Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};
\"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};
Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};
Aptos will be based on the technology utilized by the former Diem project before it was scrapped<\/a> by Meta in January of this year. The plans to build a decentralized layer 1 blockchain will be partly based on Move<\/a>, a coding language that was developed for the Diem project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};
Former employees of Meta, along with backers of the defunct Diem project, plan to expand upon the project after raising US$200 million. The new project dubbed Aptos was founded by former employees of Meta with the goal of building the \"safest and most scalable Layer 1<\/a> blockchain\" able to scale to billions of people<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Aptos will be based on the technology utilized by the former Diem project before it was scrapped<\/a> by Meta in January of this year. The plans to build a decentralized layer 1 blockchain will be partly based on Move<\/a>, a coding language that was developed for the Diem project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};
Former employees of Meta, along with backers of the defunct Diem project, plan to expand upon the project after raising ...
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