‘Performing as expected’ — Aptos Labs defends day 1 criticism
After 4 years of growth and tens of millions in funding, the layer-1 blockchain Aptos (APT) lastly launched its mainnet on Oct. 17, albeit to considerably blended reception.
The proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain has seen tens of millions invested in it from enterprise capital corporations and has beforehand claimed the flexibility to course of 160,000 transactions per second (TPS).
Nevertheless, some members of the neighborhood have identified that the claimed TPS is falling far wanting expectations on the mainnet.
In response to Aptos’ blockchain explorer, the community is seeing round 4 TPS on the time of writing, whereas some customers on Twitter have reported not with the ability to ship transactions.
Others on Twitter noticed the Aptos Discord was closed for just a few hours after the launch of the mainnet, accusing the staff was making an attempt to cease dialogue round potential launch points.
Cointelegraph reached out to Aptos for remark and was directed to a “Day one replace” tweet by Aptos on Oct. 18.
Within the tweet, Aptos said the community is “performing as anticipated” with exercise growing as extra ecosystem individuals be a part of. Cointelegraph was in a position to view a wide range of transactions from customers utilizing its blockchain explorer.
Day one replace:
Immediately has been thrilling. Thanks for all of the help!The Aptos community has been performing as anticipated and can see elevated exercise as ecosystem tasks onboard and get going.
— Aptos (@AptosLabs) October 18, 2022
Aptos additionally said it closed feedback on its Discord and Telegram channels to “defend the neighborhood from scams” and they’ll “return to regular when applicable.”
The tokenomics of Aptos just isn’t but publicly out there, main some to cite issues that cryptocurrency exchanges resembling Binance and FTX are itemizing its token with out such info out there to their clients.
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Aptos has seen tens of millions invested from enterprise capital corporations, with the newest spherical of funding in July netting Aptos Labs $150 million. A previous spherical in March raised $200 million with individuals together with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), FTX Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.
Aptos Labs was created by former Meta staff Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, who had been concerned within the failed Diem blockchain venture, which wound down in February of this 12 months and offered its mental property and different belongings.
The blockchain is constructed on a programming language initially developed for the defunct Meta-built Diem blockchain.
