Aptos Announcements

Trading, swaps, yield, and spending usually live in separate apps. Tria brings them into one self-custodial account for 500,000+ users across 150+ countries. With Aptos integrated, those users can deposit, trade through Decibel, swap cross-chain, and spend with a Visa card using Aptos-native assets, without leaving the app. These aren't isolated integrations. They're pieces of a financial system that's already connecting. The goal isn't to put traditional finance on a blockchain for the sake of it. It's to make money more programmable, accessible, and useful once it's there. That's the bigger onchain finance story being built on Aptos.

There's no single path to becoming a founder. There is a common requirement: the drive to do the grind. Austin Federa, now building DoubleZero, didn't have it on his radar in 2023. He and Aptos Foundation's Alix get into it 👇 https://x.com/Aptos/status/2115836064107499786

Moving dollars between blockchains used to mean relying on bridges, wrapped assets, and extra steps. That's not how global money should work. Native USDC is issued directly on Aptos, and Circle CCTP V2 is live on the network. CCTP moves native USDC between Aptos and other supported networks through burn-and-mint. USDC is burned on the source network, Circle attests to the burn, and native USDC is minted on the destination network. No wrapped assets, no fragmented liquidity. V2 adds two upgrades: • Fast Transfers: USDC can arrive on Aptos from supported networks in seconds instead of minutes. • Hooks: when USDC lands on Aptos, it can automatically trigger the next step, like a trade, a loan, or a payment. For developers, that's better infrastructure for building payments, trading, and financial applications that operate across ecosystems. For users, the goal is much simpler: Your dollars should be usable wherever you need them. Aptos isn't just bringing stablecoins onchain; it's the rails that make them useful. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2115654868727918753

Onchain, balances and payment amounts are public by default. Confidential Assets brings opt-in confidentiality to Aptos payments: amounts encrypted, senders and recipients visible. That makes room for payments that were never meant to be public: salaries, supplier terms, settlements between businesses. Validators verify a transaction is valid while the amounts stay confidential. Encrypted amounts, verifiable payments. Opt-in by design and built for compliant use. Live with $APT in Petra wallet and on Confidential Assets Web built by Aptos Labs: confidential.aptoslabs.com

Compute A, B, C. Without a shared data layer, each can mean another full copy of the data, with its own sync, permissions, versioning, and endpoint. Shelby keeps workloads connected to the same data across supported locations, so adding compute doesn't mean rebuilding that setup. Coordinated on Aptos. https://x.com/shelbyserves/status/2112938493634806227

Blockworks Research has published its full report on $APT tokenomics, covering what's changed since updates were approved through onchain governance this year. Among its findings: • Aptos now generates more from gas fees, which it burns in full, than it pays its operators • Net supply growth fell roughly 70%, from ~5% to ~1.5% a year • Burns now cover ~10% of issuance, up from 0.2% under the previous gas rate • Daily transactions doubled, from ~4.5M to ~9M, at 10x the previous gas rate • The network kept nearly the same security with staking rewards halved, and ~64% of supply is still staked Read the full report from Blockworks Research: https://app.blockworks.com/report/Aptos-tokenomics-path-to-deflation https://x.com/aptos/status/2115111321750638904

Money moves across borders on Aptos 🪙 Aptos enables instant, borderless, programmable payments, so apps can build logic directly into how money moves, with sub-second finality underneath. Native @tether USDT and @circle USDC are issued directly on Aptos, with $15.7B+ in stablecoin transfers on Aptos over the past 30 days and 738K+ stablecoin holders, per @RWA_xyz. In Asia, native USDT is now supported on @MAX_exch in Taiwan and @BitkubOfficial in Thailand, and the cross-border routes keep extending. Between Africa and MENA, @Daya_HQ and @HashKeyMENA are building a regulated stablecoin corridor, with support from Aptos Foundation. Move money at internet speed: https://aptosnetwork.com/use-cases/payments

On October 12, 2026, the genesis unlock schedule for Aptos core contributors and investors concluded, four years after mainnet launched and as published at launch. No core contributor or investor tokens from genesis are left to unlock. Original schedule: https://aptosnetwork.com/currents/aptos-tokenomics-overview https://x.com/aptos/status/2114733816753598692

Encrypted while pending. Onchain once final. Encrypted Mempool lets users opt in to encrypt a transaction's details until its block is finalized, designed to lower the risk of MEV attacks. Encrypted Mempool transactions incur an additional gas fee. Available via Petra Wallet and on Decibel. How it works: https://aptosnetwork.com/currents/encrypted-mempool-mainnet https://x.com/aptos/status/2114371418289058015

