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A fresh new home for the OG Algorand wallet. Looking good, @PeraAlgoWallet! 🔥

📣 Final call for the Algorand Global x402 Challenge! Today is your last day to submit your project and compete for a share of $100K USD + 500K ALGO in prizes. Get your submission in before the deadline 👇

Algorand is powering digital services at Vesuvius National Park 🌋 Home to one of the world's most iconic volcanoes, the park welcomes ~700,000 visitors a year. Through AlgoWiFi, 200,000+ annual connections support ticketing, QR access & digital postcards, with visitor certification recorded on Algorand.

Some of you might be wondering: why not just use Falcon here too? Because Falcon is a signature scheme, not a VRF. A post-quantum VRF has a different job: it needs to generate verifiable randomness for committee selection while staying secure and efficient enough for consensus.

So what's next? We're researching a post-quantum VRF that can preserve those properties without sacrificing efficiency. A candidate construction is already under security and efficiency analysis, with a research paper expected in early 2027 if results are positive.

One important nuance though: A quantum attacker couldn't simply fake committee membership. Algorand's research suggests the current VRF still prevents attackers from falsely claiming they were selected. The main issue is preserving membership anonymity before a vote is cast.

So where's actually the quantum risk? Algorand's current VRF relies on elliptic-curve cryptography, which a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could eventually break. In a post-quantum world, that means committee membership may no longer stay private before a vote is cast.

In simple terms, the VRF helps randomly selects who participates in Algorand's consensus, while making the result publicly verifiable. Think of it as a private lottery: participants privately know when they're selected, and everyone else can verify it once they participate.

But first, what even is a VRF? A Verifiable Random Function is a cryptographic primitive co-invented by our founder Silvio Micali. On Algorand, the VRF sits at the heart of its Pure Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, powering committee selection and cryptographic sortition.

Algorand is leading the way on post-quantum resilience with its onchain history protected and native PQ accounts live. But the road doesn't end there. Securing transactions is only part of the equation, consensus selection needs protection too. That's where PQ VRF comes in 🧵👇

Algorand CEO William Herkelrath will be speaking on @FINTECHTVglobal on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 9:50 AM ET, live from the @NYSE. Watch live: terminal.fintech.tv/

Q-Day is approaching, and many institutions, enterprises, and blockchains have no plan in place. You see how this looks, right? On Algorand, we had a plan years ago. Now, we have post-quantum accounts, live today, on-chain.

Watch the full conversation with @RealAllinCrypto 👇 piped.video/watch?v=p1VKpIsD…

For Algorand's new CEO William Herkelrath, a more sustainable ecosystem starts with solving real-world problems people are willing to pay for. Finding product-market fit around security can generate real revenue and support the network. Hear his take 👇

What if you could track your coffee's journey from field to cup? ☕️ Global coffee brand @lavazzagroup has been using Algorand to trace its La Reserva de ¡Tierra! Cuba range, recording harvesting, processing and transport data onchain that consumers can access and verify simply by scanning the QR code on the packaging. With this data recorded on Algorand, Lavazza's supply chain and sustainability efforts become more transparent and easier to verify.

Over 1,300 developers are now registered for the Algorand x402 Global Challenge, competing for $100K + 500K ALGO in prizes. If you're in, don't wait to submit your entry and your public GitHub repo to Electric Capital.

Algorand has been at the forefront of PQC since 2022, offering better protection for builders and users across the network. Its on-chain history is quantum-resistant via State Proofs, and native PQ accounts are live on mainnet, with broad quantum resilience targeted for 2027. 🔐

Watch the full episode of Verifiably Random below 👇 piped.video/bmMMyr89FIk

What does our new CEO think sustainability looks like for the Algorand ecosystem?

Join us on September 23rd for a Reddit AMA with Algorand CEO, William Herkelrath. William will be answering your questions live on the r/AlgorandOfficial subreddit all day.

Congratulations to @lofty_ai on launching its first international property in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Lofty is a leading fractional real estate marketplace with 40K+ investors, 180+ properties tokenized on Algorand so far, and over $100M in TVL. And there's more to come.

Algorand just crossed some major x402 milestones on mainnet. 1M+ settlements 2M+ on-chain transactions 1K+ unique payers All through the @GoPlausible x402 Facilitator, with nearly $300K in settled volume.

Meet the new Algorand CEO, William Herkelrath. William is our guest on today's episode of Verifiably Random. He recently sat down with CSMO @marcvl to introduce himself to the Algorand community.

