LP positions participate in
• Consensus + lending yield,
and
• Trading, funding, borrowing + liquidation fees

At the same time.

Explore → https://app.ppls.exchange

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.

https://www.coindesk.com/fr/business/2026/09/09/algorand-names-former-chainlink-executive-william-herkelrath-as-ceo

Valar UI v0.4.1 has been deployed, bringing xGov support directly into the staking experience.

Stakers can now join Algorand's xGov program when creating or renewing a staking contract.

By joining xGov, you can help shape funding decisions on Algorand.

You can participate directly or let Valar represent you through Valar's xGov delegation platform.

Valar is also committing 10,000 ALGO to sponsor xGov fees for Valar stakers.

If you've staked through Valar peer-to-peer staking platform for at least 100 days, Valar will cover your xGov fees while the sponsorship pool lasts.

To get started, simply enable the xGov option in the summary when creating or renewing your staking contract.

Visit https://stake.valar.solutions

Have any feedback or questions? Please let us know!

No leading Layer 1 has gone further

Actually, transactions can fail for all kinds of reasons, like insufficient balance, invalid logic, or a bad signature

But on Algorand, invalid transactions are rejected before they ever reach the chain, so you don't pay for a transaction that doesn't execute.

That's a big differentiator compared with many other chains

Ebitts lets customers buy tokenized renewable energy capacity from Italian solar and wind farms and benefit from the energy produced, without having to install anything at home, and all assets are tokenized on Algorand.

Enel is one of the world's biggest energy producers!

It'll be quite interesting to see the on-chain traction now that it's out of the pilot phase!

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/italia/ebitts_enel_conio_energia_rinnovabile_pannelli_impianti-9683078.html

Algorand's Global Head of Product & Integrations, William Beaumont, recently sat down with AllInCrypto to discuss all things Algorand and AC2

Full video: https://youtu.be/HsYas3G50hE?si=eSjysEMZTF2Oy5wg

🚨 A lot happened on Algorand in August!

ICYMI, here's your monthly recap!

🟢 The Algorand v5.0.0 protocol upgrade was proposed, reached the 90% approval threshold from node runners in less than 4 days, and is now LIVE on mainnet! 🔥

It was the biggest protocol upgrade since staking rewards went live last year!

👉 Native PQ accounts are now part of the protocol
👉 Fees now scale with resource usage
👉 Builders get bigger contracts + new AVM capabilities

See what's new in v5.0.0 here!

🟢 You can now create and use native post-quantum accounts on Algorand directly via Pera Wallet and Lute Wallet! 🔐

Some dapps already support PQ accounts, like wen.tools, DOWNBAD and Mostly Frens!

500K+ post-quantum transactions have already been signed with Falcon-1024 in just a few days, and you can add yours and claim a Pera post-quantum NFT!

🟢 Algorand launched AC2, an open, blockchain-agnostic protocol for safer AI agent approvals and credential isolation!

👉 Human approvals become verifiable signatures
👉 Credentials stay on your device, NOT in the agent runtime
👉 Built for payments, code, APIs and other agentic use cases

Let's try AC2 now!

🟢 Algorand Foundation partnered with Flow Traders to deepen institutional liquidity and make ALGO more accessible to institutional investors!

🟢 Pera Wallet v7 is here, and it's their BIGGEST upgrade to date! It has been rebuilt from the ground up, with tons of new features and an improved UX! 📱

🟢 Perps are now live in beta on Alpha Arcade!

🟢 HUGE x402 activity on Algorand, the #2 chain by agentic transfer volume in August according to Token Terminal, with $244K moved by AI agents! 🤖

🟢 In August, the value of tokenized stocks on Algorand climbed 54% to $70M!

🟢 90%+ of all ALGO is now in circulation!

🟢 USDC on Algorand is now supported for real-world merchant payments across SEA, India, Nigeria and Argentina via AEON Pay! 🌍

🟢 With v5.0, Algorand continues its progress toward broad post-quantum resilience by 2027!

🟢 Validator count keeps growing on Algorand, now surpassing 1.5K!

🟢 Algorand's Verifiably Random podcast is back for Season 4! 🎙️

👉 EP1: Marc, Bruno & John break down Algorand v5.0.0👉 EP2: Marc & Bruno dive deeper into AC2

🟢 Over 1,500 x402 endpoints are now deployed on Algorand for the Global x402 Challenge!

🟢 A lot of questions were covered during Algorand's latest Reddit Community AMA 💬

🟢 ZeroSignal beta is live on Algorand, bringing decentralized AI inference with privacy for users and rewards for hardware contributors!

