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-Algorand ALGO was made in America-
The most interesting news I can find on #Algorand $ALGO @AlgoFoundation : -Real World Asset (#RWA)- #EURD - NODE RUNNER -

[Simon @Simon_ALGORAND]

"While going through it remember:
✅Any project building on #Algorand rails has to use $ALGO. Not only for tx fees but also for creating/maintaining ASAs, NFTs, NFDs, Wallets and Smart Contracts."

#Algorand is the best L1 unquestionably.

As the BS (hype, FUD, shilling, etc.) ends, fundamentals will win as they always do.

IMO nothing comes close to any aspect of #Algorand's fundamentals; tech is the best in class, tokenomics, decentralisation (most decentralised L1), real-world adoption now as well as formidable pipeline, and patents granted cited/referred to major institutions directly based on Algorand's tech.

See below for more on all aspects of #ALGO FA (Fundamentals Analysis):

#Algorand tech;
⚡ Instant Finality
🧊 2.7s Block Time
📈 15K+ TPS irespective of the type of transaction.
(15k TPS is industry-leading, and achieved on the mainnet with no degregation in performance)
🔒 Quantum-Secure Chain History.
(Using Falcon keys, Algorand is the only chain with a quantum secure ledger.)
🚫 Zero Downtime since inception-June 19'
(2.83bn+ tx's and 47.8M+ blocks processed)
📧 42.4M wallets/addresses created so far
✅ No block re-orgs and rollbacks
✅ No Forking possible = no duplicate assets!
✅ No Failed Transactions
💰 Extremely Low Fees (~$0.0003 per tx's)
♾️ Unlimited Smart Contract Storage
🎁 Staking Rewards
🍃 Eco-Friendly
🌐 Interoperability
🛠️ Developer-Friendly
🐍 Algorand supports native #Python,  native #Typescript, native #Java, #JavaScript and #Go programming languages, as well as most dev tooling and line-by-line debuggin.
🎯 Turing-complete
💼 Enterprise-Ready and used now
(see #RWA graph below)
📜 MiCA Compliant
🌍 Global Reach
🔍 Send private transactions on Algorand with https://t.co/ZyVb3vTkdh (now on TestNet)
🫡 Highly decentralised, 5.2k+ nodes Globaly. (Algorand's unique VRF-based consensus mechanism, anyone can run a node on any regular computer. https://t.co/ERBpWklPZV )
👨‍🏫 Reputable founder @silviomicali (MIT professors and Turing award recipient for work in cryptography, whose work is cited in $BTC whitepaper)
🇺🇸 American-made

#Algorand has excellent tokenomics;
🏁 finite and strict token ( $ALGO) supply, insuring no indefinite inflation associated with non-finate supply tokens.
🟢 84.6% of $ALGO are in circulation = Only ~2.6% average yearly inflation from now until summer of 2030, when the last ALGO will be distributed.
👷‍♀️ $ALGO is required not only for Tx's but also for creation and maintenance of Smart Contracts, Wallets, NFTs, NFDs and ASAs. This in turn is taking significant $ALGO out of circulating/tradable supply (so far 52.3M) and will start to have deflationary pressure in the near future.

#Algorand rails are used now in the #RWA (real-world adoption) by variety of use-cases globaly ⏬️ ;
@exodus - tokenized common stock listed on NYSE.
@ArchaxEx - tokenized interests in abrdn’s €3.8bn money market fund.
@RedCross (American Red Cross) - delivering monetary help to Americans affected by recent natural disasters
@lavazza - coffee supply chain traceability
@travelx__ - airline tickets
(3 airlines using it so far, processing over 24.5M tx's monthly. More airlines are joining soon.)
@agrotoken - grains tokenized
@FIFACollect - digital collectables (over 1.5M sold so far, $12M+ volume) and rights to by tickets for World Cup.
@EnelGroup - solar panel tokenization
@lofty_ai - tokenized over 160 USA residential properties so far, with active DAO's for each.
@MasterCard - solution is designed for users with assets onchain in web3 wallet who want easy and safe way to spend.
@meldgold - tokenization of precious metals.
@HesabPay_ - 30% of all electricity bills ($40M+ each month) in Afghanistan are paid via HesabPay app on Algorand rails.
@anotemusic - music royalties tokenized and paid monthly to token holders.
@Quantoz - first compliant electronic EUR (EURD) backed by Dutch Central Bank. Quantoz payments has passported its EMI licence to all of the EEA.
etc.
@EldarDRM

[Algorand Foundation @AlgoFoundation]

Algorand is steadily carving out a role in agentic commerce.

