Since our launch in 2019, Algorand has stayed grounded in what blockchains are meant to deliver: economic sustainability, decentralization, and community-driven governance.
Those principles continue to guide us, shaped by a growing focus on real-world adoption and a deep commitment to advancing blockchain research and innovation. Together, they form the backbone of our product roadmap at the Foundation.
In 2025, we made meaningful strides across several major roadmap initiatives. You can explore the full, ongoing technical roadmap here, and below you’ll find a roundup of the most impactful progress we’ve made this year.
On-chain governance
One of the key outcomes identified on the technical roadmap for the Foundation in 2025 was the launch of the xGov platform. The previous iteration of xGov was a quarterly, mostly off-chain process that was slow and inflexible.
The new xGov platform, launched on mainnet in October, brings grants distribution on-chain and represents substantial efforts by the Foundation’s governance and engineering teams in the design and implementation of a robust solution that will eventually include the majority of the governance processes, be self-sustaining, and managed by the community. To date, nine grant proposals have been submitted, with six approved and funded by the xGovs.
This is a significant milestone for the community, moving the ecosystem forward in our mission to be more inclusive, transparent, and decentralized.
The team will next work on a proposal to integrate general governance into the xGov platform for 2026, while also continuing to support and improve the existing xGov platform.
Network decentralization
The Algorand network has made significant progress towards greater decentralization in 2025, increasing online stake dramatically from approximately 1 billion to 2 billion ALGO in just over a year. Additionally, the launch of incentive rewards increased the number of validators on the network by 121% to nearly 2000.
The final piece of the network decentralization roadmap is the launch of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking on mainnet. P2P networking enables Algorand nodes to discover and connect to permissionless Repeaters on a global mesh, rather than relying solely on permissioned Repeaters to propagate messages across the network.
Validators make outbound connections to Repeaters, which then propagate blocks, transactions, and participation messages across many independent paths, improving resilience and censorship resistance.
In December 2025, P2P launched as an opt-in feature. Node operators retain full control over their upgrade path. By default, a fresh install connects to Permissioned Repeaters only. When you enable P2P in Hybrid mode, your node connects to both Permissioned and Permissionless Repeaters. P2P is live on Algorand mainnet now; node operators can find the configuration info here.
Developer experience
The Foundation’s engineering team continues to make substantial progress on the implementation of the next major release of Algorand’s flagship developer toolkit, AlgoKit.
Having introduced the incredibly popular programming language TypeScript to smart contract development on Algorand earlier in 2025, the Foundation has recently released language servers for both Algorand Python and Algorand TypeScript.
These language servers are integrated into the developer’s IDE and further enhance the development experience by reducing the feedback cycle for devs and giving them instant visual feedback on the smart contract code they are writing.
Additionally, the team released Algorand TypeScript 1.0, incorporating feedback from the community on the beta release to ensure a seamless and familiar developer experience. Algorand TypeScript is a syntactically and semantically faithful implementation of the TypeScript programming language.
This achievement opens up the Algorand ecosystem to millions of Typescript developers who can leverage their existing toolchain and skills to begin building applications on Algorand quickly.
Enterprise readiness
A key goal of our technical roadmap is to create tools and infrastructure that reduce the implementation complexity for businesses to adopt Web3 solutions. Intermezzo is a custodial solution designed to do exactly that—providing a backend API that handles key management and digital asset custody, built on HashiCorp Vault. With Intermezzo, enterprises can integrate Algorand into their existing platforms for loyalty programs, tokenization, and digital identity verification without requiring specialized Web3 expertise.
Intermezzo is already powering real-world applications. World Chess uses it to run "The Tower," recording player points, upgrades, and perks on-chain as permanently verifiable data and converting achievements into tokenized rewards usable across events and merchandise. ProofMint leverages Intermezzo to issue tamper-proof digital credentials. These solutions represent "Web2.5" experiences—familiar interfaces for end users with the transparency and data integrity of blockchain running underneath.
User experience
Another critical goal for the Algorand technical roadmap is to reduce friction for users onboarding to the ecosystem. Web3 onboarding is still intimidating for users new to blockchain, and we have been working hard to design better solutions to address this friction.
We are designing Rocca, our next-gen wallet, from the ground up to more easily and intuitively onboard Web2 users. It will bring several innovative features to make working within the Algorand ecosystem stress-free and seamless, such as standards-based self-sovereign identity, fee abstraction, and intuitive and secure account recovery.
While Rocca is scheduled for launch in 2026, one of its key features, passkey-based authentication, has been integrated into the Pera wallet already with Liquid Auth, an open, passwordless authentication protocol built for passwordless web login and decentralized authentication, leveraging FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards.
With Liquid Auth, users can use their wallet to sign in on any website that supports passkeys for login, bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3 applications.
The bleeding edge: post-quantum
The history of the Algorand blockchain is already quantum-secure, which enables it to guarantee long-term data integrity – a feature essential for mass institutional adoption. To build on this foundation, our technical roadmap committed to making further progress on our post-quantum strategy, fortifying additional key components of the protocol against quantum threats.
Beyond the ledger, the consensus mechanism still relies on classical Ed25519 signatures for block proposals and committee voting, and Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) for sortition-based committee selection. Both use pre-quantum cryptography that is vulnerable to Shor's algorithm. The Foundation’s protocol team has begun work on how we can further secure other key elements of the protocol, such as accounts.
Recently, the team executed the first post-quantum transaction on Algorand using the Falcon signature scheme on the mainnet network. This transaction, secured by the NIST-selected Falcon lattice-based signature scheme, shows that quantum-resistant signatures can protect real digital assets on a live public blockchain using a CLI tool that the Foundation’s protocol team built as a developer tool for experimenting with post-quantum accounts on Algorand.
Upcoming Roadmap milestones
In 2026, we look forward to building on our 2025 momentum. On the horizon, you can expect:
- Full rollout of AlgoKit 4.0, unlocking composable smart-contract libraries, new SDKs, and AI-assisted tooling to make building on Algorand faster, smoother, and accessible to developers from all backgrounds.
- Launch of Rocca Wallet, a Web2-style, user-friendly self-custody wallet (open-source and white-label), lowering the barrier for mainstream users to join Web3.
- Next steps on “Project King Safety” focused on calibrating network economic incentives to ensure long-term protocol sustainability.
- Progress on new tokenized financial product standards, like an Algorand Debt ASA.
- Updates to create a more robust agentic commerce toolkit.
- Continued R&D on key frontiers like privacy, post-quantum security, and unprecedented scale.
We're excited to continue building toward the next wave of growth and real-world adoption. Keep building with us!
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