ApeX Protocol APEX
Revenue fadingRank#33▼3Score36Revenue −21% over 30 days. Also: part of holders revenue is paid out.
Derivatives, Ethereum, Arbitrum, 192 days of data
Market cap
$28.2M
price $0.178 · 7d −15.8% · 30d −23.4%
FDV $88.4M (3.1× market cap)
source defillama
Counted per year
$1.3M
holders revenue of the last 30 days, $145k, × 365 ÷ 30, × type factor 0.75 (a mixed model counts 75%)
Returns 6.3% of its market cap a year, using 100¢ of every $1 it earns.
Not a buyback: counts for 75% in the multiple (type factor 0.75), so the denominator is $1.3M instead of $1.8M.
Multiple
21.2×peer median 20.7× (Derivatives, 6 tokens), against 21.2× here
Run-rate
19.6×
last 7 days $37k × 52 × 0.75 (type factor) = $1.4M a year
last week's payout in line with the 30-day pace
What we checked
- Valuation
Multiple 21.2× (type factor 0.75: a mixed model counts 75%), in line with its Derivatives peers (median 20.7×, 6 tokens). The group's largest earner Hyperliquid trades at 20.2×: 1.0× dearer per dollar returned to holders. On total revenue: 15.9×, 1.4× dearer than the revenue peer median.
- Distribution
Mixed: Part buyback, part distribution or burn; the exact split is not known. Holders got $145k of $145k revenue in 30 days → buyback share 100%. DefiLlama: “Fees going to governance token holders”
- Sustainability
Holders were paid on 30 of 30 days (100%); largest single day 7% of the month's holders revenue; paid to holders this week: 53% of the best week in 90 days. Revenue −3% over 7 days and −21% over 30 days, price −23% over 30 days.
What this does not tell you
The figures come from DefiLlama's adapter for each child protocol. Only a few tokens have an on-chain check (see How the buyback really works); for the rest, whether the tokens were really bought, burned or parked in a treasury wallet is not checked here. Unlocks count where DefiLlama or our research has a vesting schedule; team discretion and liquidity depth only once researched.
Flags
No flags today: no active sell signal, and nothing in the data of this token needs a caveat.
How the buyback really works
Not researched yet. Everything above comes from DefiLlama and market data only.
- Holders revenue / revenue (30d)
- $145k / $145k
- last 30 closed days
- To holders
- Returns 6.3% of its market cap a year
- FDV / dilution
- $88.4M / 3.1×
- FDV ÷ market cap
- Price 7d / 30d
- −15.8% / −23.4%
- Revenue growth 7d / 30d
- −3% / −21%
- versus the period before
- Divergence
- 0.00
- revenue growth minus price growth, 30d
- DEX liquidity
- $279k
- DexScreener, representative pools
- 24h volume
- $1.4M
- all markets, CoinGecko
- Unlocks 30d
- —
- no unlock schedule for this token
- Revenue multiple
- 15.9×
- market cap ÷ revenue per year
- Fee multiple
- 8.0×
- market cap ÷ fees per year
- Distance to peak
- 53%
- this week ÷ best week of 90 days
- Data since
- May 4
- first day with holders revenue
Holders revenue and price
Multiple over time
Market cap at close ÷ (holders revenue of the previous 30 days × 365 ÷ 30), with holders revenue capped at revenue and × the type factor: the same effective multiple as the peer median. Values above 100× are drawn at the top. Bands as on the meter; dashed line = peer median today.
Signal history
| Date | Signal | Price then | After 7d | After 30d | Since | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2026 | Revenue jumpclosed Nov 7: the condition no longer holds | $0.212 | — | — | −16% | 30-day check: day 7 |
| October 1, 2026 | Multiple below medianclosed Nov 1: the condition no longer holds | $0.21 | −14% | — | −15% | not counted |
Versus peers
Derivatives · 6 tokens · median multiple 20.7× · Hyperliquid is valued 601.1× higher. Per dollar that counts for holders, ApeX Protocol is 1.0× dearer.
Main-ranking peers only. Multiples count holders revenue capped at revenue, × the type factor (buyback 1 · buyback + burn 1 · burn 0.75 · mixed 0.75 · distribution 0.5 · unclear 0.5 · ve-distribution 0.25).
| Token | Distribution | Multiple | Revenue multiple | Buyback share | To holders 30d | Market cap | Rev. growth 30d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lighter | Buyback | 14.6× | 11.8× | 81% | $4.4M | $775.1M | +14% |
| edgeX | Buyback | 16.0× | 7.0× | 44% | $622k | $120.8M | −43% |
| Hyperliquidleader | Buyback + burn | 20.2× | 20.2× | 100% | $68.8M | $16.94B | −3% |
| ApeX Protocolthis token | Mixed | 21.2× | 15.9× | 100% | $145k | $28.2M | −21% |
| GMX | Distribution | 37.0× | 13.5× | 73% | $354k | $79.6M | +15% |
| dYdX | Distribution | 51.6× | 25.8× | 100% | $240k | $75.2M | −15% |
Score build-up36 of 100
Total score = 35% valuation + 25% momentum + 20% divergence + 20% quality − penalties, clamped to 0–100. Every number here can be recomputed from the figures on this page.
- Penalty −5 (dilution_above_2): dilution ratio 3.14 above 2.
Penalties−5
9 rules not applied, 3 wait for research data.
Where the numbers come from
- Revenue source
- 2 active children
- DefiLlama adapter per child
- Price and market cap
- defillama / defillama
- latest fetch
- Scored on
- November 11, 2026
- as-of date of the last compute run
- On-chain verified
- not yet
- not checked yet
Protocols behind this token2 at DefiLlama
Per protocol: DefiLlama's methodology text, the distribution type we read from it and the sentence that decided it. The token takes the type of the protocol that returns the most to holders.
- ApeX ProDerivatives · Ethereumtype unclear · source text
“Fees going to governance token holders”
Fees going to governance token holders
adapter on GitHub ↗ - Apex OmniDerivatives · Ethereum, Arbitrumtype mixed · source label
“Token Buy Back: 50% of trading fees allocated to weekly APEX token buybacks for token holders”
50% of fees used to buy back APEX tokens on a weekly basis on random days of the week.
- Token Buy Back
- 50% of trading fees allocated to weekly APEX token buybacks for token holders