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Public blockchains have always had an awkward relationship with privacy. Every transfer, balance and pending trade sits in the open, like a bank statement taped to a lamppost.

Aptos is trying to fix that without tearing down the lamppost. The network has rolled out three opt-in confidentiality layers on mainnet, covering who you are, how much you send and what you intend to do before your transaction lands.

The three features are Keyless Accounts, Confidential APT and an Encrypted Mempool. Together they were announced on October 13, 2026, and they mostly reach users through the Petra Wallet and related tools.

Three layers, three different problems
Layer one: identity. Keyless Accounts let people create a wallet using Google or Apple credentials. The point is that users can manage an identity on-chain without that identity being directly tied to their blockchain address.

Layer two: amounts. Confidential APT encrypts balances and transfer amounts using zero-knowledge proofs. Addresses stay visible, so the network can still verify that a transfer happened between two parties.

Layer three: intent. The Encrypted Mempool keeps transaction payloads encrypted until they are finalized into blocks. The goal is to blunt miner extractable value, better known as MEV.

The fine print
Privacy on Aptos does not come free. Encrypted transactions require a minimum gas price that is double the network’s base minimum.

There is also a compatibility gap. Certain account types, including Keyless Accounts, cannot currently sign encrypted transactions.

Every layer is opt-in. Nobody is forced into encryption, and the default experience on Aptos remains transparent.

How Aptos got here
The rollout follows a string of governance proposals. Confidential APT received approval in April 2026 and began drawing real usage afterward.

By mid-August 2026, approximately 15,000 APT had been moved into confidential pools.

Aptos itself launched in 2022. It is built on the Move programming language and uses Block-STM parallel execution, an approach designed to process many transactions at once rather than strictly one after another.

Petra, the wallet doing much of the distribution work here, already bundles a lot under one roof. It supports buying, swapping and sending assets, native APT staking, Ledger hardware wallet connections, Google and Apple social log-ins, and perpetual futures trading inside the wallet.

What this means
The most interesting design choice is what Aptos chose not to hide. Addresses remain visible under Confidential APT, which keeps a trail that auditors and compliance teams can still follow.

The use cases the network is targeting reflect that balance. Private payments and treasury operations are on the list, along with compliance pathways for participants who need them.

The doubled gas floor sets up a simple calculation for active traders. If the cost of being front-run regularly exceeds the extra fee, the encrypted route pays for itself.

The Keyless signing limitation is worth tracking. Until Keyless Accounts can sign encrypted transactions, the network’s friendliest entry point and its strongest trading protection live in separate lanes.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.

THE STREET: Aptos Labs and five blockchain groups ask SEC for clearer crypto rules

As regulatory efforts regarding cryptocurrencies continue in the US, an organization representing six cryptocurrency projects has launched a joint initiative to clarify the legal status of digital commodities.

Accordingly, Chainlink Labs (link), Hedera (HBAR), Aptos Labs (APT), Ava Labs (AVAX), Stellar Foundation (XLM), and Cardano Foundation (ADA) have requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explicitly state in its regulations the approach to treating digital commodities separately from securities.

Organizations want the SEC to add a direct definition of digital commodities to its proposed regulation of crypto assets, thereby reducing legal uncertainty in the sector.

Let the Definition of Digital Commodities Be Included in Binding Regulations!
At the heart of the debate is the SEC’s approach to classifying crypto assets, published in March. Six organizations argue that this approach should be incorporated into formal regulatory provisions, rather than merely being included in explanatory texts. The tokens involved include Chainlink, Hedera, Aptos, Avalanche, Stellar, and Cardano.

In their letter, these six companies and foundations argue that the SEC should incorporate the crypto classification criteria it published in March into official rules to reduce regulatory uncertainty.

The basis of the organizations’ request is, in particular, the view that a crypto asset being the subject of an investment contract should not, in itself, transform that asset into a security. The aim here is to clarify that even if a digital commodity is the subject of an investment contract, the asset itself is not a security.

The group also wants the SEC to clearly state that a new rule will not alter existing cryptocurrency classifications or change the scope of oversight or the boundaries between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

It is not yet clear whether the SEC will accept these requests. Changes to the final regulation could affect the operations of digital asset projects in the US and the regulatory framework of the crypto market.

*This is not investment advice.

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Ripple filed its comment letter on the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, supporting to finalize the proposed crypto rules. It rests on the Howey test, treating the investment contract, not the crypto asset itself as the security, and builds on a prior joint SEC-CFTC harmonization initiative.

Ripple CLO Stuart Alderoty said “We support the proposal, and the SEC has clear authority to adopt it.” He added that previous “case by case, coin by coin” enforcement has pushed crypto innovation offshore. He claimed the industry needs holistic rules for digital assets, and the Regulation Crypto Assets framework is a major move.

The proposal stays faithful to the Howey Test. Ripple CLO clarified the investment contract is a security, not a token. Stuart Alderoty cited that Ripple has spent more than $150 million to get clarity on XRP not a security.

“What matters is what an issuer actually promised and when those promises end, not a subjective decentralization test,” he added. Clear rules grounded in existing law will bring capital, investor protection and innovation to the U.S.

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Cardano, Chainlink, Hedera, Stellar & Others Join Ripple on SEC’s Regulation Crypto Assets
Chainlink partnered with Cardano, Hedera, Stellar, Aptos, and Avalanche in urging the SEC to codify its digital commodity framework. With Ripple seeking to exempt certain crypto assets from full SEC securities registration, the Blockchain Association also urged raising the startup exemption limit from $5 million to $10 million.

“Builders need lasting certainty. Codifying this progress would be a meaningful step toward keeping America the home of digital asset innovation,” said Chainlink head of policy Taylor Barr.

.@chainlink is proud to partner with @hedera, @Aptos, @AvaLabs, and @StellarOrg in urging the SEC to codify its digital commodity framework.

Builders need lasting certainty. Codifying this progress would be a meaningful step toward keeping America the home of digital asset… pic.twitter.com/rAjs9C6vdy

— Taylor Barr (@taylorjbarr) October 20, 2026

Although the official comment period for the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets closed on October 20, the commission will continue accepting public feedback after the deadline, according to journalist Eleanor Terrett.

“While we encourage commenters to submit their feedback by the deadline, the Commission will continue to accept public comments on rule proposals after the comment period closes.”

The new crypto rules would create new fundraising exemptions for crypto issuers raising capital in the U.S., while the CLARITY Act developments remain uncertain ahead of midterm elections.

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Decibel Trade has turned on Aptos’ Encrypted Mempool. Traders on the onchain exchange can now hide the details of their orders while those transactions are still pending.

How the Encrypted Mempool works
Think of a mempool as a public waiting room. Transactions sit there before validators bundle them into a block, and anyone watching can see who is in line and what they plan to do.

