Hassan Maishera
On Friday, Aptos Labs announced via X that Daya has raised $2.4 million, backed by the Aptos Foundation, Hivemind Capital, Lattice, Alliance, and Globelink.
The company will use the funds to build a stablecoin-native payments platform for African businesses operating across global markets.
Daya, a stablecoin-native payments company founded by Nigerian entrepreneurs, has raised $2.4 million in pre-seed funding to build what it describes as a financial operating layer for African businesses that operate across borders.
Daya offers traditional SWIFT and bank wire capabilities, virtual local-currency accounts, and payment APIs that businesses and fintechs can integrate directly.
The platform supports virtual accounts in U.S. dollars, Hong Kong dollars, and Chinese yuan, and also offers APIs for developers who want to embed cross-border payment infrastructure into their own products.
Aptos is a scalable layer-1 blockchain based on the Move programming language. APT is the project's native token.
Aptos is a Layer 1 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that employs a novel smart contract programming language called Move, a Rust-based programming language that was independently developed by Meta (formerly Facebook)’s Diem blockchain engineers.
Aptos’s vision is a blockchain that brings mainstream adoption to web3 and empowers an ecosystem of DApps to solve real-world user problems.
The PoS blockchain can achieve a theoretical transaction throughput of over 150,000 transactions per second (tps) through parallel execution.
In March 2022, Aptos raised $200 million in a seed round led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Other crypto heavyweights like Tiger Global and Multicoin Capital took part in the funding round.
Fast forward to July, the startup raised another $200 million in a Series A round with participation from Dragonfly, Apollo Global, Franklin Templeton, Animoca, Jump Crypto, and others.
APT is down 0.6%, trading at $0.5782 per coin. For a start, the Aptos team claims that its network can process over 150,000 tps. By comparison, Ethereum’s mainnet TPS is around 12 to 15.
This high transaction throughput is enabled by a parallel execution engine (Block-STM)—a Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) PoS consensus mechanism. For context, most blockchains execute transactions sequentially, which means that a single failed transaction or high network demand could hold up the entire chain.
