According to @AveryChing, Aptos has launched Confidential Transactions on devnet with Distributed Lab, using homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs to encrypt balances and amounts while keeping sender and recipient identities visible (source: @AveryChing). Each transfer encrypts the amount under three keys held by the recipient, an auditor, and the sender, with validators verifying a ZK proof to update balances without seeing underlying values and token issuers able to designate auditors for independent decryption access (source: @AveryChing). The design targets onchain payroll, institutional trading without exposing position sizes, and treasury operations that avoid signaling strategy to the market (source: @AveryChing). Delphi Digital also reports BlackRock’s BUIDL fund exceeded $500M in October, with Aptos now the fund’s second-largest host after Ethereum, signaling rising institutional participation on the network (source: @AveryChing; citing Delphi Digital). For retail, X-Chain Accounts let Ethereum and Solana users create Aptos accounts with existing wallets—no new seed phrases, bridging, or APT for gas—with the feature currently in testnet (source: @AveryChing).