Aptos Foundation backs Move AI Hackathon with focus in DeFAI, social, AI and gaming
Aptos Weekly Overview - Feb. 13, 2025
Aptos Weekly Overview - Feb. 13, 2025
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By The Numbers
Aptos transactions this week: 50.2M (+38.2%)
Network transactions per second (TPS): 83
Active users: 7.4M (+30.6%)
New users this week: 3.7M
Total staked APT: 877.9 (0%)
Aptos total value locked (TVL): $823.5M (-15.2%)
NFT weekly sales: 879 (-15.8%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe from Flipside data as of Feb. 10, 2025, unless noted otherwise.
Inside the blockchain
🌐What happened: The Move AI Hackathon, backed by Aptos Foundation, is launching the ecosystem's largest AI-focused event to date.
🌐Why does it matter: This global online hackathon is organized by Metamove and Joule Finance with a prize pool of $250,000.
The event will focus on four specialized tracks for participants to explore different aspects of AI integration with blockchain technology.
DeFi/Trading (DeFAI) Track: Builders can create autonomous AI agents that manage positions across the Aptos ecosystem. This can be through optimizing yield strategies, portfolio rebalancing, risk management and other DeFi strategies.
Social/Viral Track: Encouraging developers to bridge the web3 gap, focus on AI-driven content generation and community management.
The Agentic Infra Track: For infrastructure enthusiasts, this one provides opportunities to develop foundational tools for complex agent interactions in the Aptos ecosystem. This can be from transaction automation to multi-protocol integration to launching and managing AI agent tokens.
The GameFi Track: This focuses on opening doors for creating AI agents that can handle in-game assets and optimize play-to-earn strategies within the Aptos gaming ecosystem.
The hackathon welcomes participants of all experience levels, requiring no prior knowledge of Move programming.Move AI Agent Kit, released by Joule Finance, provides participants with tools and capabilities. The kit enables developers to launch, mint, burn, and transfer tokens, while also facilitating NFT collection interactions.
Builders can utilize the kit to implement AI-crafted DeFi strategies on Joule Finance and execute token swaps on Panora Exchange. The software toolkit will help to bridge AI agents to Aptos and other Move-based blockchain ecosystems to create innovative AI applications with blockchain capabilities.
The free registration period is open till February 28th, 2025, with final project submissions due by March 3rd, 2025.
🌐The big picture: For Aptos, this hackathon aims to expand its developer ecosystem and advance AI integration in blockchain applications. Participants will also receive additional support through mentorship programs, AMAs, and community channels throughout the event.
With the Move AI Agent Kit, builders can create AI-powered applications across DeFi, social, infrastructure, and gaming sectors. The initiative also establishes connections between Aptos and other Move-based blockchains through shared AI capabilities, while the hackathon's global format opens opportunities for developers to build AI applications in the Move ecosystem.
Ecosystem wins
Aptos is the biggest Move-based chain by stablecoins at $819M, its Co-Founder Avery Ching shared on X
MEXC Exchange adds support for USDC on Aptos mainnet, available starting Feb. 12 at 14:00 UTC
Emojicoin launches Hairbot, a Telegram buy bot for Aptos, in collaboration with Hair Token – join here
Emojicoin also added a new community feature, cult creations, for users to share what they’ve made on the platform
Aries Markets TVL rose 10% to $294.84M and its UAW increased 56% to 4.69K, on the week, DappRadar data shows
The community is makin’ Moves
Rewardy Wallet and Aptos have made a strategic partnership to bring its gamified and community-centric rewards portal to the network
Shardines was announced last week, and the community is still buzzing about it - check out this thread diving into what’s now possible with 1M TPS
Listen to SPOOKS X Space on validators alongside team members from Aptos Foundation and Labs
By the headlines
You might have seen these Aptos-related headlines recently…
Aptos on Track to be the First Blockchain to Sustain 20K TPS with Sub-Second Latency (X Article)
Crypto's Ultimate End State With Avery Ching (Empire podcast)
Jellybean™ x Juice WRLD: A Limited Edition Toy That Unlocks Exclusive Fan Experiences (Variety)
Join in the fun
Want to dive into the ecosystem full-time? Find the latest job postings on Aptos Foundation here.
In NYC? Sign up for the Refraction x Aptos event at Lume Studios on Feb 13
Going to Consensus Hong Kong? Join Aptos Builder’s Hour Dev Meetup on Feb. 20
Take part in Merkle Trade’s Valentine’s Racing Royale until Feb 15 for a chance at a prize pool of 3K in $APT
Have a startup? List your company’s open roles on the Aptos Ecosystem Job Board
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