The Aptos team is excited by the success of AIT-2, and has so much in store for the upcoming AIT-3! The team has been hard at work preparing substantial updates. Here are some registration details and expectations for AIT-3. This incentivized testnet brings forward the last major deliverable for mainnet…

We recently concluded a very successful AIT2 that brought the Aptos community closer together. Thank you for participating and making AIT2 even more successful than AIT1! We have taken the time since the conclusion of AIT2 to evaluate the outcomes and would like to share updates around the details of…

By Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching Today, we announced our $150M funding round led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, including new investments from Apollo, Griffin Gaming Partners, Franklin Templeton, Circle Ventures, Superscrypt founded by Temasek, and continued support from a16z crypto and Multicoin. This funding comes at a critical…

Barely a few weeks have passed since Aptos Incentivized Testnet 1 (AIT-1) and we are already at AIT-2. The team has been hard at work preparing substantial updates to bring to the Aptos community a seamless registration process for AIT-2, which begins today. Thanks to the many improvements made over…

Our plan to further accelerate the rapid growth of the Aptos ecosystem Apply here! — Aptos debuted as the safe, scalable, and upgradable layer 1 blockchain powered by Move when we launched the developer testnet in March of this year. Less than four months later, developers have executed millions of…

How we minted millions of NFTs in under an hour on the Aptos Blockchain — By: Mo Shaikh Katy Perry is not impressed with NFTs. Well not her specifically, but for argument’s sake, if she tried to connect with 1 million fans by dropping an NFT to them, it would likely take over five days to reach everyone — who has the time?! Even when…

A huge shout out to the community and a big thanks to all the AIT1 (Aptos Incentivized Testnet 1) participants for the successful completion of our first incentivized testnet! We are grateful for the collaboration and look forward to continued engagement with the community! This post covers rewards, some lessons…

By Joshua Lind TL;DR: The Aptos blockchain leverages a wide range of novel techniques to ensure high-throughput, low latency, verified state synchronization in a decentralized network. …

Make motivation real again Consider the life cycle of a research project at a conventional industrial lab. Quite often it proceeds in the following order: Look for a potentially publishable direction in the field. Focus on publishing a result, declaring success upon deriving the result and getting acceptance, and Lastly, look for a real-world…