With builders flocking to Move and modular DeFi gaining momentum, Tapp's v4-style architecture combined with Geomi's frictionless infrastructure is creating a new launchpad — one where teams can build fast, ship continuously, and scale without hesitation.
This partnership is about unlocking an ecosystem where experimentation is frictionless, performance is reliable, and developers can turn ideas into Mainnet-ready products at speed. From real-time indexing to modular liquidity pools, Geomi and Tapp are shaping a future where DeFi on Aptos is more composable, expressive, and accessible than ever.
Introducing Tapp Exchange: The First Modular v4-Style DEX on Move
Tapp Exchange is a next-generation decentralized exchange modeled after the Uniswap v4 architecture — but rebuilt from the ground up for the Move language and the Aptos ecosystem.
Unlike traditional DEXs, Tapp deploys a fully modular, hook-based pool architecture that allows developers to build and deploy their own custom pool types. This lets teams embed custom business logic directly into the pools themselves, which unlocks use cases far beyond simple swaps.
These two core features underpin Tapp's protocol:
1. Dynamic Fees
Pool creators can define flexible fee behavior tailored to the pool's purpose, boosting efficiency and making liquidity strategies more expressive.
2. Singleton Pattern Architecture
All assets are held in a single global vault, while pools function as accounting layers. This leads to dramatic improvements in execution efficiency and reduces gas usage.
Together, these features give Tapp Exchange a level of modularity, extensibility, and performance that is uncommon across today's DeFi landscape.
How Tapp Uses Geomi
From day one, Tapp has relied on Geomi as its primary development infrastructure and node provider. These services form the backbone of Tapp's infrastructure stack:
1. Transaction Streaming for Real-Time Syncing
Tapp uses Geomi's transaction streaming service to ingest every Aptos block, parse relevant events, and maintain accurate on-chain state in real time to ensure:
- Data correctness
- Fast UI performance via local caching
- Reliable protocol behavior
2. No-Code Indexers for Analytics
Tapp relies heavily on Geomi's no-code indexers to power long-term analytics and insights that influence its business decisions, risk models, and product strategy. These indexers feed data into Postgres and GraphQL, allowing Tapp to analyze:
- Wallet behavior
- Liquidity provider actions
- Rebalancing and swaps
- User journeys across the protocol
3. Frontend API Integration
A portion of Tapp's frontend queries, such as wallet token lookups, are handled directly through Geomi's client-side API.
Why Tapp chose (and continues to choose) Geomi
Tapp's relationship with Geomi started when it was still known as Aptos Build. The familiarity, support, and early-stage accessibility made it the natural choice for a young startup experimenting on Aptos.
This initial partnership has only matured over time. Through Geomi's evolution into a standalone, commercially-focused platform, Tapp continues to rely on it due to:
- Its deep integration with the Aptos ecosystem
- Familiar tooling and workflows
- Reliable infrastructure
- Competitive commercial terms
- Strong relationships with the core team
Although there is always room for improvement, this collaboration remains a productive and forward-looking one.
Showcasing Modular DeFi in Action
Tapp now serves tens of thousands of interacting wallets and thousands of daily active liquidity users. The team has begun seeing strong ecosystem adoption, especially among builders leveraging Tapp's modular pool framework.
One standout example is Moar Markets, a yield strategy platform integrating multiple DeFi protocols on Aptos. Within just a few weeks of integrating Tapp, over half of their liquidity began flowing through Tapp pools, quickly making Tapp their most-used integration.
This type of traction showcases the impact of modular DeFi design — and the value of an infrastructure that makes it easy to build, test, and deploy on Aptos.
A Shared Vision to Empower Builders and Accelerate Time to Market
Geomi and Tapp Exchange represent two sides of the same mission: empowering builders with the tools, infrastructure, and modular foundations they need to innovate at scale.
Ecosystems thrive from bottom-up creativity. As Tapp co-founder Michael Watts put it:
"The blockchain with the most active developers wins. When thousands of builders can ship quickly, experiment, and iterate, that's when the magic happens."
By combining modular DeFi with seamless infrastructure, Tapp and Geomi are empowering developers to move from idea to mainnet in days, pushing Aptos toward becoming the most developer-friendly blockchain in Web3.