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Aptos Foundation announced a wave of partnerships, projects, and integrations during the Aptos Ecosystem Summit, including Dune and seven other major data providers. These collaborations aim to simplify everything, from crypto data standardization to dApp searchability on the Aptos platform.
Aptos Foundation Expands Data Partnerships to Enhance Accessibility and Functionality
In a significant move aimed at making decentralized data more accessible and efficient for both users and developers, the Aptos Foundation, renowned for its commitment to delivering the lowest-latency and highest-throughput L1 blockchain, today unveiled a slew of strategic partnerships, projects, and integrations during the Aptos Ecosystem Summit. These collaborations are expected to bolster data integration services, simplify data standardization, and enhance dapp searchability on the Aptos blockchain.
Aptos Foundation’s latest initiatives have drawn prominent data providers and integrators into its fold, including Dune, Nansen, Space x Time, Token Terminal, DappRadar, The Tie, Flipside Crypto, and Elliptic. The primary objectives of these partnerships are to empower data providers to maximize the potential of building on the Aptos blockchain, offer comprehensive data integration services to the Aptos ecosystem and community, and facilitate the seamless and secure integration of the Move on Aptos programming language.
Bashar Lazaar, Head of Grants & Ecosystem at Aptos Foundation, emphasized the importance of these partnerships in the organization’s mission to enhance the user experience and provide value to the community.
He stated, “In partnering with the world’s top Web3 data integration providers, we’re enabling unparalleled opportunities for protocols and projects to shift to a multichain operation or move entirely from a previous platform onto Aptos.”
The Aptos Foundation’s new data partners span use cases, projects, and value proposition, bringing the best of it all to the Aptos ecosystem:
- DappRadar: DappRadar tracks over 15,000+ dapps in DeFi, gaming, social, and more, and 39,000+ NFT collections on more than 60 chains. DappRadar supports Web3 users as they discover new dapps, providing on-chain data and insights to help them make decisions along the way.
- Dune Analytics: Dune Analytics is the leading crypto data platform on a mission to make crypto data accessible through organized, decoded, human-readable blockchain data across chains. Millions of users and contributors leverage DUNE’s largest and most comprehensive crypto dataset on the market. In fact, they have 1.5M datasets, 3TB of data added daily, 600,000 decoded tables, and 14 chains coverage with full historical data.
- Flipside Crypto: Flipside Crypto is a leading on-chain data analytics platform that empowers the Web3 community to build better data-driven products. Flipside offers free access to their reliable data across 20+ blockchains; plus their data is labeled, making it easy for devs and analysts to query, create, and build.
- Nansen: Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallet labels. Crypto investors use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence and defend their portfolios with Nansen’s real-time dashboards and alerts.
- Space and Time: Space and Time scales zero-knowledge proofs in a decentralized data warehouse loaded with on- and off-chain data. They prioritize security, ensuring tamper-proof communications at scale.
- The Tie: The Tie services hundreds of leading institutions in crypto including asset managers, hedge funds, banks, OTC desks, and market makers. Through this partnership, crypto’s leading institutions will have unparalleled access to raw and transformed Aptos blockchain data as well as exposure to developments across the Aptos ecosystem.
- Token Terminal: Token Terminal is a full-stack on-chain data platform focused on standardizing financial and alternative data for the most widely used blockchains and dApps out there – including the leading investors and operators in crypto. Token Terminal ingests over 100k transactions per day from more than 15 blockchains and manages over 50TB of raw blockchain data to power its industry-leading standardized financial and alternative data sets.
Notably, these collaborations promise to usher in a new era for data accessibility and utilization within the Aptos community, transcending the confines of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Fredrik Haga, Co-Founder & CEO of Dune, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, saying, “We are thrilled to embark on this collaboration with the Aptos Foundation. As crypto’s data platform, our mission is to make crypto data accessible for everyone. This integration will open up a new world of possibilities for Dune’s community and users, including giving every industry participant data insights and tools beyond only the EVM landscape.”
Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen, echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the potential to deliver superior on-chain data and analytics to the Aptos ecosystem.
He noted, “This collaboration will empower investors and crypto teams to dive deep into the Aptos ecosystem. We’re excited to help create a winner in the future of finance.”
Conor Flanagan, Ecosystem Lead at Flipside Crypto, highlighted the positive and collaborative nature of the Aptos community.
He emphasized the ease of using the Move programming language for data analysis on the Aptos blockchain, stating, “Using Move has been a breeze for both our Data Engineering team and analyst communities to digest, curate, and analyze on-chain activity on Aptos.”
The Aptos Foundation’s efforts have already brought together top data integration companies from the Web3 space. Plans for further expansions of partnerships and new collaborations are in the pipeline for the year ahead. The overarching goal is to ensure that building on the Aptos blockchain becomes a data-rich and insight-driven experience for protocols, projects, and developers.
The Aptos Foundation’s commitment to data accessibility and collaboration with industry-leading partners underscores its determination to position itself as a pioneering force in the blockchain space. As these partnerships continue to evolve, the Aptos ecosystem is set to thrive, offering its users a wealth of data-driven possibilities.
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