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The main public blockchain network where transactions are recorded and have real value, as opposed to a test network used for experimentation.

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• SubQuery winds down its decentralised network to bet on a plain-English AI query app SubQuery is retiring the staked indexing network it launched in 2024 and pointing users at AskSubQuery, a site that turns plain-English questions into GraphQL queries. An April 2026 exploit drained 382 million SQT from its Base contracts.
• Gora's staking videos still point at gora.fi, a domain that expired on Sept. 14 Gora began on Algorand as the oracle Goracle and now runs a live testnet where off-chain validators sign app results for AI agents: a demo AI fund anyone can join in a browser, free deploys, and staking tutorials still pointing at a domain that has lapsed.
• Gora's agent testnet is live, and its demo app is an AI fund you can join Gora is an Algorand-born compute network where off-chain validators run app code and sign the result for contracts and wallets to act on. Its testnet answers at a public endpoint, with a demo AI trading fund you can deposit testnet GORA into and a free raffle app.
• Derova.algo's dashboard tracks one Algorand node's pending pool and the next state proof Derova.algo's free dashboard shows one Algorand node's pending transaction pool live, plus the last 20 blocks, node health and a countdown to the network's next state proof. No wallet needed — but the pool count is one node's view, not the network's.
• Algorand's new CEO inherits a 2027 quantum deadline and an undisclosed K3 Labs role William Herkelrath began as Algorand Foundation CEO on Aug. 31. He inherits a 2027 post-quantum deadline, a live agentic-payments contest, a four-person board that lost its two DeFi-legal directors, and an undisclosed overlap with the company he co-founded.
• AlgoChess settles staked chess games in ALGO on mainnet ahead of Sept. 20 token mine AlgoChess is a browser chess site on Algorand MainNet where two players — or one player and Stockfish — stake ALGO that a contract pays to the winner. Its 20-million CHESS token, mined only by winning, opens 20 September with no sale and no premine.
• Pera Wallet ships Quantum Accounts as Falcon-signed transactions top 1.19M Pera puts Algorand v5's native Falcon-1024 accounts in users' hands — create one or rekey an existing address — and its Explorer counter now reads 1.19M quantum-resilient transactions, with tiered NFT claims live on-chain.
• Algorand ships AC2, an open protocol that keeps AI agents off users' keys Algorand Foundation's AC2 protocol lets users approve AI agent actions — payments, code commits, API calls — with a passkey while private keys never leave their device.
• Algorand team GoPlausible donates universal DID resolver to standards body DIF GoPlausible built thisDID, a universal resolver that turns any W3C decentralized identifier into one conformant document, and donated it to the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Algorand's did:algo and did:nfd get an Algorand-native first hop. It is live; traffic is modest.
• Al Goanna's Bank of Goanna issues 145 NFT-backed loans totaling 34.92k ALGO Al Goanna, the Algorand NFT project that planted ~200,000 trees, now runs a DAO-funded NFT lending platform and an MvZ battle game. The lending platform has processed 145 loans, with interest funding the community treasury.
• AlgoRank Passes 1,000 Listings on 12,300 Community Votes AlgoRank's community-voted directory ranks 1,000+ Algorand tokens, NFTs, dApps and people by ~12,300 wallet votes — free daily voting, paid premium votes, tallies kept off-chain.
• Pera Connect SDK 1.6.0 ships experimental ARC-27 browser-extension signing Profile of Pera's developer hub: @perawallet/connect 1.6.0 adds opt-in ARC-27 extension signing, alongside Pera's public ASA data API, NFT parsing specs, and mobile deep links.