Aptos Announcements

Confidential APT comes to the browser. Now available on the Petra extension, alongside Android and iOS via Petra Wallet from Aptos Labs. Balances and amounts are encrypted onchain. Addresses remain visible. Designed for compliant use cases. Opt-in by design. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2093006877823279445 https://petra.app

6 months on mainnet. $6B+ in total volume on Decibel 🟡 Crypto, commodity, index ETF, and equity perps, with spot now live. Fully onchain, 24/7 access, built on Aptos, where every trade burns $APT. Still only getting started.

CCTP V2 is live on Aptos 💲 Circle's crosschain trust layer, now faster and programmable. Inbound Fast Transfers bring native USDC to Aptos in seconds instead of minutes — no wrapped assets, no fragmented liquidity. The upgrade isn't just speed. Native USDC lands on Aptos ready to do more. ➡️ Hooks — trigger onchain actions on arrival ➡️ Familiar CCTP primitives for builders ➡️ Built for treasury, liquidity, and trading Native USDC interoperability on Aptos, enhanced — same burn-and-mint model, new ways to build. Start building: https://developers.circle.com/cctp

Raptr has been accepted to EuroSys’27 ✨ Now in production on Aptos, significantly cutting latency. The core idea — Prefix Consensus: replicas vote on the longest prefix of data they have, not the full block, avoiding fetching on the critical path. Robustness + speed, no trade-off. The full paper by Andrei Tonkikh, Balaji Arun, Daniel Xiang, Zekun Li and Alexander Spiegelman breaks down how Prefix Consensus works. Read it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18649

Distribution is the part of onchain finance that rarely gets solved. Tria's 500,000+ users across 150+ countries can trade fully onchain perps on Decibel, settled on Aptos, in one unified experience with one self-custodial account. Learn more: https://x.com/aptos/status/2092334996451119401

⚫️ 🟡 Reliability wins ⚫️ 🟣 Aptos pairs sub-second finality and sub-25ms block times with production-grade infrastructure — enough for demanding use cases, and to let systems like Shelby build on top with confidence. Watch Aptos Labs' Avery Ching discuss this with The Index Podcast's Alex Kehaya.

AIP- 147- Periodic Testnet State Resets | Mainnet untouched ⚫️ Aptos testnet has processed over 10 billion transactions, and its storage footprint grows with them. AIP-147 — in draft and open for review — would introduce periodic Testnet resets: as needed, no more than once every 6 months, with a month's notice. No effect on Mainnet or Devnet. Full details at https://github.com/aptos-foundation/AIPs/blob/main/aips/aip-147-periodic-testnet-state-reset.md

📢 The ROI Royale is now live on Decibel 🟡 A new trading competition on Decibel where your returns can take you to the top, no matter the size of your wallet. Compete for $8,000 USDC across ROI and Volume leaderboards. Get your invite code to enter the Trading Floor: https://t.me/Tria_InviteBot https://x.com/DecibelTrade/status/2090814919717629978

Decibel ROI Royale trading competition is now live on Tria. A new trading competition on Decibel where your returns can take you to the top, no matter the size of your wallet. Compete for $8,000 USDC across ROI and Volume leaderboards. Get your invite code to enter the Trading Floor: https://t.me/Tria_InviteBot https://x.com/DecibelTrade/status/2090814919717629978

Capital does more when it lives in one place. Spot is now live on Decibel. Users can trade or hold spot assets, use eligible spot as collateral where supported, or trade perps to hedge — without moving between systems. Fully onchain on Aptos. Starting with BTC + APT. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2090514227802902740

Spot is now live on Decibel — and it's bigger than two markets. Users can trade or hold spot, use eligible spot as collateral where supported, or hedge with perps — without unwinding to manage exposure. The fully onchain trading engine on Aptos, now past $5.8B in volume. https://x.com/aptos/status/2090151825374949755

Spot is now live on Decibel 🟡✨ Users can trade or hold spot assets, use eligible spot as collateral where supported, or hedge with perps — all from one account. The fully onchain trading engine, built on Aptos. Starting with BTC + APT https://x.com/DecibelTrade/status/2089888729259442411

Most people don't wait until their roof is leaking to replace it. They do it before the storm arrives. That's the thinking behind the post-quantum work underway on Aptos. Today's cryptography still works. But one day, powerful enough quantum computers could challenge the cryptography that protects digital assets across the industry. Waiting until that day arrives would be too late, so the groundwork is being laid now. AIP-137, introduced by Aptos Labs' Alin Tomescu, is a first step: an optional, NIST-standardized post-quantum signature for Aptos accounts. Opt-in by design, adopted over time. Not by forcing anyone to migrate. Not by replacing what already works. It can even run in hybrid mode, pairing the post-quantum signature with a classically-secure one like Ed25519. Post-quantum security is a full-stack effort. This is where it starts ⚫️🔒

Small businesses are the backbone of Nigeria's economy, and many of them are very small teams. The same cross-border rails end up serving both: the business's payments and the everyday person's access to global finance. Daya's Aleph with Aptos Foundation's Alix. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2089381747066573226

Every transaction on Aptos burns $APT. Mid-August Update: • 152.4K APT burned in the last 30D • 1.6M total APT burned since mainnet • $0.0005 avg tx fee since 10x fee increase • 1.8M APT/year annualized burn rate Every fee paid on the network is burned.

Tokenization keeps gaining ground, and institutional adoption keeps compounding with it. Aptos Labs' Head of Structured Finance, Ryan Zega, joins DigiShares' panel to get into what's behind it. August 18, 5 PM CEST. Register here: https://luma.com/cw6q8cmv

You are now listening to: Aptos DeFi Radio Beats to Enjoy on the Move this Summer 🎶🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXji2WpQARw

Korea's won is coming to Aptos 🇰🇷⚫️ BDACS is deploying KRW1, the world's first KRW-pegged stablecoin, on Aptos — its first non-EVM chain — to power onchain commerce across Korea and beyond: payments, B2B settlement, and RWA tokenization. Full details: 비댁스-앱토스, 원화 스테이블코인 생태계 확장과 인프라 협력

Next stop: Decibel spot 🟡

Building in crypto asks more of founders than it used to. Brent Fulfer, Co-Founder & GP of TBV, on institutional adoption, emerging markets, product-market fit, and more — the full conversation with Aptos Foundation's Alix is live. Watch here: https://x.com/Aptos/status/2088294578486923679