🧧🧧 $APT will definitely rise, it must rise. A review of the 14 most important positive developments in the past two months to boost confidence in my holdings

1/ Grayscale has included $APT in its asset consideration list (AUC) for the third quarter of this year under the smart contract platform category.

2/ The Aptos Foundation confirmed a grant of $200M

For incentives, liquidity, and protocol deployment.

3/ The native USDT supply has surpassed $1 billion, with the total market capitalization of stablecoins reaching $1.2 B (+85.9% YTD).

4/ Stani confirmed that Aave will deploy on Aptos, marking the first non-EVM deployment.

5/ WBTC-OFT deployed via LayerZero, with $430M in BTC assets already on-chain, expected to soon exceed $500M.

6/ The Decibel trading engine has gone live on the testnet, aiming to process 1M orders/second, with a block time of <20ms, officially supported by Aptos Labs.

7/ DeFi TVL skyrocketed from $100M to over $1B in just 7 months, with Aries Markets ($212.1M) becoming the largest protocol.

8/ Thala DEX's daily trading volume has increased by 900% this year to approximately $200M, and BTCfi TVL exceeds $100M just from Echelon.

9/ Amnis Finance completed a $2M seed round funding, becoming the #1 liquid staking protocol, with a TVL of $177.94M, offering 10.43% APR.

10/ On August 12, 11.31M APT (approximately 2.4% of circulating supply) will be unlocked, valued at about $52M, requiring attention to short-term selling pressure.

11/ Institutional narratives are heating up: BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are building products on Aptos, and Grayscale has added APT to its watchlist.

12/ Hyperion's hybrid order book AMM received pre-seed funding, adopting a dual-token model (RION+xRION).

13/ The RWA track is clearly positioned: A stablecoin pilot supported by Wyoming is seen by the community as a regulatory asset issuance center competing with Solana.

14/ Merkle Trade's gamified perpetual DEX attracted over 115K traders in 4 months, with a trading volume of $7 billion, backed by several well-known institutions.