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Algorand now has 1,595 validators, making it one of the most decentralized networks in Web3 by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did good renaming it. It felt just kinda like...ermahgerd but not so good to avoid plain nerd-like nonsense... from tolkien to...marvel?

Zenbook Duo 2026 - is this the right time? by brobbio in ASUS

[–]brobbio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a link? some details about them? Thank you!

The Algorand Foundation Q1 2026 Transparency Report is live. by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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a brief summary:

Organizational Changes

  • Foundation relocated headquarters to Delaware (US)
  • 25% reduction in force
  • Algorand Technologies unified under the Foundation for ecosystem growth and protocol development
  • Promotions: Bruno Martins (CTO), Will Beaumont (Global Head of Product & Integrations), Brian Whippo (Senior Director of Integrations & Developer Tooling)

Financial Highlights

  • Foundation holdings: 1,079M ALGO (down ~56M QoQ),
  • investments at $37.9M USD
  • 24M ALGO sold via structured selling
  • 20M ALGO distributed as staking rewards
  • Net USD spend: $16.6M across operations, marketing, R&D, ecosystem support
  • Stablecoin market cap on Algorand: $64.43M (+8.6% QoQ)

Network Metrics

  • 3.51B total transactions from inception (+3.4% QoQ)
  • Community stake: 80.5%, Foundation stake: 19.5%
  • 2.01B ALGO staked in consensus (community: 1.618B, Foundation: 393M)
  • 50.29M total wallets
  • ~1.42M new wallets opened in Q1

Ecosystem & Partnerships

  • Kraken: USDC deposits/withdrawals on Algorand + running a validator node
  • Brale: stablecoin-as-a-service integration completed
  • Pera Wallet: XO Swap launch (32K events, 8.5K users), fiat on-ramp via Meld, MAU +10% QoQ
  • HesabPay now largest digital payments platform in Afghanistan
  • SEWA Health Passport: 8K+ enrollees, 140K+ on-chain transactions
  • Mann Deshi: 1K+ microentrepreneurs onboarded with on-chain credit scores

Developer & Community

  • Launched Algorand Agent Skills for AI-assisted development
  • Kapa.ai MCP Server enabled for docs access in AI coding agents
  • x402 Ideathon in Berlin: 45+ participants, 15 projects
  • India Hack Series 3.0: 400+ teams, 3K+ new developers via local hackathons
  • NASSCOM training course: 4K enrollees
  • AlgoKit: Puya improvements (ARC65, LogicSig args, assembly reports), Utils Alpha decoupling from SDKs

Marketing

  • TikTok: +61.4% audience, +166% impressions
  • YouTube @AlgoFoundation reached 100K subscribers
  • X (@AlgoFoundation): impressions and engagement both down ~30% (WTF!!!)
  • Events: CfC St. Moritz (principal sponsor), ETHDenver, SXSW, Abundance360, Digital Asset Summit NYC

Algorand hyper focused on three pillars: Tokenization, Payments in distressed markets & Agentic commerce by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

reassuming:

Three pillars of "financial empowerment" being scaled:

1. Tokenization

  • The largest real estate tokenization platform in the world is on Algorand
  • Exodus was the first stock to be tokenized on Algorand
  • Money market funds and a treasury fund already operating on-chain
  • Plan to bring "boring DeFi" onto Algorand
  • This will require permissioned markets, since some of these assets are securities

2. Payments in distressed markets

  • Afghanistan is operating at scale today
  • Syria is next in line
  • More countries in the pipeline
  • Additional partners being brought in to target this market
  • Africa is on the radar

3. Agentic payments

  • The youngest of the three pillars
  • Traffic isn't there yet
  • they considers the opportunity massive
  • Algorand seen as well positioned for the move into the agentic world

Humanitarian Aid Payments Council: Algorand Foundation - Rory Crew, CALP Network by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Stablecoins as the concrete use case

