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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 1:42 AM EDT · New York
Aptos Turns On an Optional Encrypted Mempool on Mainnet to Hide Pending Trades From Front-Runners
Validators order transactions without seeing their contents until the block is final. The sender address and fee stay visible, and tests showed about 20 milliseconds of added delay per block.
Aptos, a layer-1 blockchain, launched an encrypted mempool on mainnet on October 12. The mempool is the queue where transactions wait before they are added to a block. The feature is meant to protect pending trades from front-running and sa…
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