According to Foresight News, the Aptos Foundation has reached a cooperation with Alibaba Cloud to strengthen Japan's Web3 ecosystem and improve regional accessibility in the Asia-Pacific region. The two parties have jointly launched Asia's first co-branded Move developer community Alcove to promote smart contract programming languages ​​in the Asia-Pacific region. The Aptos Foundation will use Alibaba Cloud's technology to hold hackathons and educational activities to support emerging Web3 talents in the Alcove Japanese community and accelerate the development of the Japanese on-chain ecosystem.

Alcove's mission is to expand the influence and popularity of the Move smart contract programming language among talented developers.