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Aptos posted on platform X stating that Aptos is the first L1 to support dynamically scheduled formal verification, which can be mathematically proven to operate as designed. Aptos claims that AI writes specifications, mathematically proves their correctness, and Move Prover serves as the oracle, which is the trust layer between the market and machines.

The regulated securitization trading platform tZERO announced the integration of its tokenized issuance platform into the Aptos network, enabling issuers to directly issue real-world asset (RWA) tokens on this high-performance public chain, further broadening the on-chain path for institutional-grade assets.Aptos is positioned as the underlying network for institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and is continuously attracting traditional finance and compliant tokenization platforms. Currently, tokenized funds from institutions such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already operating on-chain.With the integration of tZERO, the compliant asset issuance and trading infrastructure on Aptos has been further improved, covering the full chain capabilities from issuance, circulation to settlement.

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has released the first updated complete draft of the CLARITY Act since January of this year. The new draft has made significant adjustments in several key chapters.These include: a major rewrite of Chapter 1 concerning definitions, the authority of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other content; the addition of insider trading provisions in Section 109; updating "joint control" to "coordinated control" in Chapter 2; rewriting Section 301 to further clarify the regulatory boundaries between DeFi and CeFi; updating Section 404 to incorporate the compromise proposal from Tillis and Alsobrooks; adjusting Section 505 to narrow the scope of SEC's authority limitations in the tokenization field; and restructuring the bankruptcy and insolvency framework in Sections 701 and 702. Additionally, Section 904 is a new addition, titled the "Build Now Act."Alex Thorn also pointed out that the protective provisions for developers in the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act in Section 604 remain largely intact, with only minor modifications that do not weaken its core protective content.

Aptos announced that after the governance vote passes, it will become the first Layer 1 public chain to provide a native encrypted mempool. This feature achieves complete confidentiality of transaction intentions, does not affect transaction speed, and aligns the trust assumptions with the network itself, aiming to protect users from frontrunning at the protocol level.

The global stock market has reached a milestone moment. According to data from the Gate platform, NAS100 (Nasdaq 100 Index) strongly refreshed its intraday historical high yesterday, reaching a maximum of $28,817.49; US30 (Dow Jones 30 Index) broke the 50,000-point mark for the first time, peaking at 50,116.03 points. Although the subsequent gains narrowed, the two indices closed at 28,637.55 points and 49,679.17 points respectively, but the new highs of these two core indices have significantly boosted market sentiment, establishing a premium space for a new round of market rally.Gate has launched the world's first perpetual contracts for indices, with 15 trading pairs now available in the contract area, providing the most comprehensive global mainstream stock indices and volatility indices, fully supporting USDT settlement and 24/7 continuous trading. With a well-established layout in the fields of crypto assets, metals, indices, commodities, foreign exchange, and popular stocks, Gate continues to offer global users a one-stop, multi-scenario asset allocation choice, further enhancing the platform's competitiveness and brand influence in the global comprehensive trading market.

Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs announced that they will invest over $50 million to cover first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, and a strategic fund for trading and AI partners.Aptos stated that Decibel has launched on the Aptos mainnet, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $1 billion. The market capitalization of stablecoins on the Aptos network has reached $1.93 billion, and the scale of RWA has reached $1.2 billion, with asset management institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Apollo Global already deployed on the network. Subsequently, Aptos will advance features such as crypto memory pools, FIX and CCXT connections, multi-leader consensus, and confidential perpetual trading.

Aptos posted on platform X that the market size of stablecoins on the Aptos chain has surpassed $1.9 billion, setting a new historical high.Aptos stated that in the first half of 2025, the market value of stablecoins on the Aptos chain grew from approximately $649 million to over $1.2 billion, an increase of 86%, with monthly active users stabilizing at over 10 million. In the first half of 2026, the market value of stablecoins on the Aptos chain continued to grow and surpassed $1.9 billion, while the weekly transaction fee burn reached a new six-month high, with 47,000 APT burned in a single week.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 10.94 million tokens on May 12 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, worth about 10.58 million USD.

According to official news, Tapp Exchange has announced that it will gradually cease operations. The protocol will remain fully available until May 31, 2026, and all user assets are secure and can be withdrawn at any time.Since its launch in June 2025, Tapp has built the first V4 style DEX on Aptos, continuously introducing the ve(3,3) voting mechanism, emission distribution, bribery infrastructure, and governance tools, transferring liquidity decision-making power to veTAPP holders.

The latest report from the non-profit research organization Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) indicates that the prediction market platform Polymarket may have broader insider trading issues than the previously reported "Green Beret Bet on the Venezuela Raid."The research analyzed 435,000 settled markets from January 2021 to mid-March 2026, with a total trading volume of $54.4 billion, and found that low-probability bets related to government decision-making in military and defense markets had abnormally high success rates. Data shows that the average success rate for such "long-shot bets" in political markets is about 14%, while in some cases of military-related contracts, the success rate exceeds 50%. The study suggests that these markets are difficult to predict based solely on public information and are more susceptible to information asymmetry, including insider trading or professional information advantages.The report also points out that Polymarket's profits are highly concentrated. Research from the London Business School and Yale University shows that about 3% of traders contribute to most of the platform's price discovery; blockchain analytics firm Solidus Labs found that less than 1% of wallets accounted for about half of the profits. For example, in the case of the U.S. airstrike on Iran in June 2025, just hours before the attack, 19 low-probability bets totaling $164,000 concentrated on buying the ultimately realized "YES" contract, with 8 wallets collectively profiting about $1.8 million, including one wallet that made nearly $500,000.Despite the Pentagon's efforts to conceal the operation through decoy bombers and stealth fighters, a few traders accurately predicted the outcome. ACDC recommends that Polymarket strengthen identity verification, set conditional payments for suspicious bets, limit markets where results are determined by a few individuals, and reduce overly detailed contract designs. The report further calls for a broader discussion on whether the public should be allowed to bet on such events.

