Now is the time to get excited about blockchain applications. Secure, confidential, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for payments and trading. Every major financial institution is discussing commercialization. TSVs, based on the new @SECGov guidance, will leverage our modern stack for new use cases, adoption, and revenue. Libra's original mission was payments at scale, and @Aptos has made the rails the best way to move stables and trade in the world. Over the past 8 years, we've built the best financial infra, and with pilots underway and AI building the scaffolding instantly, that journey has entered the next phase of commercialization.

Confidential & decentralized technology is growing rapidly in adoption. Confidential assets (e.g., confidential $APT) are live today in @Aptos. No one can track the volume and it’s just as fast as a normal asset transfer. Confidential orders are now live with the encrypted mempool. Avoid front running or other malicious MEV. Confidential orderbooks at CEX speed on a decentralized platform is the next frontier. We are working on this quickly!

MonoMove is IMHO the biggest leap forward in smart contract development to date. In the past, decentralized finance meant compromising user experience - slower, more expensive, and much more prone to security risks. MonoMove is a complete redesign of how smart contract platforms should be designed. Built on the hard-learned lessons of 8+ years of Move development, production workloads are nearly 10x faster in @DecibelTrade. Numerous Move micro-benchmarks perform up to >50x faster. And its new architecture is inherently safer by design and more formally verifiable. As I've said before, commercialization of decentralized finance is finally upon us. Large industry partners want to build on the most performant and secure systems available and bring their users to new markets. MonoMove is next-gen architecture for finance.

Confidential compliant assets with $APT is the latest in a long line of industry firsts: * First production deployment of Block-STM * First production L1 with <25ms block times * First L1 with native orderless transactions using expiring nonces * First L1-native encrypted mempool with no additional trust assumptions * First DAG-BFT architecture combining pipelining + leader reputation * First production deployment of Move Prover formal verification * First full stack onchain exchange that can match the performance of centralized crypto exchanges. * First AI storage that can support sub-second global access Aptos tech is built different.