Aptos spustil na mainnetu Confidential APT, který umožňuje šifrovat zůstatky a částky převodů, zatímco adresy zůstávají veřejné. Funkce je opt-in a míří na firemní použití včetně mezd a treasury.
Aptos has rolled out Confidential APT on its mainnet, giving users the ability to encrypt their token balances and transfer amounts without hiding who’s transacting. It’s a deliberate design choice: privacy where it matters for business, transparency where regulators demand it.
The feature, now integrated into the Petra Wallet, operates as a 1:1 wrapped version of APT. Users opt in to shield their balances from public view while their wallet addresses remain fully visible on-chain.
How it works under the hood Confidential APT leans on two cryptographic heavyweights: zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption. Zero-knowledge proofs let one party prove a statement is true without revealing the underlying data. Homomorphic encryption goes a step further, allowing computations on encrypted data without ever decrypting it.
Together, these techniques mean the Aptos network can verify that a transfer is valid, that the sender has sufficient funds, and that no tokens are being conjured from thin air. All without anyone on-chain seeing the actual numbers involved.
At launch, only the native APT token is eligible for confidential transactions. The underlying standard, however, was built to extend to other tokens pending future governance votes.
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The compliance play Aptos is explicitly pitching Confidential APT at compliance-heavy use cases: payroll processing, corporate treasury management, and business-to-business settlements.
Consider the payroll scenario. A company paying employees on-chain currently broadcasts every salary to anyone with a block explorer. Confidential APT lets the payment go through with cryptographic proof of validity while keeping the dollar amount between employer and employee.
The same logic applies to B2B settlements, where companies have obvious reasons to keep transaction sizes private from competitors monitoring on-chain activity. Treasury operations face similar exposure risks when large movements signal strategy to the market before leadership is ready to disclose.
For users who don’t want or need privacy, nothing changes. The feature is entirely opt-in, meaning the default transparent experience remains untouched.
Governance approval and early traction Confidential APT didn’t appear overnight. The feature was activated following Proposal #188, which went through governance voting around April 24-25, 2026. The proposal received near-unanimous support from the community.
The official wallet integration announcements came on August 4, 2026, when the Petra Wallet confirmed support for confidential transactions. By mid-August 2026, roughly 15,000 APT had already moved into confidential pools.
Aptos itself has been building momentum on the infrastructure side. The mainnet originally launched in October 2022, and by April 2026, daily transaction volumes had surpassed 8 million.
Extending the privacy standard to other tokens, stablecoins being the obvious next candidate, would require a separate governance proposal and community vote.
What this means for the broader market Privacy in crypto has always been politically charged. Tornado Cash sanctions, Monero delistings, and ongoing regulatory scrutiny of mixing services have made the topic radioactive for many projects. Aptos is betting it can thread the needle by offering selective privacy that satisfies business needs without triggering the alarm bells that fully private transactions set off.
The fact that addresses remain visible provides a strong defense, since law enforcement can still trace the flow of funds between wallets even if individual amounts are encrypted.
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BitGo propojilo své institucionální self-custody peněženky s DecibelTrade prostřednictvím WalletConnect, takže klienti mohou obchodovat spot i perpetual kontrakty bez přesunu aktiv mimo BitGo. Podpora je zatím pro Ethereum a Solanu, vypořádání probíhá na Aptosu.
BitGo has integrated its institutional self-custody wallets with DecibelTrade, a decentralized exchange running on the Aptos network. The September 3 announcement means eligible clients can connect directly to the DEX through WalletConnect, trading spot and perpetual contracts without ever needing to transfer assets to a separate wallet.
How the integration actually works The connection runs through WalletConnect, a protocol that lets wallets communicate with decentralized applications without exposing private keys. BitGo’s multi-party computation (MPC) wallets, which split cryptographic keys across multiple parties to prevent single points of failure, plug directly into DecibelTrade’s trading interface.
BitGo’s existing security protocols, including address whitelisting and multi-party approvals, remain active throughout the process. Every transaction still routes through the same approval workflows the firm already uses.
At launch, the integration supports trading on Ethereum and Solana networks. Trades settle on Aptos, where DecibelTrade operates using a central limit order book (CLOB) model with sub-second transaction finality. A CLOB works like a traditional stock exchange order book, matching buyers and sellers at specific prices, which should feel more familiar to institutional traders accustomed to traditional market structure.
BitGo’s broader DeFi push BitGo rolled out WalletConnect support in February 2026, initially enabling DeFi activities across EVM-compatible chains and Solana. The DecibelTrade integration represents the next step: establishing a direct pipeline to a specific, institutional-grade trading venue.
DecibelTrade launched on the Aptos mainnet in 2026. Aptos was built by former Meta engineers using the Move programming language.
What this means for institutional DeFi adoption Previously, an institution wanting to trade on a DEX would typically need to withdraw assets from custody, send them to a hot wallet, execute trades, and then move everything back. With this integration, assets never leave BitGo’s infrastructure, approval chains stay intact, and audit trails remain continuous.
The initial network support covers Ethereum and Solana, with expansion to additional networks planned as the platform grows. The announcement has not yet prompted notable price reactions in the cryptocurrency market.
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APT za posledních 24 hodin vzrostl o více než 10 %, ale během týdne má do oběhu přibýt 11,31 milionu APT v hodnotě 6,88 milionu USD. To může otestovat býky.
Aptos [APT] surged by more than 10% in the past 24 hours, at press time, with daily trading volume surpassing $109 million.
