BNB Chain and Movement its NAUT row tags, so that chain tag is a defect to fix. Amnis Finance is confirmed by a public explainer that reads "Amnis Finance is a liquid staking protocol operating on the Aptos blockchain". mirage_protocol builds modular money on Move around synthetic assets.

Launchpad, 1 row. AptosLaunch is described as the first decentralised launchpad on Aptos, a claim 2 outside write-ups support.

NFT marketplace, 1 row. BlueMove is "an NFT marketplace on Aptos and Sui blockchains that prioritizes user experience", per a public listing read on 7 November 2026. NAUT tags that row as a DEX, which is a tag to fix.

Tokenised property, 1 row. Propbase is a "tokenized real estate investment marketplace that allows users to invest in high-quality property assets through fractional ownership", per its own documentation.

What this tells a BD team selling into Aptos

  • Trading is where the budget sits: 8 of the 14 rows run a DEX, an AMM or a perps venue, and the 2 largest by stored TVL, DecibelTrade at $29,180,243 and Cetus at $24,821,316, are both trading venues.
  • 8 of the 14 carry Aptos as their only chain tag on NAUT, so a pitch built on Aptos alone lands with them. The other 6 also list Sui, BNB Chain, Movement or Base.
  • 2 rows read as Move-ecosystem builds rather than Aptos-first ones, Cetus and Momentum, both of which lead with Sui in their own text. Sequence them after the Aptos-only rows.
  • 3 rows are below $20,000 of stored TVL, so treat TsunamiX, AptosLaunch and mirage_protocol as early-stage conversations, not enterprise accounts.
How a BD team can work this Aptos list
  1. Start with the 2 largestDecibelTrade at $29,180,243 and Cetus at $24,821,316 of stored TVL.
  2. Filter to Aptos-only rows8 of the 14 carry Aptos as their single chain tag, from Thala to Amnis Finance.
  3. Open each NAUT page for the teamEvery row links to its people, roles and the channels NAUT holds.
  4. Pull the list in 1 callA projects search returns the same rows for a CRM import.

What this tells a founder building on Aptos

  • The 5 product types are thin by count: 1 launchpad, 1 NFT marketplace and 1 tokenised-property row across all 14, against 8 in trading.
  • Lending, staking and yield holds 3 rows, Echelon Market, Amnis Finance and mirage_protocol, with $8,266,961 of stored TVL between them.
  • 28 of the 47 Aptos-tagged rows are chain-agnostic infrastructure, so a partner search for oracles, wallets or aggregators should start in that bucket and not in this list.
  • A stored record can be wrong in your favour or against it, on 3 of these 14 rows: Hyperion's 2 TVL fields disagree by roughly 100 times, BlueMove is tagged as a DEX while its own line says NFT marketplace, and Echelon Market carries a BNB Chain tag that its own outside check does not support. Check your own NAUT row before an investor reads it.
How a founder on Aptos can use these rows
  1. Find your comparables8 of the 14 rows are trading venues, so a lending or consumer build has 3 or fewer peers here.
  2. Read the TVL column12 of the 14 rows carry a figure, $68,650,498 in total, and 3 sit below $20,000.
  3. Check your own NAUT row3 rows carry a tag or a number that its own description or an outside source contradicts.
  4. Find the backers through the pagesHyperion and Momentum name their funding on their NAUT rows.

Related reading on NAUT: DePIN projects: 98 on NAUT, $1.72B raised by 64 and Crypto ecosystem leads: 98 at 60 L1 and L2 chains.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. NAUT exposes its company records through a project search, so GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?q=Aptos&limit=100 with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header runs a free-text project search for "Aptos" and returns the matching company records, at 5 credits a call, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/decibeltrade returns 1 company with its team for another 5 credits. Parameters and quotas are at naut.so/docs/api and plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn on those people unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial before you run the pull.

Aptos ecosystem projects FAQ

Which projects are building on Aptos?

NAUT holds 47 company rows tagged with the Aptos chain on 7 November 2026, and 14 of them are Aptos-focused products: 8 in DEXs, AMMs and trading (DecibelTrade, Cetus, Hyperion, Momentum, Pontem Network, Thala, TsunamiX and merkle_trade), 3 in lending, staking and yield (Echelon Market, Amnis Finance and mirage_protocol), 1 launchpad (AptosLaunch), 1 NFT marketplace (BlueMove) and 1 tokenised-property marketplace (Propbase).

How much TVL do the Aptos ecosystem projects hold on NAUT?

12 of the 14 rows carry a TVL figure on their NAUT page, $68,650,498 in total on 7 November 2026, led by DecibelTrade at $29,180,243 and Cetus at $24,821,316. merkle_trade has no figure stored and Hyperion's is held back because the row's TVL field and its own summary disagree by roughly 100 times.

Why were 33 of the 47 Aptos-tagged rows left out?

28 are chain-agnostic rows that list Aptos as 1 chain among many, 25 of them with 4 or more chain tags, led by Rubic at 41. The other 5 came out 1 at a time: the chain's own company row, Tomarket as too thin to place, the_goblin_fi with no stored description, TruYields (TruFin) on a contradicted source check, and Tapp Exchange on a wind-down notice flagged in its research row.

Where can I find the teams behind these Aptos ecosystem projects and their contact channels?

Each of the 14 rows has a NAUT page that lists its people, their roles and the channels NAUT holds on file, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug> returns the same company with its team for 5 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reach them.

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