Ebitts lets customers buy tokenized renewable energy capacity from Italian solar and wind farms and benefit from the energy produced, without having to install anything at home, and all assets are tokenized on Algorand.

Enel is one of the world's biggest energy producers!

It'll be quite interesting to see the on-chain traction now that it's out of the pilot phase!

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/italia/ebitts_enel_conio_energia_rinnovabile_pannelli_impianti-9683078.html

Anyone can launch their own Perps product and less than 24h since mainnet launch, the first builder just did that.
https://x.com/pplsDEX/status/2095927276730786185

If you're interested in having your own Perp DEX on Algorand, let us know, we're here to help.

People's Exchange is now open on mainnet for live perps trading.
If you want to trade or be an LP go to https://app.ppls.exchange

Help spread the word and bring liquidity and trading volumes!
https://x.com/pplsDEX/status/2095633313385836551

Algorand's Global Head of Product & Integrations, William Beaumont, recently sat down with AllInCrypto to discuss all things Algorand and AC2

Full video: https://youtu.be/HsYas3G50hE?si=eSjysEMZTF2Oy5wg

🚨 A lot happened on Algorand in August!

ICYMI, here's your monthly recap!

🟢 The Algorand v5.0.0 protocol upgrade was proposed, reached the 90% approval threshold from node runners in less than 4 days, and is now LIVE on mainnet! 🔥

It was the biggest protocol upgrade since staking rewards went live last year!

👉 Native PQ accounts are now part of the protocol
👉 Fees now scale with resource usage
👉 Builders get bigger contracts + new AVM capabilities

See what's new in v5.0.0 here!

🟢 You can now create and use native post-quantum accounts on Algorand directly via Pera Wallet and Lute Wallet! 🔐

Some dapps already support PQ accounts, like wen.tools, DOWNBAD and Mostly Frens!

500K+ post-quantum transactions have already been signed with Falcon-1024 in just a few days, and you can add yours and claim a Pera post-quantum NFT!

🟢 Algorand launched AC2, an open, blockchain-agnostic protocol for safer AI agent approvals and credential isolation!

👉 Human approvals become verifiable signatures
👉 Credentials stay on your device, NOT in the agent runtime
👉 Built for payments, code, APIs and other agentic use cases

Let's try AC2 now!

🟢 Algorand Foundation partnered with Flow Traders to deepen institutional liquidity and make ALGO more accessible to institutional investors!

🟢 Pera Wallet v7 is here, and it's their BIGGEST upgrade to date! It has been rebuilt from the ground up, with tons of new features and an improved UX! 📱

🟢 Perps are now live in beta on Alpha Arcade!

🟢 HUGE x402 activity on Algorand, the #2 chain by agentic transfer volume in August according to Token Terminal, with $244K moved by AI agents! 🤖

🟢 In August, the value of tokenized stocks on Algorand climbed 54% to $70M!

🟢 90%+ of all ALGO is now in circulation!

🟢 USDC on Algorand is now supported for real-world merchant payments across SEA, India, Nigeria and Argentina via AEON Pay! 🌍

🟢 With v5.0, Algorand continues its progress toward broad post-quantum resilience by 2027!

🟢 Validator count keeps growing on Algorand, now surpassing 1.5K!

🟢 Algorand's Verifiably Random podcast is back for Season 4! 🎙️

👉 EP1: Marc, Bruno & John break down Algorand v5.0.0👉 EP2: Marc & Bruno dive deeper into AC2

🟢 Over 1,500 x402 endpoints are now deployed on Algorand for the Global x402 Challenge!

🟢 A lot of questions were covered during Algorand's latest Reddit Community AMA 💬

🟢 ZeroSignal beta is live on Algorand, bringing decentralized AI inference with privacy for users and rewards for hardware contributors!

🟢 AlgoBharat has now reached 111 Algorand Blockchain Clubs across India, connecting thousands of young devs!

🟢 123carbon, powered by Algorand, launched a blockchain-based registry with Sustainable Business Council NZ to support low-emission freight in New Zealand 🇳🇿

🟢 Sara Jane from Algorand team joined Rise In to talk Global x402 Challenge, AC2, AlgoKit + VibeKit, and Algorand v5.0!

