Aptos Founder Engineer Discusses the Technical Vision of Global Trading Engines

In the context of increasingly fierce competition among public chains, Aptos is steadily moving towards its strategic positioning as a "global trading engine" through technological innovation and ecosystem expansion. Since breaking through a total locked value of $1 billion for the first time last November, Aptos reached $1.03 billion by the end of March. Additionally, the market value of stablecoins also first exceeded $1 billion on March 24, growing more than tenfold year-on-year, demonstrating strong ecological appeal and capital carrying capacity.

Aptos has not only achieved continuous iterations on the technical level but has also made multiple breakthroughs in ecological construction: a well-known DeFi protocol has completed its first non-EVM environment testnet deployment, significantly enhancing DeFi activity. To meet the rapidly growing trading demands, the Aptos team continues to promote performance optimization solutions, accelerating the construction of a foundational architecture that supports millions of TPS, thereby strengthening its core advantages in performance, stability, and user experience.

Build a High-Performance Public Chain

Sherry Xiao, an early founding engineer of Aptos, previously worked as an engineer at Instagram, focusing on scalability architecture. Later, she joined the blockchain project team of a social media giant, responsible for validator nodes and infrastructure development, helping several well-known institutions deploy validator nodes. When the project faced policy obstacles, the entire team ventured out together in 2022 to establish Aptos.

As an engineer, Sherry believes that the greatest advantage of the Move language compared to other smart contract languages is that it was designed specifically for smart contracts from the beginning, with many guarantees in asset management and security, and it provides formal verification tools. Move can effectively avoid many common security vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of financial loss. In addition, Move offers innovative features such as dynamic dispatch, account abstraction, and permissioned signatures, allowing developers to build more advanced products.

On top of the technical infrastructure, Sherry believes that there is still significant room for improvement in the developer experience and user experience of Web3. Aptos is deeply engaged in ZK-based login solutions and innovations in privacy protection. They recently launched a project in their open-source code repository that can hide transaction details, allowing users to know only the parties involved in the transaction, but not the specific amounts and balances.

In terms of scalability, Aptos has unique advantages. The team has rich experience in building highly scalable systems, and Aptos's design is very modular, with each module having its own expansion space. At the consensus level, the recently released Raptr is an industry-advanced consensus algorithm implementation; at the execution level, Block-STM technology is also industry-leading; in terms of storage, sharding technology has been implemented, and further research on sharding technology and related caching layers will continue in the future.

Ecological Layout: Stablecoins, Trading, and DeFi

The Aptos blockchain data is performing well, with the number of accounts surpassing 47 million and weekly transaction volume exceeding 39 million. This progress mainly stems from several aspects: infrastructure development, collaboration with institutions to launch RWA projects, ecological funds incentivizing community building, and the LFM program supporting ecological project development.

In terms of compliant development in Hong Kong, Aptos is the only participating L1 blockchain platform in the e-HKD project, maintaining close communication with banks and government departments in Hong Kong. They also have many innovative collaborations with Hong Kong Cyberport and have established a co-creation space called Aptos Space in Hong Kong.

In the current market environment, Aptos focuses on supporting trading-related sectors, paying attention to the expansion of payment and stablecoin application scenarios, as well as the DeFi sector. They are also focusing on the integration of gaming and DeFi, as well as the application scenarios of AI agents in trading.

Global Trading Engine Vision

Aptos is focusing on innovations in the user experience layer, including:

• Keyless: A zk-based technology that allows users to log in directly using mainstream social accounts.
• Account abstraction and permission signature features: enabling DeFi developers to better control user authentication and onboarding processes.
• New features of Move language: added dynamic scripts and dynamic distribution functions to help DeFi or trading applications achieve functional innovation.

These technical points together form Aptos's vision: to build a global trading engine and invite developers to create innovative applications using this infrastructure.

Developer Ecosystem Construction and Cooperation with Universities

Although AI has become a popular direction, Aptos believes that each application scenario has its own developer base. As long as developers can see market prospects, demands, and opportunities, they can be attracted to continue their efforts in the blockchain field.

Aptos places great importance on the cultivation of talents in higher education and has in-depth cooperation with blockchain associations of several well-known universities to design blockchain courses that allow students to directly learn Aptos technology. The company's engineers also frequently give presentations at universities to attract excellent developers to join the community.

Looking to the future, Sherry's personal vision and that of the entire team remain focused on the fields of trading and payment. They hope to build a global financial infrastructure that allows more people to enjoy the conveniences of modern financial systems. They especially look forward to seeing innovative payment projects combined with stablecoins, such as payroll flow payments, which traditional financial institutions cannot achieve.

Overall, the Aptos team is committed to combining technological innovation with practical applications to create a high-performance and user-friendly global trading engine, contributing to the popularization and development of Web3.