🚀 How TON Foundation boosts the ecosystem

⚫️ On Sunday, a substantial boost of 700,000 TON was introduced for liquidity providers in the TON/USDT pair on DeDust.io. Many users immediately started to invest their funds into the pool, especially since, together with previous boosts, the total reward volume reached 1,580,000 TON — impressively large, right?

⚫️ Today, TON Foundation decided to go even bigger, adding a new boost of a whopping one million TON to the pool. Thus, the reward size reached 2,580,000 TON or $18M, and the daily distribution increased to 48,885 TON, maintaining the pool’s yield at 162% APR even with a total liquidity of $77M.

⚫️ In the TON ecosystem, users are accustomed to securing their earnings in TON or USDT, so it’s common to find a significant amount of these two tokens idling in wallets. Thus, putting them into a pool with such a high annual percentage rate seems like an attractive idea.

⚫️ While the TON rate is currently relatively stable, it's important not to overlook impermanent losses — funds that you might earn less on or even lose if the token’s price changes significantly. For those wary of such losses, $SCALE staking with an APR of 25.5% is always available on DeDust.io.

💡 It’s encouraging to see TON Foundation consistently investing in key ecosystem tools, incentivizing liquidity providers on DEX in such an important pair as TON/USDT. We look forward to seeing 1B USDT on TON Blockchain by November and the complete transition from the wrapped jUSDT.

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💎 Why are transactions taking so long, and will TON get a Layer 2?

As more users join TON Blockchain, the question arises more frequently — why do transactions take so long? A month ago, a broadcast featuring Anatoliy Makosov, the tech lead of TON Core, aired on the TON PIZ channel (in Russian). We revisited the broadcast and are ready to explain the problem and whether it’s possible to speed up even the fastest blockchain.

⚫️ In some cases, transaction execution may take up to two minutes. The TON Core team is aware of this issue, understands the technical causes, and is preparing an update for validators on June 10th that will likely optimize the process of generating new blocks in the network.

⚫️ Additionally, there's an issue with some validators using underpowered hardware — plans are in place to introduce penalties for those who do not take their responsibilities seriously and skimp on equipment.

⚫️ Developers of TON DEXs and wallets are also currently working on visual solutions, such as progress bars and additional notifications, to help users more clearly understand the status of their transactions.

⚫️ But what about the October record for the number of transactions per second? The fact is that the main priority of TON Blockchain is its scalability, not the speed of individual transactions. The focus is primarily on network stability even with a large number of users.

🖊 Regarding Layer 2, payment networks are the solution currently under active development. This tool is aimed not only at speeding up blockchain operations but also at reducing fees for microtransactions — we eagerly await announcements in this direction.

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🚀 $XROCK listing tomorrow

⚫️ The $XROCK token will launch on the centralized exchange @xRocket on June 7th. Trading and other operations with the token will be available starting at 11:00 UTC, but withdrawals will not be possible until the listing on decentralized exchanges.

⚫️ The token price during the IEO was $0.02. With a total supply of 500 million $XROCK, the market capitalization at launch will be $10 million.

⚫️ As a reminder, @xRocket is a popular custodial wallet and centralized exchange available as a Telegram bot. According to our data, the exchange's monthly audience exceeds 140,000 people, and more than 800,000 people use the bot each month.

⚫️ Follow the news on the xRocket News channel.

@thedailyton

🐤 Click yourself an iPhone: What future awaits games on TON?

⚫️ You've probably noticed that the hottest topic on TON right now is GameFi. Simple games seem to be the best fit for the much-anticipated mass adoption. Moreover, it’s not so much the integration of entertainment into blockchain that attracts people, but rather the opportunity to earn by performing simple actions.

⚫️ Following the colossal success of Notcoin and the equally impressive surge in popularity of Hamster Combat, other teams have doubled down on developing mini-applications. Additionally, apart from the multifaceted support and grants from TON Foundation, other major players such as DWF Labs are gradually starting to invest in Telegram Mini Apps.

⚫️ Every day, new GameFi projects appear in Telegram Apps Center, and some of them can already boast innovative gameplay. We are confident that games on TON will become increasingly interesting over time, and their quantity will gradually evolve into quality.

