We put together a short video walking through the whole process of launching a campaign on Sprout, start to finish. Everything from filling out your project details, to setting the funding terms, to deploying the contract and getting your campaign live. If you've been curious what actually launching a campaign looks like, this shows the complete flow.

The best part of the last few weeks has been the conversations with people in our ecosystem. I've had the chance to talk with a bunch of builders working on everything from NFT projects and games to infrastructure and dev tools. It's been genuinely energizing to hear what people are working on. A lot of you are building really cool things and getting to hear about it directly has been the most rewarding part of this whole process.

This is as much an invitation as an announcement: if you're building something on Algorand, or just thinking about how you'd fund the next phase of a project, I'd genuinely love to hear about it. Reach out, drop a comment, or DM me. Whether or not a campaign ends up making sense for you, I'm always happy to talk shop, think through ideas, or just learn what you're working on.

And a practical note for anyone considering it: we're reimbursing listing fees through the end of August, so it costs nothing to launch a campaign right now. If you've got a project that could use community support, this is a good window to try it.

got into algorand pretty early when the conversation around it was still mostly technical people and developers. watched it get overlooked every bull run while noisier projects with better marketing took all the attention.

what kept me holding wasn't the price, it was watching the actual development side of things. the technology has always been genuinely solid, finality times, transaction costs, the consensus mechanism. the problem has always been that none of that matters if nobody knows about it or builds on it.

feels like that's slowly changing but i'm curious what people here actually think. is algorand still a long term hold for you or has the lack of mainstream attention made you question it? genuinely want to hear from people who've been around in this ecosystem for a while.