At first, I just wanted to give a $50 tip to my designer fren overseas. But you know how it goes with traditional cross-border payments: the fees are like play people for suckers, and the arrival time is like a snail's pace. By the time the money actually reached his hands, it had almost been two days.

Later, my fren told me: "Why don't you try on-chain payment? Use @Aptos."

I originally thought he was joking, after all, my impression of crypto payments was either high fees and slow speeds, or having to hassle with wallets. But after using it, it really works well:

0.125 seconds per block, money arrives in seconds. Transaction fee of 0.0005 dollars, not even enough to buy a piece of gum. Stablecoin liquidity over 1.4 billion, as stable as bank settlements. Even institutions are using it, with 540 million dollars of real assets moved on-chain, this is not just for fun.

At that moment, I realized that we had been fooled by the traditional payment script of "slow + expensive" for too long. Aptos is like a hidden expressway that can take payments directly from the outdated SWIFT to the era of "instant arrival at a blink."
Even my fren added: "Don't even talk about small tips, in the future, cross-border wages and corporate settlements might have to move onto Aptos."
——I smiled, and the next day, the company finance really asked me: "How do you open that Aptos account?"