The race to improve the blockchain protocol continues. Founded by Turing award winner and MIT professor Silvio Micali, Algorand is a permissionless pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol. It has several key improvements compared to existing blockchains. This crypto project aims to allow crypto to work on a global scale in the highly competitive crypto sector.

Unlike first-generation consensus mechanisms, Algorand's technology finalizes blocks in seconds and provides immediate transaction finality while preventing forks. This cryptocurrency uses modern cryptography to emulate the consensus mechanism in a blockchain without the use of resource-consuming PoW.