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Developer Blog

Sample code, how-tos, and news from the Algorand developer community

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    AlgoKit Launches

    AlgoKit is our new developer experience

    Alessandro Cappellato Ferrari
    Alessandro Cappellato Ferrari Algorand
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    Pyteal 0.24.0: Sourcemapping!

    the new pyteal release introduces pyteal-to-teal sourcemapping.

    Anne Kenyon
    Anne Kenyon Algorand
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    Introducing Official Algod Docker Containers

    Overview of Algorand's Algod Containers, the path forward, and a quick how to!

    Juan Granados
    Juan Granados Algorand Inc
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    What's New in Algorand 3.15.0

    This article covers the new features of Algorand 3.15.0

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Developer Preview of Conduit

    Developer preview release of Conduit, a new, powerful, and flexible way to access Algorand chain data.

    Chai Hoang
    Chai Hoang Algorand
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    AVM 8 New Features

    This post explains some of the new opcodes available to the Algorand Virtual Machine(AVM).

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Smart Contract Storage: Boxes

    An overview of Smart Contract storage mechanisms, and technical details for how to use boxes.

    Anne Kenyon
    Anne Kenyon Algorand
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    Usage and Best Practices for Randomness Beacon

    This article describes using the randomness beacon

    Ori Shem-Tov
    Ori Shem-Tov Algorand Foundation
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    Algorand Boosts Performance 5x in Latest Upgrade

    Exploring Algorand's Latest Performance Upgrade

    Noah Grossman
    Noah Grossman Algorand
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    AVM 7 New Features

    This article summarizes the new features available in the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM) version 7.

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Randomness on Algorand

    Explaining the new randomness capabilities on Algorand.

    Anne Kenyon
    Anne Kenyon Algorand
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    Why is Sandbox Indispensable for Building dApps?

    Are you struggling to figure out what tools to use when developing dApps? Look no further. Learn why Sandbox should be the go-to developer tool when building dApps.

    Chris Kim
    Chris Kim Algorand
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    Hello Beaker

    Introducing a framework for Smart Contract development on Algorand

    Ben Guidarelli
    Ben Guidarelli Algorand
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    Prove your Skills with Algorand Code Challenges

    The Algorand Developer Portal has a new way to learn how to become an Algorand developer: Challenges.

    Ian Cross
    Ian Cross Algorand
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    Run Algorand Indexer using Azure Portal

    This tutorial is a step by step guide on how to deploy and run an Algorand Indexer on Microsoft Azure using Azure Portal

    Dame Seiel
    Dame Seiel
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    Automated testing for Algorand smart contracts - Part 1

    A three part series on automated testing for your TEAL smart contracts

    Ashley Davis
    Ashley Davis Hone
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    Introducing Algod Node UI

    This article announces the release of a Node UI for Algorand

    Chai Hoang
    Chai Hoang Algorand
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    Improved Contract Debugging

    This article summarizes changes recently made to the SDKs to support the dryrun REST endpoint and how this can be used to debug Algorand smart contracts.

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Hash Map Design Pattern

    This article describes the Hash Map design pattern for building key-value associations onchain

    Sai Medury
    Sai Medury
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    Using a Smart Contract to Spawn Additional Smart Contracts

    This article explains spawning child smart contracts from a parent contract using inner transactions.

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Algorand Unlimited Assets and Smart Contracts

    This article details the changes made to both the Algorand Algod (3.5.1) and Indexer (2.10.0) processes. This includes removing limits on Assets and Contracts that can be created or optioned into.

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand
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    Contract to Contract calls and an ABI come to Algorand

    This article summarizes many of the features available within the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM) 1.1 Release.

    Jason Weathersby
    Jason Weathersby Algorand

Tutorials

Step-by-step guides by language and level

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    Intermediate · 30 minutes
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    Build a SolidJS Web App with Wallet Integration

    Create a web app with SolidJS and the solid-algo-wallets library to enable users to sign Algorand transactions with their wallet

    Brian Whippo
    Brian Whippo
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    Beginner · 30 minutes
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    EVM-Based dApp on Algorand With Milkomeda A1

    How to deploy an EVM-based Smart Contract on Algorand-Milkomeda A1, and interact with it using Brownie

    David Duarte
    David Duarte
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    Intermediate · 1 hour
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    Participate in Consensus from Ledger Nano S/X

    In this tutorial, we show how to participate in consensus from an account stored in a Ledger Nano S or X. By participating in consensus, you help decentralize the network.

    Fabrice Benhamouda
    Fabrice Benhamouda Algorand

Solutions

Code-based ideas and prototypes

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    SHMUP Unity Game with Algorand SDK

    Unity solution and tutorial that uses the Algorand SDK to reward players with ASA Game Tokens

    Adrian Ross
    Adrian Ross Lehigh Univeristy
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    An Algorand Blackjack implementation with Beaker

    Blackjack is the most played casino bank card game in the world. We show an implementation of a smart contract that runs single-player blackjack games against the bank in Beaker.

    Emanuele Cuncu
    Emanuele Cuncu
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    Block'n'Poll - Blockchain polling web application

    Block'n'Poll is a blockchain polling web application that allows users to easily create permissionless polls and vote on Algorand blockchain.

    Fabio Fiorella
    Fabio Fiorella Developer Ambassador

Articles

Developer news and technical overviews

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    Create your own NFT, in Layman's Terms

    In this blog post I will provide step by step instruction on creating an NFT with no knowledge of the process, from scratch.

    Russell Fustino
    Russell Fustino Algorand
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    New Algorand Projects

    Several projects have been added on the developer portal in the application section. Also, the API Services and Infrastructure section was updated as well. This post provides some interesting highlights for developers.

    Russell Fustino
    Russell Fustino Algorand
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    Reaching new transaction speeds on Algorand

    Introducing 3.3s transaction finality

    Juan Granados
    Juan Granados Algorand Inc