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DeFi
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…
DeFi
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 —…
DeFi
Algoland drew 55,000 questers — then Algorand's activity spike faded
The Algorand Foundation's 13-week on-chain quest campaign drew 1.7M site visits and 55,000 participants, closed with a 79,000-wallet VRF…
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…
Ecosystem & people
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…
DeFi
Haystack bundles swaps, staking, and launches into a mobile Algorand trading app
Haystack, TxnLab's mobile-first Algorand DeFi app, combines router-powered swaps, staking, a launchpad, and PvP price markets around a $HAY…
Ecosystem & people
On rug.ninja, Algorand meme coins climb a bonding curve, then ship to Tinyman
rug.ninja is Algorand’s fair-launch coin platform: every token must be bought, even by its creator, and coins that hit their target deploy…
DeFi
Tinyman's Algorand DEX app offers ALGO/USDC swaps, trigger and recurring orders
First look at Tinyman's public web app on Algorand: an ALGO/USDC swap interface, trigger and recurring order tabs, a trending assets list…
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…
DeFi
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.
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…
Infra & dev tools
Algorand's post-quantum v5.0.0 nears mainnet after 90% node-support vote
Algorand's v5.0.0 — native Falcon-1024 post-quantum accounts, usage-based fees, a bigger AVM — cleared 90% node support Aug 15 and…
Ecosystem & people
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…
DeFi
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…
DeFi
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…
Infra & dev tools
Algorand Foundation Names Bruno Martins CTO as Post-Quantum Upgrade Heads to Mainnet
Bruno Martins, twice acting CTO, takes the role permanently as the merged Algorand Foundation ships v5.0.0 — the first deliverable of its…
Wallets & Payments
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…
DeFi
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…
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…
NFTs & Gaming
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…
Wallets & Payments
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…
Infra & dev tools
Nodely's free Algorand API answers 115M+ requests a day — slowed by design
Profile of Nodely (formerly AlgoNode): the self-funded Warsaw team behind Algorand's default free node and indexer API — 115M+ daily…
Wallets & Payments
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…
Wallets & Payments
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.
DeFi
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 —…
DeFi
Community-built AlgorandStats charted ten governance periods, then stopped updating
Launched in 2021 by a Redditor who could not see his own reward percentage, AlgorandStats.com tracked ten incentivized governance periods…
DeFi
Algorand's first prediction market Alpha Arcade opens to MetaMask via xChain Accounts
Alpha Arcade is Algorand's first prediction market: on-chain order books in USDC, a fee-sharing ALPHA token, an open-source trading SDK…
DeFi
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…
DeFi
Réti Open Pooling now holds 725M ALGO staked by 8,693 users across 225 validators
Réti, Algorand's permissionless staking protocol, now locks 725M ALGO from 8,693 stakers across 225 validators — more than double all of…
DeFi
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 —…
