According to @AveryChing, an ACM OOPSLA paper by the University of Toronto and Shanghai Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute reports Aptos Move and EVM compatibility with nearly native efficiency, citing under 5% execution overhead as the headline result, which materially lowers cross-VM friction for smart contracts (source: Avery Ching on X; source: ACM OOPSLA DOI 10.1145/3763076). For traders, broader EVM-level compatibility targets the largest cohort of Web3 developers, a key driver of dApp supply, tooling availability, and network activity on EVM chains, which historically show the highest developer share (source: Electric Capital Developer Report 2023). Any increase in on-chain usage directly affects APT demand because APT is the native token used for gas and staking on the Aptos network (source: Aptos Docs). The paper’s stated goal of seamless multi-VM support to reduce ecosystem fragmentation between Move and EVM aligns with improving performance and security guarantees for users and developers, a fundamental prerequisite for scaling deployments on a single L1 (source: ACM OOPSLA DOI 10.1145/3763076; source: Avery Ching on X).