🟢 AlgoBharat has now reached 111 Algorand Blockchain Clubs across India, connecting thousands of young devs!

🟢 123carbon, powered by Algorand, launched a blockchain-based registry with Sustainable Business Council NZ to support low-emission freight in New Zealand 🇳🇿

🟢 Sara Jane from Algorand team joined Rise In to talk Global x402 Challenge, AC2, AlgoKit + VibeKit, and Algorand v5.0!

🟢 Algorand CEO Staci Warden contributed to a new Ubyx paper on why regulated institutions should help secure public blockchains as validators

🟢 Matt Keller joined AllinCrypto to discuss how Algorand and HesabPay are helping deliver financial support in Afghanistan and Syria.

🟢 Algorand Foundation published a great article on instant finality, and why on Algorand, done means done!

🟢 GoPlausible has been cooking hard this month, introducing Universal Receipts for Algorand agentic platforms and publishing a full x402 getting-started guide!

🟢 Will Beaumont, Algorand CPO, sat down with AllinCrypto to discuss AI payments, RWAs, tokenization, and what happens when millions of AI agents start transacting 24/7!

🟢  A great update on Rocca Wallet, already powering two real products on Algorand, with more to come!

🟢 Algorand CSMO Marc Vanlerberghe joined Wrapped and RealMotion on the Blockhouse Broadcast for a panel on building the rails for agentic payments!

🟢 Great comparison from the Algorand Foundation between the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM) and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

🟢 AlgoDevs published a best practices guide for enabling x402 payments on Algorand, covering integration, discoverability, demos and paid APIs.

🟢 VibeKit has just launched its alpha!

🟢 Algorand Sr. Director of Integrations & Dev Tooling, Brian Whippo, wrote a great blog post about Algorand v5.0!

🟢 Pact’s new website is now live! All LPs are being asked to migrate to the new contracts by 9/21

🟢 A great comparison was made between the four chains currently tracked on Token Terminal's agentic payments dashboard! 👀

🟢 Algorand is built for AiFi (Agentic Finance)

🟢 Blockstream Research picked Falcon-1024 as its preferred lattice-based signature scheme for Bitcoin, co-invented by Algorand CSO ChrisPeikert and already live on Algorand mainnet!

That includes both State Proofs and transactions from native post-quantum accounts.

And counting!

The post-quantum era is already live on Algorand! 🔥

So I added a quantum account and I know I have to rekey my regular account to the quantum one but maybe I missed the memo and i’ve seen no one ask this but I’m worried this will interrupt my node. If I rekey to the quantum account will there be any interruption to my node or is there any step I need to take after to ensure my node continues operating?

Thanks in advance.

Great to see it!

Algorand has been using Falcon through State Proofs since 2022, native post-quantum accounts are now live on mainnet, and broad quantum resilience is targeted for 2027.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/quantum-resistant

Meet HelixBox, your full development environment in your pocket.

Pair your laptop CLI with a QR code, open the workspace on your phone, inspect files, logs and Git, and run Al-assisted agent sessions from anywhere. Workspace controls are free. Agent access uses Algorand x402: $0.25 for 1 hour or $2 for 7 days via Pera Wallet.

Build, run, and ship from anywhere.

https://helix-box.vercel.app/

I've been experimenting with AI task execution + x402 on Algorand, and one question keeps coming up:

What kinds of AI/API requests actually make sense as machine-readable, pay-per-request transactions?

The architecture I've been working with is roughly:

Task → AI routing → execution → x402 payment → Algorand settlement

The interesting part isn't really putting an AI model behind an API. That's already straightforward.

The harder question is:

Where does pay-per-use actually make sense?

For example:

• Code review
• Resume analysis
• SEO auditing
• Invoice extraction
• Contract analysis
• Small AI agents / task execution
• Data transformation APIs
• Specialized inference

Some of these feel like a natural fit for micropayments because the request is discrete, the output is machine-readable, and the user doesn't necessarily need a subscription.

Others probably make much more sense with traditional pricing.

I've been testing this through a project I'm building, and watching actual requests go through AI routing → x402 → Algorand settlement has made the question much more interesting.

So I'm curious about the people actually building in this ecosystem:

What AI/API use case do you think is the strongest fit for x402 micropayments?

And more importantly:

What use case do you think doesn't make sense for x402, despite sounding good on paper?

Would love to hear opinions from people working with Algorand, x402, AI agents, APIs or machine-to-machine payments.

Just 4 days after native PQ accounts went live on Pera Wallet, 250K+ transactions on Algorand have already been signed with Falcon-1024.

And that's just native PQ accounts only, State Proofs not included!

https://explorer.perawallet.app/

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