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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, a four-person board that lost its two DeFi-legal directors, and an undisclosed overlap with the company he co-founded.
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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 premium votes, tallies kept off-chain.
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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.
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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.
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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 MCAG have passed their final withdrawal window, and redemption runs through a bullion partner by quote.
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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.
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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 ARC-62 supply math — 766 registry entries live, full developer docs published.
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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 its website lags behind, still listing marketplaces the project itself archived as dead.
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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, backed by Nodely's free APIs and a login-gated, rate-limited testnet faucet.
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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 presets can be minted on-chain as ARC-3 NFTs.
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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 users earn 6.5% for 60 days, boostable to 7.8% by holding the exchange's BTR token.
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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 keys never leave their device.
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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 the real launch to June 12, 2019, and opens an on-chain vote on the question.
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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 and the governance era it was built for ended in 2025.
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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.
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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 token settles on Algorand. 98% of recipients preferred digital.
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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.
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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 is taking Cohort 3 applications until September 10.
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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 every 15 minutes and clawed back when participation lapses.
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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.
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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 — Canix402 and Amarok — with its own bots accounting for nearly all paid traffic so far.
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Algorand's Global x402 Challenge passes 60 live paid endpoints
The Algorand Foundation's pay-per-request AI-commerce challenge is mid-flight with 60 live endpoints and $19.8K settled, as v5.0.0 brings native post-quantum accounts to mainnet around August 22.
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DappRadar's Algorand rankings understate FOLKS price 18x versus on-chain DEX data
Cross-checking DappRadar's Algorand leaderboard against Algorand's own DEXs and DeFiLlama shows prices and TVL months out of date — FOLKS listed at $0.0999 while trading near $1.84 on-chain.
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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 pay-per-request private AI protocol.
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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.
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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 now reads 1.19M quantum-resilient transactions, with tiered NFT claims live on-chain.
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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 pool holds about $30, and its own status reads 'Prototype/MVP.'
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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 chains — self-hosted and pre-revenue, with checkable on-chain anchors but thin adoption so far.
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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.
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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 to the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Algorand's did:algo and did:nfd get an Algorand-native first hop. It is live; traffic is modest.
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