• Official partner for @Google’s Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2)

• Full integration across the x402 stack

@Algorand is increasingly well-positioned for AI-native payments.

[ALLINCRYPTO @RealAllinCrypto]

🚨UNITED NATIONS CHOSE $ALGO & $XLM!

Yesterday the United Nations Development Programme selected both @AlgoFoundation and @StellarOrg as founding members of its new Blockchain Advisory Group.

The UNDP operate in 170+ countries and will look to roll out solutions on these DLTs!

[Algorand @Algorand]

The United Nations Development Programme / @UNDP has launched the Blockchain Advisory Group, a body of 26 organisations from across the blockchain ecosystem.

Algorand, through @AlgoFoundation, is proud to be a founding member alongside the Ethereum Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation, Cardano Foundation, and others.

The group will meet twice a year, each time with a different development theme.

[Algorand @Algorand]

Only 2 blockchains in the entire industry have earned an A-Grade on the Quantum Threat Tracker from @tectonicxyz.

Algorand is one of them.

We've been building for this since day one.

[Ⱥlex | france.algo 🇫🇷 @algerstmehn]

ICYMI, here's your @Algorand news recap for May!

🟢 Great news for millions of U.S. users as $ALGO is finally available on @RobinhoodApp! 🇺🇸

🟢 @VersaBank recently completed the world's first pilot of blockchain-based deposit receipts and selected Algorand as one of its trusted networks!

🟢 Algorand currently ranks among the top 4 blockchains by tokenized stock value!

🟢 Algorand xGovs retroactively funded 9 ecosystem proposals, allocating 1.45M $ALGO through community voting!

🟢 @cusma_b published an amazing blog deep dive into Algorand's path to post-quantum readiness.

A must-read for anyone interested in how Algorand is preparing for the post-quantum future! 🔐

🟢 Busy month for Algorand CEO @StaciW_DC who spoke at both @CFR_org in New York and @AIM_Summit in London to discuss digital currencies, tokenization, and the future of capital markets.

🟢 The @UNCDF and @UNDP Afghanistan Digital Prosperity Project, delivered through @HesabPay_, launched Afghanistan's first end-to-end digital microfinance solution on Algorand!

🟢 AlgoKit Utils Beta for TypeScript and Python is now live, marking the first step toward AlgoKit 4.0!

🟢 450+ @UN professionals have now graduated from the @UNDP Blockchain Academy, exploring real-world use cases on Algorand! 🎓

🟢 @wtrtoken partnered with YTL Corporation to launch the UK's first blockchain-verified water reuse credit, built on Algorand!

👉 Helping support water sustainability efforts for 2.9 million people! 💧

Alan Torrisi from Hypercube joined @Genfinity and @RealAllinCrypto to break it all down.

🟢 Algorand CSMO @marcvl also joined @Genfinity for a great podcast on Algorand's 2026 strategy, covering tokenization, agentic payments, and institutional adoption!

🟢 Algorand reached a new decentralization milestone in Q1 2026, with over 2B $ALGO staked and community stake reaching a new ATH (80.5% of total consensus stake).

🟢 @HesabPay_ and Algorand were featured in Blockchain for Good's latest landmark report on how blockchain is transforming aid and philanthropy! 🤝

🟢 @ganainmtech shared a great video tutorial on building pay-per-request APIs over HTTP with x402 and Algorand!

🟢 @AmarOdedra was promoted to Interim CCO at @AlgoFoundation while continuing to serve as Global Head of Investments.

🟢 May saw huge on-chain activity from @lavazza once again, with over 20M kg of coffee cherries traced on Algorand.

