Aptos Labs Proposes Encrypted Mempool to Combat Frontrunning

Key Facts

1Aptos Labs proposed an encrypted mempool that hides pending trade instructions until transaction ordering is finalized.

2Testing by the research team showed the new technology adds only 27 milliseconds of latency from proposal to execution.

Aptos Labs proposed an encrypted mempool that hides pending trade instructions until transaction ordering is finalized. According to crypto.news, the technology is designed to shield users from frontrunning and Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) by preventing malicious actors from viewing transaction details in the public mempool before they are processed.

Testing by the research team showed that the new technology adds only 27 milliseconds of latency from proposal to execution, representing a 14% increase over the baseline system. This technical advancement follows significant ecosystem growth, with the network's stablecoin market capitalization reaching $1.93 billion and real-world assets hitting $1.2 billion as of May 2026.