Algorand Foundation Announcements (Official)

We're happy to announce two new members of our Board of Directors. Algorand CEO William Herkelrath and Nexus Laboratories Chief Strategy Officer Alexander Fowler have officially joined the board, alongside existing members Bill Barhydt and Alex Holmes.

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 pla…

Over 1,000,000 post-quantum transactions have now been signed on Algorand mainnet. No leading Layer 1 has gone further. We're in a league of our own.

250,000 post-quantum transactions, and counting! ⚛️ Just 4 days after native PQ accounts went live on Pera Wallet, 250K+ transactions on Algorand have been signed with Falcon-1024. And that's native PQ accounts only, State Proofs not included. We're just getti…

Handing your AI agent your credentials is like giving a contractor a copy of your house key. Convenient, until it ends up somewhere it shouldn't. AC2, the Agentic Communication and Control protocol, works more like a doorbell. The agent asks, you let it in, an…

The best tech in the game just got an upgrade. Algorand v5.0.0 is now live on mainnet. Smart contracts are now twice as large, with post-quantum accounts and resource-based pricing.

Algorand v5.0.0 has reached 90% support and will now activate after the cooldown period! 🎉 This is the biggest upgrade for Algorand since staking rewards, bringing native post-quantum accounts, more powerful smart contracts, and a more flexible fee model! It s…

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:…