Aptos

2018-01-01

Meta Platforms begins development of the Libra (later Diem) blockchain project. Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching join the initiative.

2019-06-01

Facebook publicly announces the Libra project, proposing a global stablecoin backed by a basket of currencies. The project faces immediate regulatory resistance.

2020-12-01

Facebook's Libra project is rebranded to Diem. The Move programming language, developed for the project, continues development.

2021-01-01

Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching found Aptos Labs before Diem's formal shutdown, with plans to build an independent L1 blockchain using the Move language.

2022-01-01

Meta sells Diem's intellectual property to Silvergate Capital. Diem is formally discontinued without ever processing a live transaction.

2022-03-15

Aptos Labs closes a $200 million strategic funding round led by a16z, with participation from Tiger Global, Multicoin Capital, Three Arrows Capital, FTX Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures.

2022-07-01

Three Arrows Capital collapses and files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York. 3AC held an estimated $31.7 million in APT tokens at December 2022 prices.

2022-07-07

Shari Glazer and Swoon Capital file a $1 billion lawsuit against Aptos CEO Mo Shaikh, alleging she was deprived of a 50/50 founder equity stake in the venture.

2022-07-25

Aptos Labs closes a $150 million Series A round led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, at a $2 billion valuation. Total 2022 fundraising reaches $350 million.

2022-10-12

Aptos genesis block is produced, with 102 validators securing the network.

2022-10-12

Numen Cyber Labs discloses a critical integer overflow vulnerability in the Aptos MoveVM stack verification module capable of crashing all network nodes. The vulnerability is patched.

2022-10-17

Aptos mainnet officially launches. APT token begins trading on Binance and other major exchanges at approximately $8.50. Initial TPS measured at approximately 4, well below Bitcoin's ~7 TPS. Token price drops approximately 50% on launch day.

2022-10-18

Aptos publishes tokenomics details. Crypto community criticizes the 49% combined allocation to investors and core contributors. Cobie and other prominent commentators call out the lack of pre-launch transparency.

2022-11-11

FTX and affiliated entities including FTX Ventures collapse amid fraud allegations. Aptos issues a statement confirming no Aptos Labs or Foundation treasury funds are held at FTX.

2023-01-26

APT reaches its all-time high price of approximately $20.39 following news of partnerships and increased network adoption.

2023-03-01

Court denies Mo Shaikh's motion to dismiss the $1 billion Glazer lawsuit, allowing the case to proceed.

2023-07-07

The official Twitter accounts of the Aptos Foundation and CEO Mo Shaikh are compromised. Attackers post phishing links promoting a fake APT airdrop to approximately 393,000 followers.

2023-09-21

Scammers create a counterfeit APT token named 'ClaimAPTGift.com' and airdrop it to approximately 400,000 Aptos wallets as part of a phishing campaign.

2023-09-25

Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, suspends APT deposits and withdrawals after a bug causes the exchange to accept counterfeit APT tokens as genuine, affecting approximately 100,000 accounts.

2023-10-18

Aptos mainnet suffers a 5-hour 15-minute outage triggered by non-deterministic code introduced in an August 2022 commit, combined with a FeeStatement event deployed days earlier. No transactions are lost. The incident occurs exactly one year after mainnet launch.

2023-11-01

The $1 billion Glazer v. Shaikh lawsuit is resolved. Terms are not publicly disclosed. Shari Glazer states she is 'happy to resolve this matter.'

2024-04-18

Aptos Labs announces Aptos Ascend, an institutional DeFi platform built in partnership with Microsoft, Brevan Howard, SK Telecom, and Boston Consulting Group.

2024-11-01

BlackRock's BUIDL tokenized fund expands to Aptos with $500 million in assets under tokenization, making Aptos the third-largest blockchain for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.

2024-12-19

Mo Shaikh steps down as CEO of Aptos Labs. Co-founder Avery Ching succeeds him as CEO. Shaikh remains a strategic adviser.

2025-01-01

Aptos introduces the Zaptos architecture, achieving sub-second latency at 20,000 TPS in geo-distributed tests across 100 validators.

2026-01-01

Bitnomial launches U.S.-regulated APT futures on CFTC-sanctioned venues, providing institutional access to Aptos exposure.

2026-02-19

Aptos announces a tokenomics overhaul introducing a 2.1 billion APT hard cap, reduced staking yields, increased gas fees with buyback-and-burn mechanics, and permanent locking of 210 million Foundation tokens.

2026-03-01

The SEC and CFTC jointly issue a digital asset taxonomy that classifies APT as a digital commodity alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and 12 other assets — removing APT from securities law gray zone.