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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

Using a Smart Contract for Advanced Approvals: Hierarchical Thresholds

Design and implement an escrow contract account using hierarchical threshold approvals to secure the corporate treasury.

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

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

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

From Algos to ASAs

This guide maps core technical concepts related to the Algo to Algorand Standard Assets, which is Algorand's Layer-1 implementation for third-party fungible and non-fungible tokens.

Liz Baran Algorand

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

Sharing Global State Across Contracts

This article explains how one contract can read another's global state.

Jason Weathersby Algorand

Using Assets and Smart Contracts in Real Estate

Blockchain enables disruptive innovation within the real estate industry. This tutorial series explains the basics and creates an NFT to represent a property.

Vincenzo Alaia Domain

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

Introducing MyAlgo Connect for DApp Developers

MyAlgo Connect enables WebApp developers to securely connect users to their Algorand DApp. This extension-free web component runs on all browsers to review and sign transactions.

Alex Yammine Rand Labs

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.