Aptos Developer Documentation

Aptos Developer Documentation

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Getting Started

Deploy Your First Move Smart Contract Compile & publish Move modules to devnet in minutes.
Your First Transaction Write and read on-chain data using the TypeScript SDK.
Code with AI (MCP) Give Cursor and Claude Code direct access to Aptos APIs.
NEW! Agent Skills Move and TS SDK skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot.

Tools

NEW! AskAptos AI Chatbot Query docs, plan or refine requirements with AI (top right!).
Testnet Faucet Fund your testnet account with APT to start building.
Official SDKs TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Rust, C++, Unity, and more.
Aptos CLI Compile, test, publish contracts; accounts & keys; localnet.

Smart Contracts

NEW! Move on Aptos (VS Code Extension) Aptos Labs’ official extension for Move development.
Objects Composable on-chain primitives for flexible asset ownership, addressing, & programmability.
The Move Book Understand Move syntax, types, resources, & best practices.
Vibe Code a full-stack dApp on Learn Interactive AI workshop to quickly build a full-stack dApp.

On-Chain Features

Sponsored Transactions Pay for users’ gas so they can use your dApp with zero APT.
Keyless Accounts Onboard users and sign without wallets or seed phrases.
NEW! Orderless Transactions High-volume apps can be safer by sending transactions out of order with replay-protection nonce.
On-chain Randomness Verifiable random number = fair games, lotteries, & drops.

Resources

NEW! LLMs.txt Integration AI-optimized documentation format, paste it in your favorite large context AI and get moving!
Query, Index, or Stream On-Chain Data Query Indexer API, index contracts, stream raw transactions.
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