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NFTs & Gaming
Algorand's 2.7 million post-quantum transactions, and the printer behind a million of them
Algorand says it is first to 2.7 million post-quantum transactions. A badge batch and a self-serve printer made about three quarters of the…
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Wallets & Payments
How Algorand Users, Node Runners and Developers Can Back the Quantum Pitch
Algorand's CEO argues banks cannot settle long-lived assets on breakable cryptography. The case needs consumer quantum accounts…
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Ecosystem & people
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…
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DeFi
Yieldly's legacy staking escrow released its ALGO without reading the payment
Five payments in ninety-two seconds moved about 390,000 ALGO from Yieldly's legacy staking vault, long after holders were told to withdraw.
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Ecosystem & people
Enel's ebitts sells tokens tied to two power plants' output, credited on your bill
Enel's ebitts sells Token Boxes: Algorand tokens tied to the output of two real Italian renewable plants, credited hour by hour against a…
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DeFi
Algofi's DEFLY staking contracts still run, with no company behind them
Two smart contracts written for Algofi in March 2022 still stake DEFLY, with no front end and no company running them. Deposits and claims…
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Wallets & Payments
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…
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Infra & dev tools
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…
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Wallets & Payments
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…
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Infra & dev tools
One Full Algorand Block Holds About a Ninth as Many Post-Quantum Payments
On October 21, 2026, one Algorand block filled to 99.9 percent with 1,590 transactions, 1,565 signed with Falcon keys. Each such payment…
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DeFi
Algorand Foundation's strategy chief is its third senior exit since August
Marc Vanlerberghe resigned as the Foundation's strategy and marketing chief on October 14, the third senior exit since late August, leaving…
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Wallets & Payments
ZeroSignal charges for AI by the message from an Algorand account, not an API key
ZeroSignal sells large-model access by the message, paid in dollars from a funded Algorand account rather than an API key. A one-command…
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NFTs & Gaming
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…
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Infra & dev tools
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…
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DeFi
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…
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DeFi
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…
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Ecosystem & people
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…
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NFTs & Gaming
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…
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DeFi
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…
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Wallets & Payments
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…
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DeFi
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…
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NFTs & Gaming
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…
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Wallets & Payments
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…
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Infra & dev tools
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…
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DeFi
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…
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DeFi
Messina.one closes mALGO deposits as bridge passes $28M lifetime volume
Profile: Messina.one's Wormhole-based bridge has moved $28.2M since 2022, but its mALGO staking contract has deposits toggled off on-chain…
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Wallets & Payments
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…
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DeFi
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…
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Infra & dev tools
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…
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DeFi
DefiLlama's Algorand page reads $27.4M TVL as one RWA app holds $100M
DefiLlama headlines Algorand's core DeFi TVL at $27.4M, yet its own page lists a $100M tokenized real-estate app, a $42.9M lending protocol…