That visibility is the problem. Bots scan the waiting room, spot a large buy, and slip their own trades in before and after it. These tactics are called frontrunning and sandwich attacks, and the trader on the receiving end pays for them through worse prices.

The feature went live on Decibel Trade on October 21, 2026. It lets users encrypt their order payloads on their own device, client-side, before the order ever travels to the blockchain.

Not everything is hidden. The sender address and gas fee stay visible. What disappears from view is the substance of the trade: the function being called and the inputs fed into it.

Validators cannot read those specifics until the trade is finalized.

The Aptos plumbing behind it
The capability became possible after Aptos activated governance proposal AIP-144, which was approved around October 12, 2026.

AIP-144 introduced batch threshold encryption to the network. Decryption keys are split across the validator set, so no single party can unlock pending orders early. The design requires no additional trust assumptions beyond the validators Aptos already relies on.

Many existing anti-MEV setups lean on a trusted third party, such as a private relay, to keep orders hidden. Aptos instead builds the protection into its consensus layer.

The system requires no extra hardware or outside trust mechanisms for encryption and decryption, and it keeps onchain verifiability intact.

Encryption usually comes with a speed penalty. Tests indicate this one adds roughly 20–27 ms of latency, about 14% overhead on transaction times. In tests, the system also handled over 1,000 transactions per second with low overhead.

Decibel’s numbers so far
Decibel Trade is an onchain perpetuals and spot exchange incubated by Aptos Labs. It launched on mainnet in February 2026.

Since then it has processed over $8.2 billion in cumulative trading volume as of mid-October 2026. About $1.3 billion of that came in the previous 30 days alone.

The exchange runs on smart contracts written in Move, Aptos’ programming language. That setup lets it operate as a fully onchain central limit order book. Its markets span crypto and commodities.

What this means for traders and Aptos
For active traders, the immediate pitch is protection. Hiding order details until finalization could cut the losses that come from being sandwiched, especially on larger orders that bots love to target.

A 14% overhead is modest on paper. Whether it stays modest during volatile market spikes, when everyone is racing to get orders in at once, is the real test to watch.

The sender address and gas fee remain public, so sophisticated observers may still try to infer intent from patterns. And any new cryptographic system carries implementation risk until it has been battle-tested across many market conditions.

Key metrics to track from here include Decibel’s monthly volume relative to its recent $1.3 billion run rate, how latency behaves under heavier load, and whether other Aptos-based apps adopt the Encrypted Mempool.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.

THE STREET: Aptos cuts APT supply growth by 70% after token overhaul, report finds

Aptos [APT] rebounded by over 13% in 24 hours as the wider market recovered. Altcoins took the lead on this recovery as the total market cap of all cryptos surpassed $2.77 trillion, up by more than 2.21%.

At the time of writing, APT’s daily trading volume was $100 million, primarily driven by the hype around the upgrade of the ecosystem. What are the final details of the update though?

Aptos Labs announces upgrade as network reacts
Aptos Labs announced the upgrade of Block-STM, which has been running in parallel on Aptos since the mainnet. This upgrade was completed on 15th October and was named Block-STM v2, with other chains building on it.

This upgrade has since increased transaction throughput and scalability. In fact, this process was explained by Aptos Labs’ Head of Research Alexander Spiegelman and Near Protocol [NEAR] co-founder Illia Polosukhin.

Source: Aptos/X
As a result, the throughput and network activity responded instantly. For instance, the chain’s TPS hit a peak value of 1,308 while the real-time throughput was 174. This revealed that there was a difference between the theoretical and real values.

Additionally, Daily Active Accounts rose from 46,670 to 49,385, a 5.82% uptick.

As a result, the monthly total of active accounts hit a peak of 710,712, with still 16 days to go before the end of October. New Accounts Created also grew from 4,098 to 4,395.

Source: Aptos Labs Explorer
User transactions also followed suit with a rise of more than 1.335 million in a single day. That is, 9.575 million transactions compared to 10.91 million the following day.

Why are bulls struggling to break resistance level?
However, on the 4-hour chart, APT’s price was rising but facing a huge blockade at $0.8777. Every time the price hit this level, it got rejected and even had a fake breakout five days ago.

At press time, APT was trading above $0.8777, with the same faintly flipping the SuperTrend indicator to bullish. Still, it wasn’t confirmation if the altcoin’s bulls can keep it out of this consolidation.

This may be why the RSI Divergence has been bearish. However, it broke above the neutral level with a reading of 62.41.

Source: APT/USDT on TradingView
Therefore, the sustained APT uptrend could face rejection at $0.9653, a level that triggered a sharp drop to $0.7620. If buyers keep charging, the altcoin may reclaim $1 now that a network upgrade is in place and is boosting activity.

Final Summary

APT rallied by over 13% after Aptos Labs announced a network upgrade to Block-STM v2. 
APT broke above the $0.8777 resistance level, with bulls now targeting $1. 

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The last Aptos team and investor tokens are out

Aptos has quietly put together one of the better months in large-cap crypto. According to The Defiant, the APT token gained 51% over four weeks, a run that left both Bitcoin and Ether trailing.

The rally has a catch. Stablecoin liquidity on the Aptos network has been heading the opposite direction, which raises a fair question about what is actually fueling the move.

The numbers behind the run Price trackers don’t fully agree on the size of the gain. The Defiant puts it at 51%, while other tracking reports show gains of 38.5% to 44% for the four weeks ending October 13, 2026.

Whichever figure you pick, APT beat the two largest crypto assets over the same window. The token traded in a range of roughly $0.82 to $0.85 as of mid-October.

Zoom in to the past seven days and the picture gets less exciting. APT’s weekly return has been nearly flat, which suggests most of the heavy lifting happened earlier in the month.

The less flattering number comes from DefiLlama. The stablecoin market cap it tracks on Aptos fell approximately 17.5% over four weeks, landing at about $910 million.

Stablecoins are the working capital of any blockchain economy. A shrinking pool generally means less dry powder sitting inside the ecosystem, ready to be deployed.

So the token got more expensive while the money sitting on the network got thinner. That divergence is the main tension in this story.

The unlock cliff, now in the rearview mirror The most concrete catalyst landed on October 12, 2026. That date marked the completion of Aptos’s four-year token unlock schedule for early contributors and investors.

With the schedule finished, APT’s monthly emissions dropped by around 60%. Releases fell from approximately 11.3 million tokens per month to roughly 4.5 million.

It also helps explain the timing. A rally into a known supply reduction is a classic pattern, as traders position ahead of the event rather than after it.

A busy stretch for Aptos Labs The unlock was not the only development. Around October 9, 2026, Aptos Labs and the Aptos Foundation announced more than $50 million in commitments aimed at on-chain trading infrastructure and AI-related projects.

