Aptos Ends Four-Year Token Unlocks as Monthly Releases Fall 60%

Aptos has closed the four-year unlock schedule for the people who backed it first. Core contributors and early investors are now fully vested, and monthly token releases drop from about 11.31 million APT to 4.54 million, a fall of roughly 60%. That single number is the story. For four years, a large slice of APT arrived on a timer. Most of it has now arrived, and what remains on the schedule is smaller and slower. Aptos launched mainnet in October 2022. Grants to core contributors and early investors carried a 12-month cliff, then vested monthly through month 48. With that window closed, the Foundation said the four-year unlock cycle for initial investors and core contributors concludes in October 2026, reducing annualized supply unlocks by 60%.