Aptos is referred by many as "the next Solana" in crypto space. In this article, we explain what Aptos Blockchain is, its unique selling propositions, features and opportunities it brings to the crypto community and how you as an early investor can participate in Aptos airdrops.

What is Aptos?

Aptos is a layer one blockchain created by Aptos Labs to innovate security and scalability in the blockchain ecosystem, and is aiming to launch its mainnet in Q3 2022.

Although the chain is not live yet, there are tons of projects that are ready to go live on the Aptos network. Aptos has already gained popularity and large community support as the project founders, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, bring valuable knowledge and experience from Meta Inc.

Aptos boasts an extremely impressive 160 000 max transactions per second (TPS). To put this into perspective ETH can only handle 45 TPS. Another impressive feat that Aptos promises to accomplish is the fact that transactions' time to finality on their platform is less than one second. As a result they are instantaneous and this opens opportunities in the fields of payments, gaming, messaging and more.

Advantages Of Aptos

• Experienced and trusted team
• Smart contract implementation on the Move programming language
• Highly secure (DiemBFT v4,BFT)
• Unbeatable speed
• Scalable by design 

How to Get Involved in the Aptos Airdrops?

There are two ways with which investors can earn participation in Airdrops; Aptos Incentivized Testnets and Future Opportunities.

Aptos Incentivized Testnets (AIT)

The goal of AIT is to reward validators who help set up the nodes of the network and some technical skills and hardware may be required.

Before attempting the setup, make sure your node system meets the following requirements:

• Recommended disk space for nodes: 300GB
• Bandwidth requirement: 1Gbps

Covered in details in Aptos validator documentations, here are the essential tasks that applicants of validators must perform:

• Register, stake and designate operator on the Aptos Governance Platform
• Register validator nodes configuration on-chain
• Join the validator set
• Vote in 3 separate governance proposals
• Leave the validator set at the end of AIT-3 (Beginning Q3-2022)

The rewarding criterion associated with AIT includes:

• All required objectives must be performed on time
• Meeting node liveliness as defined by metrics push data >95%
• On chain reward earned >80% of maximum
• Applicants must participate in all Aptos created governance operations 

Successful applicants will be eligible to receive 800 $APTOS tokens.

Future Opportunities 

We recommend investors to also keep up to date with all the news and information that Aptos releases. It is very likely that Aptos will do airdrops for the regular folks to further decentralize the supply, to attract liquidity and to incentivize the usage of different projects on the blockchain.

To keep up to date with Aptos:

Follow Aptos on twitter

• Join the forum on their website
• Follow Balance on twitter
• Setup an Aptos wallet

To Summarize

Aptos has great potential to become a hi-roller in crypto space and therefore getting your hands on their tokens early could prove to be extremely fruitful. If you cant partake in the AIT we definitely recommend that you keep looking out for other airdrop opportunities. Thank you for taking the time to read this post.

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