On the technical side, Aptos launched an optional encrypted mempool on mainnet on October 12-13, 2026. The feature is designed to protect users from MEV, or maximal extractable value. MEV refers to profits that bots and validators can extract by seeing pending transactions and reordering or front-running them. Encrypting the waiting room means outsiders can’t read your order before it executes.

There is also a proposal on the table for a new execution engine called MonoMove, aimed at improving smart contract performance by up to 55 times. That is a proposal, not a shipped product.

What this means for APT holders and the network The bear case lives in the DefiLlama data. A 17.5% slide in on-chain stablecoins points to liquidity leaving, not arriving. DeFi total value locked on Aptos remains low, which reinforces the concern that price has moved ahead of usage.

The $50 million in commitments toward trading infrastructure looks partly like a response to that exact problem. The encrypted mempool fits the same strategy, since MEV protection is a selling point for active traders choosing where to deploy capital.

The stablecoin figure on DefiLlama is the number to watch. If it stabilizes or recovers while APT holds its gains, the rally has firmer footing. If it keeps falling, the price move starts to look more like a supply-driven trade than a vote of confidence in the ecosystem.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Vivian Nguyen. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.

Aptos has activated an optional encrypted mempool on its mainnet, offering users the ability to conceal a transaction’s details until a block is finalized. This move aims to improve security and protect traders from front-running strategies, a common concern for network participants managing sensitive transactions.

Aptos introduces encrypted mempoolAptos is a Layer 1 blockchain designed to deliver fast transactions and robust scalability through its unique Move programming language. The network’s newly added feature, based on Aptos Improvement Proposal 144 (AIP-144), allows users to hide which functions their transactions call, along with the inputs involved, until final execution. Transaction senders’ addresses and associated fees, however, remain visible.

The encrypted mempool solution was designed by Aptos Labs cryptographer Rex Fernando. It secures transaction information using a key generated collaboratively by network validators. Each round of network operation produces a new key, which then decrypts transactions only when they are ready to be processed in a block.

Aptos implemented a batch processing technique to keep operation costs low. Validators can unlock all sealed transactions within a block through a single, fixed-size step, regardless of the number of transactions. According to AIP-144, this approach is expected to support over 1,000 transactions per second at launch.

Testing of the encrypted mempool with 50 nodes on Aptos’ consensus system showed an average increase of about 20 milliseconds in block time, while keeping total completion well under one second. A research paper titled “TrX,” submitted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), measured a 27-millisecond increase in the time from transaction proposal to execution—representing roughly a 14% delay compared to conventional processing.

Mini dictionary: Mempool — A “memory pool” that temporarily holds transactions on a blockchain network before they are included in a block. Encrypted mempools shield transaction details from public view until execution, reducing the risk of front-running.

Industry response and Ethereum’s approachEthereum has also considered similar solutions to limit maximal extractable value (MEV) exploits, but its proposals remain under review. The Encrypt the Mempool Coalition, spearheaded by Shutter Network with support from Fairblock and Nillion, has promoted EIP-8184, known as LUCID. This design enables users to commit to a transaction and reveal its contents at a later stage. EIP-8184 was drafted in March 2026 by researchers Anders Elowsson, Justin Florentine, and Julian Ma.

Additionally, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin presented the concept of a recursive STARK mempool with EIP-8288, a proposal put forward in September. Both options reflect growing interest across major networks in encrypted transaction solutions, though they have not yet been deployed on Ethereum’s mainnet.

The Petra wallet has become the first to integrate Aptos’ encrypted mempool option directly into its transaction signing process. Decibel, a protocol focused on perpetuals trading, also plans to incorporate the feature. Developers have had access to the encrypted mempool via the TypeScript SDK since version 7.0.0.

APT token unlock and supply changesAptos introduced the encrypted mempool as its four-year token unlock schedule concluded. Since launching its mainnet in October 2022, Aptos distributed tokens to core contributors and early backers under a vesting schedule. On October 12, 2026, this initial insider allocation was completed, leaving no new genesis tokens to vest, the Aptos team confirmed on X.

Aptos has ended its genesis token vesting for insiders, with no further unlocks scheduled for core contributors or early investors. The network now shifts focus to community and foundation pools for ongoing distribution.

Following the vesting milestone, Aptos reduced its monthly release of new APT tokens by approximately 60%, dropping from 11.31 million to 4.54 million. Over the next years, the other 4.54 million tokens each month will be allocated to Community and Foundation pools through 2032.

Staking rewards, currently yielding up to 2.6% annually, have become the primary source of new APT tokens, generating around 19.8 million tokens per year. As of September 30, the circulating supply of APT stood at 871.02 million tokens.

MilestoneAmount (APT)NotesPrevious monthly release11.31 millionBefore unlock schedule endedNew monthly release4.54 millionAfter unlock completionAnnual staking rewards19.8 millionEstimated at 2.6% APYCurrent circulating supply (as of Sep 30)871.02 millionReported figure

Aptos crypto has activated its optional Encrypted Mempool on mainnet, letting compatible wallets and apps conceal pending transaction instructions, assets and amounts until validators finalize transaction ordering. The feature targets maximal extractable value (MEV), including frontrunning and sandwich attacks, but it is not free: encrypted transactions have a minimum gas price twice the network’s base minimum, while sender addresses and gas-fee information remain visible.

When you send a transaction on any major chain today, anyone watching the network can see the details before it executes, the function you’re calling, the assets and amounts involved, and the contracts you’re interacting with.

The network announced the mainnet feature on Monday, October 12, describing it as an option for institutions submitting large transactions, traders seeking to limit MEV exposure, AI agents and builders.

I think we underestimate how much traders lose because transactions are visible before execution.@Aptos finally launched an optional Encrypted Mempool on mainnet.

The idea is simple: transactions stay encrypted until validators finalize their order, making it much harder for… pic.twitter.com/8Mit9Cv8Vo

— Rain (@raintures) October 13, 2026

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How the Encrypted Mempool Works A compatible wallet or app encrypts the transaction contents on the user’s device before submitting it to Aptos. The transaction then waits in the mempool-the queue for transactions awaiting inclusion in a block-while validators agree on its order without seeing its contents.

Once ordering is finalized, validators collectively decrypt the transaction, which is then executed and recorded onchain. No individual validator can decrypt a pending transaction alone. Aptos said the feature is designed to prevent bots from reading pending orders and inserting trades ahead of or around them; in its words, “Bots use that visibility to trade against you or copy your strategy.”

In tests involving 50 nodes, Aptos reported that the process added about 20 milliseconds per block compared with its existing consensus implementation. That is a modest reported delay, but the higher minimum gas price means traders must weigh the added protection against the extra transaction cost.

