Aren’t scalability and cheap gas the name of the game? Literally, games like Tapos can only be built on aptos because it can handle thousands of TPS easily with 0.000… too many zeros to count. Aptos is THE place for next gen completely on chain games!
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5 More Reasons Why Builders Choose Aptos
Delivering the best performance, highest throughput and lowest latency to support its ecosystem, Aptos remains the blockchain-of-choice for builders and users alike. Replying to @CryptoTon618 
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And Aptos’ adoption speaks for itself. The latest Electric Capital Developer Report found the number of Aptos developers grew 96%—making it the second-fastest growing developer ecosystem among Layer-1 blockchains. Aptos was also cited among the top 5 ecosystems for new developers, with nearly 2,000 active devs. Here’s why.
1. Unrivaled Speed and Security
Builders on Aptos have continued highlighting the network’s speed and security.
Ramkumar Subramaniam, CEO and co-founder at Jump.trade says: "We've always been focused on scalability and security in the interest of our community, and Aptos has both these superpowers—in addition to being incredibly swift. This is why Aptos was chosen as the chain to augment our super-engaging metaverse cricket game."
Likewise, Thetis Market says, “Choosing Aptos wasn’t just a decision—it was a commitment to speed, security, and scalability.” Thetis cites Aptos’ advantages like its native parallel execution engine for ensuring lightning-fast transactions and Move Prover for keeping user assets protected.
These innate advantages of Aptos helped the network to achieve an industry record for daily transactions across any Layer-1 blockchain—with 325M transactions recorded over a four-day period thanks to the clicker game Tapos.
2. Modular Architecture That Scales
Thanks to Aptos’ parallel execution engine Block-STM, innovative AptosBFT consensus mechanism and Raptr, Aptos’ fully paralleled and pipelined architecture is able to provide sub-second latency with high throughput. Alex Kahn, CEO and co-founder of Econia, summarized the advantages of Aptos’ architecture best:
More whiteboards More math More parallelism More collaboration More research @Aptos has it all BlockSTM and web-scale consensus on Shoal with AptosBFT is why built Econia how we did, and why we couldn't build it anywhere else Keep it coming, @AptosLabs
Fun with @ilblackdragon and @SashaSpiegelman with an overview of the Aptos fully paralleled and pipelined architecture and deep dives into Shoal’s DAG and Block-STM. An hour goes fast! We will have to save secure on-chain randomness, keyless/passkeys, aggregators, storage…
Beyond its record-breaking performance, Aptos architecture is highly scalable—supporting DeFi projects built on top of the network (or those joining it) in growing quickly while delivering an excellent user experience. Kana Labs, a DeFi suite that has generated an impressive $4B in total volume on Aptos, highlights the importance of scalability and consistent user activity when it comes to scaling its product suite.
but at the same time, being able to scale to the levels that our products would ultimately need, capable of handling millions of TXs a day without a glitch in a secure, robust and transparent manner with a bright future and a strong vision and for us, @Aptos ticked all the boxes.
Vishwas Bhushan, co-founder at LYNC, echoed, “LYNC isn’t just bullish on Aptos—we’re religiously dedicated to it because of its scalability.”
3. Evolving Ecosystem
In 2024, Aptos set new user acquisition records, solidifying its technical capabilities and ability support massive growth. The Aptos ecosystem expanded to over 330 projects, while monthly active users surged to over 13 million—up from 10 million at the end of 2024.
Avery Ching, CEO and co-founder of Aptos Labs, attributes this growth to the thriving ecosystem on Aptos:
With major DeFi and traditional finance players joining Aptos, so too do their user bases. This growing network empowers DeFi builders and accelerates the creation of tools, like Shinami’s—which enable Aptos developers to build better user experiences with reduced overhead.
As the ConsenSys for Move, our goal has been to power new and better consumer experiences on top of next gen blockchain infrastructure. Our Gas Station, Wallet Service and now Node Service give @Aptos builders a one-stop shop to build faster, with better UX.
To give @Aptos builders the best DevEx, we now have a thicc Node Service free tier for GraphQL and REST API reads/writes to the chain!
4. A Powerful Developer Language
Move, the programming language at the core of Aptos, offers a critical advantage for builders. And builders are about to see a huge upgrade with Move 2—an extension that offers new features and a major upgrade of the MoveVM to enhance cross-chain compatibility with ecosystems like Ethereum and Bitcoin.
Key advantages of Move include its security-first design, scalability and promise of mitigating vulnerabilities like double‑spending.
MoveSpiders also praises the simplicity of Move when creating an app on Aptos:
Why should you choose @Aptos as the place to start building your first product? Because everything has been simplified with #Aptos #Move while still ensuring security and compactness! Don't believe it? Check out this video! Shout out to @jeremyvn1489 for an interesting and…
5. Unique Features
Aptos is the only blockchain that offers features like aggregators for parallel execution, privacy solutions and Aptos’ Fungible and Digital Asset standards.
Another unique feature is secure and instant On-Chain Randomness that ensures fairness and unpredictability for applications like gaming, retail sweepstakes and more.
This feature, paired with unprecedentedly low gas fees on Aptos, helps NFT projects Amaterasu provide users with a gamified experience without having to spend hundreds of dollars on their favorite Japanese animation or artwork.
The On-Chain Randomness and extremely low gas fees on @Aptos really changes the game for Hybrid Projects. Don't believe it? Here are the gas fees from multiple ecosystems over the last month: Ethereum = 0.6 USD Sui = 0.00494 USD Aptos = 0.000974 USD Compared to already…