2/ 📅 MAY 29: Tune in for an Aptos Twitter Space LIVE from #Consensus2024, with friends from @AptosLabs, @mirage_protocol, and more. We invite all builders to this open forum. Expect education like #AptosMoveMonday and vibes from devs like YOU 🛠️ x.com/Aptos/status/1…
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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.
Chainlink 🤝 Aptos The Aptos Foundation joins the @chainlink SCALE program to expand access to mission-critical tools and industry-leading data for next-gen dApps on Aptos. Aptos leads the pack as the first Move-based network that will be integrating with Chainlink. By bridging
Elliptic integrated Aptos to provide the entire ecosystem with crypto compliance solutions.
Aptos 🤝 Elliptic Bringing an added layer of trust to the entire Aptos ecosystem via @elliptic’s leading crypto compliance solutions to enable: 💻Transaction screening 👀Web3 transparency 🔐Enhanced security Dig into Aptos’ on-chain data capabilities 👇 elliptic.co/media-center/e…
TruFin is bringing institutional-grade DeFi to Aptos via its TruStake product.
🙌 @TruFinProtocol has launched TruStake on Aptos! Stake APT, contribute to Aptos network security, and earn rewards with TruStake’s secure, institutional-grade DeFi solution. Plus, Liquidswap @PontemNetwork, @superp_fi, @AriesMarkets have joined TruFin for a seamless experience
Hashkey Cloud teamed up with the Aptos Foundation to progress infra and dApp development on Aptos.
We've teamed up with @HashKeyCloud to progress infra and dApp development on Aptos. Ensuring inclusion, security, and interoperability is the Aptos Advantage. Learn more 👇
🎉HashKey Cloud is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with the Aptos Foundation. 🤝This partnership is focused on technical advancement and unites the expertise of two highly reputable organizations with notable institutional backgrounds and innovative collaborations,
Cripco and Aptos Labs partnered—enabling Aptos users to effortlessly access, own and monetize intellectual property.
We've partnered with @cripco_official to launch WARP3, a cutting-edge platform that seamlessly bridges Web2 and Web3 for IP aggregation, curation, and payments – to empower users to effortlessly access, own, and monetize intellectual property. Learn more 👇 🧵
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.
📜 Recapping a record-breaking weekend for Aptos, driven by the cute felines @taposcat: → ~325M transactions over 4 days → Sustained 2,000+ TPS for >24 hours, peaking at ~5,000 TPS → Gas costs averaged 0.000001 APT Here's the story of the "tickles" heard around the world 🧵
That's escalated too quickly on @Aptos 😼 The campaign is officially ended! 🤟 Tapos cat is fully and wholeheartedly loved - Thank you each and every ticklers with all our 💕 💕💕 Ps: We will update you on the next step of the game, stay safe and follow what's next here
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.
"It's an Aptos Thing," created by the @AptosMonkeys Team, is now live on Mercato. This FREE mint of 1 million NFTs is a historic moment, showcasing the speed and capacity of @Aptos. Join in by minting yours today: mercato.xyz/aptos/collecti…
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.
1/ Aptos is setting a new standard as the first blockchain to achieve sub-second end-to-end (E2E) latency 💥 Thanks to a series of performance and latency improvements by the Aptos Labs team, Aptos is the fastest blockchain on the market with truly instant transactions.
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.
Calling all NYC art lovers, technologists, and friends looking to vibe next Monday night ✨ @AptosLabs is hosting a meet up: an exclusive look at their private gallery of phygital artworks celebrating Web3 culture on Aptos and beyond! Free with RSVP: lu.ma/aptosartnight
Aptos is taking over the NYC art scene – starting with Aptos Art Night, the opening party for our private, permanent collection of 15 phygital pieces redefining the intersection of tech and culture. 📅 Monday, May 13 📍Aptos Labs HQ, NYC 🎟️ RSVP Required lu.ma/aptosartnight
Aptos’ annual community meetup landed in the Grand Cayman Islands for networking with the Aptos community.
Today’s the day! 🌐🏝️ Just a few hours until #AptosWorldTour stops in Grand Cayman for our annual community meet up. Are you ready to Move? RSVP 👇 lu.ma/GCmeetup2024
Aptos headed to Austin, Texas for Consensus 2024 with ecosystem activations and meetups hosted by Movement Labs, KYD Labs and more.
Tap into Aptos at #Consensus2024! Wether you're in Austin or tuning in from around the world, join us for a week of Aptos alpha and insights you don't want to miss. 🔖 Save this thread and save the date for all things Aptos at @consensus2024 ⤵️🧵