October 19, 2022 – Latest news from Aptos suggests that the mainnet will launch in the near future. At the same time, its mainnet token APT was announced by major mainstream exchanges before going into circulation. Cryptocurrency trading platform MEXC has listed its Aptos mainnet token APT on 00.
October 19th 45th (UTC). This is Aptos' first trading platform in the world.

On the basis of the original Libra whitepaper, the Aptos team will construct its new Layer 1 blockchain. Contrary to Libra, the initiative will put more of an emphasis on smart contracts than on international payments.
Aptos, which differs from current public chains like Ethereum in that it uses the Move programming language and the BFT consensus protocol, inherits the Diem project's underlying technical specifications and aims to create a blockchain that is more scalable to accommodate the needs of large enterprises and billions of users in order to facilitate the storage and exchange of crypto assets.

Aptos' development is partially based on technology publicly developed at Diem over the past three years. The Move language is a brand new development language focused on blockchain security, scalability and upgradability.

After Meta verified the sale of Diem-related assets, Aptos earlier declared in its media that the original Diem team will attempt to continue the project under the name Aptos.

Representatives of new public chains currently using the Move language include Aptos, Sui and Linera. Security is the hallmark of Move, providing comprehensive security for smart contracts in terms of languages, virtual machines, contract invocations, and contract operations. In terms of configurability, Move also offers a better solution.
According to the data, the Aptos public chain can now execute more than 10,000 transactions per second and, under ideal circumstances, can handle 160,000 transactions per second. The Aptos ecosystem currently has more than 100 active projects that span the DeFi, NFT, GameFi, wallet, and other tracks.

According to public information, the Aptos development team comes from the Diem, Meta (formerly Facebook) cryptocurrency project. Co-founder Avery Ching is Chief of Software at Facebook where he worked as an engineer for over 10 years and previously he was a crypto platform owned by Facebook where he was technically the leader of the Novi team. did.

Aptos Bancroft has raised $100 million in new funding from a16z, Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, and others to expand its operations in the crypto-currency space.