The first decentralized, verifiable front running protection is now live in @DecibelTrade! Trading infrastructure has a choice: collect MEV from users or protect users from MEV. @Aptos chooses the later.

The accelerating quantum advancement and cryptography research with AI means the following: 1) Longer-term, software is going to be highly secure and nearly unbreakable. Code will be written by specifications that can be formally verified. 2) Short-to-mid term, weaker software and math will break. 3) Crypto agility (e.g., the ability to rotate to quantum-safe cryptography easily) is necessary for serious financial infrastructure. 4) Decentralized infrastructure must be fast reacting to new and unexpected threats. A payments and/or trading network being offline for days is unacceptable.

Contrarian opinion: While the current fear of AI ending the world is top of mind for everyone, I think a more near-term problem is the scapegoating AI agents for human failures. The headlines will come:  * Drone attack kills friendlies -> AI targeting failed * Bad options trade costs firm billions -> AI made the wrong analysis * Surgery goes wrong -> AI misidentified a tumor * Company pays $50M to a fake vendor -> AI systems approved it Humans are experts at avoiding accountability. And AI is imperfect in achieving its goals or even following them.  True accountability requires a tamper-resistant, verifiable record of the chain of events. The legal system does this through a lengthy discovery process from a blurry timeline, but agents and human interactions are all digital and can be inexpensively captured in real time with high precision. AI capabilities and cost effectiveness are moving faster than any technology we have ever seen. New systems like JEV and rapid advancements in retaining model quality with dramatically less hardware are accelerating this challenge faster than our defenses. Humans are responsible for their intentions and the authority they delegate. Agents implement and execute those intentions. And there is a gray area of human/AI interaction: when to involve a human, when a human has given permissions (e.g. one-shot or blanket), and how to retrace these interactions whether the outcomes are terrific or terrible. What did the human ask for and approve? What authority did the agent have? What information did it receive? What actions did it take? When was a human involved? Where did human language leave ambiguity that should have been clarified? And can any of that history be altered after the fact? Immutable ledgering, powerful auditing tools, and deeply integrated human/AI interaction are necessary for humanity to achieve its full potential. @Aptos @shelbyserves @DecibelTrade are all being built for this imminent reality.

Your transaction. Encrypted from submission to finality. No frontrunning. No orderflow leakage. No performance hit. Encrypted Mempool on Aptos, the full stack for markets and machines.

$50M+ committed by Aptos Foundation and @AptosLabs. 28ms block times. Move Prover leveling up with AI-assisted verification. Encrypted Mempool pending governance vote. The Full Stack for Markets and Machines. Catch up via @TokenRelations 👇

Confidential APT. $2B+ perp volume on @DecibelTrade. @shelbyserves connecting AI to the compute economy. Quantum-ready infrastructure. @AptosLabs' @AveryChing with @TheBlockCo's @gazza_jenks at Consensus Miami 2026 on all things Aptos, the full stack for markets and machines.

Time for crypto utility for asset exchange to drive the discussion rather than crypto assets themselves. Onchain assets rather than onchain copies of assets will force security to the top priority. Thanks @gazza_jenks for the convo.

Today’s vote to advance the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor is a turning point for US market structure and a blueprint for the world. Last June, I testified before the House Agriculture Committee on the urgent need for clear market structure. I was honored to have that perspective included in the committee's official CLARITY Act report. Builder input should help define this framework and there's still work ahead to get the details right. Post 10/10, it’s clear that resilience isn't enough. We need a defined environment that can support institutional and mass consumer scale. Just as AI has redefined productivity in our everyday lives, blockchain must do the same for how we exchange and trade assets. CLARITY and ensuing DeFi regulation will eventually be key catalysts for major financial adoption of blockchain technology for the masses.

$APT is the connective tissue of the Aptos stack—tying access, throughput, and supply mechanics across every layer serving markets and machines. 2.1B hard cap. Staking rewards halved. Gas 10x'd—100% burned. Track supply, burns & emissions in real time:

KRW1, the world's first KRW-pegged stablecoin, is coming to Aptos. @BDACSKorea is deploying KRW1 on Aptos—its first non-EVM chain—putting the won on rails built for markets and machines: payments, remittances, and RWA tokenization at full-stack performance.

Aptos is prime real estate for institutional tokenization infrastructure to build from. @tZERO is integrating its regulated tokenization platform—giving issuers a new path to launch RWA tokens on Aptos’ high-performance rails.