Algorand Foundation releases its roadmap for 2025 and 2026

Algorand Foundation has released its roadmap for  2025 onwards with plans to launch new infrastructural products in the coming years. The foundation stated that the roadmap is part of its efforts to boost real-world blockchain adoption.

According to the press release from the foundation, its new roadmap will focus on four key areas, including simplifying user experience and accelerating innovation to deliver constant upgrades to the network.

It noted that part of the innovation will focus on enabling use cases that support stablecoins, tokenizations, and AI agents while improving the network security and privacy standards to be quantum-resistant.

Speaking on its plans, Algorand Foundation CEO Staci Warden noted the new roadmap is all about Algorand building the right infrastructure for the future on-chain economy.

She said:

“This roadmap lays the groundwork to onboard a new generation of people and enterprises that need the blockchain-based products of the future, but that don’t need to know what a blockchain is or how it works under the hood.”

Meanwhile, the Foundation’s principal engineer, Bruno Martins, noted that the roadmap focuses on developers and builders. According to him, the core goal is to make it easy to deploy and use projects on the Algorand network, and he expects more builders to launch on the protocol.

Algorand plans major product releases for 2025 and 2026

Interestingly, Algorand already has a slate of products set for release between Q3 of 2025 and Q4 of 2026. According to the foundation, these products will address its core goals for the next few years.

One such product is xGov Governance, an on-chain community governance framework set to launch by Q3 of 2024. The framework is expected to be used for allocations of grants on the network, starting with an xGov council before full implementation in 2026.

Beyond that, the foundation plans to improve developers’ experience by launching AlgoKit 4.0 in the first half of  2026.  This software development kit (SDK) is expected to enable easy deployment on Algorand with new SDKs for programming languages such as Kotlin, Swift, and Rust, in addition to Python and Typescript, which Algorand already supports.

Other planned products include a self-custody wallet, Rocca Wallet, set for full launch in the first half of 2026, and Agentic Security and Identity Framework that will allow AI agents to execute on-chain transactions on  Algorand.

The foundation added that it will further beef up institutional compatibility by launching Intermezzo, a custodial solution for businesses integrating blockchain technology. With the tool, released in Q3 of 2025, enterprises can use Algorand for treasuries, loyalty programs, and other business models. WorldChess has already adopted it for its on-chain loyalty program.

ALGO sinks further

Meanwhile, the roadmap release has not had much impact on the Algorand native token ALGO’s performance. While many people were excited about the roadmap ahead of its release, ALGO is down almost 1% in the last 24 hours and has lost 6% of its value in the past week.

Its price decline today coincides with the general market struggles, with Bitcoin falling to $116,500 range after trading as high as above $118,900 earlier in the day. With BTC’s decline, almost all other major cap assets have also fallen in value, with ETH and SOL down by around 1% each.

However, ALGO struggles extend beyond today’s performance, given that the token, which is trading at $0.25, is down by 33.36% year-to-date. Its poor performance is more pronounced when compared with its peak price of $3.56 back in 2019, showing it is 93% down from its all-time high.

The poor performance of ALGO is likely connected to the decline in activity on Algorand. The blockchain network has slowly lost relevance compared to competitors such as Ethereum, Solana, BNB Smart Chain, Sui, Aptos, or Layer-2 networks.

Per Defillama data, it has a total value locked (TVL) of $79.91 million, putting it at 49th on the list of networks with the biggest TVL, showing just how little DeFi activity happens on it. With the new roadmap, investors in ALGO will be hoping to see the Layer-1 network record a resurgence.

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