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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.

gm to those who are monitoring

@socialforging Best validator wrangler in the industry :)

I love working at the Monad Foundation.

@Aptos @shelbyserves @AptosLabs @AveryChing @aptAlix gShelby

Blockchain is too expensive for general compute and storage. That's not a knock, it's economics. The AI economy needs something purpose-built. That's @shelbyserves. @AptosLabs' @AveryChing with Aptos Foundation's @aptAlix on the application layer of the Aptos stack.

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.

@socialforging 'Stridering' brilliant !

Yeah I might have to take this up as a weekend hobby

Scalable, configurable, and everything verifiable.

What projects are already building on Monad? 🧵 @hyperlane @GeckoTerminal @GearboxProtocol @ForestStaking @fere_ai @DirolProtocol @dFusionAI @DefinitiveFi @debridge @CrystalExch @cp0xdotcom @MentoLabs @memetok_app @matchametaxyz @lagoon_finance @kizzymobile @kinic_app @KINETK_AI @jumperapp @itrocket_team @InterportFi @Infinit_Labs @infinex @ExploreOmnia @nubilanetwork @TryNoahAI @narwhal_finance @nardotbet @nad_radar @NablaFi @multiplifi

Aptos Encrypted Mempool 🔒 Pending governance approval, Aptos will be the first L1 to offer a native encrypted mempool—full transaction intent confidentiality, no impact to speed, and same trust assumptions as the network itself. One click. Fully protected from frontrunning.

Testing the Cashtags feature - Stake monad:native with Forest foreststaking.com/monad-staking

X is so funny

4. The performance story is real. Aptos holds the top four daily transaction records of any blockchain — all set this year. The Baby Raptr consensus upgrade shaved 100–150ms off finality. Average fees fell ~61% QoQ. This isn't testnet benchmark talk — it's production performance under real load. When we became a genesis validator in October 2022, the bet was that institutional capital would eventually need a chain built for finance, with Move's resource model providing the safety guarantees that solidity-based systems can't match. That bet is paying off. The infrastructure being laid right now — BUIDL, BENJI, Stripe, regulatory clarity, deflationary tokenomics — is what serious institutional capital actually requires before it deploys at scale. Forest is proud to have run validator infrastructure on Aptos since the beginning. We're more excited about the next three years than the last three.

3. Institutional adoption is no longer a forecast– BlackRock chose Aptos as the only non-EVM chain for its BUIDL fund. – Franklin Templeton's BENJI is live. – Stripe is launching payment services with native USDC. – Hang Seng Bank, BCG, and Aptos Labs are testing tokenized fund settlement on public blockchain. – Stablecoin supply on Aptos grew ~142% YTD, with BUIDL deployments alone driving ~57% of net new issuance.

Why Forest is more bullish on @Aptos than we have ever been at any point since mainnet. Forest has been a genesis validator on Aptos since October 2022. We came in believing Move was the right architecture for institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure. Three years on, that thesis is no longer abstract — it's measurable. A few developments from the last 90 days that we think the wider market is underweighting:

@shelbyserves gShelby

POV: the CFO joined the infrastructure meeting. Egress is now everyone's problem.

The cloud bill makes sense once you remember it was priced for a world where data didn't move.

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AI is everywhere. The data it needs isn't. @shelbyserves solves that. Early Access is now open on testnet. Write once, read anywhere across regions. No copies, no egress trap. Coordinated on Aptos. Apply to build: developers.shelby.xyz