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Graphene, a 2D material consisting of a single layer of sp²‐hybridized carbon, exhibits inert activity as an electrocatalyst, while the incorporation of heteroatoms (such as N) into the framework can tune its electronic properties. Because of the different electronegativity between N and C atoms, electrons will transfer from C to N in N‐doped graphene nanosheets, changing inert C atoms adjacent to the N‐dopants into active sites. Notwithstanding the achieved progress, its intrinsic activity in acidic media is still far from Pt/C. Here, a facile annealing strategy is adopted for Ir‐doped metal‐organic frameworks to synthesize IrCo nanoalloys encapsulated in N‐doped graphene layers. The highly active electrocatalyst, with remarkably reduced Ir loading (1.56 wt%), achieves an ultralow Tafel slope of 23 mV dec⁻¹ and an overpotential of only 24 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm⁻² in 0.5 m sulfuric acid solution. Such …