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- Algorand Foundation pauses xGov grants, closes the Forum and shelves King Safety The November 6 update pauses xGov from December 6, closes the Forum, ends two council arrangements and drops all three King Safety options. Its own published x402 report shows 95.93% of counted settlements carried a detected payer-merchant link.
- Pera's Swap Widget puts a working trade box inside other Algorand apps Pera Wallet offers the routing engine behind its own swaps as an embeddable widget and an API, so a visitor connects a wallet, reads a rate and signs without leaving the host app. A demo site shows four ways to wire it, and quotes can be fetched without holding funds.
- DorkFi lends against Tinyman LP tokens, so liquidity can stay in the pool DorkFi is a live lending market on Algorand mainnet: supply for a variable rate, borrow against collateral (including some Tinyman LP positions, which keep earning fees), or mint its WAD dollar-targeting coin. One wallet can replace the pools' code.
- ARC-89 metadata SDK is ready on Testnet, with the MainNet registry still TBD The Algorand Foundation's TypeScript SDK for ARC-89 stores asset descriptions in a registry app's box storage instead of an off-chain file. It works on Testnet, where the registry held 20 records as of October 27; the spec's MainNet deployment entry still reads TBD.
- NodeKit runs an Algorand node from the terminal and hands key signing to a wallet NodeKit, the Algorand Foundation's open-source terminal tool, installs and syncs a node, generates participation keys and watches its health, then hands registration to Lora or Pera to sign. An offline page walks through that registration step without a node.
- Myth Finance's alcALGO pays Algorand staking yield in a game token alcALGO stakes ALGO in Algorand consensus and pays the rewards in Algo Leagues' game token, ALC, with fees taken from the yield, not the deposit. Holders mint with ALGO plus ALC and redeem for the same ALGO with more ALC. The pool's stake sits close to the minimum at which Algorand pays rewards.
- Algorand's Smart ASA v2 moves a token's freeze to a place its holder cannot clear ARC-20 puts an Algorand token's rules in a smart contract. Its v2.0.0 reference implementation, out October 23, keeps account freezes in boxes the contract owns, cutting a holder's locked balance to 0.1 ALGO. The release says the code is unaudited and not upgradable.
- Algorand's quantum pitch: the keys are ready, the chain is not yet Algorand's new chief executive is courting banks with post-quantum security. Falcon-keyed accounts exist and read as 'pqsig' on-chain, but the Foundation's own roadmap says consensus signing and native multisig stay Ed25519-only.
- Algorand's 2.7 million post-quantum transactions, and the printer behind a million of them Algorand says it is first to 2.7 million post-quantum transactions. A badge batch and a self-serve printer made about three quarters of the user-signed count, and a third stream more than a tenth. Anyone can repeat the check on the public indexer.
- ZeroSignal charges for AI by the message from an Algorand account, not an API key ZeroSignal sells large-model access by the message, paid in dollars from a funded Algorand account rather than an API key. A one-command proxy redirects the tools you already use. Three operators run eight nodes; the client code and an audit are not published.
- Algorand Foundation's strategy chief is its third senior exit since August Marc Vanlerberghe resigned as the Foundation's strategy and marketing chief on October 14, the third senior exit since late August, leaving the CTO seat unfilled. The Foundation is reviewing programs for self-sustainability; results would show in the quarterly transparency report.
- Lute is a free Algorand browser wallet, one of five the Foundation recommends Lute is a free Algorand wallet that runs in a browser tab or a Chrome extension, with keys kept on the device and no sign-up. The Algorand Foundation lists it among five wallets for newcomers. One developer builds it. Its gold theme needs a Lutier token.