Corey 🌐

Our goal is to make Aptos the best place for founders to build, earn, and grow. Here are key resources to kickstart your journey: 1. Builder Site: Self-navigate programs & network → aptosnetwork.com/builders 2. Assembly: Hands-on support to accelerate early-stage teams → aptosnetwork.com/currents/aptos… 3. LFM: Token launch track → aptosnetwork.com/lfm 4. MoveClubs: Bring local networks onchain → x.com/MoveClubHQ/sta… 5. Grants & Credits: Scale faster → aptosnetwork.com/grants Dive in, build on Aptos, and LFM.

The data layer AI actually needs is live on Aptos Testnet, @shelbyserves. aptosnetwork.com/currents/shelb…

Following the Aptos Foundation's latest proposal to shift toward performance-driven tokenomics, voting is now underway for Aptos Proposal #183: Hard Supply Cap: 2.1 Billion APT. Voting period ends on Mar 1, 2026, 8:45:59 PM UTC. Follow along/vote here: governance.aptosfoundation.org/proposal/183

Aptos is the only chain that can 10x their gas fees and still be cheaper Solana, Sui, MegaETH, and Monad

If I look at the last 15 years of knowing people in startups, and then seeing who became successful and who didn't, I'm starting to see some general patterns The people I know who became successful (and very rich) regularly asked for help and feedback, and then applied that feedback very quickly (think minutes) and shipped fast while maintaining their own vision The people who didn't become successful are the ones who worked on stuff for months/years without asking for help or feedback, or when they did took weeks/months to apply it So I think the feedback -> implement loop and speed of it is possibly very important

@BrunoFOMO @hagaetc So is brain drain

Friendly reminder to California: Taxes on unrealized capital gains have led to more than half of the wealth held by Norway’s top 400 taxpayers moving abroad. I.e. Norway has become more equal and made everybody poorer and worse off, just as expected from strong socialist ideas.

@akshaybd @bloomsocialhq

The real opportunity in creator coins is for them to be user generated ETFs individuals who research, share a thesis and build a basket of assets against that and earn a fee on the AUM eg., Akshay coin will be just be a wrapper around a basket of VAS.AX, VHYL.L, IUKD.L, ES3.SI, URA, IXJ and MCHI that’s programmatically balanced according to rules I set

@blknoiz06 Lofoten, under the northern lights.

where's the best place to go skiing in january

Markets now reward proof, not promises. Capital is shifting toward businesses that are investable, sustainable, or show durable user and capital retention. This is healthy for ecosystems, and for founders.

Global credit markets hold $300 trillion in debt but are still running on infrastructure built decades ago. @pactfinance is rebuilding structured credit from the ground up, fully onchain. Traditional structured credit depends on layers of intermediaries, each adding fees and friction. Upfront diligence alone is expensive. Covenant enforcement happens quarterly. Borrowing base shortfalls can go weeks undetected. Most onchain credit platforms function as refinancing layers rather than native lending systems. They tokenize existing offchain loans, but the underlying origination, servicing, and enforcement remain dependent on traditional intermediaries. PACT Protocol rebuilds the system from first principles bringing all components fully onchain. Rather than using blockchain as a passive record keeping layer, it embeds compute, data, and execution directly into the credit lifecycle. Loans originate directly as NFTs onchain with embedded repayment schedules, covenant logic, and payment routing. Each loan NFT carries a unique identifier (similar to a CUSIP), borrower data, collateral details, and performance metrics. The NFT is the loan itself. PACT calls this "farm to table RWAs": assets native to blockchain infrastructure. This eliminates the reconciliation gap that plagues tokenized credit. When a borrower pays, the entire system updates in real time, adjusting principal balance, payment history, waterfall distributions, and facility metrics automatically. Double pledging becomes impossible since a loan NFT can only have one owner. Covenant checks execute on every draw request. Violations are caught immediately. The composability unlocks the full structured credit stack. Loan NFTs aggregate into loan books, which get pledged as collateral to facilities. Borrowing base logic and concentration limits are all enforced through code. And to date, PACT has been able to scale quickly. The project has originated over $1.9B in loans across more than 900k borrowers.

