Aptos Announcements

On Aptos, stake is infrastructure. Staking APT has always helped secure the network and let users receive staking rewards. Now it can do more. Aptos has been shifting to performance-driven tokenomics, with supply increasingly tied to real network activity. AIP-146 extends that — letting stake itself do functional work. Back a transaction with significant staked APT, and you can unlock higher transaction limits: the extra capacity the heaviest onchain workloads demand — liquidations, complex DeFi operations, large state migrations, emergency actions. The more you stake, the higher your limits scale: 2x, 4x, up to 8x. Access is gated by the size of your stake, not open to anyone, and every request is validated onchain. Here's why that matters. Users shouldn't have to trust an off-chain market or order book to manage their funds and settle their trades. With fully onchain markets, they can verify everything themselves. Fully onchain means every operation runs onchain: liquidations, complex DeFi, risk management. AIP-146 gives even the heaviest of them more room to run, with staked APT as the key. Authored by Aptos Labs' George Mitenkov. Learn more: https://github.com/aptos-foundation/AIPs/blob/main/aips/aip-146-staking-based-transaction-limits.md https://x.com/aptos/status/2080684440976765345

Trading is one of the clearest use cases for blockchains, and Decibel is proving it 🟡 A fully onchain trading engine, competing with centralized exchange performance levels, now past $4.9B in total volume. Aptos Labs' Avery Ching with Thinking Crypto's Tony Edward

Agentic AI will run on rails that settle at machine speed Per Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, that's Aptos — the fastest chain named, recording and settling in one step, while Visa needs days. The onchain era of markets and machines. Aptos is primed for it. Shelby is its AI data layer https://x.com/FTDA_US/status/2079527739288158472

Agentic AI will run on rails that settle at machine speed. Per Franklin Templeton, that's Aptos — the fastest chain named, recording and settling in one step, while Visa needs days. The onchain era of markets and machines. Aptos is primed for it. Shelby is its AI data layer. https://x.com/aptos/status/2080103106159972356

Confidential APT ⚫️ Encrypted balances and amounts. Visible senders and receivers. Opt-in by design. Now available on Android and iOS via Petra Wallet. Confidential APT is also currently accessible via Confidential Assets Web, built by Aptos Labs: http://confidential.aptoslabs.com

⚫️ Markets that stay open and stay verifiable 🟡 Enter Decibel: 24/7 access, every trade you can verify, no black boxes. This is the fully onchain trading engine at work, built on Aptos. Decibel's "First Trade on Us" campaign is now live. Learn more below: https://x.com/DecibelTrade/status/2079658897288126967

Staked APT goes to work ⚫️ Under AIP-146, staking unlocks higher transaction limits — giving even the heaviest workloads more room to run onchain: liquidations, complex DeFi, risk management. The full stack you need to build fully onchain markets. See how it works, from Aptos Labs: https://x.com/AptosLabs/status/2079642585451442680

Every onchain purchase, no matter how small, tells the world everything. Just use Confidential APT. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2079385884320018889

The best founders obsess over details no one else would notice. Steve Jobs reviewed every billboard himself, from Times Square in NYC to a back road in Arkansas. That's the bar. Mickey of Arcadia with Aptos Foundation's Alix https://x.com/Aptos/status/2079204681658650951.

The world's unused compute and storage is a trillion-dollar opportunity — and no one had a way to tap it. Shelby does. The world's first global AI data center, built to do what hyperscalers can't or won't. Aptos Labs' Avery Ching with Thinking Crypto's Tony Edward https://x.com/Aptos/status/2079023490552787111

Full squad. Full stack for markets and machines. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2078510150189765101

Web2 models often follow a repeatable playbook. Crypto rarely does. It's constantly evolving, which means a lot of "genius" can be attributed to good timing. Then, how do you define success? Aptos Foundation's Ash and Alix on why there's no fixed playbook in crypto. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2078298807838634465

Quantum resistance on Aptos is designed to be one transaction away. No new wallet. No moving funds. No forced migration. Coinbase's Quantum Advisory Board named Aptos among the best positioned for the post-quantum era — with an upgrade path designed around exactly this. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2078132635889791420

Global money movement isn't a slogan; it's who's at the table. Aptos Labs is an Open Standard launch partner for Open USD alongside Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, while Aptos stablecoin mcap recently hit a $2B+ ATH. The full stack for markets and machines, moving money at scale. https://x.com/aptos/status/2077755169723556120

APT is now available on Interactive Brokers IBKR, the 4th-largest US brokerage. Read the full story via Crypto Briefing: https://x.com/Aptos/status/2077513578710814825

Aptos is prime real estate for global money movement. Now, Tether is backing Pact Labs, leading a $7M investment to bring USAT into payroll, credit, and payments for millions of workers. Watch PACT Co-Founders Zander Rafael & Eric Cuellar with Aptos Foundation's Alix. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2077166255216218178

The next financial system is being built onchain with @pactfinance on Aptos. Tether, the leader in stablecoin issuance, just backed Pact Labs, leading a $7M investment round. PACT has facilitated $1.9B+ in credit across emerging markets, with $567M+ in active loans on Aptos. https://x.com/aptos/status/2077058197605716046

Trading, payroll, payments—moving onchain and staying there. Worldwide. That's what the onchain economy actually is, and Aptos is the full stack ready to support it for the next decade and beyond at scale. Aptos Labs' Avery Ching with Thinking Crypto Podcast's Tony Edward 🪙

Access to the most powerful technology shouldn't be a gated privilege. Avery Ching, CEO of Aptos Labs, joins The Index Podcast on open access to AI, how Shelby returns data ownership to users, Decibel and agentic trading, and more. Full episode available now: https://x.com/theindexshow/status/2075580801719079127

Short-term momentum can fade. Long-term building compounds. What's left for the future onchain is what always mattered: adoption of real products with real value to consumers that drive revenue. Aptos Labs' Avery Ching with The Block's Gareth Jenkinson https://x.com/Aptos/status/2075384511903182985