⚫️ Feel free to share in the comments which TON games you've been glued to lately, and whether you are looking forward to seeing projects with complex mechanics, like Clash of Clans or Brawl Stars, appear in our ecosystem. Or did everyone just come here for the «free» tokens?

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⌨️ The Weekly TON: Highlights of the week

⚫️ The channel sub0.ton, in collaboration with Full Metal Jetton and The Daily TON, is hosting a giveaway of official TON merch from the Berlin Bootcamp. On X, two t-shirts are being given away for a retweet and tagging two friends, while on Telegram, creative merch ideas for one of the channels can win you a shirt.

🔥 Just last Tuesday, we released a detailed post about the boosts from TON Foundation in the TON/USDT pair on DeDust.io, only to see another, the biggest boost yet of 1,420,000 TON, added yesterday. Consequently, the APR in the pool jumped to 182% (now at 141%), and liquidity reached the $150M mark.

⚫️ After listening to a broadcast with Anatoliy Makosov, the tech lead of TON Core, we tried to understand why TON transactions have been slow lately and what the status of Layer 2 development is. By the way, the promised node update was released today — let us know if you've noticed an increase in speed?

⚫️ This Friday, June 7, the centralized Telegram exchange @xRocket listed the $XROCK token. On launch day, the platform experienced a massive influx of users depositing $USDT to buy the token early. We're keeping an eye on the price and await $XROCK's debut on DEX.

⚫️ We've analyzed the latest trends in GameFi on TON and asked our readers which games they play during trading breaks and which projects they would like to see in the ecosystem in the future — developers, we recommend checking the comments under the post.

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💎 Three weeks of The Open League Summer Bootcamps have ended!

⚫️ This weekend marked the end of the massive offline event marathon by TON Society, which took place across 13 cities worldwide: Prague, Moscow, Hong Kong, Berlin, Belgrade, Saint Petersburg, Taipei, Seoul, Warsaw, Kyiv, Tbilisi, Gurugram, and Minsk.

⚫️ The Daily TON team managed to attend three bootcamps: Moscow, Berlin, and Kyiv, and we can confidently say that TON Foundation demonstrated a high level of event organization, attracted new developers to TON, and supercharged an already active user base.

⚫️ The marathon showcased new projects in GameFi, financial tools for traders, various aggregators, and services. In just three days, teams had to develop a project in the Telegram Mini App format and present it to the audience. The winners of the First and Second weeks are already announced, and to catch the best projects of the Third week and upcoming event announcements, we recommend subscribing to the TON Society channel.

It’s worth noting that applications for The Open League Hackathon are open until June 15th, so you still have a chance to join the global competition, even if you didn’t attend any offline events.

🏆 Missed the event? The Daily TON knows how to cheer you up! Together with the sub0.ton and Full Metal Jetton channels, we’re running two t-shirt giveaways from the Berlin bootcamp and are gearing up to launch a third giveaway for two more shirts from the Kyiv event. Stay tuned so you don’t miss out.

⚫️ The bootcamps are over, but activities in the TON ecosystem are not! The fourth season of The Open League program starts after a two-week break, this time with two new categories: DeFi and NFT. Boosts and farming will appear in pools tomorrow at 11:00 UTC. Pick your favorites and turn on the fans — the hot summer continues.

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🪙 The Open League Season 4: NFT, DeFi, and $1 Million in TON

⚫️ Today marks the launch of the fourth season of The Open League — an incentive program that further energizes active users in the ecosystem and sees crypto projects compete against each other in the leaderboard.

⚫️ The season will last for two weeks, ending on June 26th at 11:00 UTC. For easy navigation through the reward pools, you can use @Open_League_Bot as before. This season features competition among thirteen tokens, including:

— $KINGY Pool: KINGY/TON APR: 250% Token channel: @investkingyru_en
— $JVT Pool: JVT/TON APR: 500% Token channel: @JVault
— $HYDRA Pool: HYDRA/TON APR: 600% Token community: @Ton_HYDRAcoin
— $BOLT Pool: BOLT/TON APR: 380% Token channel: … it's easier to choose from the list yourself

⚫️ Additionally, an NFT category has been added this season. There are no tables with participants and metrics on the official website yet, so we haven’t figured out exactly how the NFT projects will compete. If you know more, feel free to share under this post.

