Algorand (ALGO) Price Tops $0.0789 on Exchanges

Posted by on Aug 16th, 2026

Algorand (ALGO) traded down 1.1% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 9:00 AM ET on August 16th. Algorand has a total market cap of $712.47 million and approximately $8.17 million worth of Algorand was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, Algorand has traded down 8.5% against the U.S. dollar. One Algorand coin can now be bought for $0.0789 or 0.00000125 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:

  • Cronos (CRO) traded 1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0477 or 0.00000076 BTC.
  • Hedera (HBAR) traded down 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0651 or 0.00000103 BTC.
  • Avalanche (AVAX) traded down 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $6.38 or 0.00010125 BTC.
  • NEAR Protocol (NEAR) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.62 or 0.00002578 BTC.
  • Internet Computer (ICP) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.26 or 0.00003589 BTC.
  • Cosmos (ATOM) traded 1.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.48 or 0.00002356 BTC.
  • Fetch.ai (FET) traded 6.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.12 or 0.00000195 BTC.
  • Akash Network (AKT) traded down 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.53 or 0.00000834 BTC.
  • PayProtocol Paycoin (PCI) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0355 or 0.00000056 BTC.
  • Theta Fuel (TFUEL) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0072 or 0.00000011 BTC.

Algorand Profile

ALGO uses the hashing algorithm. It launched on June 11th, 2019. Algorand’s total supply is 10,000,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 9,025,859,853 coins. The official message board for Algorand is forum.algorand.org. Algorand’s official Twitter account is @algofoundation and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Algorand is algorand.foundation. The Reddit community for Algorand is https://reddit.com/r/algorandofficial and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

According to CryptoCompare, “The Algorand Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software, which was initially designed by Silvio Micali and a team of leading scientists. With core beliefs in the establishment of an open, public and permissionless blockchain, the Algorand Foundation has a vision for an inclusive ecosystem that provides an opportunity for everyone to harness the potential of an equitable and truly borderless economy. The Algorand platform is a public, a permissionless pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that solves the “blockchain trilemma” of achieving scalability, security, and true decentralization all at once. Performance on the Algorand platform exceeds 1000 transactions per second (TPS) with a latency of fewer than 5 seconds, putting it on par with the throughput of major global payment networks without compromising security or decentralization. Telegram, Discord, Facebook, YouTube, Weibo, LinkedIn, GitHub, Reddit, MediumWhitepaper”

Buying and Selling Algorand

It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Algorand directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Algorand should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Changelly or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Algorand using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

ALGO/USD price chart by TradingView

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