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Protection Without Full Transaction Anonymity The encrypted payload hides the instructions, assets, amounts and contract interactions while a transaction is pending. It does not hide the sender’s address or gas-fee information, so the feature protects transaction contents rather than making users anonymous.

That distinction matters for anyone assessing what the feature can-and cannot-shield. The design aims to prevent bots from exploiting visible orders through frontrunning or sandwich attacks that profit from price movements around user transactions. Aptos’s reported two-times-base-minimum gas price and roughly 20-millisecond per-block test impact are the concrete costs attached to that protection.

The change is a protocol infrastructure update, in the same broad category as work on validator performance and network design, such as Ethereum’s Glamsterdam test on Sepolia. On Aptos, however, use remains optional and requires a compatible wallet or application.

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Aptos Crypto Joins Existing MEV Defenses mev bots are getting blinded. @Aptos just flipped the script on sandwich attacks with its encrypted mempool.

how it works:
your transaction details (assets, amounts) are encrypted on your device. validators order the block *blindly*, then jointly decrypt it only after the… https://t.co/tgd2YXWxEW

— cryptonow (@manhhuynh2310) October 13, 2026

The launch responds to a recorded trading risk across networks. Ethereum traders experienced sandwich-attack losses of roughly $60 million during the 12 months ending October 2025. Bitquery noted nearly 6.9 million sandwich attacks on Solana over 11 months, affecting about 2.2 million wallets and producing $29.7 million for bots.

Gnosis Chain introduced an encrypted mempool with Shutter in July 2024, whereas Ethereum’s Flashbots Protect directs transactions privately to block builders. Aptos crypto claims its method differs because current validators manage both ordering and decryption, avoiding a separate committee or trusted builders. Users can access this protection by opting in via a compatible wallet or app, and a gas-price floor applies to encrypted submissions.

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Layer-1 blockchain Aptos has launched an optional new feature that could help shield traders from attacks involving maximal extractable value (MEV), including frontrunning and sandwich attacks. 

On Monday, Aptos said its Encrypted Mempool feature is now live on its mainnet, allowing users to opt in to keep pending transactions encrypted until their block ordering is finalized. Aptos said the feature was built for institutions submitting large transactions to the chain, traders wanting to avoid MEV risk, AI agents and builders. 

“When you send a transaction on any major chain today, anyone watching the network can see the details before it executes, the function you’re calling, the assets and amounts involved, and the contracts you’re interacting with,” Aptos said. “Bots use that visibility to trade against you or copy your strategy.”  

Sandwich attacks, one form of MEV attack, cost Ethereum traders about $60 million over the 12 months through October 2025, according to Cointelegraph’s analysis of EigenPhi data. On Solana, sandwich attacks generated $29.7 million for bots over an 11-month period examined by Bitquery, which identified nearly 6.9 million attacks affecting about 2.2 million wallets. 

How Encrypted Mempool works When a user opts in, a compatible wallet or app encrypts the transaction’s contents on their device before sending it to Aptos. Details such as the assets and amounts involved stay hidden, while the sender’s address and gas fee remain visible. 

The encrypted transaction enters the mempool, which is where pending transactions wait to be included in a block. Validators agree on the order of the transactions while being blind to their contents. 

Once the ordering is finalized, validators collectively decrypt the transactions, which are then executed and recorded onchain. No single validator can decrypt a pending transaction on its own. 

Keeping transaction details hidden until their ordering is fixed can prevent bots from reading pending orders and inserting trades ahead or around them to profit at users’ expense. 

The protection comes with added costs and a small delay. Encrypted transactions carry a minimum gas price at twice the network’s base minimum, according to Aptos’ developer documentation. Aptos also said the system adds around 20 milliseconds per block in tests involving 50 nodes, compared to the existing consensus implementation. 

Aptos joins other networks offering protection against harmful MEV. Gnosis Chain launched an encrypted mempool using Shutter in July 2024, while Ethereum’s Flashbots Protect routes transactions privately to block builders. Aptos said its distinction is that its existing validators handle both transaction ordering and decryption, rather than relying on a separate decryption committee or trusted builders.

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Aptos has launched its Encrypted Mempool feature on mainnet, allowing users to hide pending transaction details until validators finalize their order, as its native APT token fell more than 11% over 24 hours.

Summary

Aptos has launched Encrypted Mempool on mainnet, protecting transaction details until validators finalize their ordering process. Users can activate transaction encryption individually, while sender addresses and network fees remain publicly visible throughout. Aptos says the system adds approximately 20 milliseconds of latency in tests involving 50 validators. Encrypted transactions require twice the base minimum gas price, alongside additional charges for decrypting transaction payloads. Bitquery identified 6.9 million Solana sandwich attacks affecting 2.2 million wallets during its investigation period. Aptos confirmed the October 12 launch, saying the optional feature was designed to protect traders from frontrunning, sandwich attacks and other forms of maximal extractable value (MEV). The system encrypts transaction contents before they reach the network, preventing validators and outside observers from viewing the instructions while transactions await ordering. Once a block is finalized, validators collectively decrypt its contents and execute the transactions.

Aptos Encrypted Mempool hides pending trades from bots Through the new feature, users can encrypt transaction instructions before submitting them to the Aptos blockchain. Details such as the assets involved, transaction amounts and smart contract functions remain hidden while validators determine the order in which transactions will execute. The sender’s wallet address and network fee remain visible throughout the process.

Encrypted Mempool is now LIVE on Aptos mainnet.

Users can opt in to keep pending transactions encrypted until their block is finalized, lowering the risk of MEV attacks.

→ Opt-in, one transaction at a time
→ The function called and its inputs stay encrypted until execution
→… pic.twitter.com/LAvDsaijfP

— Aptos (@Aptos) October 12, 2026 Aptos explained that trading bots often monitor pending blockchain transactions to identify profitable opportunities before execution. Some attempt to place trades ahead of large orders, while others execute transactions before and after a user’s trade to profit from the resulting price movement.

In its announcement, Aptos warned that “Bots use that visibility to trade against you or copy your strategy.” The network said Encrypted Mempool was developed for institutional traders handling large transactions, individual users seeking protection against MEV attacks, automated trading agents and blockchain application developers.

The project described the feature as a protocol-native implementation that uses the existing Aptos validator network for both transaction ordering and decryption. Unlike systems relying on external committees or private transaction builders, the new mechanism operates through validators already responsible for securing the blockchain.

Aptos had previously outlined its plans to protect transactions from frontrunning in May 2026, when it described the proposed technology and its intended use in institutional trading. The October launch confirms that the feature has moved from development into mainnet operation.

Encrypted transactions require higher gas fees Under the new system, a compatible wallet encrypts transaction instructions on the user’s device before sending them to the network. Validators then agree on the transaction order without knowing the hidden contents. After block consensus is completed, they combine their decryption shares to reveal and execute the transactions.

