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May Wrapped: Aptos Highlights 2024

We’re nearly halfway through the year and the Aptos ecosystem shows no signs of slowing down. From technical achievements and community-led events and initiatives, May proved to be a record-breaking month for Aptos.

But don’t take our word for it. Check out recent reports from OurNetwork and Messari which validate the growth of the Aptos ecosystem and highlight technical first such as Aptos’ sub-second latency. 

The Big Story: Aptos Experience Heats Up

Registration is officially open for The Aptos Experience—our inaugural conference in Seoul this September. Confirmed speakers include visionaries and companies shaping the future of tech: Arthur Hayes, Jacquelyn Melinek, Meltem Demirors, Santiago R. Santos, NBCUniversal, Hashed, Condé Nast, Google Cloud, SK Telecom...and many more.

Tickets are intentionally limited to ensure a unique experience for attendees. Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing.

More Aptos Ecosystem Spotlights

Aptos MoveMondays made its grand return at Consensus 2024, in which members of the Aptos ecosystem came together for a jam-packed week of events, networking, speaking and so much more. Relive the event by tuning in to the Aptos MoveMondays Space recording in case you missed it!

Chainlink integrated Aptos, bringing its Data Feeds and Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to the network.

Elliptic integrated Aptos to provide the entire ecosystem with crypto compliance solutions.

TruFin is bringing institutional-grade DeFi to Aptos via its TruStake product. 

Hashkey Cloud teamed up with the Aptos Foundation to progress infra and dApp development on Aptos.

Cripco and Aptos Labs partnered—enabling Aptos users to effortlessly access, own and monetize intellectual property.

Technical Innovations

Aptos broke an L1 Industry record for most daily transactions—with 325M transactions recorded over a four-day period thanks to clicker game Tapos.

Led by Aptos Monkeys, Wapal, Mercato and Kana Labs, 26,000 unique minters participated in the community-led “It’s An Aptos Thing” event in which 1 million NFTs were minted on Aptos via its Aggregators functionality.

Aptos Labs released a series of performance and latency improvements that led to Aptos becoming the first blockchain to achieve sub-second, end-to-end latency for all transaction types.

Foundation Grantees

A number of projects received grants from the Aptos Foundation this month to build new use cases spanning DeFi, NFTs and education on Aptos–including Joule Finance, Bitskwela, LoveAI, Uptos and Zonatres

May Events

Aptos took over the NYC Art scene with Aptos Art Night—which brought together art lovers, technologists and friends for an exclusive look at a phygital artworks gallery celebrating Web3 culture on Aptos.

Aptos’ annual community meetup landed in the Grand Cayman Islands for networking with the Aptos community.

Aptos headed to Austin, Texas for Consensus 2024 with ecosystem activations and meetups hosted by Movement Labs, KYD Labs and more.

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