Cipher Knowledge - 01 October 2022

Weekly Algorand Digest

Ecosystem

• Registration for governance period 5 is now open, previous APY% between 10.02% and 14.05%. (link)

• Algorand Foundation enters a strategic partnership with Vietnam’s V2B Labs. (link)

• Algorand Foundation partners with Singapore’s AXL Ventures to launch an accelerator program for APAC. (link)

• Former Roblox Music Chief Joins Algorand’s Napster as CEO. (link)

• Algorand Foundation supports Gaming Asset Management company Kapital DAO. (link)

• TravelX, a blockchain company built on Algorand enabling purchase of flight tickets as NFTs is now live. (link)

• Governance 5’s gALGO set to ignite Algorand TVL. (link)

• Dev Ecosystem Address with John Woods, CTO of Algorand Foundation. Algokit software development kit slated for Q1 2023. (link)

• Algorand Protocol update with Algorand Senior Product Manager Noah Grossman. (link)

• Algorand’s CEO Staci Warden at Milken Institute Asia Summit 2022: Forward Momentum for Web 3.0 and DeFi. (link)

• AlgoDAO interview with Nathan Kaiser. (link)

• NFT Gaming Podcast interviews Aegir Tactics. (link)

• Top projects building on Algorand. (link)

• The Great Crypto Debate: A Ponzi Scheme or the Future of Money? (link)

Grayscale Smart Contract fund weightings.

Development

• VRF randomness beacon deployed on Algorand mainnet. (link)

• Usage and Best Practices for Randomness Beacon. (link)

• Library implementing a Treasury smart contract in Algorand. Supports issuance, liquidity provision, and buyback. (link)

• Watch: international school on Algorand smart contracts with Ivan Visconi. (link)

• Watch: rollups explained. (link)

• UC Berkeley’s Zero-Knowledge Proof Workshop. (link)

• Round 2 of Algorand Greenhouse Hack has commenced. (link)

Research

• A Composable Security Treatment of ECVRF and Batch Verification. (link)

• UniqueChain: Achieving (Near) Optimal Transaction Settlement Time via Single Leader Election. (link)

• Analysis on Blockchain Consensus Mechanism Based on Proof of Work and Proof of Stake. (link)

• Introducing Decentralized Decision to Our Institutional Platforms: Algorand and Choice Coin. (link)

• Statistical Securities Compliance on Solana. (link)

Security

• Solana suffers another major outage. (link)

dApps

• AlgoFi: governance vault is now live on V2 protocol. (link)

• AlgoRai: provider of DeFi Structured Products goes live on mainnet. (link)

• ElementFi: introduces single-sided DeFi 2.0 Stablecoin AMM. (link)

• Gard: announces 5.5M Gardian airdrop. (link)

• AlgoFund: registration open for first IDO TruYou, a Web3 dating and geosocial app. (link)

• Token Bridge: now supports Algorand, transfer tokens and NFTs wrapped by Wormhole. (link)

• Multichain: blockchain interoperability protocol to launch on Algorand’s Milkomeda A1 Rollup. (link)

• Blueshift: asset management protocol to also launch on Milkomeda A1 Rollup. (link)

• Cosmic Champs: free-to-play tower rush strategy game whitelist now live. (link)

• Lofty: anyone can now trade real estate investments in minutes. (link)

• Nexus Wars: chooses Algorand as second blockchain partner. (link)

• FXDX: how to trade and stake on FXDX. (link)

Algorand’s biggest protocols by TVL. Credit: @allthewinners1.

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