We are excited to announce that the registration site for our incentivized testnet is now online! Head on over to our community site, where you can sign up now. As part of the process, you will need to do the following: Authenticate with a valid Discord or GitHub account, Provide…

Two weeks have passed since we first shared our plans for our incentivized testnets. We are happy to share several exciting updates around eligibility requirements, selection process, expected participation slots, success criteria and rewards. Before jumping into the details, we want to share some of our principles and goals of…

Today, Aptos Labs announces its new collaboration with Google Cloud which will help companies and developers build more easily on the Aptos network. Google Cloud will be one of Aptos’ inaugural cloud partners and will provide scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which developers within the Aptos network can build…

The road to the Aptos mainnet passes through a series of incentivized testnets. During this journey, we look forward to the Aptos community coming together to build a secure, reliable, and decentralized network. Below we describe our timeline along this path, outlining both deliverables and goals. The exact goals and…

World-class engineering meets cutting-edge research at Aptos. For more details please refer to the Block-STM paper and the Aptos codebase. By Alexander Spiegelman and Rati Gelashvili TL;DR: We designed and implemented a highly efficient, multi-threaded, in-memory parallel execution engine that can execute over 160k non-trivial Move transactions per second by…

Welcoming Strategic Investors and Opening Up Devnet to Companies, Projects and Builders Everywhere — By: Mo Shaikh Building a network is a heavy lift, but we’re not alone. Over the past few months we have assembled an outstanding team, each with their own strengths and expertise, to help us aggressively grow the network and bring it to billions of people around the world this…

By: Avery Ching As stated in The Genesis of Aptos, our mission is to create universal and fair access to decentralized assets for billions of people. The web3 stack is vast and rich, from smart contract platforms to developer infrastructure and tooling, wallets, and decentralized applications. Over the coming years…

Building the safest and most scalable Layer 1 blockchain — By Mo Shaikh Today is the genesis of Aptos. Our mission is to create universal and fair access to decentralized assets for billions of people. Aptos is a new, independent project to fulfill our vision of delivering the safest and most production-ready blockchain in the world. While blockchains have come…