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Day 10 of Blockchain | Deploy a Decentralized Application to the Algorand TestNet

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So it turns out - blockchain is actually pretty cool. I’m super excited to be partnering with Reach and Algorand to create a YouTube series that tackles how to create decentralized applications with blockchain technology. In 10 Days of Blockchain, you’ll learn what a blockchain is, build a decentralized application, and deploy it to the Algorand blockchain. With Day 10 specifically, we’ll deploy our decentralized application to the Algorand TestNet blockchain! ✅ NOTE: Reach documentation at the time of your viewing may be slightly different than when I recorded. When in doubt, follow the documentation, and if you have questions, connect with the Reach community in Discord. ⛓ Discord Community! Reach HQ: https://discord.gg/reachsh Got a question? Ask it here: https://discord.com/channels/628402598663290882/912484855789518848 ⛓ More about Reach! Website: http://reach.sh Links: https://reach.crd.co/ Documentation: https://docs.reach.sh Questions & Support: help@reach.sh ⛓ More about Algorand! Website: https://www.algorand.com/ My courses on LinkedIn Learning! https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/kathryn-hodge Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/blondiebytes

About This Video

Welcome back to Day 10 (and the last day!) of my blockchain series. In this video I take the console Rock Paper Scissors dApp we built with Reach and actually deploy it to the Algorand TestNet. If “deploying to a blockchain” sounds scary, I promise it’s not—I walk through the exact differences between Reach’s local devnet (fast, private, great for development) and Algorand’s public testnet (a mirror of mainnet, but with worthless tokens—think Monopoly money). The big takeaway: testnet behaves like the real world, including confirmation times and public transaction history. I show you how I create and fund real testnet accounts using MyAlgo Wallet, including the important security bits around the 25-word mnemonic (seed phrase) and why you should never share it. Then we update the app config: switch the provider network to testnet, stop auto-creating accounts, and load accounts from mnemonics instead. Finally, I set the connector mode to ALGO-live, deploy the contract, accept the wager, and play a full round—so you can see the ~5 second block confirmation time in action. To wrap up, I inspect the transactions in the Algorand explorer, explain deposits vs wagers, and even decode an argument to prove that what you commit on-chain is public. Congrats—you just shipped a dApp to a real consensus network.

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