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Describes transactions that are recorded and permanently stored on a blockchain ledger, making them publicly visible and tamper-resistant.

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• 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.
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• 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.
• Meld Gold Retires MCAU and MCAG; GOLD$ Still Trades on Algorand DEXs Meld Gold sells Algorand tokens backed one-for-one by a gram of vaulted metal. GOLD$ and SILVER$ trade on Tinyman, the retired MCAU and MCAG have passed their final withdrawal window, and redemption runs through a bullion partner by quote.
• 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.
• Algo Cleanup's transparency ledger went quiet in 2021; its blog ran to 2025 A one-person Algorand eco-project won a 2021 Foundation grant for litter-cleanup NFT auctions and donation transparency; its ledger stopped updating that year while its DeFi explainer blog continued until September 2025.
• 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 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.
• Algorand's NFT marketplace field shrinks to three venues after RandGallery freezes After RandGallery wound down, Downbad, Dartroom and AlgoSeas remain active Algorand NFT marketplaces; Shufl, ALGOxNFT and EXA Market are defunct. This guide covers ARC standards, fees, and self-custody.
• 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.