According to Cointelegraph, Aptos recently launched the privacy token Confidential APT on its mainnet, which is pegged to APT at a 1:1 ratio. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to hide token balances and transfer amounts while maintaining wallet address visibility and transaction verifiability.Sherry Xiao, founding engineer of Aptos Labs, stated that the token aims to address the long-standing contradiction between blockchain privacy and compliance transparency, and can solve issues related to the public exposure of sensitive information such as on-chain salaries, treasury operations, and trading strategies. On the compliance front, the activation of the audit key must be approved through on-chain governance voting. The launch of Confidential APT stemmed from a governance proposal that was nearly unanimously passed. Xiao expects individual user adoption to be faster than that of enterprises, and if the mainnet operates stably for six months with good transaction volume, it will help shorten the sales cycle for enterprises.

According to CoinGecko data, despite a 26.5% month-on-month decline in trading volume, Solana still holds a 30.6% quarterly market share, making it the leading chain for spot trading. However, Ethereum surpassed Solana in March with a 27% share (compared to Solana's 26%). BSC slightly leads Ethereum with a 24.5% quarterly market share (23.7%) in second place, but its trading volume has declined more significantly and is expected to drop to third place in the second quarter.In addition, Monad, which launched its mainnet in the early bear market of November 2025, has seen its trading volume gradually increase and is now the tenth most active chain in spot trading, surpassing Unichain and Optimism.

Chief Economist Fu Peng of New Fire Group delivered a speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Digital Wealth Management Summit, stating that the integration of traditional financial institutions and the cryptocurrency market will herald the arrival of a new era in the market. The participants who will truly succeed in the future are those who can quickly complete their transformation at critical turning points.Fu Peng cited the Cold War, oil crisis, and the simultaneous rise of computer and semiconductor technology in the 1970s and 1980s as examples, pointing out that technological advancements and global order turmoil often go hand in hand, with risks and opportunities always accompanying each other. He believes that AI and data computing power are now widely recognized as the core productive forces of the next era, indicating that the first half of the cryptocurrency industry has essentially ended, and the industry is at a critical stage of reconstruction and rebirth.Looking ahead, Fu Peng predicts that stablecoins will take on payment functions, Bitcoin will evolve into a core asset with both value storage and financial transaction attributes, and a brand new chapter of the era is about to begin.

Aptos released an update on its token economics. The main adjustments include: the annualized staking reward rate decreased from 5.19% to 2.6%; Gas fees increased tenfold (the cost of stablecoin transfers remains as low as approximately $0.00014); after the launch of Decibel DEX, on-chain trading volume and Gas fee burning will significantly increase, with an expected annual burn of over 32 million APT; setting a hard cap total supply of 2.1 billion APT at the protocol layer; the Aptos Foundation will permanently lock and stake 210 million APT; future incentives will be converted to milestone triggers; exploring a programmatic buyback plan.

According to CoinDesk, Flare has announced a governance proposal to capture Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) at the protocol layer, with a newly established entity, FIRE, responsible for revenue reinvestment and the buyback and burn of FLR tokens.The plan includes a three-phase block construction overhaul: first, block builders will be designated by the Flare Entity, then Flare Confidential Compute will be introduced for public auditing, and finally, builders will be merged with proposers, with original validators transitioning to a verification role. The proposal also reduces the annual inflation rate of FLR from 5% to 3%, lowers the annual hard cap from 5 billion to 3 billion tokens, increases the base gas fee to 1,200 gwei, and is expected to raise the annual burn amount to 300 million tokens. These measures aim to optimize the network's economic model and enhance the transparency and security of the protocol.

The new crypto bank and non-custodial financial operating system Tria announced that its global trading engine has officially integrated with the Aptos network. Through this integration, over 500,000 users across more than 150 countries can now directly access and trade Aptos assets. Users can complete cross-chain exchanges and asset interactions within a single application without the need for cross-chain bridges.The official statement indicated that this collaboration aims to leverage Aptos's sub-second confirmation and parallel execution technology to provide users with a congestion-free trading experience and further connect traditional finance, Web2, and on-chain infrastructure.

The AI Agent trading platform Mentis recently detected abnormal fluctuations in information flow and market sentiment signals related to the United States, Israel, and Iran. Subsequently, the situation in the Middle East quickly entered a ceasefire negotiation phase, with multiple geopolitical developments being released, attracting market attention.The platform's trading interface shows that in the early stages of the event's escalation, the Mentis AI Signal had already indicated continuous buying and trend confirmation signals, with the multi-model consensus system (MTS-GPT, MTS-DS, MTS-Q Flash) simultaneously identifying a strengthening market structure. Following this, the BTC price rapidly rose and broke through a key range, validating the market trend with the direction of the AI signals.Trading records indicate that the AI Agent completed automated trade execution and position management after the signal formation, with account profits increasing in tandem with the market rise, demonstrating the forward-looking judgment capability of event-driven signals in the early stages.Mentis stated that its AI Agent continuously tracks cross-market information sources, sentiment changes, and event data, constructing a trading closed loop from information discovery → signal analysis → decision support → automated execution, to enhance response efficiency in sudden macro and geopolitical events.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 10.94 million tokens on April 12 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, worth about 9.27 million USD.