Welcome to Week 5 of Algoland! This week, it's all about swaps 🔄 Experience seamless DeFi on Algorand with Tinyman, Vestige, and Haydotapp Get started below to win the 10,000 ALGO weekly prize.

Algorand has just been added as a partner for Google Cloud Tech Agent Payments Protocol. But what does that really mean? Whether you are a retail holder or someone who follows tech closely, this is truly important news and here is why. 🧵

Algorand has been added as a partner for GoogleCloudTech's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). Google developed AP2 to initiate & transact agent-led payments across platforms securely. Algorand's instant finality, low-cost, and secure transactions make AP2-ready agent payments seamless across platforms

Week 3 is almost over but its not too late! This week, we have new quests from FolksFinance, Compxlabs, and pact_fi. It's all about swaps, so you'll get to experience how smooth and seamless DeFi is on the Algorand blockchain 🔄 And the prize? A free holiday, on us.

Week 3 of Algoland is past halfway but the adventure’s only getting started! From wallets to swaps, stakes, mints & games—each quest builds badges, points & chances. Awesome Grand Prizes await: 100k ALGO Trip for 2, Riese & Müller e-bike plus weekly drops on X, Telegram & Reddit.

🎧Verifiably Random - Algorands podcast on YouTube Where the tech, the ideas, and the people shaping the ecosystem all come together. We’ve had two full seasons already, and Season 3 is live now with new episodes dropping. In case you missed any, here’s a thread with all three seasons so far 👇

Superb news! Excited to see how he help drive the 2025+ roadmap 🙌

At SALTConference in Wyoming, CEO @staci.algo.xyz joined the panel “DeFi TradFi Convergence: Markets, Payments and Privacy.” Here, she highlights the power of Algorand’s native atomic swaps, which already enable ArchaxEx to tokenize abrdn’s €3.8B market fund on Algorand, using Quantoz EURD.

The Algorand roadmap is now out. Let’s take a look at what this means for the future of Algorand 🧵

Algorand tech roadmap Live reveal now streaming on telegram! 🚨 Listen here now! t.me/AlgorandFoun...

Join us in London on August 7th for the ‘Algorand Crypto Meet-Up: Proof of Pizza’. We’ll be hosting this event at Encodeclub. Join us to learn more about Algorand and our plans for the UK 🇬🇧

The Algorand Roadmap will be released on July 31 at 12PM EST. A livestream reveal is coming. Full tech roadmap. No filters. Are you ready?

Catch our latest Space with Wormhole and Folks Finance as we discuss true interoperability and removing barriers by getting on the NTT train. Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts (free!) 👇 Links in comments below 👇

The Algorand roadmap drops next week. This isn’t just a 1 year roadmap. This is the future of Algorand.

🎉 The final week of this month’s @foundation.algo.xyz quiz run has officially begun! 🎉 50 questions. 5 days. 1 weekly winner. And of course… the monthly champions will be crowned too. 👑 But that’s not all…

Algorand soft staking is now available on @binance. Over 275 million Binance users can now soft stake ALGO with: 🟢 Full Flexibility 🟢 The ability to Withdraw or Trade anytime 🟢 Daily Rewards

🇺🇸 The SEC just ruled that staking on proof-of-stake networks doesn’t involve securities. Good news for crypto. Great news for Algorand. Begin cooking the perfect stake today 🥩 Get started here 👇 algorand.co/staking-rewa...

🚨 MidasRWA , a fully regulated German tokenization platform, launches mTBILL token on Algorand, the first non-EVM launch for the token. mTBILL is a tokenized certificate referencing short-term U.S. Treasury ETFs, available to retail investors across Europe.

The BIG QUIZ is ON! 10 weeks - Dozens of prizes, thousands of Algo - more than 100+ questions! 🤯 Each week the questions get closer at increasingly shrinking intervals so keep your eyes on the group 👀

📢 Your Weekly Algorand Ecosystem Roundup 📢 Follow this 🧵 for a coverage of Algorand's ecosystem news in the week of April 27th, 2025! (Credit to Fred Estante for curating)

Chess just went on-chain. The Algo Foundation x World Chess partnership doesn’t just open the door for tens of millions more to discover Algorand — it lays the groundwork for massive on-chain activity by users who won’t even realize they’re using blockchain tech.

AI is proud of me and it’s so sad that meant something to me 😂 I’m not a dev and just built a bot. At the end when i said it had worked this was the reply…

📢 Your Weekly Algorand Ecosystem Roundup 📢 Follow this 🧵 for a coverage of Algorand's ecosystem news in the week of April 20th, 2025! (Credit to Fred Estante for curating)

The Algorand Foundation is proud to unveil a proposal for a ‘Universal Chess Passport’ ♟️ The Universal Chess Passport is developed in partnership with The World Chess, utilizing decentralized ID and verifiable credential standards.

