Aptos is making a serious push toward institutional adoption by rolling out Confidential Transactions. The feature just landed on devnet through a collaboration with Distributed Lab, leveraging homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs to keep balances and transaction amounts private. Here's the key detail: even with all that encryption happening under the hood, senders and recipients remain visible on-chain. It's a smart architectural choice—institutional players get the privacy they need without completely obscuring transaction trails. This kind of infrastructure development signals where the network is headed.