By Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching

The Aptos team and our community have been hard at work over the last few months bringing safety and scalability to the foundation of web3. From our very first hackathon to kicking off incentivized testnets to exciting announcements, Aptos’ momentum has been tangible as we “Move” into our mainnet launch later this year.

Barely a few weeks have passed since Aptos Incentivized Testnet 1 (AIT-1) and we are already at AIT-2. The team has been hard at work preparing substantial updates to bring to the Aptos community a seamless registration process for AIT-2, which begins today.

Our plan to further accelerate the rapid growth of the Aptos ecosystem

\*By: \*Mo Shaikh

A huge shout out to the community and a big thanks to all the AIT1 (Aptos Incentivized Testnet 1) participants for the successful completion of our first incentivized testnet! We are grateful for the collaboration and look forward to continued engagement with the community! This post covers rewards, some lessons about the AIT1 and some of our initial plans around greater community involvement for AIT2. Please read and share your thoughts!

\*\*By \*\*Joshua Lind

Consider the life cycle of a research project at a conventional industrial lab. Quite often it proceeds in the following order:

Looking back at the last two months of the explosive Aptos ecosystem