A crypto wallet launches its funding for Aptos-based project
Blocto, a crypto wallet, launches the Aptos Foundation with the mainnet. It announced the first community-based ecosystem fund on Aptos that will thrive in the Aptoverse.
In the Medium post published on October 19, 2022, Tien, Blocto’s Writer, added in his post that a highly anticipated Layer-1 blockchain built with MOVE and developed by former Meta team.
The new project is a move towards Aptos. While the building with $3 Million Blocto ecosystem fund includes the first grants as the General Grant fund, all the projects will receive 1K worth of $BLT. In the Early Bird Grant fund, the first 10 projects will receive $BLT worth 2K, and in the Exclusive Access fund, this will explore more growth opportunities.
Aptos is co-founded by Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, both former employees of Meta and also worked on the Diem blockchain. It has over 65 projects active across various verticals. Along with the new Aptos-based projects like Thala Labs, Martian and Souffl3 have also raised funds in recent weeks.
The funding details of Blocto strictly filter the registered emails of the new users using dApp via Blocto Wallet. It will provide the latest data via its newsletter to project partners.
In addition, Aptos Network, the Layer 1 blockchain, retweeted the BloctoApp post on November 3, 2022, which was related to Tortuga Finance building the premier non-custodial liquid staking protocol on Aptos.
Tortuga is one of the places where you can delegate APT to validators. Like, Stake APT, receive tAPT to spend across the ecosystem.
Aptos-backed crypto wallet
On the other hand, if we talk about the top five crypto wallets on the Aptos blockchain, then these are: Rise Wallet, Martian Wallet, Pontem Wallet, FoxWallet and Pentra Wallet.
A little more about these wallets, firstly Rise Wallet has risen through the ranks to quickly stand out as the best option for crypto wallets on the Aptos blockchain.
The next crypto wallet, Martian Wallet, is the leading wallet on the Aptos blockchain, which has over 300,000 users registered on this platform.
In addition, Pontem Wallet is one of the first crypto wallets developed directly for Aptos, creating a large user base for early availability. While FoxWallet, which is a multi-chain Web-3 wallet that offers integrations within the Aptos system. And finally, the Petra Wallet created by Aptos Labs allows users to receive and send digital tokens with ease.
Turning to the Aptos price, the current price is $7.63 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $327.74 million USD. Aptos is up 4.08% in the last 24 hours. And the current CoinMarketCap ranking is #53, with a live market cap of $992.57 million USD.
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