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ALGO
ALGO
Algorand
$
0.20806
Market Cap
$ 1.72B
Circ. Supply
ALGO 8.27B
Volume (24h)
$ 164.32M
Daily Change
-5.6%
Weekly Change
+37.75%
Monthly Change
+57.91%
ALGO/USD Chart
Type
COIN
Algorithm
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Protocol
POS
Start Date
19/06/2019
Max Supply
10,000,000,000
Circ. Supply
8,276,006,746
Intro
Algorand is a smart-contract platform that was founded by Silvio Micali. It was launched in June 2019 aiming to give everyone the opportunity to benefit from a fair and truly borderless economy that combines security, scalability, and decentralization.
Algorand smart contracts are basic code lines that are stored in a blockchain and run automatically when certain conditions are met, allowing developers to create dApps that are highly scalable, secure, and low-cost to run. They are divided into two main categories, “Stateful” and “Stateless” each of which determines when and how the logic of the program is evaluated. Furthermore, the platform performs smart contracts in a high-level programming language that is compiled to bytecode for execution by the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM).
The Algorand ecosystem is secured using the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol that is built on the Byzantine agreement. The ecosystem can achieve consensus without a central authority, using a mechanism that prevents malicious behavior from users being randomly and secretly selected to propose blocks and vote on block proposals. The PoS approach corresponds to the security of the whole economy with the honesty of the majority.
ALGO is the currency of the Algorand Protocol and serves as the medium of exchange and store of value. The token’s max supply is capped at 10 billion Algo.
Algorand smart contracts are basic code lines that are stored in a blockchain and run automatically when certain conditions are met, allowing developers to create dApps that are highly scalable, secure, and low-cost to run. They are divided into two main categories, “Stateful” and “Stateless” each of which determines when and how the logic of the program is evaluated. Furthermore, the platform performs smart contracts in a high-level programming language that is compiled to bytecode for execution by the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM).
The Algorand ecosystem is secured using the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol that is built on the Byzantine agreement. The ecosystem can achieve consensus without a central authority, using a mechanism that prevents malicious behavior from users being randomly and secretly selected to propose blocks and vote on block proposals. The PoS approach corresponds to the security of the whole economy with the honesty of the majority.
ALGO is the currency of the Algorand Protocol and serves as the medium of exchange and store of value. The token’s max supply is capped at 10 billion Algo.
Features
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Fast Network
The Algorand platform exceeds 1000 transactions per second with a block release about every 5 sec.
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Proof-of-Stake
According to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus, the influence of users in choosing a new block is proportional to their stake in the system, therefore, the possibility that a user will be chosen, and the weight of its proposals and votes, is directly proportional to its stake.
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User replaceability
The consensus algorithm works in rounds with the participants changing every round of block selection in order to protect the network against attackers. In every new round, the group of participants is random and independent of earlier participants.
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Network Rewards
Every user receives an amount of rewards proportional to their stake for every block that is committed to the chain.
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Permissionless
The Algorand platform requires minimal processing power and limited computing resources for contributing to block consensus, therefore all users who possess ALGO tokens are automatically likely to join.
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Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM)
The AVM is able to perform complex smart contracts that can power many well-known DeFi, NFT, and web3 dApps in the blockchain.
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