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, before the testnet was ready, the number of full nodes connected to the devnet reached 18,000.
The reasons for the active participation of various parties in Aptos can be summarized as follows:Avery Ching The development team comes from Diem, the cryptocurrency project of Meta (formerly Facebook), co-founder and CTO of AptosAlden Hu、Dahlia MalkhiHe has worked as a chief software engineer at Facebook for more than 10 years, and was the technical director of the Novi team, an encryption platform under the original Meta, focusing on the development of various aspects of blockchain technology, while also maintaining the Diem blockchain. in the development team
Most of the developers and researchers involved in the development of Diem and Novi.
The development of Aptos builds in part on technology developed publicly in Diem over the past three years, using Diem's programming language Move (which can beclick hereclick here
AIT3: Governance and Escalation
AIT1: Decentralized startup
AIT2: Staking
AIT3: Governance and Escalation
AIT4: Dynamic validator topology
AIT4: Dynamic validator topology
It is currently in the second round of testing. Although there are still a few months before Aptos expects to launch the Aptos mainnet at the end of September, there are many companies and projects participating in the chain. When the Aptos team raised funds in March, it stated that a number of companies including Anchorage, Binance, Coinbase, Livepeer, Moonclave, Paxos, Paymagic, Rarible, and Streaming Fast have cooperated with it to provide feedback and contribute code on devnet. Aptos has also partnered with Google Cloud to further decentralize the Aptos network.Aptos held an Aptos hackathon, and launched an ecological funding plan at the end of June to develop the ecology. According to Aptos, there are more than 100 projects in the Aptos ecology on the Internetimage description
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Pontem Network
Pontem Networkis a product development studio that works with Aptos to build foundational dApps and other infrastructure such as dev tools, EVM, AMM, and more. Pontem aims to help developers who want to build projects on Aptos learn the Move programming language and incubate applications native to Move. At the same time, it is also building backend and customer-oriented products for the Aptos ecosystem. The Move VM developed by Pontem can achieve cross-chain Interoperable, compatible with blockchains such as Polkadot and Cosmos. Additionally, Pontem is developing an automated market maker DEX on Aptos, modeled on Uniswap and CurveLiquidswap。
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Econia
EconiaScreenshot of Liquidswap page
Fewcha Wallet
Fewcha WalletA key technological innovation of the Aptos blockchain, the so-called optimistic concurrent execution method, known as Block-STM, queues up orders in a single market, so-called paraqueues. In short, Amy's order on pair 1 can be queued at the same time as Bud's order on pair 1, and Econia's matching engine will periodically batch all transactions in all paraqueues, and then reorder and connect the buyers in chronological order. Home and seller, channel funds accordingly.
Martian Wallet
Martian WalletIt is a non-custodial Web3.0 wallet on the Aptos blockchain, and its functions include supporting token listing and trading, as well as NFT minting and transfer. Fewcha Wallet released a beta version of the plug-in wallet in May this year. The plug-in wallet is available for download in the Chrome store and will be available on mobile devices in the third quarter of 2022. According to Fewcha's Twitter, the number of downloads of Fewcha Wallet reached 3,200 as of July 8. The picture below is the development roadmap of Fewcha Wallet.It is also a wallet on the Aptos chain, and its development team Martian DAO builds various products on the Aptos chain. Martian Wallet is a crypto wallet the team built using their version of the Aptos web3.js module, and is also building an NFT marketplace called Curiosity. Martian Wallet can be used to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications on the Aptos blockchain, and also supportsMinting NFTs
Zaptos Finance
Zaptos Finance, currently launched a plug-in wallet on Chrome, and will launch an ios version later.It is a liquid staking platform on the Aptos chain. The project is currently in a very early stage, and there is not much official information.twitter hint
Discord is going to be set up.
Other ecological projects
ProtagonistIn addition to the above 5 projects under development originally on the Aptos chain, there are some tools and teams listed by Aptos as members of the ecosystem:Launched by Dylan Macalinao and Ian Macalinao, founders of Saber Labs, a cross-chain decentralized exchange for Solana$100 million crypto fund
Paymagic. Headquartered in Miami, Protagonist plans to invest in and incubate early-stage Web3 protocols and startups across verticals, including gaming, infrastructure, security, and privacy. Its current investment portfolio includes Layer 1 public chain Aptos, Solana-based NFT utility protocol Cardinal, and Digital banking platform Cogni et al.
Solrise Financeis an automated DAO rewards and payments platform that provides tools for sending bulk transfers, airdrops, vesting schedules, streaming payments, and more. Paymagic is not native to Aptos, but its tools will help Aptos-based DAO and NFT projects, among others.SolflareSolrise Finance is a non-custodial digital asset management platform based on Solana. The product line developed by its team includes Solana WalletPulse DEXand KYC framework on Solana
Nutrios. Previously, the team's development focused on the Solana ecology, and the content built on the Aptos chain has not yet been disclosed.
It also appeared in the Aptos article and was listed as an ecological project, but there is currently no official information on it.
Aptos Early projects in the Aptos forumIn contrast, there are 7 projects that have submitted project descriptions, and these projects are currently in the earlier stage of development or have not joined Aptos for a long time. Although there are currently only 7 projects, the number of projects in this forum will continue to grow:
Aptosscan: Blockchain explorer by Aptos.
Topaz.so: Blockchain explorer by Aptos.
Dapptos View: The Aptos NFT marketplace, currently in beta, is expected to launch in the third quarter of 2022.
Aptos Crown Masks: An open source platform aimed at building the Aptos ecosystem with education, news, job opportunities, metrics, and project dashboards. The team consists of four founders who are also coordinators of the Aptos French community. The first version has been delivered, and the platform will be updated in the third quarter, integrating the education part and the indicator part, and performing open source migration on Github.
ONTO Wallet: It is a decentralized cross-chain wallet, hatched by Ontology 4 years ago, and now it is an independent wallet, a multi-chain mobile + network wallet, ONTO helped the community start a project called Ivy Market , has also developed a batch airdrop tool called Anydrop.
Aptoschina: Aptos blockchain Chinese community, plans to launch Aptos Chinese Blockchain Explorer and Aptos cross-border payment project in the near future.
Aptos Egg with Witch: It is an NFT project. It plans to launch 5,616 NFTs 10 days after the launch of the Aptos mainnet. After the NFTs are sold out, new magical creatures will be created through the destruction system.
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Aptos has not yet been officially launched. At present, among its ecological applications, there are only 4 detailed introductions and development roadmaps: Pontem Network, Econia, Fewcha Wallet, and Martian Wallet, focusing on wallet infrastructure and DEX applications.Aptos previously participated in the NFT.NYC conference, and at itsblog post