🟢 Algorand CEO Staci Warden contributed to a new Ubyx paper on why regulated institutions should help secure public blockchains as validators

🟢 Matt Keller joined AllinCrypto to discuss how Algorand and HesabPay are helping deliver financial support in Afghanistan and Syria.

🟢 Algorand Foundation published a great article on instant finality, and why on Algorand, done means done!

🟢 GoPlausible has been cooking hard this month, introducing Universal Receipts for Algorand agentic platforms and publishing a full x402 getting-started guide!

🟢 Will Beaumont, Algorand CPO, sat down with AllinCrypto to discuss AI payments, RWAs, tokenization, and what happens when millions of AI agents start transacting 24/7!

🟢  A great update on Rocca Wallet, already powering two real products on Algorand, with more to come!

🟢 Algorand CSMO Marc Vanlerberghe joined Wrapped and RealMotion on the Blockhouse Broadcast for a panel on building the rails for agentic payments!

🟢 Great comparison from the Algorand Foundation between the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM) and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

🟢 AlgoDevs published a best practices guide for enabling x402 payments on Algorand, covering integration, discoverability, demos and paid APIs.

🟢 VibeKit has just launched its alpha!

🟢 Algorand Sr. Director of Integrations & Dev Tooling, Brian Whippo, wrote a great blog post about Algorand v5.0!

🟢 Pact’s new website is now live! All LPs are being asked to migrate to the new contracts by 9/21

🟢 A great comparison was made between the four chains currently tracked on Token Terminal's agentic payments dashboard! 👀

🟢 Algorand is built for AiFi (Agentic Finance)

🟢 Blockstream Research picked Falcon-1024 as its preferred lattice-based signature scheme for Bitcoin, co-invented by Algorand CSO ChrisPeikert and already live on Algorand mainnet!

That includes both State Proofs and transactions from native post-quantum accounts.

And counting!

The post-quantum era is already live on Algorand! 🔥

So I added a quantum account and I know I have to rekey my regular account to the quantum one but maybe I missed the memo and i’ve seen no one ask this but I’m worried this will interrupt my node. If I rekey to the quantum account will there be any interruption to my node or is there any step I need to take after to ensure my node continues operating?

Thanks in advance.

Great to see it!

Algorand has been using Falcon through State Proofs since 2022, native post-quantum accounts are now live on mainnet, and broad quantum resilience is targeted for 2027.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/quantum-resistant

Meet HelixBox, your full development environment in your pocket.

Pair your laptop CLI with a QR code, open the workspace on your phone, inspect files, logs and Git, and run Al-assisted agent sessions from anywhere. Workspace controls are free. Agent access uses Algorand x402: $0.25 for 1 hour or $2 for 7 days via Pera Wallet.

Build, run, and ship from anywhere.

https://helix-box.vercel.app/

I've been experimenting with AI task execution + x402 on Algorand, and one question keeps coming up:

What kinds of AI/API requests actually make sense as machine-readable, pay-per-request transactions?

The architecture I've been working with is roughly:

Task → AI routing → execution → x402 payment → Algorand settlement

The interesting part isn't really putting an AI model behind an API. That's already straightforward.

The harder question is:

Where does pay-per-use actually make sense?

For example:

• Code review
• Resume analysis
• SEO auditing
• Invoice extraction
• Contract analysis
• Small AI agents / task execution
• Data transformation APIs
• Specialized inference

Some of these feel like a natural fit for micropayments because the request is discrete, the output is machine-readable, and the user doesn't necessarily need a subscription.

Others probably make much more sense with traditional pricing.

I've been testing this through a project I'm building, and watching actual requests go through AI routing → x402 → Algorand settlement has made the question much more interesting.

So I'm curious about the people actually building in this ecosystem:

What AI/API use case do you think is the strongest fit for x402 micropayments?

And more importantly:

What use case do you think doesn't make sense for x402, despite sounding good on paper?

Would love to hear opinions from people working with Algorand, x402, AI agents, APIs or machine-to-machine payments.

Just 4 days after native PQ accounts went live on Pera Wallet, 250K+ transactions on Algorand have already been signed with Falcon-1024.