It’s been >15 years since the launch of Bitcoin, and the market is more focused than ever on real products solving real problems for real people. Real-world adoption has early signs of success and will grow exponentially in the coming years. In the past years since Aptos mainnet launch in 2022, we’ve built best-in-class infrastructure - the most scalable, fastest, and cost-effective blockchain ever created. We created products like Aptos Keyless to enable smooth Internet adoption and Geomi to accelerate builders. We made powerful strategic partnerships with builders to drive scale and adoption. During these same years, we also rushed and messed up the airdrop. We focused on the wrong metrics, like TVL. Alongside many incredibly valuable strategic partnerships, we also made some bad business arrangements that didn’t deliver value to the ecosystem we were expecting. We have learned much from these mistakes, made significant leadership changes and have done a lot of clean up this year. Difficult, out of the spotlight hard work, but necessary. These necessary changes laid the groundwork and strengthened our ability to execute much more in the future. My passion has always been the mission: unlocking financial freedom and financial equality. Historically, we’ve been conditioned to think of global equality in terms of the legal system and human rights. It’s not enough. Perhaps, the 1776 Declaration of Independence says it best that we are all “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” True global equality requires inclusive access to the world’s financial systems, from capital markets and money movement to wealth-management tools and stable stores of value. More powerful financial tools for everyone. It can be odd to think of fair and equitable global trading as a societal accomplishment, but the opportunities are not equal today. IPOs and private funding have limited access. Many other investment strategies have limited access, especially globally. A global trading engine can be built on a highly-customized and decentralized technology stack. It can be accessible to all with all the rules and operations codified. It can offer fair features not found in any centralized market today - such as protection against front-running, sandwich attacks, and hidden costs. Trading tools like delta-neutral strategies can be available for anyone to deploy and understand. No more hidden agendas and a level playing field. Ultimately, everyone having the same access to financial markets, global currencies, investment opportunities, and more is going to change this world for the better. We’ll look back at this time as the path to how we unlocked financial freedom. Our thesis-driven bets toward our mission are as follows: * Equitable and advanced global markets: Decibel, incubated by Aptos Labs, is the first fully decentralized exchange that will match the Binance/Coinbase speed and ease of use. At the same time, Decibel is innovating with new trading primitives, user protections, assets, and markets. With a successful Testnet underway, Decibel is accelerating toward a Q1 Mainnet and will iterate on the product quickly. * Next-gen cloud, data & AI: Shelby is the first hot decentralized storage protocol. It solves the data lifecycle challenge (i.e., hot, warm, cold) for AI use cases, creator use cases, and enterprise cloud infrastructure. Not only cheaper due to reduced egress fees when compared to traditional cloud infra, Shelby is cloud failure resistant, programmable, yet with full creator control. * Aptos Internet expansion with Namespaces: Namespaces offers turnkey, tailor-made blockchain infrastructure built on Aptos’ proven tech stack for any bring any enterprise or institution to bring its users into crypto and expand the Aptos ecosystem, similar to the way the Internet was built. The new Archon architecture fully enables fast and reliable connectivity for namespaces internally and across them. While it is still early for these products and protocols, the response from investors, partners, and the community has been strong and validating. Building the product vision, not just a tech narrative, is what sets Aptos apart. Our strategy is to deliver utility that drives organic revenue in every product and sustains the mission. This is a significant change to the previous years in how we have operated and we’ve been realigning and rebuilding for nearly a year now. The Aptos Foundation is working with us on how to best allocate resources to support these changes. The market continues to evolve rapidly and APT isn’t reflecting the fundamentals, ecosystem growth or progress in the mission. I continue to hold every token that was granted to me as a co-founder because I believe it's the right thing to do to serve this mission. Not many founders can say that more than 3 years post token launch. Mission not yet accomplished. And while we’ve done a lot of learning from and cleaning up past mistakes, we will look at every option to ensure our mission will be sustainable and successful. Looking back, we’ve learned from our mistakes, rebuilt, aligned, and are now executing on thesis-driven bets toward the mission. Our world-class team has never been as focused and effective as it is today. The world needs financial freedom and equality more than ever, especially in a world where AI is creating more information asymmetry and inequality. Let’s level the playing field for the future generations of humanity.

@drastic_tannah @anuxhya @ASHAWONN @Aptos We got you. Check your TG or email.

@anuxhya @ASHAWONN @Aptos @coreyst_ I’d really like to apply, but I’m a few steps short (need a dev) ☺️ I’ve emailed you, Greg and Corey in the last 24 hours with my draft paper and would really love some help connecting with an experienced move dev to bring the charity concept to life 🙏🏻 any help would be amazing.

. @Aptos is open for builders who want to scale the future of decentralized technology. it's not always going to be a fit, but we truly believe the future is in the hands of founders Reach out to any of these people if not me - @coreyst_ , @anuxhya early stage builder programs - @DeCryptDisciple , @aptAlix founder relations - @Jay__0x defi - @Greg_Nazario , @chriskim_dev dev relations - @rpranav Shelby (Aptos Labs) - @aptoskent Decibel (Aptos Labs)

@RockChartrand Welcome to Norway

Unrealized gains aren’t income. They’re imaginary values that exist only on paper, not in anyone’s wallet. You can’t tax something that doesn’t exist yet, because no one has earned it, received it, or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might have someday, even though it could vanish tomorrow. It means punishing success before it’s actually realized, before anything is sold, delivered, or converted into actual income. What you’re demanding isn’t fairness, it’s emotional retaliation. It’s envy dressed up as policy. You want to seize wealth not because value was taken from anyone, but simply because someone else created it. That’s legalized resentment.

Confidence is trusting you’ll recover even when you’re wrong.

You can’t airdrop trust.

@TellYourSonThis Read: The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live

@SahilBloom Assault bike sprints

What’s the most hated exercise everyone should be doing? I’ll start: Bulgarian Split Squats.

@KSimback Hard to have a bad day after a good sweat

If you ever wake up, look at the charts and feel yourself getting down in any way Go directly to the gym - do not even think about it, just go and move lots of weight or drench yourself in sweat Better vibes always follow

Some people chase comfort. Founders chase consequence. If you’re building on @Aptos, we’re with you - all the way.

Too many teams rush a TGE without asking the only question that matters: why does this token need to exist?

@Deguywithstyle @MaggieSWeb3 @Aptos Agreed. Community sales are important, especially before TGE.

I think that teams on Aptos including the LFM team to take into consideration the current ICO/IDO meta before their token generation event. It allows them to offer the community the same terms or even better terms than VCs, while guaranteeing upside that will diminish the effects of a bad airdrop, especially if the team doesn't have the financial support to fully reward their community. I think that's the missing piece in the Airdrops I've witnessed on Aptos this year, because most of the tokens went to binance alpha users, and sidelined their community.

If you're building on @Aptos and planning a token launch, this thread🧵 is for you. I’ve seen multiple TGEs across the ecosystem, which taught us a few lessons. Here are some things to consider when evaluating whether or when to launch a token.