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Aptos is a Layer-1 blockchain using the Move programming language, built for high-throughput payments, DeFi, and tokenized assets.
Aptos has made Block-STM v2 the default parallel execution engine on its Layer-1, with no change required from users or developers. The only throughput figures on record come from 2022 tests of version 1, so v2's gains stay a target until someone measures them on live traffic.
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Aptos switched on an optional encrypted mempool on October 12 that hides transaction contents until a block is finalized, Cryptopolitan reported. Ethereum's two comparable proposals are still drafts.
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Aptos made its opt-in encrypted mempool live on mainnet at twice the base minimum gas price and about 20 ms of added latency per block. The premium falls on every encrypted transaction, so opting in turns on how likely a trader is to be sandwiched.
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Aptos shipped an MCP server, LLMs.txt feeds and agent skills so AI coding assistants can read Move documentation directly, cryptobriefing.com reported. The only quality control it describes is a set of skills for audits and tests.
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Aptos ends its four-year insider vesting on Oct. 12, cutting scheduled monthly APT releases about 60%, from 11.31 million tokens to 4.54 million. Every scheduled token from then goes to the Community and Foundation pools, so Foundation grant spending now sets most of the pace at which new APT reaches the market.
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Unit 42 says supply-chain attackers have moved command-and-control into blockchain smart contracts, so one transaction can re-point an entire botnet or worm. Defenders' useful choke points are now developer machines, CI runners and the chain lookup itself.
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Aptos says MonoMove, its rebuilt Move virtual machine, runs smart contracts up to 55 times faster on replayed DecibelTrade trades. Measured end to end the gain is 3x to 8x, and it reaches mainnet in 2027 only if governance approves.
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The x402 protocol has processed more than 100 million payments since May 2025, over 99% of them in USDC, and Aptos has now pointed it at io.net GPU rentals with $50 million of foundation money behind the agent stack.
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Chainalysis says writes of malware instructions to public blockchains have climbed from about 2.06 a day to 11.1 since July 2025, with groups tied to North Korea and Iran behind most of the increase. Its research lead could not confirm AI models helped.
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Chainalysis logged a 420% rise in onchain malware writes for its 2026 crime report, and says suspected Iranian operators ran their update channel through a permanent public Bitcoin address nobody can take offline.
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The attacker needed no trading capital, only signing authority: at the posted price, less than half a token of nominal collateral backed a 4.94 million VUSD mint. Three of the four halted networks show no confirmed loss at all.
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