Aptos, a blockchain built by former Facebook employees that worked on Libra, has announced the launch of its mainnet today.
October 18, 2022 | | | | | 📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary | Current Bitcoin Price: $19,362 | Bitcoin price continues to hang around the mid $19,000s Tuesday, retreating slightly after failing to approach the $20,000 mark. | Top-20 altcoins have taken a small step back too, as Ethereum drops 2%, BNB falls 1% and XRP retreats 2%. | Top Stories for October 18, 2022 🔥 | | Aptos, a blockchain built by former Facebook employees that worked on Libra, has announced the launch of its mainnet today. | The Aptos blockchain raised $150 million in July and has its own coding language called Move, which is intended to be more user-friendly for developers. | User transactions on the network are expected to begin tomorrow, along with the trading of Aptos' native token (APT) opening on several major exchanges. | | The European Commission says that EU member states must prepare to stop crypto mining over the winter, if load-shedding is required in electricity systems. | The EU is also developing an energy-efficiency label for blockchains, along with data centers and computers – a move that may punish Proof-of-Work networks but benefit Proof-of-Stake. | | The Ethereum Foundation has announced the launch of a new test network called "Shangdong" – a testing ground for updates that will be included in the eventual Shanghai network upgrade. | Shanghai is expected to launch by September 2023 at the latest and will enable the withdrawal of staked Ether, along with other network upgrades. |
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