Aptos
Aptos is a Move-based L1 spun out of Meta's Diem team, targeting institutional-grade throughput and a strong safety story through the Move language. The founding team brings the engineering rigor of a large-scale distributed systems background to protocol design.
The chain has demonstrated peak throughput of 160K TPS with sub-second finality, and now hosts 200+ ecosystem applications including major stablecoin issuances from Ethena and Tether. The Move VM's resource-oriented model has proven attractive to teams building financial primitives.
In 2026 Aptos is expanding institutional integrations, with a Franklin Templeton tokenized fund launched on-chain and additional TradFi partnerships in the pipeline for later this year.
The Move-based L1 with the strongest engineering team of the class of 2022. We led the Series A on execution conviction.
Mo Shaikh
CEO & Co-FounderAvery Ching
CTO & Co-FounderDavid Wolinsky
Head of ResearchBhavin Shah
VP Engineering- Q1 2022Founded by ex-Diem engineers
- Q1 2022Oryon Series A
- Q4 2022Mainnet launch
- Q1 2026Franklin Templeton tokenized fund
MoveVM ecosystem expanding to 200+ apps. Ethena and Tether integrations live.
“Aptos brought institutional-quality engineering to a category dominated by amateurs.”
— The Information, 2023