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Editor | Hao Fangzhou

Author |

Editor | Hao Fangzhou

Produced | Odaily (ID: o-daily)

On July 25th, the high-profile new-generation Layer 1 project Aptos announced the completion of a new round of financing of US$150 million. This round of financing was led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto. Other investors included GriffinGamingPartners, Franklin Templeton, CircleVentures, and Superscrypt.

Including the US$200 million financing led by a16z in mid-March, the historical total of Aptos has reached US$350 million. Judging from the thrust of the capital alone, this Layer1, which has inherited Diem’s legacy, has become a new round of public chains The most anticipated player in the big game.

Even if the "old" generation of Layer 1 that emerged in the last round of bull market is compared, Aptos is not far behind in terms of momentum. In addition to the collective endorsement of the top VC, Austin, the former marketing director of Solana, has publicly announced that it will Joining Aptos as the Ecosystem Director, more developers from the existing Layer1 ecosystem are also flocking to Aptos.Odaily Note: It is rumored that the developer of Move (the programming language used by Aptos) can earn as much as $1,200 an hour.On August 1st, Aptos official website announced that the third round of incentive testnet activities (the last testnet before the mainnet launch) will open for registration on August 19th and officially launch on August 30th.For users who have the conditions to independently operate and maintain nodes, the best way to get on the express train of Aptos is undoubtedly to directly participate in the incentive test network (token rewards will be given by Mingpai),However, in view of the existence of certain technical and financial thresholds in this activity,

Therefore, trying specific Aptos ecological projects may be a more suitable way for ordinary users to "take a ride"

, which is also the focus of this paper.Although it will take time for the mainnet to go online, there are not a few projects based on Aptos. From infrastructure services such as wallets and oracles to functional applications such as DeFi, NFT, and domain names, many projects have launched beta products , whether it is holding the idea of ​​understanding the new ecology, or ambushing in advance for potential airdrops, now is a good time to interact with the Aptos ecology.Next,

We will sort out the Aptos ecosystem in the order of "Wallet", "DeFi", "NFT", and "Others", and focus on introducing specific interaction methods for interactive projects.

For other projects that have not yet launched test products or are not directly oriented to users (such as infrastructure projects such as oracle machines and development tools), we will also mention them together, so that everyone can have a more comprehensive understanding of the current status of the Aptos ecosystem.Wallet Itemswallet,Projects that have been publicly announced to be built in the Aptos ecosystem include Martina, Fewcha, ONTO, Volt, Blocto, Hive, Multimask, etc.Among them, Martina and Fewcha are Aptos ecological wallets that have launched beta products; ONTO, Volt, and Blocto are multi-chain wallet service providers that intend to expand to the Aptos ecosystem; Hive is relatively early and has not yet released a usable product;

Multimask is an almost complete copy of MetaMask wallet developed by Pontem, an Aptos ecological OG project. Currently, it can only be used to test other projects under Pontemhttps://martianwallet.xyz/(I will talk about Liquidswap below).https://fewcha.app/As the first step in interacting with the Aptos ecosystem, it is recommended that you install Martina first (official website:) or Fewcha (official website:

) browser extension.

It is worth mentioning that, since Aptos currently does not have any wallet service provider that can occupy the vast majority of the market share like MetaMask, it is expected that different Dapps will preferentially support different wallets. In order to facilitate future interactions, we recommend two Install them all (Martina is enough for the time being).

Taking Martina as an example, after the installation is complete, set the password and save the mnemonic according to the operation guide to get an Aptos test network address starting with 0x, and then click the airdrop in the wallet to get 5000 test tokens APT (repeatable Receive), which can be used as "funds" for our interaction with other projects in the future.

The installation of Fewcha is basically the same (that is, the set of regular wallets), except that the address for receiving test tokens will be at the Faucet of Devnet in the upper left corner.

DeFi is currently the most important application category of the Aptos ecosystem. It can be subdivided into multiple small fields such as stable currency, DEX, aggregator, IDO, lending, asset management, derivatives, and liquid pledge.

Odaily Note: Many projects on Aptos (such as 1KX Protocol, Mariana Exchange) will span multiple fields, and we will classify them according to their main business directions when making statistics.

Subdivision 1: Stablecoins

In terms of stablecoins, Thala Labs is currently the most concerned stablecoin project in the entire Aptos ecosystem. The project plans to issue the over-collateralized stablecoin AST on the Aptos network in the future, but it has not yet launched the test product.

secondary titleSegment 2: Borrowinghttps://www.vial.fi/appIn terms of lending, projects currently being built within the Aptos ecosystem include Vial Protocol, Mobius, Njord Finance, Aptoslend, Ultima protocol, etc.https://mobius.market/app）。

Among them, Vial Protocol (official website:

) and Mobius (official website:

It should be noted that, or because the product is still in the early stage, when I try Vial Protocol, I often jump out of error prompts. When encountering this situation, it is better to try a few times.

