What is Aptos?

Shaikh and Ching, former team leads and employees of Meta, are the founders of Aptos. They are one of the most talented senior blockchain developers and engineers. After working on Diem for three years (and then closing the project), their commitment and passion for innovation led them to continue as CEO and CTO on the Aptos Labs team. Having gained experience with the Diem codebase, Aptos aims to create a multipurpose blockchain network that solves the following tasks:

• Revival of Diem technology - using the Move programming language to create a secure, scalable and flexible infrastructure capable of surpassing existing blockchain technologies.
• Realization of high throughput, minimum latency, and verifiable state synchronization - using the Diem architecture while providing a wide variety of technologies.

Stop, but the project already gave the drop...

The first airdrop of APT tokens has already passed, and users have claimed their tokens, however, according to the tokenomics, more than 51% of the total APT supply is allocated to the community, so we can expect another one (or even more) airdrop to users. With the first airdrop, 20% of the total APT supply was distributed, which means that there is still more than 30% left, which can be dropped both by Aptos itself and by the protocols on it.

As a result, we should definitely try to “bite off” a piece of this pie using various projects on Aptos, because those who received the first airdrop were pleasantly surprised (from $1.5 to $6k from one account).

Airdrop from Aptos

1. Set up your wallet

• Install and create Martian Wallet, which is the most secure wallet on Aptos. Inside the wallet itself, you can mint NFTs on the testnet, with the potential to drop their token. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/martian-wallet-aptos-sui/efbglgofoippbgcjepnhiblaibcnclgk
• You can also install and create Pontem Wallet, which, by the way, had a reverse hint to drop their token. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pontem-aptos-wallet/phkbamefinggmakgklpkljjmgibohnba

2. Transfer tokens to the Aptos network

• Use the Aptos Bridge: https://theaptosbridge.com/. This bridge supports networks: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum.
• You can also use LiquidSwap Bridge: https://bridge.liquidswap.com/ This bridge is built by the same company as Pontem Wallet.

Important to mention that when withdrawing funds FROM the Aptos network to various EVM networks (for example, Ethereum), the withdrawal time can be up to 3 days.

• Another option is to simply buy APT tokens (to pay fees) on CEX, such as Binance, and withdraw them to your wallet.

3. Interact with dApp on Aptos

In such a short period of time, Aptos has become home to many different dApps from DeFi and infrastructure projects to NFTs and launchpads.