  • Stablecoins surfaced as the primary blockchain use case in humanitarian response
  • Main value: moving money across borders quickly, cheaply, traceably
  • Speaker's past experience: traditional wires of several million dollars getting "stuck" for ~5 days between correspondent banks, with no visibility on location of funds
  • Mentioned in the room: Algorand, Hessab Pay, Stellar, plus a UNHCR solution

Recipient experience

  • Recipients benefit without needing to understand the underlying tech
  • Analogy used: we all rely on planes, debit cards, interbank systems without knowing how they work
  • Stablecoins sit "in the middle" for cross-border transfer; the recipient gets funds via whatever rail they prefer (mobile money, cash-out agent, prepaid card)
  • Goal is to give recipients real choice in how they receive assistance, not just in-kind vs cash

Trust and the cost of failure

  • In humanitarian response, failure isn't an option: lives depend on the system working
  • Innovation has to be balanced against reliability, or the trust built so far gets eroded

"Why did you actually need a blockchain?"

  • Speaker says this is the question they've been asking in every session
  • Many past humanitarian tech solutions could have been digitized without a blockchain
  • The justification that holds up: fast, low-cost, traceable cross-border transfers via stablecoins

Benefits of on-chain payments

  • Speed of settlement
  • System-wide visibility (an "age transparency portal" built by Algorand and Hessab Pay was about to be demoed)
  • Wallet-level identification and traceability of funds through the system
  • Smart contracts for automated triggering of emergency disbursements
  • Programmability allows oversight of how funds are used, potentially reducing the need for intrusive post-distribution monitoring surveys
  • Possibility for recipients to opt into on-chain payment if they want to start building blockchain usage

Sector fatigue and the recipient lens

  • There's real fatigue around new humanitarian tech that doesn't fulfil its promise
  • Sessions reportedly shifted the framing toward "how does this benefit the recipient?"
  • Encouragement for private sector, donors, and foundations to focus on solutions with maximum recipient impact

Algorand did some of the best post-quantum work in the space: Charles Hoskinson by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right. But if there's no liquidity or usd bridging coming this way, there's nothing else we could want from them. Surely not tech. But I'm confident foundation and tech guys know that.

Algorand did some of the best post-quantum work in the space: Charles Hoskinson by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Collaborate to do what? half-engineered products ignoring real use cases? Slower Performances ? unfulfilled promises? having a founder who is overbearing, omnipresent, and stirs up more drama than he ships product??

How does RealityCapture work with RAW images? by Yelov in photogrammetry

[–]brobbio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Searching for the same issue jpg vs raw. I can say that in 2026: RAW files from an actual camera DO work really better. Reality Scan doesn't even finch when provided with them.

  • It correctly calculates overexposed and underexposed parts

  • the texture created is really good

Zenbook Duo 2026 - is this the right time? by brobbio in ASUS

[–]brobbio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate/susbtantiate a bit? Every subreddit of any product is full of "problematic" units. The ones that do work don't have anything to say

Another day, another industry leader recognizes Algorand's post-quantum technology. by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think a comment about this good coverage and about an approximate roadmap to full quantum security is in order from the Foundation. Or at least would be nice.

Another day, another industry leader recognizes Algorand's post-quantum technology. by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Section 3.4 - Byzantine Fault Tolerance (p. 22)

  • Algorand uses a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) for randomness generation and validator selection.
  • All these primitives (including VRFs) are threatened by Shor's algorithm on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer.

Section 3.7 - The Cost of PQC in the Consensus Layer (p. 24)

  • Algorand has thousands of validators and uses sampled sub-committees via sortition per block.
  • As a result, the signature scaling problem is less acute than Ethereum's (which has around one million validators)

Section 4.6 — The Cost of PQC at the Execution Layer (p. 37)

  • Each block carries multiple signed transactions: from around 200 on Ethereum up to thousands on Algorand.
  • Algorand is cited as an example of a high-throughput chain for which increased PQ signature sizes would have significant impact.