⚫️ It's worth noting that The Open League has significantly changed from its original concept in November. From an interesting social mechanic with SBT, farming XP points, and profiles in TON Society, it has predominantly turned into a boost giveaway in liquidity pools. Whether this is good or bad is up for discussion in the comments.

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🚀 The easiest way to create your own memecoin on TON

In recent months, numerous services have emerged on TON that facilitate the creation of new jettons, NFTs, or even Telegram Mini Apps. These platforms often cater to relatively serious projects, but what if you just want to have some fun and launch a meme or fan token?

⚫️ The answer was found next door — on Solana Blockchain. For over five months, the «pump fun» platform has been operating successfully, launching more than 900,000 new coins during this time. The site’s bright and chaotic visual style might deter the unprepared users, but we're more interested in the mechanics it uses to launch tokens.

⚫️ It’s quite straightforward. Any user can create a coin in a minute by filling in basic information. Immediately afterward, the token appears on the platform and trading begins as on a DEX: anyone can buy the coin, thus increasing its value and market cap. To get the coin on a DEX, it needs to reach a certain threshold. All transactions are recorded on the blockchain, but until listing, users trade wrapped tokens exclusively within the platform.

⚫️ This mechanic has been adapted for TON by the Gas Pump service. Everything happens within a convenient mini-app, where coins can be sorted by market cap and creation time, and the threshold for hitting the DEX is 1000 TON. For collaboration, the team chose the DeDust.io exchange, so if desired, the creator of a successful token can apply for an official listing. Note that if one wallet owns more than 30% of the total issuance, the coin is marked as suspicious.

⚫️ Naturally, Gas Pump has a reward program — GAS XP. Points are awarded to users for buying tokens on the platform, creating successful meme coins that gather the 1000 TON threshold, subscribing to the official Telegram channel @gaspump, and inviting friends via a referral link, of course. Later, GAS XP can be exchanged for the platform's utility token.

Have you already created your memecoin in the ten days since the service launched, or are you just eyeing this new platform?

@thedailyton

✈️ Telegram Mini Apps now accept payments in Stars

💡 Since June 12th, there has been increasing news that various Mini Apps now allow purchases with Telegram Stars. A reminder: Stars is the internal currency recently introduced in Telegram to comply with Apple and Google's requirements for digital service payments.

⚫️ Currently, Telegram doesn't have a separate menu for buying Stars, but you can already purchase the currency by visiting one of the popular Mini Apps where payments were previously made in TON, and try buying some items.

⚫️ For instance, we chose the P2E game Gatto: we launch the app, go to the store, and see the prices in Stars. We confirm the purchase and are redirected to a window with our personal balance, where we can buy sets of 50 to 2500 stars with national currency.

⚫️ It was announced that Stars could be exchanged for TON on the Fragment platform, where anonymous numbers, usernames, and Telegram Premium are sold. Currently, there's no section for selling Stars on the site, but we hope that soon it will be possible not only to withdraw Stars but also to purchase them for TON. For regular users, the menu for buying Stars should appear next to the Telegram Premium tab, as well as in the @PremiumBot.

⚫️ On one hand, dedicated TON users might negatively receive this new feature since most Mini Apps previously accepted payment in Toncoin. On the other, it's generally more convenient for ordinary people to buy Stars with a credit card in just a few clicks, rather than dealing with TON wallets and P2P. Either way, the innovation carries both pros and cons in terms of mass adoption. What are your thoughts on this?

@thedailyton

⌨️ The Weekly TON: Highlights of the week

🔥 On Saturday night, the price of Toncoin reached its all-time high at $8.239. This surge drew attention to TON Blockchain, as other cryptocurrencies were showing a decline in value at the time.

⚫️ Last week kicked off with the conclusion of The Open League Summer Bootcamps. Find out what it was like and don't forget to participate in our t-shirt giveaway. Links to photos from the meetups in Moscow, Berlin, and Kyiv are available in the official TON Society Announcements channels.