Apart from the technical breakout, the altcoin’s gains were being fueled by a continuous supply crunch since its fee switch. Here is how reduced supply influenced the rally:
Decoding Aptos token burns after the 10x fee increase In the past seven days, RWA net flows have driven Aptos’s network activity. In fact, Aptos ranked second with $145 million, closely behind Ethereum [ETH] at $149 million.
Additionally, the number of transactions and active addresses showed participants were returning to the chain. On the 3rd of September, Active Addresses were 57,047, while transactions surged beyond 16 million.
Source: DefiLlama From the activity data, the chain continues to accrue revenue, with average transaction fees standing at $0.0005 since the 10x fee increase.
These fees are used to buy back APT and burn them, reducing the circulating supply. That is, 1523K APT were permanently burned in the last 30 days, a total of 1.7 million tokens since mainnet. Hence, the annualized burn rate is 1.8 million tokens, as per Aptos’s post on X.
Can APT’s price hold its gains? On the charts, APT broke out for the second time from a descending trend channel. The altcoin had traded back into the pattern on the 25th of August after losing support at $0.576. It reversed at the mid-level of the channel, where it made a double bottom at $0.523.
Currently, APT is surging toward equalling August’s peak above $0.71. The RSI Divergence is supporting the projection, as it indicates bulls are still buying.
Source: APT/USDT on TradingView However, the Net Volume shows that about 340K APT were sold in the most recent session. This data hinted at weakening buyer momentum, even though the RSI was overbought.
Thus, a challenge existed at $0.65, which was a short-term resistance below $0.71.
What to expect from APT’s upcoming token unlocks? Meanwhile, stronger bearish signals from routine unlocks could add to the mid-selling pressure.
As per Tokenomist, about 11.31 million APT worth $6.88 million would be added to the circulating supply in a week’s time. This amount was equivalent to 0.65% of the released supply.
Source: Tokenomist Therefore, Aptos faces downside risk from the looming unlock, as this massive release dwarfs the small supply burned in a month.
Final Summary Aptos surged by over 10% as the altcoin priced in the burning of more than 152.9K APT tokens. APT broke out of the channel for the second time, but bulls are facing selling pressure in a week’s time.
Circle aktivovala CCTP V2 na Aptos, čímž rozšířila standard burn-and-mint pro přesun nativního USDC mezi blockchainy. Integrace nahrazuje V1 a zapadá do širšího rozšíření na více než tuctu sítí.
@circle has activated Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol V2 (CCTP V2) on Aptos, upgrading the burn-and-mint standard that moves native $USDC between blockchains. The deployment, confirmed on Wednesday by @AptosLabs, replaces the V1 integration that was already live on the $APT network and brings Aptos in line with the broader V2 rollout across more than a dozen chains.
What CCTP V2 adds to Aptos The upgrade delivers two headline capabilities. Alongside that, Practical use cases include
The Aptos deployment retains the same developer surface as other V2 chains and includes relay support, targeting treasury management, liquidity movement, and trading applications.
Context: V1 phase-out and wider rollout The Aptos activation marks a step toward completing that expansion.
The Aptos integration expands the network's access to that infrastructure as Circle pushes V2 toward becoming the sole standard for native USDC movement across supported chains.
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Circle: Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol overview
Circle: CCTP V1 deprecation and V2 canonical designation
CoinDesk: Circle upgrades Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol
Rozšíření prohlížeče Petra nově umožňuje držet a posílat šifrované zůstatky APT na počítači. Na blockchainu jsou skryté částky transakcí, zatímco adresy zůstávají veřejné.
From Mainnet to Mobile and Now Desktop@PetraWallet users on desktop can now hold and send encrypted $APT balances directly from the wallet's browser extension, with transaction amounts hidden on-chain while sender and receiver addresses remain publicly visible. The move extends a rollout that has been building across platforms throughout 2026.
Aptos Proposal 188 executed on April 24, enabling APT confidentiality on mainnet. Aptos announced access through Petra and its Confidential Assets web interface on June 17, followed by a broader Petra mobile rollout in July. The browser extension marks the latest step in that expansion.
Confidential APT is an opt-in feature inside Aptos's fungible-asset framework. A user moves public APT into a protocol pool, registers an encryption key, and receives an encrypted balance. Transfers within that confidential domain update encrypted claims rather than moving the underlying APT out of the pool.
How the Privacy Layer WorksThe feature uses zero-knowledge proofs and Twisted ElGamal encryption to hide wallet balances and transfer amounts while keeping addresses publicly visible on-chain. Confidential APT maintains a 1:1 peg with standard APT and functions natively on the network.
@Aptos frames the feature as opt-in and built for compliant use. Governance-controlled auditor keys enable authorized access to transaction data for compliance and investigative purposes, with the implementation targeting enterprise use cases including confidential payroll, treasury operations, and trading activities.
As of an August 16 snapshot, APT confidentiality was enabled, allowlisting was active, the emergency pause was off, and the public confidential pool held approximately 15,116 APT. The desktop extension brings the feature to a wider slice of the Aptos user base, with Petra, developed by Aptos Labs, remaining the most widely used wallet and often treated as the official entry point to the ecosystem.
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CertiK: Aptos Confidential APT, Verifiable Encrypted Transfers on Mainnet
Everstake: Aptos in 2026, Latest News and DeFi Updates
MoneyCheck: Aptos Rolls Out Privacy-Enhanced Token With Compliance Framework
Switchboard zastavil provoz na sítích postavených na Move, jako jsou Aptos, Sui, IOTA a Movement, po zjištění možného bezpečnostního incidentu. Na IOTA útočník zneužil oracle klíč a dočasně nastavil cenu na 10 milionů USD.