More than 2,600 hectares across hundreds of farms are being tracked, from harvest in Cuba to roasting in Italy! ☕️

🟢 @MecquelWEB3 wrote a great blog exploring atomic settlement, modern financial infrastructure, and why @Algorand is built for the future of finance!

🟢 Algorand now has 2,800+ nodes distributed across 81 countries, making it one of the most globally distributed L1 blockchains! 🌎

🟢 Algorand remains one of the most accessible L1s for running a validator, requiring just 0.1 $ALGO to participate in consensus!

🟢 Algorand CSMO @marcvl was a featured speaker at @nordicblock, discussing the future of institutional blockchain adoption! 🇸🇪

🟢 Millions of EVM users can now transact on Algorand without setting up a new wallet thanks to xChain Accounts.

👉 @LoafPickle and @Camohe90 wrote a new technical blog explaining how it works under the hood, powered by LogicSigs!

🟢 Algorand is hosting a hackathon in Berlin with @42Blockchain_ and @GoPlausible on June 6-7 focused on agentic commerce and AI-powered payments, with $20K in prizes!

🟢 Algorand CLOO @_JennieLevin shared a great thread explaining the latest CLARITY Act developments and the path toward regulatory clarity for digital assets!

🟢 @LoafPickle wrote a great blog breaking down the benefits of Algorand's native multisig.

He also joined @Genfinity to talk about @PeraAlgoWallet Shared Accounts, now live!

🟢 A great Algorand Community Call took place in May featuring @sealedchannel, an end-to-end encrypted, quantum-secure messaging platform built on Algorand.

Sealed is set to launch on mainnet on June 17! 📅

🟢 After years of development, @AkitaInuASA is now live on mainnet, with testing underway!

Built on Algorand, Akita is a community-driven social platform and wallet focused on user-owned content and direct value exchange.

🟢 @GetVeri_ has launched its beta, allowing users to create their own digital vault for self-sovereign identity, verifiable credentials, and non-custodial payments on Algorand!

🟢 @LoafPickle delivered a huge month for @wendottools, shipping an AI Agent Marketplace, x402 integrations, P2P messaging, music NFT support, and a nice dashboard redesign! 🔥

🟢 @LW3India, an India-based energy accounting company building on Algorand, was featured in a recent Ecosystem Spotlight.

[ALLINCRYPTO @RealAllinCrypto]

🚨Staci Warden of $ALGO said it best...

We can send a movie across the world in seconds, but can't send $10 fast across borders! That's the problem crypto and @Algorand was built to solve.

This was at an event by the Council on Foreign Relations, $ALGO is in the right rooms!

[Simon @Simon_ALGORAND]

https://t.co/Obf2r721vl
GROK
"QRL was built quantum-resistant from day one with XMSS hash-based signatures.

Algorand has already deployed NIST Falcon post-quantum signatures on mainnet (first PQC tx in 2025 + State Proofs since 2022).

Ethereum is actively migrating to hash-based PQC by ~2029 (leanVM, account abstraction) per the plans Justin highlighted.

Most others (BTC, SOL, etc.) still use vulnerable ECDSA/Ed25519. No panic — steady migration is the move."

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

[Grok @grok]

QRL was built quantum-resistant from day one with XMSS hash-based signatures.

Algorand has already deployed NIST Falcon post-quantum signatures on mainnet (first PQC tx in 2025 + State Proofs since 2022).

Ethereum is actively migrating to hash-based PQC by ~2029 (leanVM, account abstraction) per the plans Justin highlighted.

Most others (BTC, SOL, etc.) still use vulnerable ECDSA/Ed25519. No panic — steady migration is the move.

[Algorand Foundation @AlgoFoundation]

The EU recently confirmed that by 2027, every battery, textile, and electronic device sold in Europe will need a verifiable Digital Product Passport.

The infrastructure to support this at scale already exists on Algorand.

Companies like Repsol, Thai Union, Estée Lauder, and Lavazza are using it today.

A thread on who's building it 🧵

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

BREAKING: Algorand has surpassed 3.4B lifetime transactions.

[Algorand Foundation @AlgoFoundation]

1M transactions.

On Algorand: ~$190

As usage scales, transaction costs start to matter fast.