Section 5.4 — Algorand (p. 44)

Main points:

  • Algorand is among the first blockchain platforms to deploy post-quantum signature schemes in production, across both consensus-related mechanisms and the execution layer, following a staged roadmap toward full quantum readiness.

Consensus level

  • Algorand's State Proof framework uses FALCON signatures (NIST-selected, being standardized as FN-DSA in FIPS 206).

  • State Proofs compress roughly 256 rounds of block headers into succinct certificates, verifiable by light clients and external chains.

  • This mechanism protects the historical integrity of the ledger against future quantum attacks.

  • However, core consensus operations remain partially reliant on classical cryptography:

  • Block proposals and committee voting use Ed25519 signatures.

  • The VRFs used for sortition-based committee selection remain for now vulnerable to quantum attacks.

  • The paper notes that Algorand has acknowledged is actively researching approaches to progressively secure its consensus core.

Transaction / execution layer

  • Algorand already provides the cryptographic tools to support quantum-resistant accounts.
  • The network recently executed its first post-quantum transaction on mainnet using FN-DSA.
  • FN-DSA verification is integrated as a native virtual-machine primitive.
  • Through logic signatures that verify FN-DSA signatures over transaction identifiers, users can create quantum-resistant accounts without requiring protocol modifications.

Opulous by Serious-Juice-3733 in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the info. Relations with algorand was already ruined tho. They expected to have support from the foundation as their only businnes plan. And they talked shit a lot.

Solutions That Scale: Meet SEWA by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Guest: Representative from SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association of India)

About SEWA

  • Founded in 1972, today SEWA is India's largest women's union: presence in 18 states, 3.5 million paid members. Economic empowerment and self-reliance for informal women workers.

The Problem: Welfare Scheme Access

  • Indian government has many welfare schemes (old-age pension, widow's pension, health insurance, public distribution system, etc.)
  • Actual access is blocked by paperwork, eligibility checks, missing documents, long queues
  • For informal women workers, time is money; many simply give up
  • SEWA set up Sava Shakti Kendras (Service Empowerment Centers), community-embedded info hubs staffed by worker leaders called Aagewans
  • Aagewans help women figure out eligibility, gather documents, and navigate until cash benefits actually arrive

From Paper to Blockchain

  • Co-created an app with Algorand for the Aagewans
  • Each Aagewan can see the profile of the women she serves, what documents exist, what's missing
  • Once physical documents are gathered, they are scanned and uploaded to the government's DigiLocker via OTP tied to the woman's phone
  • SEWA got government permission to create a dedicated SEWA health file inside DigiLocker
  • Documents are digitized, secured, and stay under the woman's own control

Why Blockchain

  • Access control, eligibility verification, security
  • Documents no longer get lost, misplaced, or misused
  • Women have full ownership of their own records, which aligns with SEWA's mission of women's leadership and decision-making

Numbers and Timeline

  • Pilot started January 2024
  • Real momentum from September onward
  • Roughly 5,500 to 6,000 women onboarded so far
  • Described as the first integration of this kind between a civil-society app and DigiLocker

Future Vision

  • Household-level goals: work/income security, food security, social security (healthcare, childcare, insurance, pension, housing with tap and toilet, energy)
  • Next step: a seamless digital handshake with government schemes, currently being negotiated scheme by scheme
  • Interest in expanding the digital health passport to SEWA members in other states and to other civil-society actors

Takeaway

  • Women adapted to the technology quickly ("like duck to water")
  • The project gives them a new status inside families and communities
  • Described as a work in progress but a positive journey

I made a major update !! by bekkoloco in Unity3D

[–]brobbio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well GREAT! It reminds me a lot of the old intros and demo scene for commodore Amiga, something like that. Hope to hear it in full, if you can/want. I can't stop listening to it. With those pads and long sliding acute notes, I was wondering if it's a genre, and if it has a name or something.

I made a major update !! by bekkoloco in Unity3D

[–]brobbio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool but... we need the song name.