Switchboard, the multi-chain oracle protocol that feeds price data to decentralized applications across several blockchains, shut down operations on its Move-based deployments after discovering what it described as a potential security compromise. The affected networks include Aptos, Sui, IOTA, and Movement.
The halt, communicated during the transition from August 28 to 29, represents one of the more serious oracle-level incidents in recent memory. And the damage on at least one network was anything but theoretical.
What happened on IOTA An attacker exploited a compromised oracle key to manipulate the IOTA price feed, temporarily setting the token’s price to $10 million.
With the feed showing a wildly inflated IOTA price, the attacker was able to mint approximately 4.94 million VUSD through the Virtue CDP protocol. CDP, or collateralized debt position, protocols let users lock up assets and borrow stablecoins against them. When the oracle says your collateral is worth $10 million per token, the protocol happily lets you borrow accordingly.
The fallout hit 45 users directly through liquidations. Exchange addresses were frozen in response to the chaos, and the Virtue CDP protocol itself was halted.
Scope of the shutdown Switchboard’s decision to halt all Move-based implementations suggests the vulnerability may be architectural rather than network-specific. Move is the programming language originally developed at Meta (then Facebook) for the Diem project, and it now underpins Aptos, Sui, and their derivative ecosystems including Movement and IOTA’s newer infrastructure.
The protocol said it was actively collaborating with relevant security agencies to investigate the breach.
Notably, Switchboard’s Solana deployment was not affected. The protocol’s Solana-based infrastructure runs on different code, which apparently wasn’t vulnerable to the same exploit vector. Still, Switchboard advised even Solana users to temporarily seek alternative oracle options during the investigation.
Why oracle compromises are uniquely dangerous Oracles occupy one of the most critical positions in the DeFi stack. They’re the bridge between real-world data (token prices, interest rates, asset values) and on-chain smart contracts that execute financial transactions based on that data.
The DeFi ecosystem has seen oracle-related exploits before. Mango Markets on Solana suffered a $114 million exploit in 2022 when an attacker manipulated the platform’s oracle price.
What makes the Switchboard incident particularly concerning is that the compromise appears to have occurred at the key level rather than through market manipulation. The attacker didn’t need to execute complex trading strategies to move a price. They simply gained access to a key that controlled the feed and rewrote the data directly.
What this means for affected ecosystems For Aptos, Sui, and Movement, the shutdown is disruptive even if no exploits have been confirmed on those networks. Any DeFi protocol relying on Switchboard for price feeds is effectively flying blind until service resumes, unable to process liquidations, update collateral ratios, or execute any price-dependent function.
Protocols that integrated redundant oracle sources from providers like Pyth, Chainlink, or Redstone alongside Switchboard can continue operating. Those that didn’t are learning an expensive lesson about single points of failure.
Switchboard’s initial statements suggest that user funds have remained intact beyond the IOTA incident, but that assessment could evolve as the investigation deepens.
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Aptos zaznamenal nové historické maximum 11,7 milionu transakcí za den, což je o 6,5 % více než předchozí rekord za posledních 24 hodin. Růst naznačuje trvale silnější aktivitu na síti.
Aptos Hits 11.7 Million Daily Transactions@Aptos has recorded a new all-time high of 11.7 million transactions in a single day, a 6.5% increase over the previous record set just 24 hours earlier. The back-to-back peaks signal that demand on the network is not a one-off spike but part of a sustained upward trend in on-chain activity.
The milestone fits into a broader pattern of accelerating growth in 2026. The 11.7 million figure reported on August 21 represents another step above that range.
Architecture Built for This Kind of LoadThe numbers reflect an infrastructure deliberately engineered for high throughput.
Much of that capacity comes from Aptos's parallel execution engine.
The transaction growth also comes alongside broader ecosystem development.
With daily transaction counts continuing to set new highs and network infrastructure designed to handle far greater loads, @Aptos appears to be building durable momentum rather than chasing short-term spikes.
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Everstake: Aptos in 2026 - Latest News, Roadmap, and DeFi Updates
Nansen: Aptos H2 2025 Report
Aptos nasadil na mainnetu volitelnou soukromou funkci Confidential APT, která umožňuje selektivně skrýt údaje o transakcích. Cílí na firemní a regulatorní použití, včetně mezd, korporátních financí a B2B plateb.
The Layer-1 blockchain network Aptos has announced the rollout of its new privacy solution, “Confidential APT,” on its mainnet, which allows users to selectively keep their transaction data private.
In a statement released on its social media platform X, the company said the new feature is optional and was specifically developed for corporate and regulatory compliance use cases.
According to Aptos, Confidential APT allows users to choose which information in their transactions is public and which remains private. This ensures the transparency of the blockchain while also allowing for the confidentiality of transaction details when needed.
The company stated that the new feature is specifically intended for use in sensitive financial processes such as payrolls, corporate finance transactions, and business-to-business (B2B) payments. While privacy is paramount in the traditional financial world, the fact that all transaction data is publicly visible on open blockchains has been considered a significant obstacle for many organizations. With this solution, Aptos aims to offer an alternative to this problem.
Recently, there has been a growing interest in privacy-focused technologies within the blockchain sector. Corporate companies and financial institutions, in particular, are showing increased interest in networks that develop infrastructure capable of protecting trade secrets while complying with regulatory requirements. Aptos aims to enhance its competitive edge in this area with its Confidential APT.
