TLDR
- The Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs have committed more than $50 million across the group.
- Decibel is live on the Aptos mainnet with a cumulative volume of over $1 billion.
- The market cap of stablecoins on Aptos has reached $1.93 billion, according to Aptos.
- RWAs on Aptos reach $1.2 billion with major asset managers deployed.
- Aptos is planning crypto mempool, FIX, CCXT and crypto trading systems.
The Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs announced a commitment of more than $50 million for commerce, AI, research and infrastructure. The plan comes as Decibel, the onchain order book on the Aptos mainnet, has surpassed $1 billion in cumulative volume. Aptos said the funding will support first-party products, protocol businesses, and commerce and AI partners across its network.
Aptos targets commerce and the growth of artificial intelligence
Aptos said the new commitment will cover several parts of its ecosystem. These include first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, a strategic fund for commercial partners, and artificial intelligence. This announcement places the market structure and machine speed business at the heart of Aptos’ growth plan.
network He said The demand for blockchains that can support enterprise-level implementation is increasing. He also pointed out autonomous systems that react faster than human users. Aptos said its infrastructure is designed to accommodate large transaction volumes before these use cases reach broader demand. Decibel is one of the main products in this plan.
The Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs announced a commitment of more than $50 million across first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, and a strategic fund for commerce and AI partners. Aptos said Decibel is on the mainnet with a cumulative volume of more than $1 billion. Stable coin…
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It runs on the Aptos mainnet and handles requests, matching, and cancellations directly on-chain. Decibel has now surpassed $1 billion in cumulative trading volume, Aptos said. The network also said that every DB trade burns APT. This means that trading activity on the platform removes some APT from trading. Aptos offers this as a link between network usage and token supply.
Stablecoins and RWAs Expand at Aptos
Aptos said the market value of stablecoins on the network reached $1.93 billion. It also said real world assets, or RWAs, had reached $1.2 billion. Asset managers appointed by Aptos include BlackRock, Franklin Templeton And Apollo International. The network said these deployments show that institutional capital is already active in Aptos.
It also said that the market capitalization of stablecoins has increased nearly tenfold since late 2024. These numbers were shared as part of Aptos’ case for its market-focused strategy. Aptos also pointed to its technical base.
The network cited sub-second finality, parallel execution, and low transaction fees. She also noted that the blockchain uses Move, a programming language designed to mitigate some of the risks of common smart contracts. Post-quantum signatures already exist on the network, Aptos said. These follow NIST standards and do not require a hard fork, she said. Aptos also stated that APT has been classified as a digital commodity by SEC and CFTC staff.
New protocol upgrades planned
Aptos listed planned upgrades for market users and developers, including cryptographic memory pool, FIX and CCXT connectivity, multi-leader consensus and secret perpetual trading. The tools aim to reduce barriers for professional traders. The encrypted memory pool will lock transactions from submission to prevent termination, preventing validators, bots, and researchers from seeing the contents early and helping reduce foreground running and MEV.
FIX and CCXT support will help businesses connect Places based on Aptos. FIX is widely used by banks and trading companies. CCXT is used by many cryptocurrency traders to communicate with exchanges and trading systems. Aptos is also planning a multi-leader consensus. She said the relevant research has been peer-reviewed and accepted into the ACM CCS. The network said that the design aims to reduce reliance on a single leader in producing blocks.
Trusted Perpetual trading is planned on Aptos, with secret order types, secret amounts and special matching. It is expected that access will require an APT contract. The token will remain essential for gas, collection, burning and access fees. Aptos said APT will support network utilization, performance features and supply mechanisms, while the $50 million commitment aims to expand the portfolio.
