testnet
A separate, experimental version of a blockchain used for testing new features or applications without real-world financial risk. Assets and transactions on a testnet have no monetary value.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- AlgoSeas' idle pirate game tops 38,090 minted NFTs; marketplace charts all of Algorand AlgoSeas, Algorand's pirate idle-staking game, has minted 38,090 pirate NFTs since 2022 and now runs a marketplace tracking network-wide sales — while its DUB currency remains nearly untradeable off-platform.
- Nodely puts its Unlimited Algorand API tier on Akita's on-chain subscription marketplace Nodely, the team behind Algorand's default free node API, now sells its Unlimited tier on Akita Subscriptions for 249 USDC a month — escrow-based recurring billing anyone can trigger. The whole marketplace lists four offerings.
- Silo Protocol, Algorand's 2022 options-vault builder, goes dark Silo Protocol launched Algorand's first options vaults in 2022, hit a $1,762 TVL peak, and is now offline with ~$46 left in its contracts.