The Aptos Foundation has officially launched the Aptos CTRL+MOVE hackathon through DoraHacks, a global hackathon platform. The competition, held from August 4th to October 3rd, aims to drive DeFi and payment innovation on the Aptos network and build the next generation of financial infrastructure and applications. Aptos encourages developers, startup teams, and crypto enthusiasts to actively participate and explore the powerful functions of the Move language and the unlimited potential of the Aptos public chain to win a total prize pool of up to US$100,000 and ecological support.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Daehong Communications, a subsidiary of South Korea's Lotte Group, has announced the construction of a "Money Movement" blockchain ecosystem for the real economy based on Aptos. As one of South Korea's largest retail and commercial groups, Lotte Group operates across multiple sectors, boasting a vast consumer network and market influence. This partnership integrates the Aptos blockchain with Giftiel, a mobile voucher service operated by a Dahong subsidiary. Since the integration was completed in early July, Giftiel has over 500,000 users holding vouchers on the Aptos blockchain, with cumulative issuance exceeding one million. This brings the entire voucher process, from issuance, distribution, to redemption, onto the blockchain, providing greater transparency and more reliable data management capabilities. Leveraging Lotte Group's extensive business scope and Aptos' high-performance blockchain infrastructure, this collaboration is expected to expand to include diverse services related to customer loyalty points, digital assets, and stablecoins. As South Korea's regulatory framework for stablecoins gradually takes shape, this "capital flow" ecosystem has the potential to lay the foundation for future digital asset applications in South Korea.

Odaily News Hyperion, the largest decentralized trading platform in Aptos, announced the official launch of the RION Utility prologue, taking the lead in opening the native staking Phase I. Users can now lock $RION to participate in the native staking mechanism and enter the first stage of network construction and value sharing. The total activity period of Staking Phase I is 1 month. The user's staking time is based on the actual participation time, and the reward comes from part of the platform's transaction fee income. This mechanism is intended to identify and motivate real contributors and lay the foundation for more RION application scenarios in the future. It also reflects Hyperion's high attention to real interaction and ecological positive cycle. Hyperion stated that this phase is the first step in unlocking RION Utility, and it will continue to release more utility scenarios based on real income.

Odaily News According to official news, the Aptos network now supports WBTC, and users can cross-bridge WBTC to the Aptos network through Satrgate.

Odaily News According to the official announcement, BitMart will launch Hyperion (RION) for the first time at 23:00 (ET8) on July 16, and will open the RION/USDT trading pair. Hyperion is a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Aptos, with investors including OKX Ventures, Aptos Labs, Mirana Ventures, Maelstrom, etc. By integrating exchange aggregation, CLMM and treasury strategies into a seamless on-chain experience, Hyperion is building a unified liquidity and trading layer for Aptos.

Odaily News Hyperion, one of the Aptos ecosystem DeFi projects, officially launched TGE today and released its native token RION. RION is now available on Binance Alpha and will be available on exchanges such as Gate, Kucoin and MEXC. RION is an IDO project that uses the Bonding Curve dynamic pricing mechanism and reached the FDV limit of $20 million within one minute of its launch. As one of the projects of the Aptos Foundation's LFM program, Hyperion's TVL has exceeded US$130 million in less than half a year since its launch, and its cumulative transaction volume has exceeded US$700 million.

Odaily News According to official news, Binance Wallet will work with @hyperion_xyz (RION) to host the first exclusive Token Generation Event (TGE) based on the Bonding Curve mechanism through @four_meme_. The event will start from 8:00 to 10:00 (UTC) on July 16, 2025. Qualified users need to use Binance Alpha Points to participate. TGE details and event page will be announced soon.

Odaily News According to official news, the Hyperion airdrop query page has been launched. Users who have participated in DRIPs activities, provided liquidity, and completed tasks before can immediately check the RION airdrop qualifications. Users need to connect to the Aptos wallet to verify their qualifications. The application will be open after TGE, and the deadline is 60 days after TGE. Tokens that are not claimed after the deadline will be transferred to the subsequent incentive pool.

Odaily News Aptos Labs announced today that it has appointed Solomon Tesfaye, formerly head of capital markets, as Chief Business Officer (CBO), responsible for promoting on-chain innovation in global markets, payment infrastructure, and enterprise-level systems, deepening institutional cooperation, further strengthening Aptos' advantages in the RWA and stablecoin fields, and accelerating global business expansion. Solomon has played a key role in expanding the institutional business development of Aptos. He has led the preparation of Aptos' US spot ETF and established in-depth cooperation with the world's top financial technology companies. In the future, he will continue to promote the market and application scenarios in key areas such as RWA, stablecoins, and payments. At present, the scale of RWA on the Aptos chain has exceeded US$540 million, ranking among the top three public chains in the world. With the upcoming introduction of new US tokenization regulations and continued in-depth dialogue with policymakers, institutions' expectations for the adoption of on-chain finance will be further enhanced.

Odaily News Developer incentive platform DoraHacks announced the launch of the latest version of the hackathon automated organizing agent, BUIDL AI 3.0. Compared with version 2.5, the new version adds the DoraHacks organizing agent, which grasps the DoraHacks team's experience in organizing thousands of hackathons. At the same time, BUIDL AI 3.0 can further assist organizers in automating the management of the hackathon process, saving organizers 90% of their energy. It is reported that BUIDL AI has been adopted by 30 leading Web3 ecosystems and projects such as Circle, Stacks, YZi Labs, Sonic, and Aptos for the expansion of their global developer ecosystem.