The company emphasized that the feature is entirely optional, stating that users can continue to conduct their transactions within the existing transparent structure if they wish. This provides a flexible usage model tailored to the diverse needs of both individual users and corporate clients.
Industry experts believe that solutions that strike a balance between privacy and regulatory compliance can accelerate the enterprise adoption of blockchain technology. These features are particularly critical for businesses to be able to utilize blockchain infrastructure in sensitive processes such as payroll payments, internal financial transactions, and commercial payments.
*This is not investment advice.
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CEO Aptos Labs Avery Ching uvedl, že nové regulace v USA, zejména CLARITY Act, mohou urychlit vstup institucí do krypta. Zákony GENIUS Act a CLARITY Act mají podle něj snížit právní nejistotu.
Aptos Labs CEO Avery Ching said that digital asset regulations being discussed in the US Congress could pave the way for a significant transformation in the financial sector. According to Ching, the enactment of the CLARITY Act, in particular, could act as a major catalyst, accelerating the entry of financial institutions and large companies into the digital asset market.
Appearing on the YouTube channel “3PROTV,” Ching stated that comprehensive cryptocurrency regulations in the US would not only reduce legal uncertainties in the sector but also allow institutional investors to enter the market more securely. Ching emphasized that current regulatory efforts are critical to the long-term growth of the digital asset ecosystem.
Aptos CEO Ching stated that the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act, currently on the US agenda, will be two fundamental legal building blocks shaping the future of the sector. According to Ching, these two bills will form the most important legal framework supporting the development of the digital asset market and contribute to the widespread adoption of blockchain-based financial applications.
Ching stated that the biggest trends that will transform financial markets in the next five years will be the digitalization of assets and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, adding that a period is approaching where US Treasury bonds, money market funds, stocks, and other traditional financial products can be traded more efficiently as digital assets through blockchain infrastructure. This transformation is expected to reduce transaction costs, speed up clearing processes, and increase global investor access.
On the other hand, the Aptos ecosystem continues to grow with new collaborations. The Aptos (APT) blockchain network developed by the company has been selected as one of the core blockchain partners for the next-generation stablecoin project OpenUSD (OUSD). This partnership aims to strengthen OpenUSD’s technical infrastructure and expand the enterprise use cases of the Aptos network.
Experts believe that if a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets is implemented in the US, the interest of banks, investment firms, and large institutional investors in the digital asset sector could significantly increase. This is expected to both accelerate the adoption of blockchain-based financial applications and support the inflow of new capital into the sector.
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Coinbaseův Quantum Advisory Council označil Aptos a Algorand za sítě nejlépe připravené na éru po kvantových počítačích. U Aptosu vyzdvihl hlavně crypto-agility a možnost změnit podpisové schéma v jedné transakci.
On April 21, 2026, Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council released a position paper naming Aptos and Algorand as the two blockchain networks best positioned to handle the cryptographic challenges that quantum computers will eventually bring. Its advisory group includes Scott Aaronson from UT Austin and Dan Boneh from Stanford University, two of the most cited names in cryptography and quantum computing research.
What makes Aptos different here Most networks today secure wallets using elliptic curve cryptography. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could, in theory, reverse-engineer private keys from public ones.
Aptos was built with this transition in mind from day one. Launched in 2022, it runs on the Move programming language and uses a modular cryptographic infrastructure. If Aptos needs to swap out its signature scheme, it can do that in a single transaction without asking users to create new accounts or move their assets anywhere.
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The Coinbase council’s paper specifically highlighted this crypto-agility as Aptos’s central advantage. Crypto-agility means a system’s ability to swap cryptographic primitives without disrupting the broader network.
In December 2025, the network proposed integrating SLH-DSA, a post-quantum signature scheme that has been formally standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Algorand’s approach and why the council cited both Algorand earned its spot in the paper through a different but complementary set of choices. The network has implemented Falcon signatures within its State Proofs, and it offers native key rotation as a built-in feature. Falcon is a lattice-based cryptographic scheme, which is one of the algorithm families that NIST has identified as resistant to quantum attacks.
Researchers from the Ethereum Foundation were also listed among the advisory council’s contributors.
What this means for the market The council’s paper is explicit that immediate threats are not imminent. The point is about preparation time horizons, specifically that the window between “quantum computers become theoretically capable” and “quantum computers become practically deployable” may be shorter than the time required to retrofit major blockchain networks.
Being named in a paper co-authored by cryptographers from Stanford and UT Austin, distributed under Coinbase’s advisory brand, is a different category of validation than a marketing announcement or a partnership press release.
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Interactive Brokers přidal Aptos (APT) do své platformy pro obchodování s kryptoměnami v rámci širší expanze o devět tokenů. Klienti tak získají přímý přístup k APT přímo z brokerského účtu.
Interactive Brokers, one of the largest electronic brokerage firms in the US, has added Aptos (APT) to its cryptocurrency trading platform as part of a broader nine-token expansion. The move gives IBKR’s substantial client base, which skews heavily toward active traders and institutional participants, direct access to the Layer 1 blockchain token without needing to leave their existing brokerage accounts.
What IBKR is actually offering The July 14 integration brought APT alongside other tokens including AAVE, LDO, NEAR, and UNI to IBKR’s crypto trading desk. That’s a meaningful expansion from the brokerage’s early, cautious steps into crypto, which began back in 2021 with limited offerings routed through Paxos.
Commissions for crypto trades on the platform range from 0.12% to 0.18% of the transaction value, with a minimum fee of $1.75 per order. No additional custody fees or spreads are tacked on. If you buy $10,000 worth of APT, you’re paying somewhere between $12 and $18 in commissions.
