Aptos is a recently launched proof-of-stake (“PoS”) blockchain that aims to solve the scalability and safety issues that are prevalent in the current L1 space. Aptos’ whitepaper communicates that the blockchain has been “designed with scalability, safety, reliability, and upgradeability as key principles”(1), and this is certainly in line with what Binance Research has found. Aptos’ vision is to bring blockchain to the masses and to facilitate this, Aptos Labs wants to build an architecture that supports frequent and fast adoption of the latest technology and moves in line with innovation at the dApp level.

The Aptos blockchain consists of a modular architecture that is flexible and supportive of frequent upgrades; a key design feature of the chain made in order to ensure rapid adoption of the latest technology, as well as real-time, high-quality support of emerging blockchain use cases. In terms of the actual processing, the Aptos chain is made up of a set of validators that jointly process transactions using a byzantine fault-tolerant (“BFT”), PoS consensus mechanism. As with other PoS blockchains, Aptos token holders can stake their tokens with their selected validator(s), with each validator’s consensus voting weight being proportional to the amount staked with them. It also implements a system of rapid validator rotation, determined by stake-weight, in order to optimize performance and help push for the organic decentralization of Aptos. In practice, this means that validators should be in a state of flux, rather than operating in a slow and static manner, as has been characteristic of other chains.

Having gone through four ‘Aptos incentivized testnets’ (“AITs”), where they thoroughly tested the network and got developers up to grips with the chain, Aptos very recently launched their mainnet.

Aptos is a recently launched proof-of-stake (“PoS”) blockchain that aims to solve the scalability and safety issues that are prevalent in the current L1 space. Aptos’ whitepaper communicates that the blockchain has been “designed with scalability, safety, reliability, and upgradeability as key principles”(1), and this is certainly in line with what Binance Research has found. Aptos’ vision is to bring blockchain to the masses and to facilitate this, Aptos Labs wants to build an architecture that supports frequent and fast adoption of the latest technology and moves in line with innovation at the dApp level.

The Aptos blockchain consists of a modular architecture that is flexible and supportive of frequent upgrades; a key design feature of the chain made in order to ensure rapid adoption of the latest technology, as well as real-time, high-quality support of emerging blockchain use cases. In terms of the actual processing, the Aptos chain is made up of a set of validators that jointly process transactions using a byzantine fault-tolerant (“BFT”), PoS consensus mechanism. As with other PoS blockchains, Aptos token holders can stake their tokens with their selected validator(s), with each validator’s consensus voting weight being proportional to the amount staked with them. It also implements a system of rapid validator rotation, determined by stake-weight, in order to optimize performance and help push for the organic decentralization of Aptos. In practice, this means that validators should be in a state of flux, rather than operating in a slow and static manner, as has been characteristic of other chains.

Having gone through four ‘Aptos incentivized testnets’ (“AITs”), where they thoroughly tested the network and got developers up to grips with the chain, Aptos very recently launched their mainnet.