With all 1.59 billion DOT tokens in circulation, Polkadot’s capped issuance strengthens its staking economy and underpins cross-chain interoperability.
Aptos’ 1.15 billion APT cap and Move-powered Layer-1 design enable rapid, low-fee transactions while preserving token scarcity.
The 10 billion maximum supply and 3.39 billion circulating supply allow Sui to meet the high demand of dApps at high throughput and NFTs, avoiding inflation abuse.
Cryptocurrency market having grown to maturity, limited or smaller-scale token offerings have commanded more interest from investors who want to gain value through the scarcity of supply. Controlled emission can suppress market inflationary forces and promote the main visible pricing jitters. This report has followed three intriguing blockchain assets, Polkadot (DOT), Aptos (APT), and Sui (SUI), which can be characterized by the limitation of the tokens' distribution, which further illustrates their investment prospects in 2025.
Polkadot (DOT): Fixed Issuance and Interoperability Focus
Polkadot builds on a multi-chain system that allows intercommunication between disparate blockchains. Dot is its governance token with a total supply of 1.59 billion tokens, all minted at the same time. This capped supply acts counter to dilution and is the basis of the network staking rewards and economics of validation, as well as on-chain decision making. Such capabilities as Polkadot parachain auctions and cross-chain message passing mechanisms allow developers to roll out dApps in a scalable way, sharing the security throughout the ecosystem.
Over the last 24 hours, DOT’s price eased by 1.96 percent to trade near $3.34, with market capitalization adjusting to roughly $5.32 billion. The trading action was a little positive, as the volume in one day increased by 1.05 percent to $152.6 million, a relatively small portion of its market cap, or roughly 2.9 percent. During the day, there were also some price swings; after opening at $3.40, there was a small downswing, followed by a slight rise (to $3.42) and subsequent decline (to around $3.27), and then the price gradually regained the level. These developments show a cautious investor interest in the interoperability agenda and fixed supply in Polkadot.
Aptos (APT): Modest Circulation and Layer-1 Innovation
Aptos (APT) is a high-throughput / low-latency Layer-1 blockchain using the Move programming language to implement secure smart contracts. As of this writing, the total supply of the protocol is fixed at 1.15 billion APT tokens, of which 644 million will be in circulation. This supply control secures staking incentives and chain governance and maintains scarcity. Aptos' parallel execution engine and optimistic concurrency control strive to provide fast confirmation of transactions while preserving decentralization.
APT rose 1.43 percent in the last day to trade at about $4.99, after falling to a low of about $4.65 in the afternoon. Volume plunged heavily with 41.7 percent to $259, which is about 8.1 percent of its market capitalisation, meaning lighter and focused trading. Through much of the day, trading was in the mid-to-lower-$4.90s; at one point spiking up to above the $5.10 mark, only to settle back in the mid-$4.60s. An end-of-day bounce back regained $5.00 with a newfound interest in Aptos and its scalable framework and finite token supply.
Sui (SUI): Scalable Assets with Defined Issuance
Sui(SUI) is a high-performance, innovative contract platform that employs a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure for parallel transaction processing. It launched with a maximum supply of 10 billion SUI tokens, of which 3.39 billion are in active circulation. The remaining allocation vests over time to support ecosystem development, validator rewards, and community grants. Sui’s consensus mechanism and asset-centric design prioritize low fees and rapid finality, positioning it for dApp deployment and NFT minting at scale.
Over the last 24 hours, SUI declined 5.97 percent to trade near $2.63, with the market cap falling to approximately $8.93 billion. Trading volume increased 4.33 percent to nearly $1.00 billion, about 11.2 percent of its market cap, signaling heightened participation amid downward price pressure. The intraday chart shows an initial high of $2.78, a steady descent toward $2.60, and a late-day stabilization. These patterns suggest active repositioning by investors drawn to Sui’s capped supply and advanced transaction throughput.
