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Leased Transactions: Securing Advanced Smart Contract Design

Certain smart contracts can benefit from defining a Lease parameter, which can provide security for exclusive transaction execution, mitigate fee variability, and enable long-running smart contracts. Learn when and how to use Leases in this article.

Ryan R. Fox Algorand

Stateful Smart Contracts, Rekeying, and Fast Catchup

Stateful Smart Contracts, Rekeying, and Fast Catchup are brand new features that are now available to try on BetaNet. Learn more about what these features are and how to get started.

Liz Baran Algorand

TEAL ALGO Oracle in Algorand Layer-1

In a blockchain, the ability to reference a price on-chain enables a seamless and trustless transaction environment, especially for automated transactions and smart contracts. Oracles are the entities in charge of broadcasting off-chain data such as market price to the blockchain, and serve as a source of truth that allows on-chain dApps to measure the value of assets referenced within a transaction. Rand Labs and Borderless Capital releases a Algorand Oracle that can be referenced in atomic transfers using TEAL stateful and stateless smart contracts.

Pablo Yabo Rand Labs

SDK Updates: Deploying Stateful Smart Contracts

Guided tour of SDK documentation focusing on stateful smart contract application development. Links to resources covering the basics thru building complete solutions.

Ryan R. Fox Algorand

Connecting WebApps using AlgoSigner

This article highlights the AlgoSigner Chrome plugin and how it can be used to handle private keys and secret mnemonics without developers having to worry about them.

Ryan R. Fox Algorand

Linking Algorand Stateful and Stateless Smart Contracts

This article discussing linking stateful and stateless smart contracts and why it makes sense in many applications.

Jason Weathersby Algorand

Reach - The Easiest and Safest way to Build DApps

Blockchain development is hard. Existing tooling is complex, time-consuming to use and not robust against common programming oversights. Reach is fundamentally changing the way blockchain developers approach their craft, safely, efficiently and with formal proofs.

Chris Swenor Reach

Making Development Easier with Algorand IDE Playground

The RockX IDE Playground for Algorand allows developers to try out many protocol features within a Web IDE.

Tony Chew RockX

Intro to Algorand Studio & Algorand VS Code Extension

This article introduces two developer tools by Obsidian Labs. The first is their Algorand Studio project and the second is their VS Code Extension. Both tools are used to work with Algorand and make building and testing transactions and smart contracts easier. Additionally, both can be used to run an Algorand node.

Phil Li Obsidian Labs

Encode Algorand Club Recap

Recap of the Encode Algorand Club pre-accelerator and describes the projects built by each participating team.

Anthony Beaumont Encode

Making Development Easier with AlgoDEA IntelliJ Plugin

AlgoDEA IntelliJ plugin provides end to end development life-cycle on Algorand blockchain using IntelliJ IDE. Using this plugin, developers can create and test both stateless and stateful smart contracts directly from their IntelliJ IDE. Some of the other key features supported by this plugin are editor support for TEAL & PyTeal files, ASA management, Atomic Transfers, Test account management. The goal of this plugin is to increase developer productivity by simplifying various interactions with Algorand blockchain. Due to simple consistent development workflow in the IDE, developers can iterate faster during development stage.

Satya Ranjan Developer

Introducing the Algorand Metrics Dashboard

Explore the Algorand Metrics site which measures the current scale, speed, decentralization, and adoption of the open source Algorand protocol.

Chai Hoang Algorand

What’s new in AlgoSigner v1.4

The latest AlgoSigner release adds new features WebApp developers and end user will appreciate.

Katie PureStake

Building NFTs on Algorand

This article summarizes some of the options available to developers when building NFTs on the Algorand Blockchain.

Jason Weathersby Algorand

Introducing TEAL Version 3

This article summarizes all the changes made to TEAL in version 3.

Jason Weathersby Algorand

Payment Prompts with Algorand Mobile Wallet

The Algorand Mobile Wallet provides the ability to use QR codes to create, sign and send transactions. This document provides a brief overview for developers and users.