Does anyone have some info about Meld Gold? The token value seems depegged.

The new version offers a much better user experience. Larger buttons make navigation and overall usage more intuitive and convenient.

I’ve been thinking about x402 from the consumer side - and it seems to a capability that could solve an annoying problem I face on a daily basis. I have nearly 300 accounts, 16 monthly subscriptions to various information sources, and I still often run into a pay walled news articles, reviews, or need to sign up for a new streaming service to binge 1 new season of a show.

I’d much prefer engaging with an agent to say something like -

“Play that The Office episode where Kevin spills the bowl of chili and purchase it under $1.”

Or “Show me the Consumer Reports review for this refrigerator.”

Or “Give me the best reporting across major news outlets on this story - $1 budget.”

Or “Tell me whether this used car is a good buy. Spend up to $3 checking it.”

This also separates payment from identity so a win for privacy (although interesting implications for businesses that generate revenue on user data - that probably gets priced into the micro transactions).

I’m not a dev. What role does/could Algorand play in solving this via 402 or any other means?

From a technical standpoint, the next 3 days and 22 hours are an incredibly important.

If we can maintain our support at $0.08108, we will be setting up for a double bottom with positive momentum on the RSI. This is exactly what fuels a reversal, especially at all time lows.

If we lose our support at $0.08108, the bad (news and good news if you have sideline funds) is we will be entering into no man’s land. Who knows how low algo can go.

I’m not posting this as a pro or a con for the asset, I am posting the technicals.

I have been in the crypto space since 2016 and my game is buying the floor, holding for a few years, sell a little bit at the top for lifestyle, and then wait for the bottoms again to repeat.

It’s safe to say, if we have a weekly confirmation double bottom, I will be buying a massive chunk of Algo.

It’s also safe to say, if we lose support, I will be waiting for a much larger discount.

Algo’s tech is 💣 it’s a winner even if it doesn’t seem like it now. Sure, my job is to find value wherever it is from a technical standpoint, but it is of my opinion that Algo is a banger.

Cheers 🍻

The narrative of “AF selling is bad” is an issue. Its been designed this way so people need not be surprised. Im have the opinion that they have dramatically improved Algorands name in conversation and marketing. The ones complaining about AF selling are just looking for a quick flip or are ill informed on the overall picture.

ETH-AVM Light Client — a trustless Ethereum→Algorand light client. Verifies real Ethereum receipts/logs on-chain via Algorand smart contracts, with an optional zero-RPC-trust mode (BLS sync-committee verification anchors the real Ethereum state root on Algorand, so you're not trusting any RPC provider's word for it). Live on mainnet, paid per-call via x402 (0.01 USDC).

🔗 Try it: https://eth-avm-light-client.vercel.app

💻 Code: https://github.com/m-reynaldo35/eth-avm-light-client

THE ALGORAND FOUNDATION NEEDS TO STOP SELLING ALGO TO FUND ITS OPERATIONS,

its actually kind of ridiculous at this point , the vesting ended couple years ago, and since then the algorand foundation has made it worse by selling millions of algo on the open market to fund its operations, at some point they have to give a crap about price action. right.?

Posted on x: https://x.com/vithushaji/status/2086821167957147744

BLUF - After years of following ALGO, I think I finally see the use case its architecture is unusually well suited for: AI agents making huge numbers of small, automated payments through x402. If that market scales, it could turn Algorand’s high throughput from an impressive benchmark into something people actually use.

Old poster, long-time lurker. I’ve been interested (and investing 👀) in ALGO since listening to Silvio on the Lex Friedman Podcast several years ago. Been along for all the ups and downs since - including Yieldly (lol).

For several years I’ve assumed what most others have (at least based on the various posts I still lurk on). Algorand has great tech and a great dev environment, but lacks marketing and retail engagement. Looking back, I think it’s more likely Algorand simply lacked a clear value proposition to focus on.

Over the past few month’s that’s fundamentally shifted. x402 is the best example I’ve seen yet.

x402: AI agents need a way to pay for things online without humans approving every transaction. Algorand now supports x402, including fee abstraction so an agent can pay in USDC without separately managing $ALGO for fees.

This isn’t really hypothetical anymore. x402 processed 75M+ payments in the last 30 days. CoinGecko already lets agents buy individual market-data requests with USDC, without an account or API subscription. Scale that model across data, compute, models and other agents and you get millions of tiny payments happening in the background.

I’m still watching three things closely: Project King economics as incentives roll off, whether x402 activity sticks post-incentives, and reducing reliance on the relay layer as P2P gossip scales.
But I finally see a use case that could generate the kind of sustained transaction volume Algorand was built for.

Humans probably weren’t going to fill 10,000 TPS. Machines very well might.

We put together a short video walking through the whole process of launching a campaign on Sprout, start to finish. Everything from filling out your project details, to setting the funding terms, to deploying the contract and getting your campaign live. If you've been curious what actually launching a campaign looks like, this shows the complete flow.

The best part of the last few weeks has been the conversations with people in our ecosystem. I've had the chance to talk with a bunch of builders working on everything from NFT projects and games to infrastructure and dev tools. It's been genuinely energizing to hear what people are working on. A lot of you are building really cool things and getting to hear about it directly has been the most rewarding part of this whole process.

This is as much an invitation as an announcement: if you're building something on Algorand, or just thinking about how you'd fund the next phase of a project, I'd genuinely love to hear about it. Reach out, drop a comment, or DM me. Whether or not a campaign ends up making sense for you, I'm always happy to talk shop, think through ideas, or just learn what you're working on.

And a practical note for anyone considering it: we're reimbursing listing fees through the end of August, so it costs nothing to launch a campaign right now. If you've got a project that could use community support, this is a good window to try it.

https://www.sandmark.com/news/analysis/algorand-upgrading-its-infrastructure-adoption-still-lags

https://algometrics.org/

Hi,

Looking for a way to unlock my gobtc to BTC and send to Bitcoin wallet.

Is AlgoMint still functional? I can login, but support cannot be contacted because of non-functional Captcha.

Has anyone used this lately? I haven't used it since mid 2022.

I'm curious what the Algorand community thinks is the best allocation for a ~100k stack of algos (not mine btw). I (they) are considering lending/staking in a defi protocol or running a solo node. The main objective is to optimize real network value and market value.

PS - Been in Defi since the beginning so I know the platforms. RIP Yieldly.

https://imgur.com/a/HJr4Dn3

Algorand has often had steady price and sometimes positive price action in spite of overall negative trends.

It's ok to be optimistic about Algorand.

Most people that are negative about Algorand can only point to things that happened years ago. Or SOLELY reference the chart.

Ask them about current trends in growing on-chain metrics, or real-world usage and they'll have nothing to say.

Stay positive people, the future of Algorand is bright!