Goldman Predicts 50% Odds of 10% U.S. Tariff on Copper by Q1 Close 
Mexico's Undervalued Equity Market Offers Long-Term Investment Potential 
Bitcoin Defies Gravity Above $93K Despite Missing Retail FOMO – ETF Inflows Return & Whales Accumulate: Buy the Dip to $100K 
Stock Futures Dip as Investors Await Key Payrolls Data 
Urban studies: Doing research when every city is different 
Ethereum Refuses to Stay Below $3,000 – $3,600 Next? 
S&P 500 Relies on Tech for Growth in Q4 2024, Says Barclays 
ETHUSD Finds Its Footing: Buy the Dip for a Potential Surge Toward $3600 
Energy Sector Outlook 2025: AI's Role and Market Dynamics 
US Gas Market Poised for Supercycle: Bernstein Analysts 
U.S. Banks Report Strong Q4 Profits Amid Investment Banking Surge 
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain developed by Aptos Labs. It is considered a Solana killer.
Consensus Mechanism- Aptos uses byzantine fault-tolerant(BFT),proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Token holders lock, or stake, tokens in their selected validators. Each validator's consensus voting weight is proportional to the amount staked into it. A validator requires a minimum of 1 million tokens to participate in consensus. Aptos uses the BFT consensus protocol for validator nodes to decide which transactions to add to the blockchain.
Major components of Aptos core
Move Language-Move is a new smart contract programming language with an emphasis on safety and flexibility. The move ecosystem contains a compiler, a virtual machine, and many developer tools. Any assets in Move can be represented can be represented by or stored within the resource. The language can define custom resource types that cannot be copied or implicitly discarded, only moved between storage locations. Move guarantees resource, type, and memory safety.
Move Prover- Capable of verifying the correctness of a Move program. It provides additional safeguards for contract invariants and behavior.
Aptos uses decoupling of transaction dissemination block metadata ordering, parallel transaction execution, batch storage, and ledger certification to achieve high throughput and low latency.
Aptos features-
Transaction per second 4200
Block time finality- less than 1s
APTUSD prices are consolidating after a more than 90% surge from Oct low. It hit a high of $9.22 and is currently trading around $8.46. The pair is holding above the short-term (21 and 55-day EMA) and above the long-term moving average (200-day EMA).
The near-term resistance is around $10, any indicative breach above will take the pair to $13.60/$15. On the lower side, immediate support is $7.35, and any violation below targets $7/$6.31/$5.80.
Indicators ( Daily chart)
CCI(50)- Bullish
Directional movement index - Neutral
It is good to buy on dips around $7.55-57 with SL around $6.30 for TP of $13.
