Aptos is an independent high-performance PoS Layer 1 project focused on providing the world's secure, scalable Layer 1 blockchain. The Aptos blockchain utilizes the Move programming language and the Move virtual machine for application development, creating and optimizing blockchain use cases. The team consists of the original authors, researchers, designers and builders of Diem, the first blockchain built for this purpose. Aptos raised $200 million from a16z, Multicoin, Binance and others. Aptos launched Devnet in mid-March and incentivized testnet in late May, with the goal of launching mainnet in Q3.