xGov
Algorand's community grant-funding program: ALGO holders lock tokens into term pools to earn voting power, and the resulting votes decide which ecosystem projects receive grants from the xGov treasury. An elected xGov Council reviews proposals and manages the program's direction.
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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 desktop wallet beta ships as a zip, with a warning not to hold much in it Pera's browser extension beta signs Algorand transactions on a desktop without a phone. The portal calls it closed, approves each tester, serves the build as a zip, and warns against accounts holding significant funds. Register at beta.perawallet.app.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Valar's seven-post Medium blog mapped Algorand's staking era, then went quiet Valar's Medium publication ran seven posts between Feb and Jun 2025 explaining Algorand's shift from governance rewards to staking — then stopped, days before co-founder Uroš Hudomalj won a seat on the xGov Council it had previewed.
- Folks Finance holds $51M across nine chains while its $1B xChain V2 rebuild waits Folks Finance grew from Algorand liquid governance into a nine-chain lending protocol anchored by xALGO staking and the FOLKS token, now at roughly $51M TVL — its $1B cross-chain rebuild stays unreleased.
- Biatec Wallet's published AI audits caught a critical swap-signing flaw Biatec Wallet, the open-source browser wallet for Algorand, publishes AI-run security audits in its GitHub repo. An August 2026 audit found a critical blind-signing flaw in swaps; the fix now ships in the deployed wallet.
- Algorand xGov-funded wallet Confío now settles on BNB Smart Chain Confío pitched xGov as Web2-to-Algorand onboarding, missed quorum, won 250,000 ALGO on resubmission — and now settles on BNB Smart Chain. Inside the votes, the on-chain numbers, and the migration trail.
- Stabilitas halted in 2023; its testnet oracle still posted rates in August 2026 Biatec's national-stablecoin framework reached Algorand testnet in 2023, then was shelved pending an e-money licence. Its front end froze — but the ECB rate oracle kept updating hourly until August 1, 2026.
- Valar's no-custody staking marketplace shows 83.38M ALGO staked on Algorand Valar's peer-to-peer staking marketplace keeps ALGO in holders' wallets while node runners operate consensus keys; its live counter reads 83.38M ALGO at a 5.00% yearly rate.