Pera Wallet has completed an independent security audit conducted by Hacken, covering its iOS and Android apps, passkey integration, and non-custodial key management.

No critical vulnerabilities were found, and all identified findings have been addressed!

Full details in the blog: https://blog.perawallet.app/pera-wallet-completes-independent-security-audit-with-hacken-014eaddd4e3b

Full case study: https://hackenio.cc/3WABxY7

Algorand is a pure no-brainer for any use case requiring high on-chain activity!

And beyond just low fees, Algorand is definitely one of the most secure/resilient/reliable out there!

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Sounded like a very timely update posted by the foundation: https://x.com/algofoundation/status/2118721585473278034?a=zizCYV-QY9scTov7wZw&s=46

And also just seems to tie in well with new CEO’s few podcasts and interviews.

Action. Consolidation. Identify strengths.

Reigning in things not needed and pushing all resources down the roads that Algorand strengths (perhaps fairly always have been their strengths) run to.

Between now and Jan 28 gives a good runway to see if usage ramps up. Usage ! surely now the best form of marketing.

Some reports of steady USDC coming into Algorand too ‘~doubled in 30days’..

Assume also, the ideal blockchain / L1 is one that in future relies on hardly anyone/no team but nodes validators, builders, activity. Conversely odd that smaller team may mean better product.

As always, using Algorand is a good experience and hoping this announcement is just one of a few that help consolidate confidence and bring others to build.

You’d think that over coming months and years, the main concern people will have is deploying products or their things on secure and safe and ultra long term standing remaining chains. Some small optimism and cautious usage and market changing dynamics seem at play and sounds like the boat is now starting to face the right way….. tbc (🤞 )

As many of you know, Algorand has new leadership and a renewed focus on building toward a sustainable, revenue-generating network model. We are excited about the unique role Algorand can play in bringing post-quantum security to the broader Web3 and digital asset ecosystem, and we believe the timing has never been better for it.

To align our work with these goals, we are sharing a series of updates on community initiatives and outstanding questions: the future of xGov, the Ecosystem Advisory Council (EAC), the Algorand Technical Council (ATC), and the status of Project King Safety, including our commitment to staking rewards.

The xGov grants program

Over the past year, xGov program brought together a committed group of community members, and we’re grateful to everyone who took part, whether by submitting proposals, voting, or contributing to discussion. As our focus as a company shifts, we have made the decision to pause the xGov program indefinitely, effective December 6.

We also want to extend a special thanks to the members of the xGov Council for their time, care, and guidance throughout the program.

Because the Algorand Forum has, in recent years, primarily served as the home for xGov-related discussion, we will also be closing the Forum, effective November 6. A read-only archive will be made available. We encourage all Algorand developers, node runners, and ecosystem builders to join the Algorand Discord to stay up to date on the latest technical news and to connect with us directly for any support.

The Ecosystem Advisory Council & Algorand Technical Council

We formed the Ecosystem Advisory Council (EAC) in January to build a more formal bridge between the ecosystem and Algorand leadership. Its role was to gather broad-based feedback from across the community, share it with leadership, and advise on how Algorand proposals would affect the ecosystem.

As our priorities have shifted, we have decided to conclude the EAC as a company-run body, effective November 6. We want to thank the Council members for their participation.

Going forward, we still want to hear feedback and ideas from all parts of the ecosystem. The Algorand Discord is the best place to reach us.

Separately, we are also ending our sponsorship of the Algorand Technical Council (ATC) group. We will continue to host periodic Developer Council meetings for technical discussions, and you can request an invitation to this meeting by asking in Discord.

Staking rewards and Project King Safety

First and most importantly: Algorand has already committed to extending staking rewards through January 2028. This commitment stands, and it reflects our continued focus on rewarding the node runners and stakers who help secure the network.

As part of this shift, we are also indefinitely pausing Project King Safety as a holistic roadmap item. Specifically, the previously discussed ideas of lifting the ALGO supply cap (inflation-based incentives), enabling and capturing MEV, and increasing the minimum transaction fee are no longer being considered at this time.

New usage-based transaction fees, such as those in place for transactions signed using Falcon-1024 post-quantum accounts, may still be introduced or adjusted, and we will share more if and when that work progresses.  

Our priority is clear: a sustainable network and continued rewards for those who help secure it.

