Aptos Turkey community! 🇹🇷 Get ready for our first Istanbul meetup hosted by Aptos Turkiye - Saturday, May 11, 2024 🌐

Connect with the local blockchain community, and learn how easy it is to build and access funding opportunities on Aptos with Max Unger, Head of Community at the Aptos Foundation.

Plus, grab exclusive Aptos merch and a commemorative Galxe OAT for celebrating with us!

Spots are limited. Register now to secure your spot 👇
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✨ The rise of DeFi on Move? It's an Aptos thing! ✨

🌐 From product launches to new partnerships, DeFi activity and contributions to the Aptos ecosystem continue to heat up 🔥

📊 In fact, Messari showcases the State of Aptos in Q1 in its latest report ICYMI:
🔵 DEX Volume up 512%
🔵 DeFi TVL up 376%

Find out more ⤵️
https://twitter.com/Aptos/status/1791602253750767689?t=4qZUPzNPtEsr-7Nw-Nn5MQ&s=19

✨TruFin has launched TruStake on Aptos! ✨

🌐 Stake APT, contribute to Aptos network security, and earn rewards with TruStake’s secure, institutional-grade DeFi solution. Plus, Liquidswap Pontem Network, Superposition Finance, Aries Markets have joined TruFin for a seamless experience on Day One!

Welcome TruFin to the Aptos community🌐💙

Kick off Consensus 2024 with an Aptos ecosystem Twitter Space—LIVE from Austin!

🌐 Inspired by Aptos Move Monday, we’ll dive into EDU and insights with devs who use Move to build Web3’s most innovative dapps.

⏰ When: Today at 3PM UTC

Aptos Labs + Mirage protocol are in 💪 Join us! ⤵️
https://x.com/Aptos/status/1795512923089236185

✨WE ARE SO BACK! Aptos Move Monday returned to Aptos today (on a Wednesday!) in a special event LIVE from Consensus 2024. ✨

🤝 Thank you everyone who tuned in and to all the ecosystem projects that shared alpha and insights with us. Shout out to Mirage Protocol, Tapos, Kade, The Aptos Collective, Aptos Labs, and more!

📥 SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS: We invite the Aptos community to share their feedback on the official Aptos Twitter Space. Whether you tuned in live or listened to the recording, your thoughts are valuable as we continue to iterate the content each week.

🎧 ICYMI, catch the recording: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpKkwzymgwKj/peek

Please share your feedback in the Typeform here: https://aptos.typeform.com/XSpaceFeedback

Thanks again for celebrating Aptos culture and technology with us! LET'S MOVE 🌐

✨ Chainlink 🤝 Aptos ✨

🌐 We’re proud to see Aptos lead the pack as the first Move-based network integrated with Chain Link. By bridging EVM and non-EVM worlds, Aptos builders are empowered to ship Web3’s best products and welcome the next wave of users.

🔎 A retrospective of 'It's An Aptos Thing' 1 Million NFT Mint

🧑‍💻Using the latest Aggregator tech, an entire collection of 1 million NFTs were minted in ~4 hours on Aptos—setting new records across the ecosystem.

🌐 This tremendous achievement was a collaborative effort from ecosystem leaders Aptos Monkeys, Kana Labs, TradePort, and Wapal

In the peak hour, the network handled 630K mints :eyes:

Let's Break Down the Significance of the Event ⤵️
https://x.com/Aptos/status/1796317391280099806

✨ A glimpse into Aptos’ weekly activity via Token Relations ✨

✅ Nearly 250M txns
✅ 555.6K active users
✅ TVL nears $400M

🌐 The DeFi ecosystem on Aptos is supported by its unrivaled performance, 99.99% uptime and reduced latency.

For more on this week's DeFi wins 🧵👇
https://x.com/Aptos/status/1796582068711034934?t=feMzooh_5PzydhKvRl6ITw&s=19

📜 Recapping a record-breaking weekend for Aptos, driven by the cute felines Tapos:

➡️ ~325M transactions over 4 days
➡️ Sustained 2,000+ TPS for >24 hours, peaking at ~5,000 TPS
➡️ Gas costs averaged 0.000001 APT

🎮 Tapos is a viral clicker game that launched on Mainnet on May 23.

