🏆 Yesterday marked a historic milestone: for the first time, investors gained access to a TON-holding company listed on the US stock market (ticker: VERB). This company is deploying $558 million to accumulate Toncoin — never selling, only buying more over time.

↗️ VERB’s stock more than doubled on its first trading day, pushing its market cap above $1 billion and earning it unicorn status on day one. The investor list includes long-time TON supporters like Kingsway, Vy Capital, and Ribbit, alongside many new institutional backers.

🪙 TON (The Open Network) is an infinitely scalable blockchain that we helped develop years ago to meet the needs of Telegram’s hundreds of millions of users. Today, TON is the economic backbone of Telegram — much like a national currency powers a country’s economy.

🌎 On Telegram, everything runs on TON: from payouts to creators and app developers to ad payments, mini apps and collectibles like usernames, numbers, and gifts. As a result, TON is now the #2 blockchain by daily NFT trading volume, second only to Ethereum.

🧠 It’s no surprise that Verb Technology — to be rebranded as TON Strategy — has chosen TON as its primary treasury asset. It’s mirroring MicroStrategy’s bitcoin playbook, which let it grow from $1B to $100B+ in 5 years. The half a billion $ Verb is investing into TON is just the start.

🪙 Good week for TON. Verb, a NASDAQ-listed company that has chosen TON as its primary asset, has successfully raised $558 million to begin buying and stockpiling TON immediately.

Meanwhile, Coinbase Ventures has also started accumulating TON.

Exciting times ahead! 🚀

Welcome to our first wave 🌊

Why has OpenSea expanded to Telegram?

⛵️ OpenSea has always been the first touch point for many artists, builders, collectors, creators, traders, and communities across the web3 ecosystem.

Now that OpenSea is both the leading NFT marketplace and a top destination to trade your tokens, we want to also expand our community to where token traders are, Telegram!

We're excited to join friends of ours like @PudgyPenguins, @OfficialBAYC, @Azukihq, @Doodleverse, @MoonbirdsTG, @SappySealsTG, @Coolcatsglobal, @PonkeHQ, @Bonk, and more here!

Now that you can also trade tokens using OpenSea, we'll be hosting collaborations with both NFTs and token communities on Telegram!

What you can expect from us here:

🔹OS product and ecosystem updates for both NFTs and token trading 
🔹Exclusive Telegram native activations
🔹A front row seat to NFT and memecoin communities

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Don’t miss our next wave.

🐣 It happened. Our decentralized confidential compute network, Cocoon, is live. The first AI requests from users are now being processed by Cocoon with 100% confidentiality. GPU owners are already earning TON. https://cocoon.org is up, with docs and the source code.

🤔 Centralized compute providers such as Amazon and Microsoft act as expensive intermediaries that drive up prices and reduce privacy. Cocoon solves both the economic and confidentiality issues associated with legacy AI compute providers.

🚀 Now we scale. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be onboarding more GPU supply and bringing in more developer demand to Cocoon. Telegram users can expect new AI-related features built on 100% confidentiality. Cocoon will bring control and privacy back where they belong — with users. 🤖