Aptos said no individual validator can independently decrypt a pending transaction. Its encryption model requires a stake-weighted validator majority, following the security assumptions used by the blockchain’s existing consensus mechanism. The implementation is described in AIP-144, the network’s technical proposal for encrypted transaction processing.

According to the project’s developer documentation, encrypted transactions must pay a minimum gas price of 200 octas per gas unit, twice the network’s base minimum. Each transaction incurs an extra 375 gas units for decryption, separate from the gas consumed by executing its instructions.

The network reported approximately 20 milliseconds of additional latency per block during tests involving 50 nodes. Aptos said the result was measured against its production AptosBFT consensus implementation, which normally finalizes blocks in less than one second. The encryption system underwent an independent security review by ZKSecurity before launch.

For developers, Aptos has introduced encrypted transaction support through version 7.0.0 and later of its TypeScript software development kit. Existing Move smart contracts do not require modifications to support the feature. Petra is the first wallet to offer encryption directly within its transaction signing process, while Aptos-based perpetual futures exchange Decibel plans to use it for private pending orders.

Aptos targets sandwich attacks that have cost traders millions The launch follows research documenting the financial losses associated with automated transaction manipulation across blockchain networks. In a sandwich attack, a bot identifies an incoming trade, buys the targeted asset before the user’s transaction executes and sells afterward at a higher price.

Blockchain analytics company Bitquery identified approximately 6.9 million sandwich attacks on Solana between October 30, 2025, and October 7, 2026. Its investigation found that 2,545 bot wallets targeted approximately 2.2 million wallets during the 11-month period, extracting $29.7 million before trading costs.

According to Bitquery, roughly 96% of the identified attacks involved memecoins traded through Pump.fun-related markets. The daily number of recorded attacks increased from approximately 3,400 in late 2025 to 51,900 in September 2026. The research covered Solana transactions and did not establish equivalent losses on Aptos.

Other blockchain projects have introduced different approaches to transaction protection. Ethereum’s Flashbots Protect directs transactions through private infrastructure, while Gnosis Chain uses Shutter’s encrypted mempool technology. Aptos said its implementation differs because the existing validator set handles both transaction ordering and decryption.

Alongside Encrypted Mempool, the network offers Keyless Accounts and Confidential APT as separate optional privacy features. The first addresses account access, while Confidential APT conceals eligible transfer amounts. Encrypted Mempool focuses on hiding transaction instructions before execution, with completed transaction information remaining publicly auditable.

Three layers of confidentiality. All live on Aptos mainnet.

• Identity layer: Keyless Accounts
• Amounts layer: Confidential $APT
• Intent layer: Encrypted Mempool

Each one is opt-in, and each one addresses a different part of what's visible onchain. pic.twitter.com/oyDXh4sy6E

— Aptos (@Aptos) October 13, 2026 APT price falls below $0.80 despite mainnet launch Following the launch, APT remained under selling pressure, trading at $0.7995, down 11.5% over 24 hours. According to CoinGecko, the token moved between $0.7974 and $0.9135 during the period, while trading volume stood near $98.91 million. Its market capitalization was approximately $697.14 million at the time of the price check.

The latest decline contrasts with the earlier daily chart reading supplied for APT, which showed a 4.47% gain at $0.8290. Technical indicators from that chart placed the 20-day simple moving average at $0.8166, with Bollinger Band resistance near $0.8970 and the lower band at $0.7361. Those readings describe the earlier chart and should not be treated as updated indicators for the latest price.

Aptos (APT) price chart, source: TradingView Meanwhile, the earlier Relative Strength Index reading of 54.87 suggested moderately positive momentum before the latest decline. The RSI remained below its signal average of 57.25, indicating weaker buying momentum at that observation point. APT’s subsequent move below $0.80 placed the token beneath the earlier 20-day moving average, although a new indicator calculation would be required to confirm its current technical position.

In May, Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs committed more than $50 million toward ecosystem development involving trading infrastructure, AI agents and blockchain research. The initiative includes Decibel and Shelby, with the organizations supporting financial applications and automated systems built on Aptos.

The project said Decibel had exceeded $1 billion in cumulative trading volume during its development, while Shelby was being built for data-heavy applications. Under the newly released Encrypted Mempool system, Aptos confirmed that Decibel will use encrypted transactions to conceal order details until execution, with Petra providing users an option to enable encryption while signing transactions.

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Aptos users can now hide their trades from front-running bots

Aptos wants your AI coding assistant to stop guessing and start reading. The blockchain has rolled out a suite of AI tooling that lets coding assistants learn the Move programming language straight from its documentation, with no manual copy-pasting required.

That matters because Move is a niche language. AI models trained mostly on JavaScript and Python have historically treated it like a foreign film without subtitles.

What Aptos actually shipped The centerpiece is the Aptos Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, detailed on the Aptos documentation site and updated on October 9, 2026.

The server lets AI tools call Aptos APIs and query on-chain data using natural language. A developer can describe what they want in plain English, and the assistant handles the API plumbing.

The server also supports coding and project scaffolding. Installation runs through a single npx command.

According to the documentation, the MCP server works with several of the most widely used AI coding tools:

Claude Code Cursor OpenAI Codex GitHub Copilot LLMs.txt and agent skills The second piece is a set of standardized LLMs.txt feeds. These turn Aptos documentation into machine-readable text that large language models can digest cleanly. The feeds come in two flavors: a full version and a condensed one.

The third piece is Aptos Agent Skills, which were updated as of September 14, 2026. Per the documentation, the skills cover writing secure Move V2 contracts, running rigorous security audits and generating tests with 100% coverage.

Why Move needed the help Move was originally developed for the Diem project at Facebook. When that effort wound down, the language found a second life on Aptos.

The language is built around resource safety and formal verification. Resource safety means digital assets are treated like physical objects: they cannot be accidentally copied or quietly deleted. Formal verification means code can be mathematically checked to confirm it behaves as intended.

This is not Aptos’s first attempt at bridging AI and Move. In 2024, the project partnered with FLock.io to refine how AI models interact with the language. The new tooling builds on that groundwork.

What this means for builders and the ecosystem For developers, the practical change is a shorter on-ramp. Instead of feeding documentation into a chatbot by hand, a builder can point a familiar assistant at Aptos and have it query live chain data, scaffold a project and draft contracts.

Smart contract bugs are expensive and permanent once deployed. Tooling that pushes AI toward secure Move V2 patterns, audits and full test coverage targets the exact failure points that have historically burned crypto projects.

There is a reasonable caveat. AI-generated code is only as good as the review it receives, and an assistant that writes contracts faster can also write mistakes faster. Agent skills focused on audits and testing appear designed to blunt that risk, but they do not replace human scrutiny.

