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Zaptos is a new, independent project focused on delivering the safest and most production-ready Layer 1 blockchain that can achieve a TPS up to 160k and subsecond finality. As we approach mainnet, the Aptos community has grown into one of the most vibrant communities with retail, institutions, and builders alike excited to grow a vibrant DEFI ecosystem.
For the Aptos ecosystem to flourish, the community needs to ensure that there exists decentralization of the network both in the form of shared voting power and the amount of APTOS staked to secure the network. Aptos is a proof-of-stake ( POS ) network that gives APTOS holders the ability to stake their tokens to make the network more secure in exchange for earning rewards. The issue with staking assets is that it requires a user to lock their asset for a long period, e.g. 28 days for Cosmos SDK chains.

This locked period forgoes an opportunity to generate additional utility such as generating yields from borrow/lending and liquidity providing on a decentralized exchange. There has always been a tradeoff — Are you going to lock away $APTOS to secure the network or are you going to engage in on-chain activity for yield and utility? Both are beneficial, but currently mutually exclusive. Zaptos is here to make both realities possible at the same time.
What is Zaptos and Liquid Staking?
Zaptos.Finance is a non-custodial liquid staking protocol built on Aptos. At Zaptos, users can deposit their staking asset into Zaptos and receive an IOU derivative that can be used in decentralized finance or applications built on the Aptos chain. Zaptos provides three strategic advantages for the Aptos Community
Instant Liquidity: Unlock your stake, receive a tokenized version of your position called zAptos, and use it in Defi
Decentralization: Open-sourced, permissionless delegation formula that directs liquidity to more than 1000+ validators
Community Owned: DAO structure allows the community to own the progression of the project and ecosystem outright.
Here is an example to better illustrate the experience. Let’s say we have 50 APTOS tokens. You stake this with Zaptos.finance and you get zAPTOS tokens in return. Under the hood, we manage all deposited ATPOS tokens from multiple users, identify the most rewarding validators, and then delegate APTOS in a way that produces the most decentralized and healthy network.
With Zaptos.finance you do not need to unstake your Aptos to experience the full utility of the staked asset. You receive zAPTOS instantly from depositing Aptos which will continuously increase as it will take into account the accrued rewards from staking. You will be able to instantly exit your position by swapping zAPTOS for APTOS and get more APTOS tokens in return.
The Zaptos team has made strategic partnerships in the Aptos ecosystem to increase zAptos utility and allow holders to engage in a plethora of opportunities on-chain. More details about these partnerships will be coming soon in future articles.
Summary
Our vision at Zaptos is to increase network decentralization and make staker’s locked assets productive on-chain. Our goal is to solve the problems associated with Proof-of-Stake networks: illiquidity, immovability, and accessibility. We aim to make staked APTOS tokens liquid with zAPTOS and at the same time distribute staking in multiple validators to improve the censorship resistance of the network.
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