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Aiming to relaunch in Q2. We’re entering the platform’s internal testing phase in two weeks.

Discussion on Smart Contracts and Smart Signatures

To complement @FrankS 's excellent response: nowadays, you should essentially only use smart contracts, unless you have a very specific use case for which smart signatures are better suited. See Modern guidelines for smart contracts and smart signatures on Algorand - Algorand Developer Portal

Smart signatures are quite dangerous as they allow the one in possession of the smart signature to sign transactions on your behalf. So you should never accept to sign a smart signature if you don’t fully trust the party asking for it. Or you could do it but only with a non important account.

Yes, unfortunately, the word “contract” is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to a particular use of a Smart Signature or a Smart Contract. For example, here Delegated Approval it is said, for example, if Alice wants to set up a recurring payment with her utility company for up to 200 Algos.

The nodes will reject any transaction with a multisig with more than 255 public keys.

TEAL is like the assembly language. Like you don’t program on assembly on your computer, now you usually don’t program in TEAL for Algorand. If you are interested in building smart contracts, for Algorand, I recommend using Beaker or at least PyTEAL. Beaker is so much more user-friendly but is in...

Yes. A delayed transaction can cause that - but please note that we’re referring to a pretty long time here, i.e. in the order of hours. Alternatively, you might have your transaction being created by a node that wasn’t caught up, which explains the large rounds gap.

The transaction has a first/last valid round; when it gets submitted, the current round needs to be somewhere between the two. In the example you posted the current round "20245341" is not between the first/last valid of "20243952"/"20244952".

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