APT is the native currency of the Aptos blockchain. It has an initial total supply of 1 billion and at the time of writing, its circulating supply is 130 million APT.
The distribution is as follows: Community (51.02%); Core Contributors (19.00%); Foundation (16.50%); Investors (13.48%).
Under the Community allocation, around 80% are held by the Aptos Foundation and the remaining by Aptos Labs. This will be used to support community growth and Aptos Foundation initiatives, and the remainder will be unlocked monthly over the next ten years.
Investors and core contributors are subjected to a four-year [vesting](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-does-vesting-mean-in-crypto) schedule from mainnet launch. The Aptos team announced a token airdrop of 20 million APT tokens to early testnet users on Oct. 19, 2022.
For a summary of Aptos [tokenomics](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/tokenomics), refer [here](https://aptosfoundation.org/currents/aptos-tokenomics-overview).