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$291.61 million in token unlocks are scheduled over the next seven days. Aptos has released just 41.18% of its tracked supply. Pump faces a $38.17 million near-term unlock, equivalent to 1.49% of its market cap. Historical post-unlock returns show sharply different outcomes across tokens. Crypto projects are scheduled to unlock approximately $1.139 billion in tokens over the next 30 days, with several concentrated release dates creating potential tests for market liquidity.

DefiLlama data captured on October 11 shows $291.61 million scheduled over the coming week across a universe of 370 tracked protocols.

The aggregate figure provides a measure of upcoming supply, but individual projects face substantially different exposure. Aptos has a relatively small near-term unlock against its market capitalization but a large proportion of supply still restricted. Pump faces a considerably larger immediate release, while Solana has already unlocked nearly 90% of its tracked allocation.

Those differences make project-level analysis more useful than the monthly total.

Pump’s Near-Term Unlock Is Four Times Larger Than Aptos’s Pump (PUMP) has approximately $38.17 million in tokens scheduled to unlock within 24 hours, according to the supplied DefiLlama snapshot.

Against its reported market capitalization of $2.568 billion, the release represents approximately 1.49% of market value.

Aptos (APT) faces a $9.48 million cliff unlock, equivalent to approximately 1.30% of its $730.98 million market capitalization.

The absolute difference is substantial, but the relative market-cap exposure is much closer.

Supply Analysis

Upcoming Token Unlock Exposure

Token / Next 24h
Unlock / Market Cap

PUMP

$38.17M unlock

MCap $2.568B

1.49%

APT

$9.48M unlock

MCap $730.98M

1.30%

SOL

$4.22M unlock

MCap $64.44B

0.0065%

TIA

$248,431 unlock

MCap $577.04M

0.043%

Source: DefiLlama, October 11, 2026. Ratios compare next 24-hour unlock values with reported market capitalizations, not trading liquidity.

Calculations use the prices, market capitalizations and unlock amounts shown in the October 11 DefiLlama screenshots. Ratios are rounded.

The comparison is particularly revealing for Solana. Its scheduled release is worth millions of dollars, but the amount is extremely small relative to its reported market capitalization.

Pump and Aptos present more concentrated near-term supply events.

Market capitalization is not the same as available trading liquidity, however. A token can have a large valuation and relatively shallow order books, making the relationship between unlock size and actual trading volume important.

Aptos Has a Longer-Term Dilution Problem to Monitor Aptos has released 41.18% of its tracked supply, compared with 52.63% for Pump and 89.94% for Solana.

That leaves 58.82% of the tracked Aptos allocation not yet unlocked under DefiLlama’s methodology.

The percentage is significant for long-term valuation because future releases can increase the amount of supply available to trade.

It does not mean all remaining tokens will enter circulation this year, nor does it establish that their recipients will sell.

Aptos also has a scheduled cliff event, which differs from a linear vesting programme. Cliff releases make a specified allocation available at once, while linear vesting distributes tokens over a period.

For APT, the relevant research questions are therefore not limited to the next $9.48 million event. Investors also need to examine the remaining vesting schedule, recipient categories and the frequency of future releases.

The supplied screenshots do not identify the beneficiaries of the upcoming Aptos allocation, so attributing it to insiders, investors or ecosystem incentives would be speculative.

How Much Trading Activity Is Needed to Absorb an Unlock? One useful measure is the ratio between the value of an upcoming release and the token’s average daily spot trading volume.

Unlock-to-volume ratio = Unlock value ÷ Average daily spot trading volume × 100 For example, a $10 million unlock against $100 million in daily spot volume produces a 10% ratio.

The same release against $20 million in daily volume produces a 50% ratio, suggesting a larger potential liquidity challenge.

These are illustrative calculations, not observed trading figures for Aptos or Pump.

The metric also has limitations. Reported volume does not represent guaranteed buy-side liquidity, and a large proportion of trading may be concentrated on a small number of exchanges.

Order-book depth, spreads and exchange inflows provide additional information about whether new supply is reaching the market.

A practical assessment should therefore combine unlock-to-volume exposure with the size of the release relative to market capitalization and the identity of the recipients.

Previous Unlocks Produced Both Gains and Losses Historical performance in the DefiLlama snapshot complicates the assumption that token releases consistently precede price declines.

The platform’s seven-day post-unlock analysis shows:

Historical Performance

Seven-Day Returns After Unlocks

Token
7D Price Change

Solana (SOL)
▲ 80.24%

peaq (PEAQ)
▲ 16.65%

Pump (PUMP)
▲ 11.80%

Celestia (TIA)
▲ 5.55%

Canton (CC)
▼ 4.17%

Aptos (APT)
▼ 6.87%

Source: DefiLlama, October 11, 2026. Historical seven-day returns are not adjusted for broader market movements and do not establish causation.

These returns describe price performance during the periods tracked by DefiLlama. They are not isolated measurements of the unlocks’ effects.

Solana’s particularly large gain, for instance, cannot be attributed to a token release without controlling for broader market movements and project-specific developments.

The data is more useful as evidence of dispersion: the direction and magnitude of post-unlock returns vary considerably.

The Calendar Contains Two Large Supply Clusters The daily unlock chart from TokenomistAI identifies a peak above $100 million in late October and another near $95 million around the beginning of November.

These clusters deserve closer examination because several projects may release tokens within the same period.

An aggregate daily total cannot reveal whether the exposure is concentrated in one large-cap token or distributed among smaller projects.

The next analytical step is to identify which protocols account for those peaks and compare their scheduled releases against spot trading volumes.

The October 11 snapshot establishes the scale and timing of the upcoming supply events. It does not provide sufficient evidence to forecast their price impact.

For the immediate week, Pump and Aptos warrant separate treatment: Pump because of the size of its near-term release, and Aptos because a majority of its tracked supply remains locked.

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The Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs have committed over $50 million to building out the Aptos ecosystem. The money is aimed at a specific bet: onchain markets fit for institutions, and AI agents that trade faster than any human could.

The pledge, announced in May 2026, covers first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, and a dedicated fund for trading and AI partnerships. That is a narrower target than the usual “we’re funding builders” press release.

Where the money is going The commitment splits across four buckets. Aptos will build its own products, fund research, upgrade core protocol infrastructure, and back partners working in trading and AI.

The goal ties those pieces together. Aptos wants institutional-grade markets onchain, plus autonomous AI systems that can carry out complex transactions at machine speed.

Picture a stock exchange where some of the most active traders are software programs. They never sleep, never get bored, and never need a lunch break.

Aptos is already shipping toward that vision. Aptos Labs launched Decibel, an onchain order book exchange for perpetuals and spot trading, on Aptos mainnet in February 2026.