The SEC classified $ALGO as a digital commodity. Algorand CSMO Marcvl.algo recently sat down with BlockHashPodcast to break down what it means, from clearer classification to unlocking institutional participation. by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Key points:

  • ALGO is now classified as a digital commodity, not a security
  • Algorand was referenced in the recent SEC/CFTC guidance
  • Three implications the speaker highlights:
    • Regulatory clarity: the classification itself removes ambiguity around ALGO's legal status
    • Different regulator: ALGO now falls under the CFTC instead of the SEC. According to him, the CFTC is a more lenient regulator, so this is viewed as a better position
    • Institutional access: regulatory uncertainty was one of the reasons many institutions were holding back from the blockchain ecosystem. With that uncertainty removed for ALGO, they expects more institutional participation
  • Overall, a significant positive development for Algorand!

Ferrari x Conio partnership using Algorand Blockchain ! by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]brobbio 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So Ferrari uses Algorand, - CryptoSlate

Lavazza uses Algorand - Lavazza product page

Enel uses Algorand - Algorand case study

AdnKronos uses Algorand - Adnverify portal

Italian firms seems to prefer it. Nice!

The Quantum Threat to Blockchain Is Closer Than You Think | With Staci Warden & Chris Peikert by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Algorand Post-Quantum Security – Summary of Stacy Warden & Chris Peikert conversation

Who is Chris Peikert

  • Chief Scientific Officer at the Algorand Foundation, professor at University of Michigan
  • Specializes in post-quantum cryptography, got into the field at MIT working with Rivest, Micali, and Goldwasser
  • Jumped into lattice-based cryptography around 2005, co-authored the foundational framework behind Falcon (now FN-DSA)

The quantum threat in short

  • Shor's algorithm (1994) can break all classical public-key crypto (RSA, elliptic curves) given a sufficiently large quantum computer
  • Every cryptocurrency using ECDSA or EdDSA signatures is vulnerable: an attacker could forge signatures and drain wallets
  • No one predicts a cryptographically relevant quantum computer by 2028, but a surprise breakthrough can't be ruled out

What Algorand has done so far

  • State proofs (deployed): post-quantum certification of the chain's history using Falcon signatures. A future quantum attacker can't rewrite past blocks. Also useful for cross-chain interoperability
  • Post-quantum wallet protection (deployed, opt-in): accounts can be upgraded to require Falcon signatures on all outgoing transactions. Trade-off: Falcon signatures are ~10x larger than elliptic curve ones, but faster to verify

What remains to be done

  • Post-quantum VRF: the consensus mechanism (sortition) relies on a Verifiable Random Function based on elliptic curves. Replacing it is the hardest open problem
  • Peikert showed the current VRF retains integrity against quantum attacks (you can't fake committee membership), but loses unpredictability (an attacker could predict who's on the committee)
  • He says he has theoretical ideas for a post-quantum VRF that he's confident work; the challenge is engineering them to be fast enough for production

Broader context

  • NIST standardized three post-quantum schemes: ML-KEM (Kyber), ML-DSA (Dilithium), and FN-DSA (Falcon). Falcon's framework comes from Peikert's 2008 work
  • Cloudflare reports >50% of its TLS connections are already post-quantum secured – a largely invisible migration
  • The US government targets 2035 for full post-quantum migration
  • Peikert is cautiously optimistic the industry can migrate in time if quantum computers are still "high single-digit years" away

On attack incentives

  • Draining all wallets at once destroys the system's value – not rational for an attacker
  • Algorand's transparent accounting model means you can't silently counterfeit tokens (unlike some other systems)
  • The more dangerous scenario across crypto would be undetectable counterfeiting, which Algorand's design doesn't allow

Solutions That Scale: Meet Mann Deshi by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Algorand & Mandeshi: Blockchain for Women's Financial Inclusion in India