Ghetto Warzones - Algorand P2E gaming project Ghetto Pigeons is now live on Google play 🎮 Play to earn $ALGO and tokens like $COO, $MONKO, $IPT, $NIKO, $FISH, and more. Play today! warzones.ghettopigeon.com

📢 Your Weekly Algorand Ecosystem Roundup 📢 Follow this 🧵 for a coverage of Algorand's ecosystem news in the week of April 13th, 2025! (Credit to Fred Estante for curating)

3,000+ signups for the Web3 masterclasses ✍️ algorand.co/web3-masterc...

All 9 episodes of Algo radio (aka the Algorand foundation X Spaces) are now available on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! Follow now for each episode shortly after they end on X podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... open.spotify.com/show/4gMeymT...

Something’s brewing in the Algorand Telegram… Tips are flying. Meme tokens are moving. ALGO’s getting put to work. t.me/algorand - more than just a chat! Tip. Swap. Play. Repeat - with the power of @Algorand_OG Built on Algorand. Played on Telegram, right where it belongs. 👇 🧵

📢 Your Weekly Algorand Ecosystem Roundup 📢 Follow this 🧵 for a coverage of Algorand's ecosystem news in the week of April 6th, 2025! (Credit to Fred Estante for curating)

Algorand-built project LabTrace is working with Siemans Health to timestamp medical images on-chain, verifying their authenticity from the moment they’re captured. canablockchaindothat.com/labTrace-can How long before CCTV manufacturers and forensic tech providers follow suit? Algorand is ready.

Verifiably Random S2:E8: From AI to privacy, inside open-source coding at the Algorand Dev Retreat 🧑‍💻 Join John Woods & Larkin.algo in this week’s episode of your favorite blockchain podcast. youtu.be/Tvpgrw6Jp9s

The Fiat blockchain 🙌

It’s been a hot day in Paris, and attendees at Paris Blockchain Week cooled off with Algorand Cans 🥫 The perfect moment to kick back and ask: 👉 CanABlockchainDoThat.com

Algorand in March 2025: +24.6% MAUs +26.3% stablecoin market cap +19% smart contract deployments On-chain activity’s up. Let’s keep building!

Algorand is bringing real-world assets on-chain. ✈️ Airline Tickets 💰 Currencies 📈 Stocks ⚽️ FIFA World Cup Tickets 🏡 Real Estate ☕ Coffee 🏦 Financial Assets 🏺 Historical Events 🖼️ Art ⚡ Solar Panels 🌊 Water Credits 🏅 Precious Metals 🎶 Music Royalties 🌍 Carbon Credits 🌾 Agriculture ...and more!

Telegram users — protect yourself now! Charge for DMs or block strangers entirely. Here’s how: 1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Calls > Who Can Contact Me - Set both to My Contacts (or Paid). 2. Enable Archive, and Mute Unknown Chats to silence strangers. Stay safe peeps & Happy Sunday

Safe travels to all the @foundation.algo.xyz Champions and AlgoFam traveling to Paris Blockchain Week! ✈️ Have an awesome time - Show them what Algorand is made of 🙌!

Another week, another fantastic summary 🙌 🙌 🙌

I’m not what you’d call a fan of football, but even I can’t dismiss how huge this is for blockchain adoption. Epic move, EPIC! ⚽️🎟️🔥

Not sure what it says about me that my most well liked social media post across the board, ever, was simply “the can opener was invented 45 years after the can” 😅 fml lol

Shit’s so bleak that Bo Burnham might drop a new special

Expect more RWAs on Algorand to feature in the near future. app.rwa.xyz/stocks

Have a game-changing startup idea? Let’s build it on Algorand. Our Web3 Masterclasses are designed to help founders, developers, and innovators turn bold ideas into reality—leveraging the speed, security, and scalability of Algorand. 📅 April 22 - May 8 💨 Limited spots available Apply now! 👇

Governors, it’s time to become chefs. 850M+ ALGO from Governance Rewards is unstaked, not securing the network or earning rewards. Governance Period 14 is officially over; it’s time to begin staking. Learn how to begin and see your provider options 👇 algorand.co/staking-rewards

It’s almost the end of Governance Rewards on Algorand. The era of Staking Rewards is upon us. In the blog below, Adri explains what’s next 👇

Big moves on Planet Algorand! Here’s just a taste of what’s been cooking

📢 Your Weekly Algorand Ecosystem Roundup 📢 Follow this 🧵 for a coverage of Algorand's ecosystem news in the week of March 23rd, 2025! (Credit to Fred Estante for curating)

$ALGO is now supported on the Telegram wallet app 🔥 Over a billion active telegram users can now buy, sell, and hold $ALGO directly within the app! t.me/wallet

Some days really can be tough when your job entails using X but your very existence is constantly in question and every other post is just bigotry and hate. Grateful I’m on Bluesky too, it balances the scales - albeit only a little 😒