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The backend infrastructure relies on a partnership with Zerohash for trade execution, while Paxos Trust Company and Zero Hash LLC handle custodial services.
Why Aptos specifically matters here Aptos was built by a team of engineers who previously worked on Meta’s Diem project (formerly Libra), the stablecoin initiative that regulators effectively killed before it could launch. The Aptos mainnet went live on October 18, 2022, with a genesis date of October 12 that same year. Its core selling point is speed: the network achieves sub-second finality on transactions. APT serves as the native token powering staking, governance, and network operations across the ecosystem.
The blockchain was designed from the ground up with scalability and security as primary engineering goals. That focus has attracted increasing institutional interest throughout 2026, with network-level security enhancements and tokenomics proposals continuing to evolve in the background.
The bigger picture: TradFi keeps absorbing crypto By keeping commissions between 0.12% and 0.18% with no hidden custody charges, IBKR is making a play to undercut many crypto-native platforms that rely on wider spreads or tiered fee structures. The $1.75 minimum per order applies to all crypto trades on the platform.
What this means for investors For APT holders and potential buyers, the IBKR listing represents a meaningful expansion of the token’s addressable market. IBKR’s client base includes hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, financial advisors, and sophisticated retail traders — segments that often have significant capital to deploy but have historically been reluctant to open accounts on crypto-native exchanges.
APT remains a relatively young blockchain competing in a crowded Layer 1 landscape against established players like Solana, Avalanche, and Ethereum’s expanding rollup ecosystem. Getting listed on IBKR doesn’t change the fundamental competitive dynamics.
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Aptos zpracoval přes 16 milionů transakcí za jediný den, což je jeho nejvyšší denní objem v tomto čtvrtletí. I přes desetinásobné zvýšení poplatků za gas zůstaly průměrné náklady na transakci na 0,0005 USD.
Aptos just posted its biggest single-day transaction count of the quarter. The Layer-1 blockchain processed over 16 million transactions in a single day in early July, a number that doubles as evidence that its April governance overhaul is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
That governance upgrade was, frankly, a big deal. Aptos raised gas fees tenfold, instituted a hard supply cap of 2.1 billion APT, cut staking rewards, and mandated that 100% of transaction fees be burned. The Aptos Foundation also permanently locked 210 million APT.
The numbers behind the milestone Despite the tenfold gas fee increase, average transaction costs held at $0.0005.
In June 2026, Aptos recorded 83.7 million transactions in a single week, its strongest weekly performance of the year.
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The token burn numbers are becoming material. In the 30 days leading up to this report, 235,200 APT were burned. Since the mainnet launched in October 2022, cumulative burns have reached 1.4 million APT.
Monthly emissions from staking sit at roughly 1.6 million APT. The current burn rate is offsetting approximately 15% of that.
Staking rewards were also trimmed as part of the April upgrade, coming down to approximately 2.6%.
Why the governance changes matter beyond the headline The April 2026 upgrades essentially borrowed a page from Ethereum’s EIP-1559 playbook, where base fees are burned rather than paid to validators or a treasury, creating a direct mechanical link between network demand and token supply reduction.
The hard cap of 2.1 billion APT puts a ceiling on total supply that did not exist before. Combined with the Foundation’s decision to permanently lock 210 million APT, the circulating supply trajectory has changed in a way that is difficult to reverse.
Aptos launched its mainnet in October 2022 with a Move programming language and a parallel transaction execution model. The April governance vote addressed the economic side of that equation.
What investors should watch from here Monthly emissions of 1.6 million APT remain higher than the current burn rate, meaning the net supply is still growing. The crossover point, where burns exceed new issuance, depends entirely on sustained or growing transaction volumes.
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PANews news, July 5 — Token Unlocks data shows that tokens including PUMP, HYPE, APT and others will see large unlocks next week, specifically:
Pump.fun (PUMP) will unlock approximately 82.5 billion tokens on July 12 at 10:00 PM Beijing time, representing approximately 29.23% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $125 million;
Hyperliquid (HYPE) will unlock approximately 452,000 tokens on July 6 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, representing approximately 0.2% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $30.9 million;
Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 11.31 million tokens on July 12 at 10:00 PM Beijing time, representing approximately 0.66% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $6.9 million;
RedStone (RED) will unlock approximately 40.85 million tokens on July 7 at midnight Beijing time, representing approximately 9.8% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $4.1 million;
Movement (MOVE) will unlock approximately 165 million tokens on July 9 at 8:00 PM Beijing time, representing approximately 4.29% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $2 million;
Linea (LINEA) will unlock approximately 1.08 billion tokens on July 10 at 7:00 PM Beijing time, representing approximately 3.63% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $2.7 million;
io.net (IO) will unlock approximately 13.29 million tokens on July 11 at 8:00 PM Beijing time, representing approximately 3.61% of the circulating supply and worth approximately $2.3 million.
Hexens našel v Aptosu kritickou chybu, která mohla ohrozit až 70 miliard USD v krypto infrastruktuře. Zranitelnost byla opravena a žádné prostředky se neztratily.
Ethical hackers from security firm Hexens discovered a flaw in the Aptos blockchain that was patched but could have put up to $70 billion in digital assets at systemic risk, including stablecoins and cross-chain bridges.Researchers simulated the attack with a over-90% success rate under real network conditions, using a well-provisioned server setup that cost just $3,000 to simulate about 1/3 of the validator network, and the attack required no insider access or special permissions.The vulnerability was reported through emergency security channels on Feb. 25, and a patch was deployed within days to prevent any funds from being lost.A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
At the center of the disclosure was a flaw in Aptos, a layer-1 blockchain built on Move, the smart contract language used by Aptos and Sui, that stems from Facebook’s shelved Diem project.