⚫️ With new boosts in liquidity pools, the fourth season of The Open League has begun. In the Token Battle category, 57 projects are now competing, with the entry of the token $NOT among the participants being the highlight — many contestants have set their sights on surpassing this legendary coin.

⚫️ We discussed a new service for launching tokens, Gas Pump, and its unique mechanism for TON Blockchain, which allows users to trade coins even before they hit the DEX.

⚫️ Mini-apps have begun actively implementing the new currency, Telegram Stars. In one post, we compiled the main information related to the launch of Stars and also personally tried purchasing an item in one of the GameFi projects.

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✔️ What can participants in TON Accelerator boast about? (50k TON giveaway)

At the end of May, TON Foundation introduced the projects participating in TON Accelerator — an intensive training and stimulation program for teams wanting to start their journey in the Web3 sphere. Out of 170 applications, only 11 projects were selected, one of which was the gaming platform Maincard.

⚫️ What's the project about? Each user has cards with different characteristics, levels, and amounts of lives. They can be upgraded by making accurate predictions, and then sold at an internal auction for TON or $MCN — the platform's utility token. Maincard offers two modes: battles — for solo play, and tournaments — for competing with other players.

⚫️ The platform includes plenty of sports disciplines: competitions in football, basketball, tennis, hockey, MMA, and even cricket are available for predictions. As for esports, Maincard features major events in Dota 2, CS 2, LoL, and Valorant. New users receive two game cards upon registration and can immediately try out the platform's features without risk or investment.

⚫️ How is the project connected to TON? Besides having a handy mini-app @maincardton_bot (a base for products on TON) that duplicates the website's functionality, Maincard has its own token — $MCN. It can be earned in tournaments or by selling cards at the auction, and the coin will be listed in the coming months on the DeDust.io exchange.

⚫️ Right now, Maincard is conducting the Summer Sprint quest series with a prize pool of 50,000 TON. Two social media tasks are already available for completion, but the developers promise even more interesting activities ahead. By the way, you can discuss the latest project news in the official chat @maincardOfficial.

We welcome new players to the ecosystem and wish the project success!

@thedailyton

📈 The ultimate tool for DYOR

⚫️ The latest turbulence in the world of cryptocurrencies is a good reason to firmly hold on to your seed phrase and refrain from looking at DEX and CEX, where users, in a panic, often sell and buy assets, frequently losing significant amounts. But then what should you do and where can you follow up-to-date information about trading platforms and trending tokens?

⚫️ Today, we invite all newcomers to get acquainted, and seasoned users to revisit, the popular service for analyzing decentralized protocols, DefiLlama. Especially since the platform recently added detailed information (including boosts) from liquidity pools on DeDust.io. DefiLlama features more than 422 protocols across 90 different blockchains, but we are primarily interested in the metrics for TON, of course.

⚫️ Last week, many reported that TON ecosystem's TVL had surpassed the $500 million mark, but if you visit the link now, you can see that the volume of locked funds has already reached $618 million. This is primarily due to the ongoing issuance of USDT on TON (the market capitalization of the stablecoin has reached $449.28M).

⚫️ DefiLlama provides analytics not only on protocols but also on individual tokens (including stablecoins) and even NFT collections. Advanced users can also download the necessary data in .csv format at any time for further analysis. We invite you to personally visit DefiLlama and explore the capabilities of the service.

@thedailyton

💀 How are NFTs doing in the TON ecosystem?

⚫️ Many may have noticed that NFTs on TON are currently not experiencing their best times, though once they were the main trend of the ecosystem. Users are no longer dazzled by beautiful images or interesting backstories — trading volumes are mostly maintained by those collections that provide utility to their owners.

⚫️ TON Foundation decided to address this situation by adding an NFT Battle category to the latest season of The Open League. As a result, 22 collections are competing against each other, with the sole metric on the leaderboard being trading volume.

⚫️ Currently, the top three projects are: TON Frogs (an old collection that has found a second wind after a recent Fairlaunch of the $CAVI token), Market Makers (NFTs from Storm Trade, which will allow owners to acquire the $STORM token), and NOT Punks (a collection that combines popular on TON pixel punks with Notcoin).

