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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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• 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.
• 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.
• Pera Wallet ships 7.0 rebuild as Algorand's wallet field splits Pera's 7.0 rebuild anchors Algorand's wallet field in Aug 2026: Pera leads on upkeep, Biatec ships the newest signing safety, Defly holds at maintenance, Lute stays Ledger-first, Rocca looms.
• x402-winning Verun charges AI agents 0.01 USDC per trust verdict on Algorand Verun, the BCP Partners-built trust layer that won its track at Algorand's June x402 hackathon, scores AI agents 0-1000 via validator consensus and sells each verdict for 0.01 USDC, anchored on Algorand Testnet.
• Brale's Algorand stablecoin rails sit empty seven months after launch A profile of Brale, the Lightspeed-backed, U.S.-regulated stablecoin issuance platform running 300+ programs across nearly 30 chains — and why its January Algorand launch has yet to produce a single mint.
• Algorand birthday site pins 8th anniversary to June 12, 2027 — dug from block records Profile of isitalgorandsbirthday.com: D13's annual countdown and free NFT drop now targets June 12 for the 8th year — a date the author reconstructed from MainNet block timestamps.
• Algorand Foundation's Aug 25 x402 workshop follows a 75M-transaction month The Algorand Foundation's hands-on x402 workshop returns Aug 25 to teach payer clients and payment-gated APIs, as the protocol logs 75.4M monthly transactions — and an independent audit counts $841K of real volume.