In late February, researchers at the blockchain security firm Hexens reported a critical vulnerability in the Aptos Move virtual machine, the execution environment that processes smart contracts on the chain, to the project’s development team. Hexens identified what it described as a "stale-cache bug" leading to a type-confusion vulnerability, a condition in which software can be tricked into treating one type of onchain resource as another.The
Aptos team did patch the vulnerability when it was flagged, and no funds were lost.
“Aptos Labs was notified of a potential issue through our bug bounty program on February 25 that was already being triaged internally at the time," an Aptos spokesperson told CoinDesk. "A fix was developed, tested, and deployed to mainnet within hours of discovery. No users or funds were impacted at any point."
The Aptos spokesperson also disputed the practical exploitability of the bug to CoinDesk. "Our analysis determined the bug would have extremely low exploitability in real world conditions."
However, the details of what researchers found offer a sobering look at how close the ecosystem came to a potentially industry-altering event.
The sensitivity of this class of bug comes down to how the Move language handles authority. Protocol permissions in Move, including the right to mint a stablecoin, control a bridge, or administer a lending market, are often stored directly as onchain resources. If those resources are compromised, the damage does not stop at one protocol. It extends to everything that trusts them.
Hexens' researchers offered a practical analogy to the bug: it is roughly comparable to a bug on an Ethereum-style chain that would allow attacker-controlled code to write into storage belonging to other contracts, bypassing the type-system guarantees that Move was specifically designed to uphold.
Mudit Gupta, CTO at Polygon, independently reviewed the proof-of-concept materials and said the exploit held up. "It ran as claimed, and the exploit made sense," he told CoinDesk. "It required a few conditions to be met, which it seems like they did on the mainnet."
Meanwhile, Grego AI, which independently verified Hexens' proof-of-concept, calculated that approximately $250 million in Aptos-native TVL was directly at risk based on the near-90% success rate, separate from broader cross-chain exposure.
The $70 billion riskThe vulnerability, discovered by Vahe Karapetyan, CTO and co-founder of Hexens, could, if left unchecked, have exposed a far larger systemic risk surface across bridges, stablecoins, DeFi protocols and centralized exchanges, costing billions and creating a crisis far beyond Aptos itself.
And all it would've taken was a few thousand dollars' worth of servers.
The total cost to spin up the infrastructure needed to run this experiment was approximately $3,000 for a server that simulated an environment designed to approximate Aptos mainnet conditions. Although if a malicious attacker were to actually go through the exploit, it would have required considerably less, without requiring validator access, insider knowledge or privileged protocol permissions.
The team ran the exploit path roughly 20 times in a simulated environment and succeeded 17 or 18 times. The two or three failed attempts didn't stop the network, meaning the attacker could have simply had another window to try again.
The simulation was built to closely approximate real network conditions, using a cluster of more than 30 validator nodes, a mainnet-shaped stake distribution, organic transaction traffic and heavy execution contention. The Hexens team also tested what they call "non-armed calibration techniques": dry runs that measured mempool and block-construction conditions before committing to an armed attempt. The firm said those steps materially reduced the uncertainty introduced by the exploit's probabilistic elements, making the attack path more reliable in practice.
Based on public data collected at the time of reporting, Hexens assessed direct and first-order protocol exposure on Aptos, covering DeFi protocols, tokenized assets, stablecoin infrastructure and liquid-staking systems, at low single-digit billions.
In such exploits, however, the broader risk could've been greater, as blockchain-level compromises rarely stop at the affected chain.
Hexens assessed that the broader first-order systemic risk was approximately $70 billion — a huge number that includes value accessible through bridges, cross-chain messaging systems, stablecoin administration flows and centralized exchanges.
Grego AI noted that the exploit could also be used to steal protocol capabilities, including those held by LayerZero, Wormhole and USDC's CCTP. "If malicious actors had access to this bug, they would have been able to take all [the] TVL that they want[ed]," said Justus Hanna, CEO at Grego AI.
The simulation shows the industry remains vulnerable to hidden bugs in the blockchain technology.
If an attacker had actually found and exploited the bug, in theory, it could have easily dwarfed the massive $1.5 billion stolen in a Bybit hack last year. Most recently, in June, Zcash (ZEC) plummeted 38% after developers revealed a critical bug that had lurked undetected in its privacy pool for four years, one that could have allowed an attacker to print unlimited counterfeit tokens without anyone knowing. Before that, nine-figure bridge hacks and protocol exploits drained liquidity pools and rattled confidence in the infrastructure underpinning the broader market.
It’s worth noting that $70 billion is an estimate based on minting a mammoth amount of USDC stablecoin and using Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to move it across chains. If a malicious attacker did this, and given how large the number is, it’s also likely a company like Circle would halt USDC transfers, although that has come under scrutiny recently as the stablecoin issuer said it doesn't freeze assets without legal authorization. So, in theory, if everyone stepped in, the entire $70 billion figure likely wouldn't be achieved—but it would still have rocked the industry nonetheless.
