1. What is Aptos?Aptos, based in Palo Alto, California, is a public blockchain that aims to solve reliability, scalability, and usability issues that have plagued existing Layer 1s, whilst possessing security features lacking in EVM-based blockchains. Aptos uses Move, a Rust-based programming language created for Diem, a now abandoned blockchain project by Meta. The Aptos network can achieve over 130k transactions per second thanks to its parallel execution engine (Block-STM). This high throu...