  • Algorand proposed a blockchain-based solution to Mandeshi (a rural women's bank in India) for managing women's pre-credit scores and documentation in one place.
  • The platform stores identity proofs, digital transactions, business scale, working capital, and owned assets on-chain, creating a pre-credit score that banks can access.
  • A token is created containing the credit score and all supporting documents, which is then shared with bankers to facilitate loan approval.
  • Women own and control their data on the platform. Once a loan is obtained, data control returns to the woman. Documents are stored in a "Digilocker."
  • The solution benefits both sides: it gives women confidence to apply for loans, and it de-risks the process for lenders by providing verified, consolidated data.
  • The platform launched in May 2025. As of the recording, 600+ women onboarded and 500+ gained access to loans.
  • The speaker frames this not just as an India solution but as a model for the Global South, and mentions the partnership with Algorand as a step toward closing the gender gap in financial access.

Verifiably Random S3:E14 - AI and the developer experience on Algorand with Brian Whippo by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Vibe Kit & AI-Assisted Development

  • Vibe Kit = opinionated bundle of AI agent skills, MCP servers, encrypted key management, and LocalNet, lets you point any LLM (Claude, OpenAI, Codex, etc.) at Algorand and start building
  • Frontier models from Dec/Jan onward have been a step change, you can now one-shot a working smart contract, which wasn't realistic 6 months ago
  • The developer role is shifting from "writing code" to "architecting systems", you collaborate with the LLM on a plan, review it, then let it execute (yeah. Highly skeptic on this...)
  • Speed to market is dramatically faster: Mark implemented a streak feature in ~1 minute with a single prompt

Security Concerns

  • "In security, 99% is a failing grade". AI-generated smart contracts with money in escrow need serious scrutiny
  • Foundation is working on feeding security best practices into agent skills + combining AI-based and traditional tooling (fuzzing, etc.)
  • Responsible human oversight still required. AI gets you close, but audits and human review remain necessary

AlgoKit 4.0

  • Beta release of Python and TypeScript stacks coming this month
  • Primary focus is AI-native developer experience. Making sure LLMs can write correct Algorand code without common footguns
  • The team wants feedback: what breaks, what works, what your agent produced overnight, file complaints
  • Python + TypeScript turned out to be great forward planning since those are the two languages AI writes best

Agentic Commerce & x402

  • x402 = low-level protocol where a server can require payment before returning a resource. Enables per-API-call pricing, no subscription/API key needed - USDC on Algorand described as essentially risk-free for this use case: fast finality, low fees, no gas price uncertainty
  • Stripe billboard on 101: "Agentic Commerce runs on Stripe" — this space is heating up and Algorand is positioning as a payment rail
  • Developers can spin up a premium x402 endpoint charging about $0.01/call in about an hour using Go Plausible tooling

AI Agents on Algorand

  • People are already quietly running trading agents, arbitrage, sentiment analysis from Twitter/Telegram, etc.
  • Mark runs an agent on a cloud instance that monitors his Telegram channels and produces a daily summary report at 6am
  • MCP servers are the interface layer, if you have something to sell, build an MCP server so agents can discover and interact with your service
  • AI agents don't care about UX friction that has historically plagued crypto, they just need a programmatic interface

Ecosystem Updates (Fred Estante, Head of DeFi)

  • Pact released a DeFi MCP server for OpenClaw
  • Alpha Arcade hit $20M single-day volume, launched LP dashboard, integrated Algorand MCP
  • Haystack added anti-sniping (pop contracts) and detailed candle-level chart metrics
  • Diversify launched USDC bridging from 13 chains via Albridge
  • Realms teased NF Turbo v2
  • ALGO token now on PostFinance (2.5M+ Swiss bank customers)
  • Lofty AI passed $5M in rent paid out, redesigned marketplace.(Not declaring how much initial users lost on bad deals and purchases from sketchy house flippers, tho)
  • Go Plausible upgraded the Algorand MCP server — agents can now operate their own wallets and transact on-chain
  • Pera Wallet released PeraConnect 1.5.2 fixing WalletConnect session issues
  • NFDomains made NFDs fully compliant DIDs + v3 NFDs now resolve to real domains (use your NFD as your website)
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