Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs have pledged $50 million to enhance the Aptos blockchain, focusing on institutional trading systems and autonomous AI workloads. The funding supports in-house products like Decibel and Shelby, protocol upgrades including encrypted mempools, and research on zero-knowledge circuits for privacy. Aptos recently hit a record low median block time of 28 milliseconds, highlighting its high-speed capabilities. A governance vote on encrypted mempool adoption is underway, aiming to improve transaction privacy until execution.
Sui Network experienced a 60% surge in daily transactions, processing 4.38 million in 24 hours with a fast 79 ms block time. Its market cap stands at $4.11 billion, over five times Aptos' $757 million, while Sui's DeFi total value locked (TVL) is $2....
Aptos has introduced an encrypted mempool feature that encrypts transactions until block confirmation, preventing validators and front-runners from seeing transaction details early. This native protocol-level solution uses batched threshold encryptio...