For AI agents, payments, gaming, and high-volume consumer apps, infrastructure efficiency can become a real differentiator.

[Ⱥlex | france.algo 🇫🇷 @algerstmehn]

The diversity of RWAs on Algorand is just INSANE! 🔥

And that's definitely no coincidence.

$ALGO has everything RWAs need: reliability, security, native assets, native atomic swaps, granular asset controls, low/predictable fees, and instant finality! ✅

[pera.algo @PeraAlgoWallet]

Important clarification on asset inbox safety 🔐

Accepting or rejecting NFTs and tokens from your asset inbox in Pera is completely safe. This type of exploit can't occur from within the app itself.

The risk arises after leaving Pera: if you follow a link to a third-party website, connect your wallet, and sign a transaction there, that's where malicious activity can occur.

We're committed to adding more in-app safeguards to help detect and flag these risks earlier.

In the meantime, the strongest protection is staying informed: always review any transaction carefully before signing, regardless of where it originates.

Stay safe Algofam.

[Ⱥlex | france.algo 🇫🇷 @algerstmehn]

@NoodlesFi @dfinity @Algorand @Google @SuiNetwork Hey @Kylechasse, guess you dropped these 👓

Algorand is an official Google partner for AP2.

[D13 @d13_co]

☢️ Scam warning - @algoblow

Received two credible reports that algoblow[.]com rekeyed accounts when users connected to check airdrop

The scam is a $BLOW asset optin that also rekeys the user account. Users who sign these transactions have their accounts rekeyed, thereby permanently losing access to them.

It may only trigger for high value accounts. 4 accounts have been rekeyed so far:

A43BSFDDZGPEVB2XUUX652OOHNHRA3OZVP4FNM7MF5TDOCUFZWGLS7MR6A

TJ7SMOGG52KCSEDWGP4NNCJMJFFLBFI5IKQS7GDUJN5UZJWCP7NTPPFMJ4

XTC4LUY4T5U2KBGRMJD5STGLS2UQJM6QW2N7PCYFB76BYGSH7PV3WOQ22U

YKTO4C2WAC2BSMJMYKM43YCGUYHU3XHAHAYG6UUSF3BLOF6VMGRXKYB7ZU

Exercise extreme caution $BLOW

[Ⱥlex | france.algo 🇫🇷 @algerstmehn]

❌ sui:native has now been down with transactions paused for almost 3 hours, while the previous outage was just a few months ago in January (+5h).

No one can guarantee outages will never happen on any chain, including $ALGO, but reliability in crypto matters A LOT more than people sometimes realize!

Every minute of downtime can directly impact millions of users, payments, apps, businesses, and real people relying on the network...

Just imagine large-scale use cases like @HesabPay_, powered by @Algorand and already used daily by thousands of people outside of Web3.

A downtime could be very problematic!

Algorand has maintained exceptional reliability so far: nearly 7 years live, billions of transactions processed, and 0 downtime! 🔥

This is definitely one of the many reasons why so many institutions, projects, and businesses rely on it! ✅

[TODEY @JoinTODEY]

💳 PERA CARD IS NOW LISTED ON TODEY

@PeraAlgoWallet Card is a cryptocurrency debit card linked to the Pera Algo Wallet that allows users to spend USDC stablecoins directly anywhere Mastercard is accepted.

Compare features, fees, and limits on TODEY
➡️ https://t.co/0U8jCGGt9g

[Algorand Foundation @AlgoFoundation]

The Algorand Foundation is happy to announce that there will be no forking in 2026.

We can also announce the same for 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030... and every other year in the future.

No forks, ever.

Can your blockchain say the same?

[third_deviation @third_deviation]

Alert 🚨 🚨🚨 3.434 billion blockchain transactions!!!

With zero down time, zero failed transactions, and instant finality!!!

Now say it! #Algorand is King 👑

$ALGO 🏆

[Algorand Developers @algodevs]

Millions of EVM users can now transact on Algorand without setting up a new wallet.

Under the hood, xChain Accounts use LogicSigs, one of Algorand's most underrated primitives, enabling programmable authorization tied to an EVM address.

New blog from @LoafPickle and @Camohe90!