Algorand Foundation Announcements (Official)

Algorand v5.0.0 was released today! 🔥 Node runners will now vote on this consensus upgrade. If it passes: • Post-quantum accounts at the protocol level • Fees that price what a transaction actually contains • A bigger, more flexible AVM Learn more in our blog: https://algorand.co/blog/getting-ahead-of-the-elliptic-curve-whats-in-the-next-consensus-upgrade

Pera Wallet 7.0 is here! 🎉 Algorand's leading wallet has received its biggest update yet. They rebuilt the entire app from the ground up, bringing faster updates, a lighter install, and full feature parity across iOS & Android. Full details in the blog 👇 https://blog.perawallet.app/introducing-pera-wallet-7-0-rebuilt-from-the-ground-up-a99b90e910f6

Algorand Foundation has partnered with Flow Traders to deepen institutional liquidity across the Algorand blockchain. The partnership will make ALGO more accessible to institutional counterparties through Flow Traders' global execution infrastructure, with settlement available in fiat or stablecoins. As institutional participation in digital asset markets grows, the Algorand Foundation and Flow Traders are committed to expanding liquidity coverage across the Algorand ecosystem.

x402 is only getting started on Algorand. And we're already a top 2 chain by weekly volume, according to Token Terminal's new agentic payments dashboard. Agent payments are going to flow on Algorand! 🔥

Prediction markets are booming on Algorand 🔥 Alpha Arcade (the leading prediction market on Algorand) has already recorded more than $260M in total volume in 2026, compared to just $5.3M in all of 2025. That's already 49x last year's total volume, with nearly half of 2026 still to go.

Best all round x402 facilitator in #web3 from GoPlausible https://algorand.co/blog/introducing-the-goplausible-x402-facilitator-payments-and-intelligence-for-agentic-commerce-on-algorand

Congratulations to HesabPay on hitting the milestone of 1 million users. That's 1 million unique users, all transactions on Algorand, to make P2P money transfers, to pay electricity bills, to pay for groceries, and more. HesabPay continues to grow every day, with more and more governments, institutions, and enterprises supporting the mission.

The Algorand Global x402 Challenge is officially live! Register here and start building https://algorand.co/global-x402-challenge Need more details? Find everything you need to know about the challenge and how to compete for the $100K USD + 500K ALGO prize pool 👇 https://algorand.co/blog/the-x402-global-challenge-is-live-how-to-build-submit-your-entry

Meet x402 Intelligence, built by GoPlausible in collaboration with Algorand Foundation 🚀 Full analytics, real-time data, and an agent that answers questions about stats and your x402 activity on demand. https://facilitator.goplausible.xyz/dashboard/

https://algorand.co/blog/why-the-agentic-economy-will-be-built-on-algorand Why the agentic economy will be built on Algorand

Join us on the 23rd of July for an Algorand Community AMA on the r/AlgorandOfficial subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/AlgorandOfficial/

Compliance infrastructure on Algorand keeps growing. Score Chain, a blockchain analytics and crypto AML compliance platform, now supports ALGO and Algorand Standard Assets (ASAs), giving organizations the tools they need to detect risk, monitor transactions, and stay compliant.

More than 625,000 refugee returnees and 17,500 internally displaced people in Afghanistan have received aid from Refugees through reloadable cards on Hesab Pay, the payments platform powered by Algorand, reaching people in areas where traditional banking infrastructure is limited or unavailable. $35M in assistance has been securely delivered since the Humanitarian Payments Council convened in Berlin in September 2025. The annual meeting started today in DC.

IBM’s Digital Asset Haven includes dedicated support and documentation for Algorand.

Lofty just crossed $100M in volume 🎉 https://www.lofty.ai/

The Algorand booth is packed with devs on day one at WeAreDevs! 🔥

🛡 Algorand is now the #4 most decentralized blockchain by validator count https://chainspect.app/dashboard/decentralization?sort=validatorsOrMiners