Aptos, the newly launched blockchain built by the team that worked on Facebook's axed Diem cryptocurrency, has issued a $50,000 grant to a Lorenzo Alvisi, a Cornell University computer science professor who specializes in blockchain and Web3 technology, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. The grant will be used to fund research in developing an approach to scale the performance of blockchains by building a secure, decentralized log on top of a Byzantine-tolerant database. ...