Aptos on Friday announced that Tether’s USDT is now supported by HTX, a move the team said highlights Aptos’s growing role as a low-cost home for stablecoin liquidity. In a brief post on X, Aptos wrote, “HTX now supports Tether’s USDT on Aptos. Currently home to $1B USDT, Aptos offers the most cost-effective USDT transfers, 40,000x cheaper than other chains. Visit HTX to learn more.”
The announcement comes after Tether’s broader rollout of native USDT on the Aptos network last year, part of a wider push by the stablecoin issuer to expand support across newer layer-1 chains. Industry coverage at the time noted the promise of near-instant settlement and extremely low per-transaction costs on Aptos, attributes that projects and exchanges have cited as reasons to deploy stablecoins there.
Strengthening Aptos’ Stablecoin Ecosystem
For HTX, the listing means users of the exchange can now deposit, withdraw or move USDT on Aptos without routing through other networks, a convenience that, if adoption grows, could shift some trading and on-chain activity toward Aptos’s ecosystem. HTX, one of the world’s prominent crypto platforms, hosts markets across many tokens and has been expanding its support for wallets and networks in recent months.
Aptos’s claim that USDT transfers on its chain are “40,000x cheaper” than other chains is a striking way to quantify the network’s low fees; whether that cost delta holds up under all traffic conditions depends on demand, congestion and how different chains measure typical transfer costs. Still, the presence of roughly $1 billion in USDT on the network, as Aptos’s post states, suggests there is already meaningful liquidity that traders and decentralized apps can tap.
Market watchers say the combination of native stablecoin support plus a large exchange integration can accelerate on-chain use cases, from faster remittances to cheaper micro-payments. If more exchanges and services follow HTX’s lead, Aptos could see an uptick in both trading flow and developer activity, though critics will be watching for real-world stress tests of fees and finality as volumes scale.
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