Aptos has significantly bolstered its position in the Real World Asset (RWA) sector by depositing an additional $500 million into the BlackRock-backed BUIDL fund, re-entering the Top 3 RWA chains globally. This move brings the total value of tokenized assets on Aptos to over $1.2 billion, making it the second-largest network in BUIDL adoption after Ethereum.
The BUIDL fund, co-launched by BlackRock and Securitize, focuses on tokenized U.S. Treasury securities and other low-risk instruments, originally deployed on Ethereum in March 2024 and expanded to Aptos in November 2024. This deposit enhances Aptos's treasury yields and strengthens its ecosystem's financial foundation, improving liquidity and utility on the network.
Concurrently, Aptos's native token APT has outperformed in a sluggish market, rallying nearly 4% in the past 24 hours with a 35% surge in trading volume. As of the report, APT is trading at $3.22 with a market cap of $2.31 billion, still 83% below its all-time high of $19.90.
In a related development, Jump Crypto unveiled Shelby, a decentralized, high-performance storage protocol built in collaboration with Aptos Labs. Shelby addresses the lack of scalable decentralized storage in blockchain, offering costs as low as $0.014 per GB for reads and under $0.01 per GB per month for writes, with efficiency improvements like a replication factor of 2 and erasure coding for data durability.
This strategic move aligns with the growing RWA narrative in 2025, showcasing Aptos's commitment to integrating blockchain with real-world financial markets and positioning it as a major force in crypto evolution.
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