Mapbox Vector Tiles are, for better or worse, the industry standard. They have good library support and are good enough that no one is rushing to reinvent them.
If you want to distribute sets of tiles to people, PMTiles is the best container format as you can just throw the file on hosting that supports HTTP Range requests (e.g. S3) and add the appropriate plugins to your client library. If you have to support clients which can't do the range requests from pmtiles, you can throw a thin layer in front of it to turn HTTP z/x/y requests into the pmtiles range requests.
There are no good file formats for distributing minutely updates of tiles but there's no need for this. If you are keeping your tiles up to date up to the minute you have a reasonable internet connection and you can just download individual tiles instead.
If you want to distribute sets of tiles to people, PMTiles is the best container format as you can just throw the file on hosting that supports HTTP Range requests (e.g. S3) and add the appropriate plugins to your client library. If you have to support clients which can't do the range requests from pmtiles, you can throw a thin layer in front of it to turn HTTP z/x/y requests into the pmtiles range requests.
There are no good file formats for distributing minutely updates of tiles but there's no need for this. If you are keeping your tiles up to date up to the minute you have a reasonable internet connection and you can just download individual tiles instead.