Our plan to further accelerate the rapid growth of the Aptos ecosystem 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 transactions, tens 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. Peers can validate and synchronize over 10k transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second latency in Aptos today, and we’re already on our way to…

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…

Looking back at the last two months of the explosive Aptos ecosystem It’s been a dizzying few months since our Genesis post and funding announcement. We want to take a moment and discuss the tremendous growth of the Aptos community. After announcing our $200m fundraise led by a16z ​​with participation…

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 account, Provide and confirm…

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…