Aptos

Introducing MonoMove, Aptos' new execution engine and the biggest scalability upgrade in network history. Moving global markets onchain takes a new standard of speed and safety. MonoMove delivers both, executing the smart contracts behind every onchain market up to 55x faster. Money is moving onchain. Aptos has the engine to run it.

Three systems, one race, and now the recap of the 𝕏 Space. @borntobry of @DecibelTrade joined @parthbl and @RonaldTato of @useTria to talk through the Tria Grand Prix. Trades through Tria on Decibel are settled onchain on Aptos. Read the recap: blogs.tria.so/en/inside-tria…

$9B+ in total volume on @DecibelTrade since its mainnet launch in February. Crypto, commodity, index ETF, and equity perps, plus select spot markets. Every order is placed, matched, and settled onchain on Aptos, where every trade burns $APT. Still only getting started.

Better tools, better execution, and new ways to manage a portfolio onchain. That's where Decibel's @borntobry sees @DecibelTrade going, as he tells Aptos Foundation's @aptAlix why the team built a fully onchain DEX on Aptos.

Capital markets have never run on a single venue. Onchain equities are being built the same way. @Bullish has named Aptos among the initial network partners for its equity tokenization services: a network built for round-the-clock markets and near-instant settlement.

Your money spends a surprising amount of its life waiting. Waiting for a bank transfer to clear. Waiting for an international payment to arrive. Waiting for markets to open. Waiting for a trade to settle. The internet made information move instantly. Finance never fully caught up. That's one of the biggest opportunities for onchain finance. Aptos combines sub-second finality with stablecoins and financial applications that run around the clock. USDT doesn't need to wait for Monday. USDC doesn't care whether the bank is closed. A payment sent Friday night doesn't sit until Tuesday to clear. Money can move when people actually need to use it. The goal isn't to make finance feel more like crypto. It's to make money move more like the internet.

This legend is written onchain.

Putting a dollar onchain is useful. Putting an asset onchain is useful. But the real opportunity starts when they can interact. On Aptos, that's already happening. Stablecoins like @tether USDT and @circle USDC provide the money. Tokenized funds from institutions like @apolloglobal and @BHDigitalAssets bring traditional financial assets onchain. Credit protocols add lending. Trading infrastructure creates markets. Payment platforms connect that ecosystem to users around the world. Individually, each solves a problem. Together, they start to look like a financial system. Money can arrive onchain, move, trade, access financial products, and eventually be spent without constantly leaving the same underlying infrastructure. That's the bigger idea behind onchain finance. Not simply putting the existing financial system on a blockchain, but making all of its pieces work together.

Some of the world's biggest companies trade in Asia, on local hours. @chainlink APAC Equities Streams now cover $40T+ of equity markets across China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. @DecibelTrade is among the venues onboarding. Chainlink Data Streams have been live on Aptos since November 2025, with Decibel as the flagship launch user.

Onchain finance has mostly offered two options: a glass house where every balance and transfer is public, or full anonymity that many regulated businesses won't use. Aptos offers a third path: institutional privacy, through a confidentiality stack designed for compliant use cases. It's opt-in, and addresses stay visible onchain, keeping a clear pathway to accountability. Three layers are live on mainnet. 1) Identity: Keyless Accounts let users create and manage blockchain accounts with existing credentials like Google or Apple, without publicly tying that identity to an onchain address. 2) Amounts: Confidential Assets is a standard designed for encrypted balances and transfer amounts, live today with APT. A zero-knowledge proof confirms each transfer is valid, while the amounts stay encrypted and sender and recipient addresses stay public. 3) Intent: 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. What this enables: • Users can get started with Keyless Accounts using a login they already have, and use Confidential APT for payments where amounts stay between sender and receiver. • Traders can encrypt the details of the orders they choose with Encrypted Mempool, with order details decrypted only after the block is finalized. AI agents' trade inputs can stay encrypted until execution, too. • Institutions can encrypt balances and transfer amounts with Confidential APT, and place large orders without signaling intent before execution with Encrypted Mempool, while counterparty addresses remain visible onchain. Why Aptos: • Confidentiality is built into the protocol layer, not added as third-party tooling. • Transparent by default, confidential by choice. • The same network runs payments, trading, and settlement, with sub-second finality and parallel execution underneath. Confidential APT is live, available via @PetraWallet and on Confidential Assets Web by @AptosLabs. Encrypted Mempool is available via Petra and on @DecibelTrade, and its transactions incur an additional gas fee. • Petra: petra.app • Confidential Assets Web: confidential.aptoslabs.com

Every transaction on Aptos burns $APT. End-of-October update: • 170.1K APT burned in the last 30D • 2M total APT burned since mainnet • $0.0005 avg tx fee since 10x fee increase • 2M APT/year annualized burn rate All burns are permanent.

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Sending money internationally still depends heavily on where you live. Payment platforms on Aptos are changing that. They're integrated with Aptos and already serve millions of people around the world: • @yellowcard_app, pan-African crypto infrastructure, moves USDC and USDT on Aptos across 20 countries. • @Bitso, a Latin American crypto platform, gives its 9M customers access to USDT and USDC on Aptos. • @coinsph, a regulated wallet with 5M+ verified users in the Philippines, supports USDT deposits and withdrawals on Aptos. New routes are taking shape, too. @Daya_HQ and @HashKeyMENA are building a regulated stablecoin corridor between Africa and MENA, with support from Aptos Foundation. Different markets. Different currencies. Different financial systems. Aptos gives them a common layer underneath. Stablecoins can move across that infrastructure quickly and at low cost, giving payment providers new rails for moving money between markets. That's what global blockchain adoption can actually look like. Not asking millions of people to become crypto users. Giving the financial products they already use better infrastructure underneath them.

31M+ trades. $8.7B+ in volume. 80+ markets. Every order placed, matched, and settled onchain on Aptos. That's @DecibelTrade so far, and getting started can be as simple as a Google or Apple sign-in. Decibel's @borntobry explains how: