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Nick 🌐 retweeted
Confidentiality on @Aptos now spans three opt-in layers, all live on mainnet. Each targets a different part of what's visible onchain, and each opens up something new for builders.
Identity: Keyless Accounts
• Users create and manage Aptos accounts with existing credentials like Google or Apple, verified with zero-knowledge proofs, without publicly tying that identity to an onchain address.
• What it enables: apps that onboard users with a login they already have.
Amounts: Confidential APT
• Users can encrypt balances and transfer amounts. Validators check a zero-knowledge proof that a transfer is valid, while balances and amounts stay confidential. Senders and recipients remain visible onchain.
• What it enables: payments where amounts remain between the sender and the receiver, designed for compliant use cases.
Intent: Encrypted Mempool
• The payload (function called + arguments) is encrypted client-side, ordered while encrypted, and decrypted by validators together only after the block is finalized. Sender and gas fee stay visible.
• What it enables: traders can encrypt the orders they choose, designed to lower MEV risk on those orders, and agents can submit trades with inputs encrypted until execution.
Opt-in by design, built for compliant use.
Confidential APT is available in @PetraWallet and on Confidential Assets Web. Encrypted Mempool is supported in Petra and on @DecibelTrade, and developers can integrate it with the TypeScript SDK (v7.0.0+). Existing Move contracts need no changes.
Petra: petra.app
Confidential Assets Web: confidential.aptoslabs.com
Built by Aptos Labs.
Nick 🌐 retweeted
I'm proud of the engineering team at @AptosLabs 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: 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!
banger alert:
@DecibelTrade Agent Mode is in early access: plain-language questions in, order ticket out, and traders confirm before anything goes through. every confirmed order settles onchain on @Aptos
trading has a new interface, and on Decibel it talks back
AGENT MODE // EARLY ACCESS
Ask Decibel what's moving. Ask why. Ask it to build the trade. You confirm it.
The first traders are in. A limited number of spots are open.
Apply → forms.gle/LVvVdDzKoHoFzbHw7
Nick 🌐 retweeted
In March, the SEC concluded APT is a digital commodity, not a security.
Aptos Labs joined @hedera, @AvaLabs, @StellarOrg, @Cardano_CF, and @chainlink in a joint comment letter to @SECGov on proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, asking it to codify that in the rule text.
your order flow doesn't have to be someone else's signal
@DecibelTrade traders can now use Encrypted Mempool: order details stay encrypted while pending, with every trade still settled onchain on @Aptos
the Decibel experience hits different
Nick 🌐 retweeted
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 @blockworksres, burns now cover ~10% of issuance, up from 0.2% under the previous gas rate, and daily transactions doubled after the change.
gas fees 10x'd, staking rewards halved, supply hard-capped
the @Aptos tokenomics updates made earlier this year now bring APT burns to ~10% of issuance, with @DecibelTrade driving much of the onchain activity behind it
growth in the making; more still to carve onchain
1/ Aptos tokenholders overhauled APT’s tokenomics through governance votes in under a month, and the network now generates more from gas fees, which it burns, than it pays its operators.
Token Holder Net Income (THNI), a Blockworks Research metric, turned positive in May and has held since, while Ethereum and Sui still run negative and Solana sits only marginally positive.
traders, start your engines
Tria Grand Prix season starts today, and every trade through @useTria on @DecibelTrade is settled fully onchain on @Aptos
three months, nine rounds of $10K prize pools, and two Ferrari paddock tickets at the finish 🔥
The Tria Grand Prix starts today.
Trade it on Decibel through @useTria and get 20% of your trading fees back monthly.
Nine rounds. $10K pool every round. Two Ferrari paddock tickets at the finish.
Rules + rewards ↓
Nick 🌐 retweeted
Encrypted Mempool, in 40 seconds.
When a user opts in, the transaction's details (the function called and its inputs) are encrypted on their device. Validators order the block without being able to read them, and the details are decrypted only after the block is finalized.
That sequence is what lowers the risk of MEV attacks.
compute moves. data gets collected in one place and trained in another.
@shelbyserves, coordinated on @Aptos and now in Private Beta, is built so teams can shift the compute without rebuilding the data layer underneath it.
got a workload like this? pull up a chair.
Shelby is built for workloads where:
→ compute moves between locations, providers or environments;
→ data is collected, processed or trained in different places;
→ new compute creates more staging, copying or pipeline work;
→ the same dataset needs to serve multiple workloads.
Sound familiar? Get in touch.
Nick 🌐 retweeted
Encrypted Mempool just went live on @Aptos mainnet, and it's already accessible via the Petra extension.
Petra is the first wallet to make this option available directly in the signing flow. Encrypt your transaction's function call and inputs, including amounts, before submitting it to help reduce the risk of MEV attacks.
→ Opt-in, one transaction at a time
→ Transaction details stay encrypted until the block is finalized
→ Your address and gas fee stay visible
