What is the current price of ApeCoin?
The current price of ApeCoin is $0.1403 with a 2.23% change in the last 24 hours.
ApeCoin sits at the center of the ecosystem built around Bored Ape Yacht Club, Otherside and ApeChain. It launched in March 2022 as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum with a fixed supply of one billion, and the project now calls APE "the native gas token of ApeChain," with deployments also on Arbitrum, Solana and other networks. It plays two roles: a membership token for a large NFT community, and a fee asset on a live chain.
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APE did not come from a startup with a token sale. It launched on 17 March 2022 and was airdropped to holders of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFTs, with the rest of supply split between an ecosystem fund, Yuga Labs, the BAYC founders and launch contributors. Governance went to the ApeCoin DAO, with the Ape Foundation as legal steward for decisions made through the AIP process. That changed in 2025: the June vote on AIP-596, proposed by Yuga Labs chief executive Greg Solano, approved moving governance, treasury and operations to ApeCo, a Yuga affiliated entity, with reported support above ninety percent.
On Ethereum, APE is a standard ERC-20 token with fixed supply and no burn function. Its distinctive mechanics live on ApeChain, which the documentation calls "an Optimistic L3" built with Arbitrum's Orbit framework and using "Anytrust Data Availability for ultra low cost transactions." The chain advertises a 0.25 second minimum block time, and fees are paid in APE rather than ETH, which the documentation says "significantly enhances $APE's utility." ApeChain reached mainnet in October 2024, built with partners including Caldera and Horizen Labs on the Arbitrum stack.
APE pays transaction fees on ApeChain, its clearest utility, since every application deployed there consumes APE for gas. It historically served as the governance token of the ApeCoin DAO, funding grants through AIP votes, a role reshaped by the move to ApeCo. It is also used for payments and access inside ecosystem products and events. With supply fixed and no burn function, APE economics rest on demand rather than issuance.
Few tokens began with a cultural community of this size before any platform existed, and fewer became the gas asset of their own chain. That splits demand across two drivers: the pull of the BAYC brand, and real transaction volume on ApeChain.
The Sandbox and Decentraland issued tokens for platforms they had already built, so the token followed the product. Gala centers on a games publishing network, and Pudgy Penguins grew from an NFT collection into a consumer brand. APE combines a community airdrop token with infrastructure duty, and has moved from DAO governance to a company steward.
APE on Ethereum inherits Ethereum's security as a standard ERC-20 contract. On ApeChain security is layered: the Orbit stack runs in AnyTrust mode, so data availability is handled by a committee rather than posted in full to the base layer, with settlement to Arbitrum One and then Ethereum. That lowers costs but adds a trust assumption a full rollup avoids.
Governance risk leads. The DAO that controlled the treasury voted itself out of existence, and stewardship now sits with an entity connected to Yuga Labs, so holders should not assume voting rights they may no longer have. Demand is tied to NFT cycles and to one brand, both historically volatile. ApeChain must attract sustained usage for the gas role to matter, competition among application specific chains is fierce, and APE exists on several networks with different contracts and bridge risk.
ApeCoin is the largest live experiment in turning an NFT community into an economic network with its own chain. It is also a public case study in how token governance shifts when a DAO cannot execute fast enough.
APE is listed on most major centralized exchanges and trades on decentralized exchanges on Ethereum, Arbitrum and other supported networks. Gas on ApeChain is paid in APE, so bridging through the official portal is the usual first step. Match the contract address to the official links above.
APE is a standard token on EVM networks, so any Ethereum compatible wallet works, including MetaMask, Rabby and hardware wallets such as Ledger and Trezor. For larger balances a hardware wallet with a clear signing screen is the default. To hold APE on ApeChain, add the network using the official documentation and confirm the chain before transacting.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of ApeCoin is $0.1403 with a 2.23% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $1,528,874 representing a 30.16% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of ApeCoin is $140,282,456, ranking #174 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of ApeCoin is $140,282,456, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 APE is in circulation.
Circulating: 1,000,000,000. Total: 1,000,000,000. Max: 1,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, ApeCoin traded between a low of $0.1366 and a high of $0.1434.
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