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# Welcome to Algorand

### Algorand is an energy-efficient, quantum-secure, single-layer blockchain with instant finality, consistently high throughput, and low fees.

#### Algorand in the real world

Businesses across the globe are leveraging the Algorand blockchain to deliver efficiency, impact, and opportunity.

#### Lofty

Lofty provides fractional homeownership by tokenizing real estate, enabling investors across the U.S. to build wealth through property value growth and rental income.

#### Folks Finance

Folks Finance has the highest total value locked (TVL) of any DeFi protocol on Algorand and is advancing rapidly down a path of powerful integrations, impactful partnerships, and groundbreaking innovation.

#### LabTrace

LabTrace uses the Algorand blockchain to authenticate and verify medical data, combating AI manipulation and ensuring research integrity in medical and academic fields.

#### Wholechain

Wholechain's end-to-end traceability technology enables companies to collect verifiable data at every step of the supply chain, and ensures that data is immutable through the use of Algorand blockchain technology.

### Staking rewards have arrived on Algorand!

Stake your Algo to help secure the network and collect rewards.
Algorand is designed for decentralization. Its Pure Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism makes participation extremely accessible, and now—for the first time ever—you can collect rewards for running nodes or staking Algo, doing your part to secure the network.

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### Can a blockchain do that? #AlgorandCan.

Learn who is building on blockchain, what tech stacks are being improved by it, and how people worldwide are taking control of their financial futures with decentralized, on-chain applications. From DeFi to identity credentials to supply chain traceability, Algorand can.

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### Participate in network & community governance

Read the Governor and xGov Guides, and then visit the portal to participate.

Governance Portal
xGov Portal

### Partners

The Algorand Foundation forges partnerships with organizations across the globe to contribute
to the advancement of the overall blockchain industry, and to drive adoption of the Algorand blockchain.

### Latest news

Updates from across the Algorand ecosystem.

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- ###### Algorand rolls out crypto's most inclusive staking rewards program

  1/23/2025 - Staking rewards have arrived on the Algorand blockchain. The Algorand Foundation announced today that, after this week's consensus mechanism upgrade, 'block rewards' are now being paid, in real-time, to validators successfully proposing blocks to the Layer-1 blockchain.

- ###### Italian energy giant Enel launches solar panel tokenization on Algorand

  1/21/2025 - Enel and wallet provider Conio’s tokenization initiative lets Italians offset energy bills via partial ownership of solar farms on Algorand.

- ###### Algorand announces crypto’s most inclusive staking rewards program

  11/08/2024 - Staking rewards are coming to the Algorand blockchain. Scheduled to go live in December after a consensus mechanism upgrade, ‘block rewards’ will start to be paid, in real-time, to validators successfully proposing blocks to the Layer-1 blockchain. Staking on Algorand avoids punitive slashing and token lockups, and maintains web3’s lowest costs for node runners, with real-time reward payments.

- ###### European Fintech ZTLment Moves from EVM, 7X Faster Building on Algorand

  10/01/2024 - European payments fintech ZTLment moves to the Algorand blockchain to scale regulated real-world payments, boosting development speed by 7x while maintaining compliance with EU regulations.

- ###### Algorand celebrates 5th anniversary with 2 billion transactions and record adoption of real-world use cases at annual Decipher conference

  06/28/2024 - The Foundation kicks off the Summer of Algorand with investments in technology, partnerships and marketing to fuel innovation at scale

- ###### Archax makes abrdn money market fund accessible and transferable on Algorand blockchain using Quantoz EURD electronic money token

  06/27/2024 - Algorand's native "no-code" atomic settlement allows for efficient trading without having to rely on smart contract code

- ###### LabTrace Completes the First Study Using its Blockchain-Based Data Authentication System, Designed to Ensure Data Integrity in Clinical Trials

  06/27/2024 - Parkinson's disease research, sponsored by King's College London, verifies clinical observation data using the Algorand blockchain

- ###### Global fintechs and web3 giants unite to increase blockchain-based cash assistance for humanitarian crises

  06/26/2024

- ###### Coinbase has enabled send and receive support for USDC on Algorand

  06/25/2024

- ###### Nansen Integrates with Algorand to Provide Transparency and Accessible Onchain Analytics for the Ecosystem!

  06/26/2024 - Nansen announces their integration of Algorand to provide transparency and accessible ecosystem data for the public.

### How Algorand enables solutions at scale:

10,000 TPS
point-of-sale speed that users expect

Instant finality
no rollbacks, no partitioning, no uncertainty

Pure Proof-of-Stake
block-by-block agreement ensures data integrity

Programming languages & tools you know
Python, TypeScript (soon!), and more

Drive to decentralization
thousands of validators keep the network secure

### Connect & Learn:

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