Perpetuals, or “perps,” are futures contracts with no expiry date. Traders can hold a leveraged position indefinitely, which is why they dominate crypto trading activity.

Decibel has since passed $1 billion in cumulative trading volume. Every trade on the platform burns APT, the network’s native token, permanently removing a slice of supply.

That turns exchange activity into a deflationary pressure on the token. More trading means more APT taken out of circulation, a design choice that links product usage directly to tokenomics.

The infrastructure upgrades The other headline product is Shelby, a decentralized hot storage protocol designed for AI agents. Hot storage means data that is kept ready for instant access, rather than archived somewhere slow and cheap.

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AI agents need that kind of storage. An agent that has to wait for its data is an agent that misses the trade.

Aptos also laid out a list of planned infrastructure upgrades. These include encrypted mempools, FIX and CCXT connectivity, and confidential perps trading.

A mempool is the waiting room where transactions sit before they are confirmed. Encrypting it hides pending orders from prying eyes, which can help protect traders from being front-run by bots that spot their moves early.

FIX is the messaging standard traditional financial firms use to talk to trading venues. CCXT is a widely used library that connects trading software to crypto exchanges.

Supporting both means a hedge fund or a quant shop could plug into Aptos using tools it already runs. Institutions rarely rebuild their tech stack to try a new venue, so meeting them where they are matters.

Confidential perps trading follows the same logic. Large traders generally prefer not to broadcast their positions to the entire market.

The numbers behind the bet The announcement landed alongside some healthy network metrics. The stablecoin market cap on Aptos reached an all-time high of $1.93 billion, representing nearly 10x growth since late 2024.

Real-world assets, or RWAs, hit $1.2 billion on the network. RWAs are traditional financial instruments, like funds or credit products, that have been turned into tokens on a blockchain.

The institutional names are notable. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Apollo Global are among the firms deployed on Aptos.

Those are not companies known for experimenting with weekend side projects. Their presence gives Aptos a credible pitch when it talks about institutional-grade markets.

Aptos launched in 2022. Since then, the Aptos Foundation has committed over $150 million in grants to support builders in the ecosystem.

The new $50 million-plus commitment reads differently from that earlier grant activity. Broad grant programs spray funding across many teams, while this round points capital at specific protocol-level priorities and a defined thesis.

Plenty of Layer 1 blockchains have tried the grant-heavy approach to bootstrap activity. Results tend to vary, and a focused bet on trading and AI is a clearer statement of what Aptos wants to be known for.

What this means for Aptos and its users For APT holders, the most direct mechanism is Decibel’s burn. If the exchange keeps growing, trading volume becomes an ongoing source of supply reduction, though the actual effect depends on how much activity the venue sustains.

For institutions, the pitch is about plumbing. FIX and CCXT connectivity, encrypted mempools, and confidential trading address practical objections big firms raise about trading onchain, namely compatibility, front-running, and privacy.

The stablecoin and RWA figures matter here too. Stablecoins are the settlement cash of onchain markets, and $1.93 billion gives traders and agents a meaningful pool of liquidity to work with.

The AI angle is the more speculative part of the story. Autonomous agents executing trades at machine speed is a compelling idea, but it requires infrastructure like Shelby to work reliably at scale before it becomes a real source of volume.

Competition is the other factor to watch. Aptos is far from the only chain courting institutional traders and AI developers, and differentiation will come down to execution rather than funding announcements.

The things worth tracking from here are concrete. Watch whether Decibel’s volume keeps climbing past its $1 billion mark, whether encrypted mempools and confidential perps actually ship, and whether more asset managers follow BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Apollo Global onto the network.

Money committed is a starting point. The real test for Aptos is whether the products it funds attract the traders, human and otherwise, it is clearly designing for.

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Aptos Foundation, APT token ekonomisini değiştirmek için yedi maddelik plan açıkladı. Plan, 210 milyon APT’nin kalıcı olarak kilitlenmesini, staking ödül oranının %5,19’dan %2,6’ya düşürülmesini ve işlem ücretlerinin 10 kat artırılmasını içeriyor.

Vakıf ayrıca APT için 2,1 milyar tokenlık arz tavanı öneriyor. Amaç, yeni token arzını azaltırken ağ faaliyetlerinden kaynaklanan yakımları artırmak. Ancak bazı değişiklikler henüz yönetişim onayı bekliyor.

Aptos APT Arzını Neden Değiştirmek İstiyor? Aptos’ta yaklaşık 1,196 milyar APT dolaşımda bulunuyor. Vakıf, ağın ilk dönemindeki büyümeyi destekleyen emisyon modelini değiştirerek token dağıtımını ağ performansına bağlamak istiyor.

Yatırımcılar ve çekirdek katkıda bulunanlar için dört yıllık kilit açılım döngüsü Ekim 2026’da sona eriyor. Vakıf, bunun yıllıklandırılmış token kilit açılımlarını yaklaşık %60 azaltacağını öngörüyor. Hibe dağıtımlarının da 2026’dan 2027’ye geçerken yıllık bazda %50’den fazla düşmesi bekleniyor.

APT Staking Ödülleri ve İşlem Ücretleri Ne Olacak? Aptos Foundation, yıllık staking ödül oranını %5,19’dan %2,6’ya indirmeyi ve ağdaki gas ücretlerini başlangıçta 10 kat artırmayı yönetişim sürecine taşımayı planlıyor. Ayrıca daha uzun staking taahhütlerine daha yüksek ödül oranları verilmesini değerlendiriyor.

Aptos’ta işlem ücretleri APT ile ödeniyor ve kalıcı olarak yakılıyor. Ücret artışı, işlem faaliyetiyle birlikte yakılan token miktarını yükseltebilir. Vakıf, 10 kat artıştan sonra bile stablecoin transfer ücretinin yaklaşık 0,00014 dolar seviyesinde kalacağını öngörüyor.

210 Milyon APT Neden Kilitlenecek? Vakıf, 210 milyon APT’yi kalıcı olarak kilitleyip stake edeceğini açıkladı. Bu miktar, mevcut dolaşımdaki arzın yaklaşık %18’ine karşılık geliyor. Tokenlar satılmayacak veya dağıtılmayacak; ağın güvenliğini desteklemek için stake edilecek.

Ayrıca vakıf, APT için 2,1 milyar tokenlık kesin arz tavanı getirilmesini öneriyor. Mevcut dolaşımdaki miktara göre bu sınıra ulaşmadan önce yaklaşık 904 milyon APT’lik alan bulunuyor. Öneri kabul edilirse bu tavanın üzerinde yeni token üretilemeyecek.

Decibel Yılda 32 Milyon APT Yakabilir mi? Aptos üzerinde geliştirilen merkeziyetsiz borsa Decibel, token yakımının artırılmasında önemli rol oynayabilir. Platformdaki emir verme, eşleştirme ve iptal işlemleri doğrudan zincirde gerçekleşiyor ve gas ücreti tüketiyor.