⚫️ What about NFTs that are just preparing to launch? After a long break, a second collection — U.S.R.L. Seeds Collectibles — is coming out on the Sense platform. To get an NFT for just 1 TON, you need to complete a campaign in the Community bot by June 27 and closely follow the news on the launch day. This is a great opportunity for newcomers to get acquainted with the world of NFTs and to claim a piece by an artist who has previously collaborated with Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Young Thug.

What do you think, who will win the battle for user attention: NFTs or memecoins?

@thedailyton

⌨️ The Weekly TON: Highlights of the week

🔥 On Friday, USDT on TON Blockchain was fully integrated on Binance, making it the second TON token (after $NOT) to be listed on the most popular centralized exchange.

⚫️ We discussed one of the 11 participants of TON Accelerator — the Maincard gaming platform, where users make predictions in order to upgrade special cards, which can then be profitably sold at an internal auction for TON or $MCN.

⚫️ In light of DefiLlama adding detailed information about liquidity pools from DeDust.io, we decided to remind you of the benefits of this analytics platform and analyze the main metrics of TON Blockchain.

⚫️ The non-custodial wallet Tonhub from the TON Whales team has integrated DeDust.io jetton swaps into its interface, allowing users to exchange tokens directly within the app without additional fees.

⚫️ We described the situation in the TON NFT sector, explored the new category in The Open League, and talked about the current campaign in Community bot, where you can acquire an NFT from the contemporary artist Gsmgarden for just 1 TON.

@thedailyton

🐤 It has been revealed who DWF Labs has partnered with

⚫️ Recently, we analyzed the latest trends in GameFi on TON and tried to anticipate the future of this sector. In our publication, we mentioned the Web3 market maker and investment platform DWF Labs, which announced its search for GameFi/SocialFi projects within the TON ecosystem for potential collaboration and financial support.

⚫️ Today, news broke that DWF Labs has become the strategic partner of the P2E game Gatto, a project we've frequently covered before. The Gatto team expects that DWF Labs will help them reach the Asian audience and support the launch of the utility token $GTON, scheduled for the near future.

⚫️ We've covered Gatto in detail back in February. Over the past months, the game has seen a myriad of events, campaigns, and even a collaboration with DeDust.io, making it no surprise that it secured support from a major player like DWF Labs. It seems the trend is indeed shifting towards well-thought-out games with engaging gameplay, though it's still early to say for certain.

We're eagerly awaiting new investments and will keep an eye on the development of GameFi on TON!

@thedailyton

💎 How to stay updated with everything happening on TON?

If you often find yourself asking this question, rest assured — you're not alone. Even we at The Daily TON have faced this challenge lately.

⚫️ Our channel is one of the oldest in the ecosystem. We've been reporting on TON Blockchain for over two years and have witnessed every phase of its development. We can confidently say that TON is currently experiencing its most vibrant and active phase.

⚫️ A clear sign of this is that sometimes even we struggle to keep up with what's happening. Miss a day in the info sphere, and everything changes: new tokens top The Open League, two dozen clicker games with millions of followers appear in Telegram Mini Apps, and thousands of Twitter users suddenly starting to storm the blockchain.

⚫️ In the past, we watched all events unfold right before our eyes, often orchestrated by someone we knew or someone who first joined the community before launching their project. Nowadays, we often find ourselves in the role of observers, learning about news from other channels or getting acquainted with a product only after its launch.

⚫️ Nevertheless, we continue to write about the most important and interesting events in the TON ecosystem and have no plans to slow down. Thank you to everyone who has followed us from the beginning, and a special thanks to the newcomers who bring life to our blockchain ❤️

@thedailyton

⌨️ The Weekly TON: Highlights of the week

⚫️ The BroBot Contests campaign by the lending protocol EVAA and the liquid staking platform bemo is drawing to a close. A prize pool of 6,500,000 $stXP and 1,500,000 EVAA XP will be drawn among the participants on July 3rd — don't miss your chance to jump on board at the last minute.