What this proof-of-concept testing demonstrated was access to the kinds of authority that sit at the top of cross-chain systems: bridge capabilities, signer capabilities, master-minter roles and protocol accounting state. Researchers said they validated a takeover of a master-minter-style role and demonstrated the use of a legitimate administration path, stopping short of actually minting tokens but showing why such roles belong in the threat model. The dominant vector into the broader surface runs through centralized exchanges, specifically the Aptos bridge pathways that connect onchain activity to exchange deposit crediting.
Response and disclosureThe same day Hexens filed its report, a "SEAL911" emergency warroom was opened to coordinate the response. SEAL911 is a volunteer security group that has become a key first-responder layer across the crypto ecosystem.
The vendor was notified hours after the warroom opened, and four major downstream projects were alerted that afternoon, each receiving local-runnable proof-of-concept material and analysis of relevant authority patterns.
A public pull request reflecting the patch became available on February 27. Aptos stated that a private-validator patch had been deployed before the public commit.
Hexens, meanwhile, says it has not received a technical rebuttal or evidence-based argument disputing the demonstrated impact classes. The firm claims that the main concern relayed back to the researchers involved the probabilistic aspects of the exploit, precisely what the team's calibration work was designed to address.
While no funds were stolen, the simulation showed that in a blockchain-level compromise, rate limits, issuer freezes, bridge controls, exchange monitoring and validator patches are not secondary safeguards. They can become the boundary between a contained bug and a market-wide exploit.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
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Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Aptos Labs has joined more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and BlackRock, in backing the launch of Open USD, a new stablecoin designed to solve persistent cost and access problems in global payments. The @Aptos network is listed alongside other blockchain infrastructure providers as one of the platforms on which the token will eventually be available.
A New Economic Model for Stablecoins Open USD charges no fees to mint or redeem, even at scale, eliminating a cost barrier that has slowed institutional stablecoin adoption for treasury and payments teams operating at high volume. That is a deliberate break from existing products. Revenue from reserve economics is shared with companies that grow adoption, with most revenue generated from reserves returned to participants after a small management fee, inverting the standard issuer-capture approach in which the issuing company retains float income on dollar-backed assets as its primary revenue stream.
The token, ticker OUSD, will be operated by Open Standard, an independent company whose board is composed of the stablecoin's partners. Zach Abrams, co-founder and CEO of Stripe-owned stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, leads Open Standard as its founding CEO.
Broad Industry Coalition and Market Context Payment networks and processors including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, and Adyen are involved, alongside major global banks such as BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, DBS, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Technology companies including Google, Samsung Electronics, IBM, and Shopify have also signed on, as has a broad swath of the crypto industry, including Aptos Labs, Solana, Coinbase, Ripple, Aave, and Fireblocks.
Open USD is planned on four blockchain networks, including Solana, Polygon, Aptos Labs, and Stellar, when it goes live later in 2026. The launch arrives as the broader stablecoin market continues to expand. The total stablecoin market cap has surpassed $300 billion, reflecting growing demand for blockchain-based payment infrastructure from both crypto-native companies and traditional financial institutions.
Circle was the news's clearest casualty, with CRCL stock falling to a four-month low and closing down 17.55% on the day of the announcement. The reaction reflects how directly Open USD's model threatens Circle's core business, which relies on retaining the interest earned on USDC's reserves rather than sharing it with distributors.
Sources:
The Block: Visa, Stripe, Coinbase and more join Open USD stablecoin that shares reserve revenue
Blockhead: Visa, Stripe, BlackRock among 140 firms backing new Open USD stablecoin
CoinLaw: Open Standard Launches Open USD Stablecoin Backed by 140 Companies
Čad podepsal s Xange.com memorandum o spolupráci, které má využít Aptos jako ověřovací vrstvu pro pipeline suverénních klimatických kreditů. Projekt cílí na pipeline ITMOs v hodnotě přes 100 miliard USD.
A Central African nation with a GDP of roughly $12 billion just signed a deal to manage environmental assets potentially worth eight times that figure. The Republic of Chad inked a Memorandum of Understanding with Luxembourg-based Xange.com on June 25, designating the Aptos blockchain as the verification backbone for what could become a $100 billion-plus pipeline of sovereign climate credits.
What the deal actually involves The partnership centers on Xange’s two core products. The first is its digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification system, known as dMRV. The second is its Unified Environmental Market Infrastructure Solutions platform, or UEMIS. Together, they’re designed to track, verify, and manage environmental assets at the sovereign level.
The technical mechanism here involves something called Immutable Metadata Digital Certifications, or IMDCs. These are cryptographically verifiable records hosted on the Aptos blockchain, designed to ensure that mitigation data remains auditable and resistant to manipulation.
Aptos was chosen as the verification layer for a straightforward reason: throughput. The blockchain is built for high-speed transaction processing, which matters when you’re trying to manage potentially millions of individual environmental data points across a country spanning over 1.2 million square kilometers.
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The Decibel Foundation rounds out the partnership by providing on-chain market infrastructure. An earlier collaboration announced on May 6 between Xange, Aptos Labs, and Decibel established the IMDC standard itself, making this Chad MoU the first major sovereign deployment of that framework.
The $100 billion number, in context The projected pipeline of Internationally Transferable Mitigation Outcomes, or ITMOs, is valued at over $100 billion. ITMOs are essentially the currency of Article 6.2. When Country A reduces emissions beyond its own targets, it can sell those surplus reductions to Country B, which can then count them toward its own Paris Agreement commitments.
For perspective, the global voluntary carbon market was valued at roughly $2 billion in recent years. The compliance market is much larger, but sovereign ITMO trading under Article 6.2 is still in its infancy. A $100 billion pipeline is aspirational. It represents the theoretical ceiling, not a guaranteed outcome.