Vakıf, Decibel’in gelecek yıl 100’den fazla piyasaya ulaşması halinde yılda 32 milyon APT’den fazla yakabileceğini öngörüyor. Bu rakam gerçekleşmiş sonuç değil, belirli büyüme varsayımlarına dayanan bir tahmin.

Planın diğer maddeleri arasında gelecekteki hibeleri ölçülebilir performans hedeflerine bağlamak ve vakfın gelirleriyle finanse edilebilecek programatik bir APT geri alım mekanizmasını değerlendirmek de bulunuyor.

APT Arzı Deflasyonist Hale Gelecek mi? Aptos Foundation, yakılan APT miktarının yeni dolaşıma giren tokenları aşmasını hedefliyor. Staking ödüllerinin düşürülmesi, daha yüksek işlem ücretleri, Decibel’in faaliyetleri, kalıcı kilit ve performansa bağlı dağıtımlar bu hedefi desteklemek üzere tasarlandı.

Ancak APT arzının ne zaman deflasyonist hale geleceği henüz belli değil. Sonuç, yönetişim önerilerinin kabul edilmesine ve ağ kullanımının büyümesine bağlı olacak. Yatırımcılar için önemli göstergeler, resmi oylamalar ile Decibel’in gerçekleşen işlem hacmi ve token yakım verileri olacak.

Bu içerik genel piyasa verilerine dayanır ve yatırım tavsiyesi değildir. Kendi araştırmanızı yapmanızı öneririz.

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Shelby, the decentralized storage platform built by Aptos Labs with Jump, has moved into private beta. It is now handling real customer workloads.

Shelby entered private beta in October 2026. That came after its testnet shut down on August 3, 2026.

Three early enterprise customers are on board. Each one stresses the system in a different way.

Teepin represents the enterprise AI side. AI pipelines read huge amounts of data repeatedly, so storage speed directly shapes how fast models train and serve.

Pictor Network works on distributed 3D rendering. Rendering jobs split heavy scene files across many machines, then reassemble the results.

PathPulse focuses on spatial intelligence. That generally means working with location and mapping data, which tends to be large and constantly updated.

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Shelby is pitched as a verifiable global object storage system tuned for AI workloads. It targets sub-second read performance.

Shelby is S3-compatible. S3 is the storage interface popularized by Amazon Web Services, and many developer tools already expect it.

The blockchain part sits underneath. Aptos smart contracts coordinate the network and verify data integrity.

Every write produces a sequenced cryptographic record on-chain.

Shelby also uses erasure coding. This technique splits data into fragments with added redundancy, so files can be rebuilt even if some pieces disappear.

The design also aims to cut the number of data copies made during computation.

Shelby is specifically going after “hot” storage. That means data needing frequent, fast access, as opposed to cold archives that sit untouched for months.

Aptos Labs first announced Shelby in mid-2025. The testnet phase focused heavily on AI and distributed computing use cases.

Core performance during that period held up well. Testers came away confident that the underlying system worked.

Feedback flagged a need for better developer tooling and stronger API compatibility.

So the team chose to polish the developer experience and operational compatibility rather than keep expanding network capabilities.

Aptos is trying to compete on cloud-like performance while adding something conventional clouds do not offer by default: on-chain proof of data provenance.

For the APT token, the link is indirect but real. APT is used for transaction fees and coordination within the Shelby framework.

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Aptos, a Layer-1 blockchain network, will conclude its four-year vesting schedule for core contributors and early backers on October 12, reducing its scheduled monthly APT token releases by approximately 60%.

End of early backer and contributor vestingThe final tranche for both core contributors and early backers was distributed on September 12, 2026. According to the Aptos Foundation, this coincides with the fourth anniversary of its mainnet launch in October 2022, marking the official end of the vesting cycle.

At network genesis, Aptos allocated 190 million APT to core contributors and 134.78 million APT to early backers, representing a combined 324.78 million tokens, or 32.48% of the initial 1 billion APT supply. These allocations were subject to a 12-month lockup, followed by monthly vesting over the next 36 months.

Each month, 11.31 million APT were released, of which 6.77 million went to core contributors and early backers. With the vesting program ending, only 4.54 million APT per month will be distributed, directed to the Community and Aptos Foundation pools until 2032. These pools each disburse 1/120 of their remaining tokens monthly.

The transition reduces annual token releases from approximately 135.7 million APT to 54.5 million. The Aptos Foundation confirmed this 60% reduction in an earlier tokenomics update, forecasting that its grant distributions will fall by more than half from 2026 to 2027.

Currently, 331.69 million APT remain locked in the Community and Foundation vesting pools. As of September 30, Aptos’ circulating supply stood at 871.02 million APT, while the overall supply reached nearly 1.2 billion APT.

Staking rewards and supply dynamicsStaking is now the main source of new APT tokens entering circulation. The network’s annual staking reward rate has dropped from 5.19% to 2.6%, resulting in approximately 19.8 million new APT minted per year. Around 763 million APT, or 63% of the total supply, is currently staked with network validators. Unstaking tokens requires a waiting period of up to 14 days.

All transaction fees on Aptos are burned to reduce supply pressure. From its launch until mid-September 2026, the network burned approximately 1.9 million APT through transaction fee destruction.

A recent overhaul led to a tenfold increase in gas fees, while stablecoin transfers on Aptos remain low-cost at roughly $0.00014 per transfer.

A hard cap of 2.1 billion APT governs the network’s tokenomics. This cap was established after Proposal #183 passed onchain, with 335.2 million APT voting in support and about 1,500 in opposition.

MetricPre-October 2026Post-October 2026Monthly APT release11.31 million4.54 millionAnnual APT release135.7 million54.5 millionStaking reward rate5.19%2.6%At launch, Aptos minted 1 billion APT, and staking has since produced another 196 million tokens. With the hard cap in place, approximately 904 million APT can still be introduced into the ecosystem.

The Aptos Foundation announced that it will lock and stake 210 million APT on a permanent basis. This stake, comprising roughly 37% of the Foundation’s mainnet holdings, will not be sold or distributed. Instead, rewards from the stake will fund ongoing Foundation operations.

Institutional adoption and real-world assetsAptos currently hosts around $723 million in real-world assets. Major financial institutions, including Franklin Templeton and BlackRock, have launched tokenized fund products on the network. In January, Bitnomial rolled out the first regulated APT futures contracts in the United States.

Aptos is a Layer-1 blockchain focused on high-throughput and low-latency transactions, developed by former Meta engineers.

Mini dictionary: Bitnomial, a Chicago-based exchange, specializes in regulated crypto derivatives, offering futures and options contracts for assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and now Aptos (APT).

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