D13.co

Benchmarking Algorand AMM 1:1 real world swap performance

TL; DR: We tested Algorand with end-user-identical AMM swaps: 8,070 in a 3 second block. Our friends at Vestige.fi recently performed a benchmark of AMM swap performance on Algorand MainNet. While the results were great (2881 peak swaps per second), some naysayers missed the forest for the trees

WORLDCUP.. Vanity Address Giveaway

To celebrate the World Cup on Algorand, D13 launched CupStakes.world - a World Cup Lottery Sweepstakes and apparently the first Verifiable Randomness beacon consumer on Algorand MainNet! Following our appearance on Pact Spaces, D13's CupStakes and Pact are doing an innovative giveaway with this rare vanity address as part

Setting up an Algorand consensus participation server on Oracle Cloud for free

Instructions setting up a free Algorand consensus participation server on Oracle Cloud, for free.

Projects

Celsius DOX name lookup micro-site

Check if you are doxxed in the Celsius filings. Bonus: disclosing Algorand Foundation's Celsius deposits for the first time.

Algorand Governance Period 4 Whales: Known wallets & Consensus participation statistics

As a follow-up on our report on Voting Power Centralization in Governance Period 4 we decided to look into known addresses from the governor whale list, as well as their consensus participation status. In case you missed it and can't be bothered to check, we defined "whale wallets" as single-entity

Algorand Governance Voting Power Centralization - Period 4

OverviewWe analyzed the top eligible wallets enrolled for Algorand Governance Period 4 as of August 21, 2022. The data shows a very "whale" heavy distribution of voting power and rewards, where the top 37 individual "whale" wallets control the vote and reap 50% of rewards, and wallets with over 1

AlgoFi vault reward performance for Governance period 3

TL;DR: Maximizing our vaulted ALGO with borrowed ALGO yielded more than 2x in governance rewards profit. For the third Governance season we tried the AlgoFi vault for Governance: AlgoFi counts vaulted Algo as collateral that you can borrow against. Borrowing Algo against your vaulted algo has two advantages: You

Is It Algorand's Birthday? ...dot com

To celebrate Algorand MainNet's third birthday on the 11th of June 2022, we set up a mini-project consisting of a countdown timer to the big day: is it algorands birthday dot com and a midi project that will be revealed there on Algorand's big day. We picked June 11 from

Our very own community space: /r/D13

As we're launching our first Algorand product soon, we wanted to have a space where people can reach out and talk to us. We were a bit surprised to find that /r/D13 was available as a subreddit! We promptly claimed it and are in the process of filling it

Every AlgoFi Liquidation: Stats & Data

Statistics and Data about every single AlgoFi liquidation that has happened from December 2021 until April 20, 2022.

Projects

Algod-Loadb: An aware Algod HTTP Load Balancer

So you want to do High Availability Algorand stuff. But algod, your trusty portal to and from the Algorand blockchain, can betray you in a number of ways: It can go down for upgrades. algod must be up to date to keep syncing. It is recommended to set up a

Rants

Our Algorand Indexer is finally done

And it took a very, very long time. Something we haven't seen documented about Algorand Indexers is that you kinda need an SSD to run them. NVMe, preferably. Also it should be about 2 TB. Not that you can't do it without one - we did, we don't have 2TB-NVMe-SSD-on-a-server-money,

Projects

AlgoFi Borrow Utilization monitoring service

In a few words, we're a bit worried about being liquidated on AlgoFi but we don't want to be checking the utilization every day or stress about percentage drops of X or Y and compound interest rates over Excel. We built a service for ourselves to monitor the utilization -

Hello World

It's about time we took this corner of the Internet public. Hopefully this will push us to post more often. We're D13 - a developer collective excited about the prospects of Algorand. You can read a few words about our individual members here. This site will be our main publication