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What APEX actually is on-chain

APEX is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x52a8845df664d76c69d2eea607cd793565af42b8. That address, not the ticker APEX, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself APEX, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, APEX is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in APEX itself, and secondary liquidity sits in Uniswap-style AMM pools. Two consequences follow for anyone setting alerts: you need ETH in the same wallet to move the token at all, and a quoted price taken from a pool is a pool price — it includes slippage that an order-book quote would not.

Another asset tracked on this site also uses the ticker APEX: Apex AI (Solana, 6rE8kJ…pump). The asset on this page is specifically the Ethereum deployment at 0x52a8…42b8. These are unrelated tokens with separate contracts, separate supply and separate price histories — a price alert set on one of them says nothing about the others, and a ticker search is not enough to tell them apart.

For APEX the project publishes a public source repository and an active account as @OfficialApeXdex. That is a partial paper trail — enough to check claims against, not enough to audit. None of it is a quality judgement about the asset; it is simply what can be independently checked before the chart is worth looking at.

Where APEX sits in the market

At #577, APEX is in the top of the small-cap band. Books at this depth are thin enough that one sizeable market order can move the printed price by several percent and retrace within minutes, which is precisely why a single static price target makes a poor trigger — you want a condition that survives one wick. Availability is concentrated in a handful of venues and volume-based delisting is a live risk rather than a theoretical one.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 1 live APEX order book (Bybit). That is thinner coverage than a #577 ranking would normally imply — a move on one of these books is close to the whole market for APEX, with no deep second venue to arbitrage it back. None of the books we see for APEX are regulated US or Korean venues, so this is an offshore-quoted asset — availability, and the price itself, depend on which jurisdiction you trade from.

APEX against its all-time high

APEX trades 94.7% below its $3.83 record (on 2024-03-27), which puts a 19.0x recovery between spot and that level. A drawdown of this size is usually a structural break rather than a correction — the market that set the high and the market trading today are not the same market. Using that print as a price objective is not a conservative assumption, it is a very aggressive one. That high was set 3 years ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

APEX across its historical range

The recorded range runs 34.7x, from $0.1105 to $3.83 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

APEX is within 82.7% of its all-time low of $0.1105, printed on 2023-10-19. This is the part of a chart with no history: there is no prior trading below this level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster to lean on. The low is old enough to have held as a floor across several market regimes — a materially different setup from one printed recently.

APEX supply and valuation data

APEX sits just outside the band where circulating and total supply are independently verified, so we hold a valuation figure for APEX but not an audited token count. What we do have is a fully diluted valuation of $100.4 million as of 2026-10-30. That is in the top 5% of the assets tracked on this site by fully diluted value.

Because that valuation is a snapshot rather than a live figure, we deliberately do not back out a supply number from it — the price has moved since, and the division would produce a confident-looking token count that is simply wrong. Check the project's own explorer for the current supply before using any per-token valuation. The authoritative figure is the one etherscan.io reports for this contract.

What kind of asset APEX is

APEX is a decentralised exchange token. The economics are unusually legible for crypto: the protocol generates fees from trading volume, and the token's value proposition rests on whether it captures any of them. Volume on the underlying venue, the fee switch status and competitive pressure from other venues are the variables that actually matter — and DEX volume is itself highly cyclical, so revenue is not a stable base.

CoinGecko files APEX under 8 categories, including Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Exchange-based Tokens, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Derivatives, Perpetuals. CoinGecko also records deployments on Arbitrum (391 tracked tokens), Ethereum (3,072 tracked tokens), so on-chain liquidity is split across several networks and the cheapest venue depends on which deployment you are trading.

How to set a APEX alert that is worth receiving

APEX is the ERC-20 at 0x52a8…42b8 on Ethereum — quoted on 1 venue we stream — high dated 2024-03-27 — rank #577. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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