Overview
- Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs committed over $50 million to products, research, protocol infrastructure and a strategic fund focused on trading and AI.
- Decibel, an onchain order-book for perpetual futures on Aptos, is live and reports more than $1 billion in total volume, with each trade burning some APT.
- Aptos said the network’s stablecoin supply peaked near $1.93 billion and real‑world assets reached $1.2 billion with managers such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Apollo; third‑party data shows the stablecoin total near $1.66 billion now.
- Planned upgrades include an encrypted mempool to hide pending orders from bots, connectivity for FIX and CCXT to plug in trading desks, multi‑leader consensus to avoid a single block producer, and confidential perpetuals with private matching.
- The team spotlighted Shelby, a hot storage system for AI agents onchain, framing trading as the first agent task to scale and data exchange as the next.