⚫️ The Play-2-Earn game Gatto has announced a strategic partnership with DWF Labs. This collaboration will accelerate the project's entry into the Asian market and facilitate the smooth launch of the $GTON token.

⚫️ The fourth season of The Open League has concluded, receiving mixed reviews from participants, users, and TON influencers. TON Foundation is now holding a vote until July 3rd on whether to extend the fifth season from two to four weeks.

⚫️ We've published a reflection post sharing our impressions of the growing popularity of TON Blockchain, discussing how new projects used to enter the ecosystem and how this process occurs now.

🔥 Telegram has released an update that added compact panels for minimizing Mini Apps, enhanced features for the «Stories» section, and the ability to post paid (via Telegram Stars) photos and videos.

@thedailyton

✈️ How does Telegram Ads work and why are channels earning less?

⚫️ Recently, Telegram introduced the ability to launch advertising campaigns for TON alongside Euro payments. While fiat-based ad purchases undergo at least minimal moderation, ads through ads.telegram.org can be launched for just 20 TON without strict product requirements, a loophole quickly exploited by numerous scammers.

⚫️ Moreover, in recent months, numerous million-audience channels discussing the TON blockchain have emerged on Telegram. These include both old-timers of the ecosystem, like The Daily TON, and new pages, particularly official channels of popular clickers, which are prime targets for scammer advertisements.

⚫️ As we know, a large audience brings great responsibility. But what can channel authors do if they cannot control the ads displayed on their pages to non-premium users? We assume Telegram is trying to address this issue by disabling the display of ads launched via the TON cabinet on all major pages.

⚫️ Now, on large crypto channels, you can only see ads purchased with Euros, which is why author revenues have significantly dropped compared to previous months. Do you think Telegram will come up with a more elegant solution to control scam ads, or will crypto bloggers have to forget about decent monetization?

@thedailyton

📒 Where is all the action happening on TON right now?

⚫️ One of the few places in the ecosystem where life is still bustling despite the summer heat is the platforms for quick memecoin creation. You can read more about the unique token launch mechanism that has migrated to us from Solana Blockchain here.

⚫️ Just a month after starting, the Gas Pump team has posted an impressive list of achievements on their page: $1M in daily trading volume, over 10,000 tokens created on the platform, and the first 100 meme coins listed on DEX.

⚫️ This promising area has attracted other players too. In the last couple of weeks, two more projects have entered the game:

— Wonton.fun — a service that appeared out of nowhere but has already shown good results. Notably, the tokens on the platform mainly have tickers written in Cyrillic, which, however, does not prevent them from gaining popularity and amassing impressive capitalization.

— TonPump.app — a promising mini-app with a pleasing design, whose authors plan a large number of collaborations and contests to boost user activity.

⚫️ Interestingly, we haven’t noticed much hype around these platforms among TON influencers, but this hasn’t stopped them from setting new trading volume records daily. It seems these services are actively attracting audiences from other blockchains, which definitely benefits the entire TON ecosystem.

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📉 Fee reductions now extend to DEX as well

⚫️ We all recall how, after a validator vote in April, the fees on TON were reduced by 2.5 times. Developers made this move in response to the rising cost of Toncoin (up to $7) and the rapid influx of new users into the blockchain.

⚫️ Today, one of the most popular protocols in the ecosystem, the decentralized exchange DeDust.io, has announced a significant reduction in its fees as well (in some cases, the cost has been reduced by up to four times). Let's take a closer look at the changes:

✔️ The base fee for swaps has been reduced from 0.4% to 0.25%
✔️ The fee for exchanges in stableswap pools has been lowered from 0.1% to 0.05%
✔️ For the TON/USDT pair, a special offer will apply until the end of July: the fee has been reduced from 0.4% to 0.1%

⚫️ Additionally, the DeDust.io team has optimized the protocol's smart contracts, thereby significantly reducing gas consumption during transactions.

⚫️ The reduction in fees will make trading on the exchange more profitable, which in turn will attract new users to DeDust.io, and encourage existing ones to trade tokens even more frequently. As a result, trading volumes will increase, meaning that liquidity providers and $SCALE stakers will eventually earn more.

Keep up with the latest exchange updates on the official DeDust.io channel

@thedailyton