Aptos just posted its biggest single-day transaction count of the quarter. The Layer-1 blockchain processed over 16 million transactions in a single day in early July, a number that doubles as evidence that its April governance overhaul is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
That governance upgrade was, frankly, a big deal. Aptos raised gas fees tenfold, instituted a hard supply cap of 2.1 billion APT, cut staking rewards, and mandated that 100% of transaction fees be burned. The Aptos Foundation also permanently locked 210 million APT.
The numbers behind the milestone
Despite the tenfold gas fee increase, average transaction costs held at $0.0005.
In June 2026, Aptos recorded 83.7 million transactions in a single week, its strongest weekly performance of the year.
