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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…
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…
Al Goanna's Bank of Goanna issues 145 NFT-backed loans totaling 34.92k ALGO — Al Goanna, the Algorand NFT project that planted ~200,000 trees, now runs a DAO-funded NFT lending platform and an MvZ battle game. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
Folks Finance Academy teaches crypto from zero with quizzes in three languages — Folks Finance's free educational hub pairs short video lessons on blockchain and DeFi with four-question quizzes, in English, Italian and…
AlgoRai's options vaults shed 99.98% of peak deposits on Algorand — AlgoRai automated options vaults on Algorand with $1.7M seed backing and a $6.4M TVL peak. Its homepage still advertises a 2022 upgrade…
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…
BasketbAlgo pays TINY to HOOP/ALGO voters in its push for a Tinyman farm slot — BasketbAlgo, Algorand's NFT basketball management game running since 2022, paid TINY to voters backing its HOOP/ALGO pool — ranked ninth…
Vestige's swap router passes 1.48M Algorand swaps and $207M in routed volume — Vestige — the Algorand swap aggregator and explorer born as TinyChart — has routed 1.48M swaps and $207M in volume via atomic multi-DEX…
DorkFi runs 35 Algorand lending markets and a contract-minted stablecoin — DorkFi is a non-custodial credit protocol live on Algorand and Voi: 35 lending markets, the WAD stablecoin, UNIT governance, a public…
Folks Finance forum steers FOLKS token through its first two governance votes — Folks Finance's quiet Discourse forum hosted the Algorand lending protocol's FOLKS launch planning, a debated $800k treasury deployment…
Folks Router aggregates 11,990 Algorand trading pairs at a 0.1% fee — Folks Finance's in-house DEX aggregator scans Tinyman, Pact and Humble for the best route, splits trades to cut slippage at a flat 0.1%…
Defly Wallet aggregates Algorand's DEXs into one trading app, with token-gated fees — Blockshake's Defly is Algorand's trading-first mobile wallet: one swap ticket routes across the DEXs it supports, combo swaps and Deflex…
Method Wallet's Algorand wallet enters its fifth year in private beta — Method Wallet's 2022 pitch — a DeFi- and NFT-native Algorand wallet — still sits behind an email waitlist in 2026, with no app, no public…
Pera Wallet rebuilds on one codebase as its card program resets — Pera Wallet, Algorand's most-used self-custodial wallet, ships its 7.0 rebuild on one React Native codebase while its Immersve Mastercard…
Deflex SDK frozen since 2023 as Haystack Router inherits the order-routing stack — Deflex's JavaScript SDK last shipped Oct 2023 with zero dependents and a deleted repo; the order router lives on as TxnLab's…
Folks Finance launches FOLKS token, sets $1B TVL target with xChain V2 rebuild — Folks Finance grew from Algorand liquid governance into a nine-network lending protocol, launched its FOLKS token in November 2025, and…
CompX launches Amarok, its second x402-paid API, as its own bots do the paying — CompX, the project that rebranded from xBacked DAO, ships its second x402-paid agent API — while its own Brownie and Ghillie bots are the…
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…
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…
Tinyman governance vault locks 234M TINY, more than double its 2025 milestone — Algorand's biggest DEX runs swaps, on-chain limit and DCA orders, and tALGO liquid staking on immutable v2 contracts; its TINY governance…