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Aptos Blockchain still has not announced its second airdrop, which will include over 5 million APT tokens, but it is expected to be announced soon.
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain designed for scalability, safety, reliability, and upgradeability. Over the past three years, it has been developed by over 350 developers worldwide, offering new and innovative solutions in consensus, smart contract design, system security, performance, and decentralization. These technologies are intended to provide a fundamental building block for bringing web3 to the masses.
For the blockchain infrastructure to enable mass adoption in the web3 era, it needs to follow the path of cloud infrastructure as a trusted, scalable, cost-efficient, and continually improving platform for building widely-used applications. The Aptos blockchain has been designed with these principles in mind and aims to address the challenges of frequent outages, high costs, low throughput limits, and numerous security concerns.
One of the key features of the Aptos blockchain is its natively integrated Move language, which provides fast and secure transaction execution. The Move prover, a formal verifier for smart contracts written in the Move language, provides additional safeguards for contract invariants and behavior. This focus on security allows developers to better protect their software from malicious entities.
The Aptos blockchain’s data model enables flexible key management and hybrid custodial options, providing a safer and more trustworthy user experience. To achieve high throughput and low latency, the blockchain leverages a pipelined and modular approach for the key stages of transaction processing, fully leveraging all available physical resources, improving hardware efficiency, and enabling highly parallel execution.
Unlike other parallel execution engines that break transaction atomicity by requiring upfront knowledge of the data to be read and written, the Aptos blockchain supports atomicity with arbitrarily complex transactions, enabling higher throughput and lower latency for real-world applications and simplifying development.
The Aptos modular architecture design supports client flexibility and optimizes for frequent and instant upgrades. Moreover, to rapidly deploy new technology innovations and support new web3 use cases, the Aptos blockchain provides embedded on-chain change management protocols.
In addition to the airdrop, the Aptos blockchain is experimenting with future initiatives to scale beyond individual validator performance. Its modular design and parallel execution engine support internal sharding of a validator, and homogeneous state sharding provides the potential for horizontal throughput scalability without adding additional complexity for node operators.
To participate in the upcoming second APT token airdrop, users can provide liquidity on the Tortuga Finance platform. By doing so, they may be eligible to receive free APT tokens in the airdrop. The Tortuga Finance platform offers a decentralized exchange and liquidity provision service, allowing users to earn rewards for providing liquidity to trading pairs on the platform. This presents a unique opportunity for users to not only participate in the Aptos blockchain’s growth but also earn rewards for their contributions.
The first airdrop was open until October 25, 2022, and users who completed an application for an Aptos Incentivized Testnet or minted an APTOS: ZERO testnet NFT were eligible to claim Aptos tokens (the original user who minted the NFT is eligible, not the current owner). With over 20 million APT tokens up for grabs, early adopters have a significant opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a blockchain designed to evolve.
Thank you for taking the time to read this article on Aptos Blockchain and its upcoming second airdrop. I hope you found the information insightful and informative. Don’t forget to check out the resources provided to learn more about the project and how you can participate in the airdrop. Stay tuned for more updates from the Aptos team as they continue to work towards bringing web 3 to the masses.