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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 the chain's other core DeFi — while its Foundation-hosted contracts sit outside Foundation governance.

Aug 20, 2026

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Infra & dev tools
Runtime Verification proved Algorand can't fork — its KAVM tool has been idle since 2023
Runtime Verification machine-checked Algorand's no-fork safety in Coq and audited 13 ecosystem projects in 2021-22, then shipped KAVM for…
Aug 19, 2026
NFTs & Gaming
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…
Aug 6, 202611 reads

Réti Open Pooling now holds 725M ALGO staked by 8,693 users across 225 validators

Latest

Runtime Verification proved Algorand can't fork — its KAVM tool has been idle since 2023

PoP turns Algorand validator participation into a dynamic, revocable NFT credential