What this means for investors For the Aptos ecosystem specifically, this partnership adds a layer of real-world utility narrative. Being selected as the verification infrastructure for sovereign-level climate assets is a fundamentally different value proposition than hosting another DeFi protocol or NFT marketplace.
This project is still in its initial phases, focused on deploying infrastructure rather than issuing or trading assets. There’s no immediate revenue generation here. No tokens are being minted against Chad’s forests tomorrow.
Several blockchain projects have positioned themselves in the environmental asset space, including Toucan Protocol on Polygon and KlimaDAO. But sovereign-level partnerships are rare. Most blockchain climate projects operate at the project level, verifying individual reforestation plots or clean energy installations.
Sovereign partnerships carry political risk that project-level deals don’t. Chad ranks among the world’s most fragile states by multiple governance indices. A Memorandum of Understanding is not a binding contract, and the path from MoU to functioning infrastructure to actual ITMO trading is long and uncertain.
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Vertalo přidal Aptos do svého Securities Protocolu pro regulované tokenizované cenné papíry vedle Etherea a Tezosu. Emitenti tak mohou nově využít Aptos pro správu cap table a tokenizaci napříč více řetězci.
Vertalo, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has spent the better part of a decade building infrastructure for tokenized securities, has added Aptos to its platform. The Layer-1 blockchain now sits alongside Ethereum and Tezos as a supported chain for Vertalo’s Securities Protocol, which handles cap table management, transfer agency functions, and multi-chain tokenization for issuers and fund managers.
What Vertalo actually does, and why this matters Vertalo has been tackling exactly that problem since its founding in 2017. The company achieved SEC registration as a transfer agent in November 2019, operating under File No. 084-06663. Vertalo is one of the few platforms legally authorized to serve as the official record-keeper of who owns what in a tokenized securities structure.
The platform exposes over 1,000 GraphQL API endpoints, giving issuers and fund managers granular programmatic access to cap table data, investor management tools, and compliance workflows. It has partnered with more than 100 issuers over its lifetime, and its own first use case was tokenizing its own equity back in 2018.
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Adding Aptos to this stack means that issuers using Vertalo can now choose to deploy their tokenized securities on a high-throughput Layer-1 network built with the Move programming language, a language originally developed at Meta that was designed with resource safety and formal verification in mind.
Aptos keeps collecting institutional credibility tZERO announced Aptos as a preferred execution layer for tokenized assets on May 12, 2026. DigiShares made a similar move on April 7, 2026, integrating Aptos into its own tokenization platform.
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, which was approximately $350 million as of late 2025, has exposure to Aptos. Franklin Templeton has similarly shown support for the network.
The RWA tokenization landscape is getting crowded Ethereum still dominates in terms of total tokenized asset value and ecosystem depth. But the fact that multiple regulated platforms are actively adding alternatives tells you something about where the market is heading: multi-chain by necessity, not by ideology.
Vertalo’s approach of supporting multiple chains through a unified Securities Protocol, with consistent cap table management across all of them, is essentially a bet that the future of tokenized securities won’t be a single-chain winner-take-all scenario.
What this means for investors The clustering of integrations from tZERO, DigiShares, and now Vertalo within a compressed timeframe — three major platforms onboarding within roughly six weeks — suggests the network is becoming a default option for compliance-minded builders.
The risk to watch is fragmentation. Multi-chain tokenization can create liquidity silos where the same asset class exists across multiple chains with limited interoperability. Vertalo’s unified cap table approach addresses part of this problem, but cross-chain settlement and secondary market liquidity remain unsolved challenges.
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Aptos Foundation, HashKey MENA a Daya spustily pilot regulovaného B2B stablecoinového platebního koridoru mezi MENA a Afrikou se zúčtováním nativně na vrstvě 1 Aptos. Tokeny ekosystému Aptos po oznámení vzrostly o 5,1 % a tržní kapitalizace sítě dosáhla 4,03 miliardy USD.
Aptos Foundation, HashKey MENA, and Pan-African infrastructure provider Daya launched a pilot program on June 4 to build a regulated B2B stablecoin payment corridor connecting the MENA region with Africa, with settlement happening natively on the Aptos Layer 1 blockchain.
How the corridor actually works HashKey MENA, which operates under the regulatory oversight of Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), anchors the Middle Eastern side of the corridor. On the African end, Daya provides the infrastructure that makes blockchain settlement practical for real-world commerce. Its platform supports fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, including virtual Naira accounts for Nigerian businesses.
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The pilot allows corporations to test compliant settlement solutions. The architecture is designed to address high costs, slow processing times, and chronic liquidity shortfalls.
Why this corridor, why now It’s a B2B corridor with licensed entities on both ends, operating within existing regulatory frameworks. Enterprise adoption of stablecoins has consistently been bottlenecked by compliance concerns rather than technical limitations.
Aptos as the underlying settlement layer is a deliberate choice. The blockchain was built with a focus on throughput and low transaction costs. Its Move programming language, originally developed at Meta’s defunct Diem project, was designed with financial applications in mind from the start.
What this means for investors Aptos ecosystem tokens climbed 5.1% following the announcement, pushing the network’s market capitalization to $4.03 billion. Transaction volumes and concrete adoption metrics have not been disclosed.
The risk calculus is straightforward. Pilot programs fail all the time. Regulatory environments in both MENA and Africa can shift quickly. African regulatory frameworks vary dramatically by country, and scaling beyond Nigeria will require navigating a patchwork of compliance regimes.
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