The Aptos team is made up of a highly-accomplished team of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders—all committed to delivering universal and equitable access to decentralization that is capable of scaling for billions of people.

Much of the Aptos team is credited with developing the technical innovations that power the Aptos blockchain—including the original creators of the Move language, Move Prover, the BlockSTM parallel execution engine, and Narwhal and Bullshark consensus mechanisms.

Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs, which was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal in 2018. The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a class action lawsuit was filed against the platform.

Solana's total market cap was US$55 billion in January 2022, however by the end of 2022 this had fallen to around US$3 billion following the bankruptcy of FTX. Following the general rise of the cryptocurrency market in 2023, its market cap rose to $7 billion.