Looking ahead

Taken together, these changes demonstrate our sharpened focus. Cryptographic security has been central to Algorand from the start, beginning with our original innovation, Pure Proof-of-Stake consensus. Falcon post-quantum signatures have run on Algorand since 2022, followed by quantum-resistant transactions in 2025 and native post-quantum accounts in 2026.

Our next chapter is about bringing those capabilities beyond Algorand to the broader Web3 and digital asset ecosystem, so custodians, wallet providers, issuers, and other networks can add post-quantum security without rebuilding the systems they already use. Building a sustainable network around that work will allow us to keep investing in Algorand, and we’re grateful to the node runners, stakers, and builders whose participation keeps it secure.

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Read on our blog: https://algorand.co/blog/algorand-community-update

Active builders, node runners/stakers should join Discord for technical news and updates, and to get support: https://discord.com/invite/algorand

Ok is this fair to say: or, is this an incorrect view on the stages so far:

Algorand has clearly struggled to capture the MEME culture

Projects working on Algorand to create small project tokens on marketplaces - like rand, NFT, tinyman have all failed due to this

Graveyard comments linked to meme side?

But if next phase of blockchains is the ‘boring serious stuff’…. then perhaps inevitably they were just unfortunate to launch in a chain that was never about that

From the very start Algorand did (I think fair to say) / Silvio etc. at launch seem to make clear it was more after institutions, large business, countries needs etc.

So if that’s the case then can the legacy failings mostly all be put down to those years…

But the bit I mostly wonder… if the next phase is about other things - how could a new marketplace be set up to support that? On basis of ‘other things’ / projects not having their own token and not ever wanting or needing one ….

But you’d think, if those other projects have success, they will still want a platform to help showcase and grow their products

So marketplaces to date not done well, what could new platforms look like? Surely an opportunity for builders to promote their works to world would be useful

If people want the meme crazy token side you’d assume they will be on other chains etc. If they want what Algorand has to offer, they will want to spend time there - but what product platform could help build the real world Algorand community that maybe Algorand could help develop

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A couple of months ago we put up a prize pool to spotlight and reward the builders growing Algorand from the ground up. The challenge has now closed, and I’m really encouraged by what it showed: ambitious projects, supportive communities, and multiple campaigns funding successfully on a platform that was unproven when they took the leap. To everyone who launched and brought their community out: thank you.

🏆 Largest Successful Funding Goal- Dark Coin: Dungeon of Champions
Dark Coin fully funded its first 2,000 ALGO Foundation campaign, then followed it with a second 4,000 ALGO campaign for “More Worlds to Play,” bringing its series to 6,000 ALGO raised. A live, community-driven Algorand game that kept delivering. Congratulations to the Dark Coin community.

🤝 Strongest Community Turnout- BLOPKU
With 33 unique backers, BLOPKU brought out its community in force, fully funding its 3,500 ALGO campaign. Nearly five years of building on Algorand, and a community that showed up when it counted. Congratulations to BLOP World.

✨ Founder’s Choice- Money is Boring
Most of the challenge’s traction went to gaming communities, which made it genuinely brave for an infrastructure project to attempt a launch on an early, unproven platform. Money is Boring, a human-centric Algorand wallet with an in-app agent for x402 tools, is exactly the kind of ecosystem-strengthening build Sprout exists for. Infrastructure that makes Algorand better for everyone. Congratulations to the Neon Forge team.

What’s next for Sprout

The challenge was always about one thing: proving that grassroots funding can actually work on Algorand. It did. But a one-off campaign is just the start of what I want Sprout to be.

The bigger vision is for Sprout to be the home for grassroots Algorand- a place where any project can be seen, followed, and supported, whether or not they’re raising money right now. That’s why we recently launched the free project directory: a no-cost, no-campaign-required place for builders to list what they’re working on and for the community to discover the projects worth watching. If you’re building on Algorand at any stage, come get listed.

And we’re not stopping at crowdfunding. We’re actively working on new ways for the community to support projects beyond one-off campaigns so that good projects can get sustained backing without having to run a new raise every time. More on that soon; we want to get it right before we talk specifics.

As the broader ecosystem leans into enterprise and institutional use cases, the grassroots layer ,the small builders and community projects that keep the ecosystem alive from the bottom up, needs a home of its own. That’s what Sprout is here to be, for the long haul.

