Validators process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Aptos is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Aptos was founded by Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching and launched in 2022.

APT token holders own and govern the protocol. They currently don’t take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Aptos’ investors include Binance Labs, Jump Crypto, Apollo, etc.

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# Aptos Token holders Methodology

## 1. Overview

The Aptos tokenholders metric counts the total number of unique addresses holding APT (native Aptos tokens) on a daily basis. This metric provides insight into token distribution and adoption by measuring how many distinct accounts possess the native cryptocurrency of the Aptos blockchain. The calculation identifies all accounts with non-zero APT balances and aggregates them into daily unique counts.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation relies on the following data sources:
- **Aptos account state data**: Daily snapshots of account balances and states from the Aptos blockchain
- **APT token balance records**: Records of APT token holdings across all Aptos accounts
- **Aptos account events**: Blockchain events that track account balance changes and token transfers
- **Daily account balance aggregations**: Pre-processed daily summaries of account balance states

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Native tokenholder identification
- **Purpose**: Identifies and counts unique accounts holding APT tokens on a daily basis
- **Logic**: The calculation processes Aptos account state data to identify all accounts with non-zero APT balances. It aggregates this data by day, counting the distinct number of addresses that hold any amount of APT tokens. The logic handles balance snapshots to ensure accurate daily counts while avoiding double-counting of the same address.
- **Key fields**: The component produces `timestamp` for the daily date, `timestamp_grain` for time granularity, `chain` for the blockchain identifier (Aptos), and `tokenholders` containing the count of unique addresses holding APT

### Component B: Data standardization and quality control
- **Purpose**: Standardizes the output format and applies data quality filters
- **Logic**: The tokenholder count is cast to high-precision numeric format to handle large numbers accurately. The finalize metric macro adds standard metadata fields, ensures consistent schema formatting, and labels the data with the 'aptos' identifier. Chain availability filtering removes data from time periods where the data quality may be unreliable or incomplete.
- **Key fields**: The standardization process maintains the core `tokenholders` count while adding metadata fields for data identification and quality tracking

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The native tokenholder data flows directly through the standardization layer without additional aggregation, as the counts are already daily totals
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable for this count-based metric
- **Time aggregation**: Data is aggregated on daily boundaries, with each timestamp representing the tokenholder count for that specific day
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the total count of unique Aptos addresses holding any amount of APT tokens on each given day, providing a daily time series of token distribution breadth

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

Unique addresses holding a non-zero balance of the project's native token.

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