🐾 The premise was simple: 🐈 The more you "tickled' a cat, the more $HEARTS you earned — with speed boosts & other rewards with 1 tickle = 1 txn

In 48 hours, Tapos registered ~325M txns, with > 63K wallets 🤝

Here's the story of the "tickles" heard around the world 🧵
https://x.com/Aptos/status/1796964935509184628?t=3Wa11fnwpNAUlZVqICahGg&s=19

Solidity ➡️ Move: Starter Guide for Developers 🌐

👨‍💻 Developer activity is steadily rising on Aptos. More Move modules being deployed every week, along with a growing number of inbound bridges from other ecosystems.

Some builder FAQs:
❓What advantages does Move have over Rust/Solidity?
❓Where do I start and what kind of a learning curve should I expect?

For developers with experience building on Ethereum, understanding the difference in data storage and ownership is key:

1️⃣ Account structures: Each Aptos account contains both smart contracts & resources (data structures), compared to the delineation between EoAs and contract accounts on Ethereum
2️⃣ Storage: Move programs read from and write to tree-shaped global storage — compared to Merkle-Patricia Trie on Ethereum
3️⃣ Token standards and balance storage: Every token is a typed 'Coin' or 'FungibleAsset' with a single contract — with balances stored as a resource in the user's account.

This means:
✅ Low latency
✅ Predictable
✅ Secure
✅ Better parallel execution

Read the full guide from Aptos Labs' Aptos Learn series @everyone
https://learn.aptoslabs.com/example/ethereum-to-aptos-guide

Aptos Network Weekly Snapshot: May 26-Jun 2 🌐

💡 Metrics show a sustained surge in user activity on the network
👥 The daily count of addresses with signed transactions over the last 30 days increased 11% WoW
🖥 At the same, the number of daily active addresses rose 8%.
📈 On average, ~59,000 new accounts were created daily last week — remaining steady week-over-week.

Source: Network Analytics on Aptos Explorer
https://explorer.aptoslabs.com/analytics?network=mainnet

NFTs are booming on Aptos 💪

✅ Speed
✅ Throughput
✅ Security

Plus: Technologies like Aggregators enable use-cases not possible on any other network.

A quick overview:
There are a total of 3.4K collections on the network, generating 1.8M in total sales and onboarding ~630K traders.

🗓️ In the past 30 days, 564 collections have been minted — with 12K users participating in 100K sales.

Find out what the activity metrics show 🧵
https://x.com/Aptos/status/1798059646059696486?t=hYAJRJEvAHUsV2JA8JdyNg&s=19

Solana ➡️ Aptos: Developer Guide to Getting Started

🌐 Aptos and Solana are both high-performance, low-fee blockchains with similarities in account concepts and design decisions. While many elements of Move will be quite intuitive for a Rust user, the developer experience can be quite different. Let's dive into it!

📜 A Quick Overview:
1️⃣ Rust vs Move: Compared to Rust, Move is specifically designed for smart contracts. This means a smoother, less choppy experience.
2️⃣ Optimistic vs Pessimistic parallelism: Unlike Solana, Aptos does not require developers to explicitly declare all the accounts that will be written to. The runtime will automatically detect the accounts that are written to on the fly.
3️⃣ Manual state rent abstraction: On Solana, developers are required to actively manage and calculate the necessary balance for state rent exemption. Aptos abstracts this away.

Developers can enjoy the Move on Aptos Advantage:
✅ Code like a single-threaded program and execute with full parallelism
✅ Just write the business logic. APT for state rent will be automatically included as part of the transaction fee

Want to make your Move? Get started with Episode 1 in the 3-part Guide to Aptos for Solana Developers on Aptos Learn ⤵️
https://learn.aptoslabs.com/example/solana-to-aptos