Welcome to the latest edition of The Algo Insights Report, recapping ecosystem metrics and momentum in May 2025.
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Welcome to the latest edition of The Algo Insights Report, recapping ecosystem metrics and momentum in May 2025.
May showed strong user engagement with notable MoM growth in monthly active users (+4.14%), asset creation (+4.72%), and RWA TVL (+2.64%). Algorand also hit two exciting milestones:
- First, transaction volume increased 2.20%, to over 3 billion transactions. (For context, the first billion transactions took 1,298 days to reach, the second 529, and the third just 335 days. Predictions on when we will reach 4 billion?)
- Second, online stake surged 7.09%, reaching over 2 billion total ALGO staked, demonstrating increased network participation and security. This is a +60% increase since the end of 2024.
Finally, social engagement also trended positively in May, particularly on Instagram (+11.21%), reflecting a growing community presence on the channel. — Simon Bonanno, Head of Business Intelligence
Join us on Wednesday, June 11, at 9:00 AM ET on X Spaces to discuss the highlights from May in more juicy detail! We’ll dive into metrics, answer questions, and reflect on key highlights from the ecosystem.
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Staked ALGO & online accounts
Time to reach each billion transactions (in days)
News & Updates
From the Foundation:
We welcomed a new Chief Legal & Operations Officer, Jennie Levin. Joining the Foundation from Figment, Jennie will be an advocate for Algorand in US regulatory discussions and beyond.
We gathered 25 leading VCs in London for a dinner to hear about the latest updates across the Algorand ecosystem.
BD and partnerships revealed USDCa integrations on Crypto.com and Bitrue, helped bring a native issuance of the mTBILL to Algorand, and worked with P2P.org to bring Algorand staking to its users.
The Dev Rel team connected with “web2” developer audiences at the International Javascript Conference in London and Pycon in the US, and hosted more AlgoKit workshops.
The world’s largest hackathon kicked off this month, and we’re sponsoring the only blockchain track – sign up now for your chance to win $25,000 and more.
On the impact front, we saw the first 250 UN staff–representing 90 countries!–graduate from the Algorand Blockchain Academy, and Matt Keller teamed up with Aid:Tech to demo the Kare wallet at NVOAD’s annual conference.
We introduced a new methodology for accurate node counts and went live on leading analytics platform Artemis.
Finally, xGov council applications have been extended, now open through June 9!
Around the ecosystem:
The Pera Debit Mastercard had its beta release! Spend your crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Pera also launched:
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- the ecosystem router aggregator (P.E.R.A.)
- an update for Android users
- and Explorer support for ARC-62
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Lofty reached profitability and surpassed the exciting $4M rent payout milestone.
CompX launched new auto-compounding farms – and its governance rewards.
Tinyman launched limit orders and DCA and reached governance records;
Pact launched consensus farms;
Astro Explorer launched new prizes;
Folks Finance launched registration for its Founder Pass and its new activity dashboard on Nansen;
Vestige now displays a portfolio page and launched several explorer updates;
AlgoSurf now supports Algorand TestNet; and
Gora launched “Summer Validator Camp,” an onboarding experience for new validators.
👉 Each week, the Foundation’s Head of DeFi, Fred Estante, recaps everything happening in the ecosystem. Check out his summaries to discover when apps are running incentives, opportunities for beta testing new apps and feature upgrades, and more: May 4 | May 11 | May 18 | May 25
In the news:
Foundation CEO Staci Warden was interviewed on Real Vision, published an article in the Milken Review on fintech and financial inclusion, and spoke at AI Rush.
CMO Marc Vanlerberghe joined a Satoshi Club spaces to talk about growth in the Algorand ecosystem, and published an op-ed in American Banker on AI agents and the new–blockchain-powered–payments infrastructure they’ll need.
Algorand was noted as ahead of the curve in a Cointelegraph article on the risk of post-quantum computing to blockchain networks.
AllInCrypto and Genfinity covered the universal chess passport project, happening in collaboration with World Chess.
📆 👥 Upcoming in June:
Info on these events & more can be found here: https://algorand.co/events
12-17: The Dev Rel team will be at the JSNation & React Summit in Amsterdam
13-15: AlgoBharat hosts the grand finale of its Hack Series, live in Bangalore
19: Senior Developer Advocate Marco Podien will speak at the AI Agents Summit during Berlin Blockchain Week
July 1: Don’t miss the team at AlgoCan[nes] during EthCC, a one-day event on interoperability, privacy, P2P, and more
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