The blockchain protocol Algorand announced a technical upgrade to expand its smart contracts functionalities, allowing one smart contract to call another. Due to this option, developers can build more sophisticated apps. The upgrade also provided a new infrastructure that allows the protocol to communicate with the broader world.
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The Algorand team writes the features have been available on Betanet for the last few weeks and have received positive feedback from the community. Recently, Algorand Foundation announced a $10 M grant focused on EVM Compatibility and building developer tools for the network. The team said it believes in a multichain world and that the incentive aimed to provide features for more advanced decentralized applications (dapps) as well.