The interaction method of Mobius is basically the same, and relevant test tokens can be collected at the faucet on the homepage of the official website.

secondary titleSubdivision 3: DEXIn terms of DEX, the projects currently being built in the Aptos ecosystem include Liquidswap (developed by Pontem like Multimask), 1KX Protocol, Saber, Econia, AptoSwap, Empo Finance, Hanson, Laminar Market, Mariana Exchange, etc.

Among them, Liquidswap is a project that started working in the Aptos ecosystem earlier and has launched test products;https://liquidswap.com/#/1KX Protocol and Saber previously came from the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems respectively, and do not yet support Aptos; the other five projects are relatively early in the development cycle, and have not yet launched the test network.https://github.com/pontem-network/aptos-chrome-extension/releases/tag/v1.2.1Liquidswap (official website:

) is an automatic market-making (AMM) DEX. Currently, only the Multimask wallet link can be used. The installation method of the latter can be found in the official Github tutorial (

),Specific steps are as follows:

1) In order to download the zip installation package corresponding to different browsers first, the rest is the normal wallet setting operation.

2) Then complete the installation in the "Extensions" management page of the browser. You can directly drag and drop the installation package you just downloaded to the page; you can also decompress the zip installation package first, then click "Developer Mode" in the upper right corner, and then click "Load unzipped application" in the upper left corner.

4) After the wallet is created, click Request Tokens in the upper right corner to get a certain amount of test tokens.

5) Go back to the main interface of Liquidswap, link to Multimask and use the test coins we just received to complete a transaction.

Segment Four: Aggregators

The aggregator project on Aptos is temporarily only Hippo, and the product is not yet online.

Subdivision Five: IDO

The aggregator projects on Aptos temporarily include DaoStarter, Orion, etc., but none of them have launched Aptos-based products for the time being.

Subdivision Six: Derivatives

In terms of derivatives, the projects currently being built in the Aptos ecosystem include Tsunami Finance, Aries Markets, and Clone Protocol. None of the three projects have launched Aptos-based test products for the time being.

Subdivision Seven: Asset Management

The current asset management projects in the Aptos ecosystem include Seam Money and Solrise. The two projects previously came from Celo and Solana respectively, and neither of them support Aptos yet.

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Segment Eight: Liquidity Staking

NFT items

Due to the small number of overall samples, the NFT projects on Aptos can be subdivided into platform projects such as sales, transactions, and loans for the time being, collection projects mainly based on pfp, and domain name services.

secondary titleSubdivision 1: Platform projectsNFT platform projects currently under construction in the Aptos ecosystem include Topaz, Souffl3, Wav3, etc.

Among them, the trading market Topaz has been launched to test productshttps://www.topaz.so/, Another trading market Souffl3 is expected to be launched within this week, and the release service platform Wav3 has not yet launched products.

Topaz (official website:

We randomly choose a durant.aptos to buy, and just confirm the transaction in the wallet. Of course, you can also sell it.

It is worth mentioning that the prices of NFTs currently listed for sale on Topaz are often very high. Although the test coins are not real money, it still takes some time to get so many coins.

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Currently, there are many NFT projects that are purely collectible in the Aptos ecosystem, such as WitchVerseLabs, Aptos Toad Overload, TokenMasksLabs, Aptos Monkeys, The Uglies NFT, Aptos Girls, etc. Most of these projects will not be released until the Aptos mainnet is officially launched. sale.

Considering that the current NFT market is mixed with fish and dragons, and the value of such projects needs to be supported by a large-scale community, I personally do not recommend rushing into such projects in the early stages of the ecology.

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Subdivision Three: Domain Name Serviceshttps://www.aptosnames.com/Aptos Name Service is the only project in the Aptos ecosystem that focuses on domain name services.

Aptos Name Service (official website:

) can basically be understood as ENS in the Aptos ecosystem. The interaction method is to first link the wallet (Martina is enough), and then enter the content of your favorite domain name in the search box.

As shown in the figure below, if the domain name has not yet been registered by other addresses, the page will display "Available", then click "buy" (buy), if it is displayed as "Not available", it means that the domain name has been registered by other addresses To register, another domain name needs to be selected separately.

After the registration is completed, the domain name will exist in the registered wallet in the form of NFT, and users can directly use the domain name instead of the address to transfer money in Martina. You can also choose to register several more domain names, and then try to list them in Topaz.

other projects

In addition to the above three categories of projects, there are actually a large number of other projects with completely different business directions in the current Aptos ecosystem, such as the oracle machine Switchboard, the messaging service Dialect and Notifi, the indexer Aptosphere, the DAO capital flow tool Paymagic, and data analysis Platform Dapptos View, infrastructure projects Nutrios and StreamingFast, etc.

Considering that most of these projects are not directly facing ordinary users, and most of them have not yet launched specific test products, so for the time being, these projects are classified as "other" in a more general way. Odaily will follow up the report further.

Personal interaction experience