Who will power the next generation of payment rails? Algorand Director of Product, Alex Apeldoorn, is joining @conf3rence in Dortmund to discuss the infrastructure shaping the future of payments. 🗓 Sep 16, 10:30 CEST 📍 Dortmund, Germany

Algorand has been shipping nonstop lately 🔥 • We have a new CEO, William Herkelrath • He joins our Board of Directors alongside @alexanderfowler, CSO at @NexusLabs • The major Algorand v5.0 upgrade was approved by node runners • Native post-quantum accounts are live on mainnet • You can create one now with @PeraAlgoWallet or @LuteWallet • 1.3M+ PQ transactions signed in just a few weeks • Fees now scale with resource usage • Builders get bigger contracts + new AVM capabilities • We launched AC2, an open protocol for safer AI agent approvals and credential isolation • We partnered with @FlowTraders to deepen institutional liquidity for ALGO • @PeraAlgoWallet v7 is live, their biggest update ever • Algorand ranked #2 in agentic transaction volume in August, with $244K moved by AI agents • 2.8K+ x402 endpoints are now live on Algorand • @zerosignal_ai is live on mainnet

We're proud to be powering Multichain Day by @wrappedxyz during @token2049 in Singapore. We'll be hosting several talks and workshops for devs and builders. Algorand will be joined by @CertiK, @FlareNetworks, @StellarOrg, @0G_Foundation, @ChainPatrol, @Dune, @ethereuminsti, @GoKiteAI, @Mercuryo_io, @moraleshr, @_quakeai, and @realmotioninc.

We're happy to announce two new members of our Board of Directors. Algorand CEO William Herkelrath and Nexus Laboratories Chief Strategy Officer @alexanderfowler have officially joined the board, alongside existing members @billbar and @walexholmes.

August was a strong month for the Algorand ecosystem. While monthly active wallets, total wallets, TVL (USD), and new assets created all increased, we launched native post-quantum accounts, resulting in over 1.2M transactions through September and surpassing $277k in cumulative volume in our x402 activity.

We're thrilled to announce William Herkelrath as Algorand's new CEO. William brings two decades of experience across AI, enterprise software, institutional finance, and blockchain infrastructure. Most recently, he co-founded K3 Labs, an AI-first automation platform for building and running AI agent-managed workflows, following leadership roles at Chainlink and Curv.

Q-Day has been coming for some time. Algorand has been preparing for this since 2022. After 1.4 million native post-quantum transactions, we feel more ready than ever for the post-quantum future.

Congratulations to @Algo_Bharat on achieving the milestone of 111 Algorand Blockchain Clubs active across India. That's a growing pipeline of thousands of young developers ready to turn real-world ideas into on-chain products.

AC2 is the hard part. A sensitive action becomes a signing request the agent can't complete alone. It waits for a human to approve on their device. No prompt to lose, no self-approval, no workaround.

In each case, a soft instruction or a missing check was all that stood between the agent and the damage. Nothing hard stopped it.

In February 2026, Meta's director of alignment told her OpenClaw agent to wait for approval before deleting emails. Context compaction dropped the rule. It deleted 200+ and ignored her "STOP" texts. She had to run to her Mac to kill it.

During the same month, a product manager asked Google's Gemini CLI to reorganize a folder. A command silently failed, the agent assumed it worked, and overwrote every file but one. Its own words: "I have failed you completely and catastrophically."

July 2025. Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database during a code freeze, wiping records for 1,206 executives and 1,196 companies, then faked ~4,000 records to cover it. It later admitted it acted "without permission."

AC2 exists because 2025 and 2026 gave us the same lesson three times: AI agents will take destructive actions no human approved 🧵

Transactions can fail for all kinds of reasons: insufficient balance, invalid logic, a bad signature… On Algorand, invalid transactions are rejected before they ever reach the chain, so you don't pay for a transaction that doesn't execute. Your $1 stays $1.

Watch the full episode: piped.video/watch?v=HsYas3G5…

Algorand's Global Head of Product & Integrations @wj_beaumont recently sat down with @RealAllinCrypto to discuss all things Algorand. Will delved into AC2 and how it's a game-changer for people using AI agents. Try out AC2 and watch the full episode below 👇

If you're putting RWAs onchain for decades, post-quantum resilience matters. Algorand already has a growing RWA ecosystem, from tokenized assets to real-world use cases, on a network where PQC is already live on mainnet. We're not waiting for Q-Day.

The Algorand Virtual Machine was already powerful, and it just got even better with the Algorand v5.0 upgrade. Larger programs, cross-app box access, new opcodes like SHA512 and Poseidon2, and more. More room to build, more ways to compose, and better support for ZK applications.

Why us? We've spent years on authentication, decentralized identity and peer-to-peer comms. LiquidAuth came out of that. Agents acting for people who need to keep control is the same problem, new surface.

Under the hood it's what you already know. DIDComm v2.0 for messages, WebAuthn/FIDO2 for auth, WebRTC for transport. About 50 lines for a basic flow. No container, no SDK, no proxy. It runs next to what you've got.

The credential side is simpler. The agent gets authorization to act, not the key it's acting with. So when someone breaks the runtime, there's nothing there to steal.

The approval works like this. The agent sends a signing request to your wallet. You review it, then approve with your passkey. What comes back is a hardware-bound signature nobody can forge or replay.

AC2 handles both. Every approval becomes a signature generated on your own device. Your credentials stay there too, and the agent never touches them.

Then the credentials. The usual setup injects your API keys into the runtime and hopes it holds. The day that runtime gets popped, the keys go with it. That's not architecture, it's luck.

Start with the yes. Most agents ask over Slack or chat. But a reply in a chat window doesn't prove much. Someone else could send it, or replay an old one. When the agent's about to spend money, a tap isn't enough.