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In the early morning of October 18, Aptos, a "king-level" Layer 1 project that has received a huge financing of 350 million US dollars, announced the official launch of the mainnet Aptos. As the first exchange to launch APT on its platform, CoinW has launched APT at 20:00 (UTC+8) on October 18, and opened the APT/USDT trading pair. The maximum increase of the token is as high as 650%. At 10 :00 (UTC+8) on October 19, APT 3L/USDT, APT 3S/USDT, APT 6L/USDT, APT 6S/USDT ETF were launched in the ETF zone.
(APT launched in CoinW with a 650% increase, ranking first in the new coin list).
In March, Aptos received $350 million in investment from top institutions such as a16z, FTX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Binance Labs, and reached an institutional funding valuation of 2.75 billion US dollars at the end of July.
Since crypto assets have witnessed a bear market this year, the market has been sluggish, and only few projects have been able to arouse investor enthusiasm.
Aptos was able to obtain huge financing from the industry's top investment institutions in the early stage of development and this to some groups was unprecedented.
According to the Aptos project analysis report, the strong project team and the use of unique programming languages are the main reasons why Aptos has set off a wave of discussion even in the bear market.
First of all, Aptos is an L1 smart contract platform, and its core founding team is basically from the Meta stablecoin project, Libra (later renamed Diem), and a considerable number of them are even the technical backbone of Meta. In addition, Austin, the former head of marketing at Solana, also
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