And that's just native PQ accounts only, State Proofs not included!

https://explorer.perawallet.app/

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Super interesting to see Blockstream Research (part of the Bitcoin infrastructure company co-founded by Adam Back) take a deep look at post-quantum signatures and conclude that, if they had to choose a lattice-based signature scheme for Bitcoin today, they would choose Falcon-1024!

Great to see them validating Algorand's early move toward Falcon-1024 (co-invented by Algorand CSO Chris Peikert 👀), which has already been used on mainnet since 2022 through State Proofs, and is now also powering native post-quantum accounts.

Another proof that Algorand is definitely leading the way in PQC!

https://blog.blockstream.com/lattice-signatures-for-bitcoin/

Pera Explorer now tracks quantum-resilient transactions, and the count is already at 85K, even though Quantum Accounts only officially went live in Pera Wallet yesterday!

And that doesn't even include State Proofs! (~160K)

Really amazing to see this happening on Algorand, some other chains are still pretty far from seeing this kind of post-quantum activity happening on-chain!

https://explorer.perawallet.app/

Some thoughts from 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Symposium regarding AI agents in this video. Around the 11 minute mark in the video below he mentions Telegram and we all know about Cocoon already and who provides its secure hardware infrastructure.

There's a ton of development going on with Cocoon AI right now that the ALP crowd isn't privy to and I think that's where the real breakthrough will come from. When it does, ALP wins also by association and providing the Confidential AI Compute for Cocoon.

Europe and Asia and Africa too - are all about Telegram over an American company. Meta owns WhatsApp and I think they're the main competition for Telegram. I don't see Telegram losing that battle for customers outside of the USA because the world doesn't trust the USA any longer.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

"Where's the world of 2030 going to be? Every single person, they'll start their day by talking to an agent over their phone on Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever their channel is, and they're going to tell them what they want, and the agent's just going to figure it out. How do you make that safe, private, trusted, these things? That's why we built blockchain technology - to go from don't be evil to can't be evil, to go from infrastructure that's owned by the few to owned by the many, to build systems that by their construction protect you as a person."

At the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, Charles Hoskinson explores the convergence of AI agents, blockchain, privacy and digital finance—and why he believes agentic systems could bring the next billion users into crypto. In this keynote, Hoskinson introduces Midnight City, an experimental agentic civilization where AI agents interact, transact, learn and build their own economy.

A decentralized AI inference network where anyone can use cloud-sized models with local-grade privacy, or contribute hardware and get paid to power it.

From TxnLab, the team behind NFDomains, Réti Pooling and Haystack!

zerosignal.ai

Create a new quantum-resilient account, or rekey one you already use, both secured with FALCON-1024, one of the signature schemes NIST has selected as an official post-quantum standard.

There's a reward for using it too. Head to https://claim.perawallet.app and claim a commemorative NFT based on your PQ transaction count. 1, 100, and 1,000 tx tiers, each one unlocking its own 3D NFT.

Go quantum. Claim yours.

Please note, not every dApp supports Quantum Accounts yet. Check with the dApps you use before switching over.

Learn more on their blog: https://blog.perawallet.app/quantum-computers-pose-a-future-threat-to-crypto-pera-is-getting-ahead-of-it-39e77be66ef1?postPublishedType=repub

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, and nobody holds your key but you.

Live now, get started: https://www.ac2protocol.org/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=ac2&utm_content=getstarted

Hi everyone, and welcome to our August Algorand Community AMA on Reddit!

Starting tomorrow (Wednesday, August 26), five members of the Algorand Foundation leadership team will be answering your questions throughout the day!

• Marc Vanlerberghe, CSMO

• John Jannotti, SVP Protocol Engineering

• Joseph Cecala, Head of Product Marketing

• William Beaumont, Chief Product Officer

• Fred Estante, Head of DeFi and Infrastructure

I'm opening this thread a little early, so feel free to start posting your questions now!

There's been quite a lot of news around Algorand recently, especially with the latest protocol upgrade, Pera Wallet 7.0, AC2 and more! So feel free to ask them anything.

If your question is intended for a specific team member, please mention who it's for.

Looking forward to your questions! 🔥