Stories by Aptos Labs on Medium
Overview Based on feedback from Move developers, we added several new language features in the new default version 2.4 that aim at better ergonomics and expressivity: Explicit error messages in aborts instead of opaque abort codes, Public and package visibility for structs, enums, and constants, Extended capabilities for match expressions. We describe these new language features in more detail…
Key takeaways from our conversation with Archax CEO Graham Rodford Archax has integrated with Aptos to bring its extensive portfolio of tokenized securities onchain — starting with the MembersCap Tokenized Global Reinsurance Income Fund. In a wide-ranging discussion, Archax CEO Graham Rodford and Aptos Labs’ Head of Structured Finance Ryan Zega unpacked what this means for the future of real-world…
Shelby, verifiable global object storage for AI built on Aptos, opens Early Access. Shelby, verifiable global object storage for AI built on Aptos, opens Early Access. For years, AI and blockchain developed on separate tracks. Different communities, different conferences, different problems. AI chased compute, data, and model performance. Blockchain built coordination primitives, programmable…
TL;DR: The Aptos global trading engine works best if the markets are maximally fast, fair, and efficient. A new paper from Aptos Labs researchers Zhuolun Xiang, Andrei Tonkikh and Alexander Spiegelman breaks new ground with Prefix Consensus, the first leaderless consensus primitive with formalized anti-censorship and fairness guarantees. Today’s centralized markets still reward proximity: those…
New whitepaper and e-HKD+ pilot results show the technology is ready for institutional scale. For much of the past decade, digital money and tokenized assets have been discussed in the future tense — powerful possibilities, but unproven at institutional scale. That era is ending. At Aptos Labs, we believe the next generation of financial infrastructure must be open, programmable, and secure, while…
Testing Move smart contracts on Aptos has always been tricky, as there were no easy ways to simulate transaction-based workflows with isolation and repeatability, let alone fork real network state for realistic testing. Until now. Today, we’re releasing Forklift , a Move smart contract testing and scripting framework for Aptos. Written in TypeScript, it provides a unified interface: the Harness…
TL;DR: Eager Loading (previous) required gas metering for all transitive dependencies of a Move smart contract before deployment or execution. This is overly restrictive for the real-world DeFi protocols. Lazy Loading (new) meters and loads modules on first use during execution; it meters only the package and immediate package dependencies during deployment. Lazy Loading makes it unlikely to hit…
This article was originally published on X (Twitter) on December 31, 2025 and has been updated for Medium. 2025 was a breakout year for Aptos, and Aptos Labs kept our foot firmly on the gas pedal to accelerate the network. Across protocol research, developer tooling, market infrastructure, and real-world adoption, Aptos Labs delivered a compounding set of upgrades that moved Aptos decisively…
TL;DR 2025 was the year of the engine tune-up. Velociraptr and Baby Raptr tightened blocktimes and stability under load. Zaptos reduced time-to-settlement; Block-STM v2 increases parallel execution headroom. ACTs and encrypted mempools reduce state and intent leakage, setting the network up for an endgame 2026 stack (Archon, Event-Driven Transactions, Namespaces, etc.) Modern financial markets are…
Move in 2025: Building a Modern Smart Contract Language In 2025, Move continued to push the bar for being the most expressive, performant, and safe smart contract language. The value of Move was always easy to perceive at the language surface: you could represent assets and on-chain state directly, and the language enforced safety rails around how the assets can be created, moved, and destroyed.…