In February, a set of $APT tokenomics updates was proposed. Here's where each piece stands. Approved through onchain governance and live: • Gas fees set 10x higher, with every gas fee burned • Staking rewards halved from 5.19% to 2.6% • Supply hard-capped at 2.1B APT Separately, the genesis unlock schedule for core contributors and investors concluded on October 12, 2026, as published at mainnet launch. Alongside these updates, Aptos Foundation has committed to locking and permanently staking 210M APT, about 37% of the APT it held at mainnet. Those tokens will never be sold or distributed. The full tokenomics update: https://aptosnetwork.com/currents/aptos-tokenomics-update

I'm proud of the engineering team at Aptos Labs and their strong commitment to making security a foundational part of our infrastructure. From day one, we've invested heavily in strengthening MoveVM, improving how code is executed and verified, and building safeguards that protect the network as it grows. As an additional layer of protection, Aptos employs defense-in-depth independent validation through the VM's runtime checks, ensuring that inconsistent execution states are detected even if they made it past an earlier verification check. Much of this work happens behind the scenes (as it should), but it's critical to building financial infrastructure that people and institutions can trust. The Move programming language was designed with security at its core, with built-in protections that help developers prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities. We believe it’s one of the most secure foundations for building onchain, and we’re constantly investing in making it even stronger. Our team’s work on defense-in-depth runtime verification has also been published in peer-reviewed research, reflecting our long-standing commitment to advancing security across the broader Move ecosystem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18064 The recent incident involving Initia is a reminder of why that investment matters. Our team has reviewed the exploit and confirmed that Aptos mainnet is not susceptible under its current MoveVM design. Initia uses an independently maintained implementation of MoveVM that also differs with respect to its integration. For example, since launch, Aptos has disallowed a single transaction from both publishing a module and then executing a script against that module, blocking a key step in the exploit. Aptos also enables additional runtime safety checks, which provide another layer of protection. MoveVM was designed with security at its core, and we've continued building on that foundation. Security requires constant attention, investment, and improvement, and I'm proud of the team that shows up every day to do that work. Wishing the Initia team the best as they work through this incident. We remain ready to provide support if needed! -Avery Ching, Aptos Labs CEO https://x.com/AveryChing/status/2113756400560345215

New equity perp markets are live on Decibel, part of the 80+ now available across perps and spot 🟡 31M+ trades and $8.5B+ in volume to date, matched and settled fully onchain with sub-second finality. Built on Aptos, incubated by Aptos Labs. https://decibel.trade https://x.com/AptosLabs/status/2113662005299265985

Three more equity perps are live on Decibel, now 80+ markets across perps and spot. 31M+ trades and $8.5B+ in total volume since mainnet. Fully onchain, 24/7 access, built on Aptos, where every trade burns $APT. The lineup keeps widening. decibel.trade 🟡

Trading on Decibel is getting a new interface: words. Agent Mode is opening in early access. Traders can ask what's moving, ask why, and have it build the order ticket, all in one conversation. Nothing executes until the trader confirms. Every confirmed order is settled onchain on Aptos. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2113306897923322129

Aptos x Decibel x Tria Three systems, one race, and now one Space. We go live on 𝕏 Spaces tomorrow at 7 AM ET to talk through the Tria Grand Prix. Set your reminders: https://x.com/i/spaces/1qGvveNzwrBGB

Aptos Labs x U.S. SEC : Joint Industry Comment Letter ⚫️ In March, the SEC concluded APT is a digital commodity, not a security Aptos Labs joined Hedera, Ava Labs, Stellar, Cardano and Chainlink in a joint comment letter to SEC on proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, asking it to codify that in the rule text. We're grateful for the SEC's work to bring clarity to builders, from its March interpretation to proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. This comment letter is part of Aptos Labs' ongoing work with policymakers globally to support Aptos ✨

Encrypted Mempool is now live on Decibel 🟡 Traders can opt in to encrypt their order details (the function called and its inputs) while the transaction is pending. Validators order the block without being able to read the order details, which are decrypted only after the block is finalized. Designed to lower the risk of MEV attacks, with every trade still settled onchain on Aptos. Built into the Aptos protocol, now available to Decibel traders. More from Decibel: https://x.com/DecibelTrade/status/2112621938166411406

Where $APT tokenomics stand after the updates first proposed in February. Approved through onchain governance: • Gas fees set 10x higher • Staking rewards halved from 5.19% to 2.6% • Supply hard-capped at 2.1B APT Per Blockworks Research, burns now cover ~10% of issuance, up from 0.2% under the previous gas rate, and daily transactions doubled after the change. https://x.com/Aptos/status/2112559535705702744

Encrypted Mempool. Now live on Aptos mainnet, it lets users opt in to encrypt a transaction's details until block ordering is finalized, lowering the risk of MEV attacks. Built for traders, institutions, AI agents, and builders. More via Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/aptos-rolls-out-encrypted-mempool-to-curb-frontrunning-sandwich-attacks

Happy 4th Birthday, Aptos 🎂 https://x.com/Aptos/status/2111819688514625559