Algorand Foundation hired Katie Shao as Head of People

Algorand is the blockchain that scales with your ambition. The Algorand Foundation supports Algorand’s rapidly growing ecosystem by providing a best-in-class developer environment, supporting key infrastructure and setting technical standards, offering comprehensive support to builders and entrepreneurs, and providing the framework for decentralized governance. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali in 2019, Algorand has grown into a vibrant ecosystem of developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprise partners that benefit from institutional-grade certainty and resilience. Its fees, instant finality, and a minimal carbon footprint appeal to the protocol's millions of retail users, and developers of all kinds appreciate the ability to use common programming languages like Python. Builders on Algorand are creating protocols and companies that solve important problems at a global scale: instant payments in war and disaster zones, self-sovereign identity for the disenfranchised, supply-chain traceability for global commerce, permissionless protocols addressing financial inclusion, and the creation of entirely new markets through tokenization, to name a few. Algorand enables blockchain solutions at scale, with: 🔹Instant finality 🔹Near-zero transaction costs 🔹Quantum security 🔹Consistently high transactions per second, and 🔹Minimal energy requirements It’s everything a developer needs, all in one elegantly engineered Layer-1 solution. Discover Algorand, today: algorand.co