Aptos APT
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Aptos launched in October 2022, built by engineers who had previously worked on Diem, the blockchain project Meta announced as Libra and eventually abandoned under regulatory pressure. It inherits that project's most durable output: Move, a programming language designed specifically so that digital assets cannot be accidentally duplicated or destroyed by ordinary coding mistakes.
Its performance approach is to execute transactions in parallel rather than one at a time, detecting conflicts and re-running only the transactions that actually touched the same data. Combined with Move's safety properties, the pitch is throughput without the classes of bug that have cost other ecosystems heavily.
The criticism at launch was about distribution rather than technology. A large share of the supply went to investors and the core team on multi-year vesting schedules, the details were published late, and the resulting unlocks have been a persistent overhang on the price. It also competes directly with Sui, built by a different group from the same Diem team using the same language — two well-funded chains with similar architecture pursuing the same developers, which is a difficult position for both.
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