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…
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…
Awesome Algorand repo adds 2026 tools as its site still lists closed marketplaces — Profile: the volunteer-run Awesome Algorand index has cataloged the ecosystem since 2022. Its GitHub repo gained new tools on Sept. 3, but…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sound of AVM ships v0.9.0, sonifying Algorand's live mempool in the browser — Sound of AVM, an open-source Algorand mempool sonifier, ships v0.9.0: keyless Nodely gossip replaces polling, new visualizers arrive, and…
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…
Vestige's on-chain ASA metadata registry passes 766 entries — Vestige Labs' Asset Manager puts ASA icons, descriptions, social links and wallet labels on-chain with creator-controlled managers and…
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…
HesabPay launches free Visa virtual cards, targets 1M in Afghanistan — The Algorand-powered Afghan wallet behind $35M+ in UNHCR aid launched free Visa virtual cards Aug 13 with a 1M-card target — even as its…
AlgoExplorer's domain no longer resolves, leaving Lora, Allo and Pera to cover Algorand — AlgoExplorer's domain is dead and Blockpack is offline too. In 2026 Algorand visibility runs through Lora, Allo.info and Pera Explorer…
Kaafila promised free courses for 100 million users — five years on, none have shipped — Kaafila launched an Algorand token in 2021 to fund free education for 100 million users. Five years on, its courses are unshipped, its DEX…
Bitrue pays 6.5% APY on ALGO for new users; existing holders earn 0.5% — Bitrue, an official Algorand Foundation staking partner, offers no-lockup ALGO staking at a 0.5% base APY with daily payouts — while new…
Algorand-trained UNDP Blockchain Academy tops 500 alumni as Accelerator opens Cohort 3 — UNDP's Blockchain Academy, run with the Algorand Foundation, has trained 500+ UN staff from 134 countries. Its SDG Blockchain Accelerator…
CompX's x402 agent APIs are live on mainnet — and its own bots are the main payers — CompX, the Algorand DeFi suite that grew out of xBacked's xUSD stablecoin, now sells pay-per-request data to AI agents via two x402 APIs —…
PoP turns Algorand validator participation into a dynamic, revocable NFT credential — PoP, an Allo'-team project, mints dynamic ARC-19 NFTs that track Algorand validator participation: NFD-avatar badges refreshed by a bot…
TxnLab's three-person studio spans Algorand's naming, staking, DeFi, and AI layers — TxnLab is a three-person Algorand studio building .algo naming (69k NFDs minted), pooled staking ($60.8M TVL), a mobile DeFi app, and a…
Algorand NFT creator's 2023 essay casts generative PFPs as the Ship of Theseus — An Algorand NFT artist argues in a 2023 essay that Plutarch's Ship of Theseus paradox explains generative PFP collections — and that the…
UNHCR Delivers $35M+ in Aid to 625,000+ Afghans via Algorand-Powered HesabPay — A UNHCR scale-up, Mercy Corps pilot data, and a World Bank-housed report give the clearest picture yet of Algorand's humanitarian push…
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…
D13's block-timestamp dig dates Algorand's real MainNet launch to June 12, 2019 — D13.co's MainNet Archaeology post reads Algorand's earliest blocks — 6,637 capped 25-second round times before timestamps settle — to date…
AlgoVoi launches KYC-screened agent payments across seven chains — AlgoVoi wraps x402, MPP, AP2 and A2A machine payments in KYC, sanctions screening and signed, offline-verifiable receipts across seven…
Vestige Ties Better Algorand Swap Rates to How Much of Its Own Token You Hold — Vestige, the Algorand swap aggregator and DeFi explorer born as TinyChart, has routed 1.48M swaps and $207M in volume across DEXs, pairing…
Mercy Corps stablecoin pilot cut Afghan aid costs 29% on HesabPay's Algorand rails — Mercy Corps Ventures' Afghanistan pilot cut aid delivery costs 29% and arrived 10 hours faster using stablecoins via HesabPay, whose HAFN…
World Chess still writes ranking tokens to Algorand, six years on — FIDE Online Arena put chess ratings on Algorand in 2020; six years later a World Chess account still streams zero-value ranking-token…
Algomint's pivot away from goUSD leaves Algorand's first bridge nearly dormant — Algomint minted Algorand's first wrapped BTC and ETH, living on Foundation TDR incentives through 2024 before dropping goUSD. Today its…

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