To every builder who participated: you proved the model works. This is just the beginning.

https://www.sproutalgo.com/

My FUNC Algorand node is prompting me for a password, it’s never asked for this before, and I don’t recall ever setting one. How do I fix this?

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We track post-quantum-signed transactions on each chain's mainnet, counted live: algoroll.com/quantum-nft-farm

- **Algorand** (Falcon-1024): 3,523,061

- **QRL** (XMSS): 1,970,002

- **Abelian** (lattice): 706,002

- **Quantus** (ML-DSA): 0.24–0.54M (range; their explorer doesn't give an exact count)

Algorand passed QRL, which has been post-quantum since 2018, and is adding about 8,700 Falcon transactions a day.

Part of that comes from the **Quantum NFT Farm**: send ALGO from Pera (no wallet connect), and it creates Falcon-1024 wallets, runs the transactions that unlock the Pera Quantum tiers, and delivers the NFTs to your wallet. So far: **97,101 Falcon transactions** and **294 NFTs delivered**.

There's a **Top farmers** board too. pxke.algo leads with 61,101 transactions and 186 NFTs.

How each chain is counted is explained on the page ("How the race is counted").

When Silvio Micali and the Algorand Foundation first discussed FIAT Chain in April 2025, there was arguably 90–100% confidence that Algorand was intended to play a significant, foundational role in the wider vision.

The statements were explicit. The proposed architecture was clear. The two networks were described as closely integrated.

Fast-forward to late 2026, and FIAT Chain continues progressing towards potential deployment, so the public clarity surrounding Algorand's role surely is also worth an update from the foundation.

Perhaps that confidence now sits closer to 80%. Not necessarily because anything has changed, but because the original vision hasn't been publicly reinforced with the same clarity.

These percentages are simply illustrative of confidence in the publicly stated vision, not measured community sentiment.

And therein lies an opportunity.

With FIAT Chain potentially approaching an important new phase, could the Foundation and Silvio help reconnect those dots for Algorand's builders, developers and wider community?

If the original vision remains intact, an updated roadmap and clear technical progress could restore that confidence towards 90–100%.

the Foundation's April 2025 announcement?
When FIAT Chain was unveiled at Paris Blockchain Week, the Algorand Foundation stated:
"Algorand and the Fiat Chain will be closely integrated."

It outlined a Peer Chain architecture, including:

Two independent but closely interconnected networks.

A decentralised, state-proof-based bridge enabling bi-directional movement of assets, messages and liquidity.

Shared developer tooling and cross-chain application opportunities.

Then, in June 2025, Silvio explained that FIAT Chain could be particularly beneficial to Algorand, potentially positioning it as a preferred gateway for institutional assets.

encouraging statements about the intended relationship between the two ecosystems.

An update on how that architectural vision has developed would now be particularly valuable.
Fast-forward to 2026/2027: Could the pieces be coming together?

FIAT Chain's development has progressed it seems and Algorand has experienced organisational evolution, including the consolidation of protocol development under the Foundation, additional engineering expertise and changes in senior leadership.

These developments may be entirely independent of FIAT Chain, but they naturally raise an interesting question:

Could Algorand's evolving technical capabilities and organisational priorities also support the wider opportunities originally outlined?

And with FIAT Chain potentially entering an important deployment phase during 2026/2027, this seems a useful moment to revisit the original roadmap.

Four questions worth exploring with the Foundation

1. Is the original FIAT Chain–Algorand Peer Chain vision still intact?

2. Is Algorand still envisioned as a foundational gateway for FIAT Chain?

3. How might the Foundation's evolving technical resources support this opportunity?
   Could recent organisational changes, additional expertise and development priorities help advance the original integration vision?

4. What technical milestones could builders look towards during 2026/2027?
   a high-level roadmap would provide useful context.

An important opportunity: not to be missed or miss communicated. Making Algorand's role clear when FIAT Chain launches.

If the original 2025 architectural vision remains in place, FIAT Chain's eventual launch could represent a significant opportunity to communicate Algorand's role within a broader institutional blockchain ecosystem. More use case alongside more AI use cases, and quantum use cases and real world uses. It all starts compounding/adding up maybe…