Aptos Commits $50M to AI Agent Infrastructure and Research

Aptos allocated $50M toward AI agent infrastructure, including trading, storage and confidential transaction systems.

The Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs have allocated $50 million toward Aptos network development, with a primary focus on infrastructure and research for AI agents. The announcement was published Thursday on the Aptos Network blog.

The funding targets two products that the ecosystem shipped last year. Decibel, an AI-powered on-chain order book and perpetuals exchange, launched on Aptos mainnet in February. Shelby, a

storage protocol designed to handle AI agent workloads, is also part of the investment scope.

The foundation said autonomous agents are already executing on-chain transactions at speeds no human can replicate, and that the infrastructure must support sub-second finality and operate continuously without human oversight. Aptos (APT) will be used for transaction burns, access to advanced AI-agent features, and staking mechanisms aimed at improving network performance.

The $50 million will also go toward integrations with neobanks, institutional platforms, and wallet providers, as well as development of encrypted mempools and confidential perpetuals trading. Aptos is among a growing number of