👛Encrypted messenger in TON wallets

When sending TON coins, tokens or NFTs, senders could always add an encrypted comment for the recipient.

With the new update, you can add encrypted text when sending messages containing transactions. This function uses end-to-end encryption, so that only the sender and recipient can read the message.

The network fee for delivering such messages is ≈0.006 TON, allowing users to enjoy it for everyday purposes.

The following web wallets already support the new feature:
• Web Extention
• Windows / MacOS / Linux
• MyTONWallet

Encryption for all messages in TON mobile wallets will come in the upcoming updates.

Guidelines for developers

Your encrypted @TonPost

💯Just listed on Pionex

The Pionex platform announced adding TON/USDT to its list of trading pairs.

Pionex is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering free trading bots.

Pionex provides premade trading algorithms, as well as the ability to configure your own. The service is available through web and mobile interfaces.

Your platformed @TonPost

👍It’s time to show the power of TON Community! Let’s end unclear tokenomics, and let the ecosystem thrive!

Announcing TON Believers Fund! Is a non-profit fund that we, together with our friends from other international communities, decided to organize for those who believe in TON. The fund is regulated by a smart contract designed specifically for this purpose.

It’s a smart contract for any TON holder to LOCK their tokens for 5 years - 2 years locked and 3 years vesting. We want to attract the biggest TON holders to support this initiative to see how much they care about the community. The more projects and holders we attract, the more benefit to the community.

🦾Here’s how the contract works:
— TON holders can DONATE or DEPOSIT.
— Donations will be used as rewards for depositors and incentivize holders to lock their TON
— There is a minimum donation of 50 TON
The address of the smart contract is: EQDtFpEwcFAEcRe5mLVh2N6C0x-_hJEM7W61_JLnSF74p4q2 or believers.ton
— Comment “r” in the transaction if you are DONATING or a “d” if you are DEPOSITING

From the @DeepTonEng team and the channels of our friends, we are contributing 10,000 TON to the reward pool as support for the community. We also invite the owners of large projects, channels and other stakeholders of the ecosystem to join!

As a guarantee that the deposit account will always stay the same, we will send the domain believers.ton to the address of foundation.ton

❗️For more information about mechanics and rewards, see this GitHub thread. The public bug-bounty has successfully come to term, and we welcome any feedback and recommendations.

This is the time when your actions make a difference. Share this post, invite big projects to participate, and show the power of TON Community!

Your TBF Club member @DeepTonEng!

📝Guidelines for TBF contributions

We have written a small guide showing how to deposit and replenish the reward pool through wallets or using scripts.

Most importantly:
- be sure to include a comment with the transaction; otherwise, the funds will be returned
- do not encrypt the text comment when sending a transaction
- only send deposits from a wallet you control
- do not send funds directly from exchanges or bots to avoid losing the funds.

Your instructor @DeepTonEng

💱Paying BIT commissions using TON

Previously, BIT announced a strategic partnership with the TON Foundation to develop their ecosystems and bring additional value to BIT users and the TON community.

One of the agreed measures within the framework is the usage of TON as payment for trading commissions on BIT.

This feature has been implemented and is available on BIT. Users can already "Deduct commissions from TON" and enjoy a 10% discount off commissions.

How to pay commissions using TON:
- Make sure to have at least 10 TON on balance
- Go to account settings in the upper left corner of the home page
- Go to the "Commission Rate" section and enable the "Deduction from TON" function
- Use TON as the currency of payment for trading commissions and enjoy a 10% discount on spot, futures and options exchanges

Payment of commission fees is another useful application of TON and will contribute to further turnover and activity of the token.

Your commission collector @TonPost

🙏TBF support is gaining traction

While some were doubting the fund's relevance and looking for shortfalls (needlessly), others are beginning to join in and actively promote it.

Those who truly believe in the TON ecosystem and its future have already made their choice.

Many projects have joined this initiative, and today we will focus on media support.

RuTON: a news channel with insights from a TON network validator. RuTON posted a detailed article about the fund on its website.

Sergey Romanov: co-founder of Red Company, which owns NFT collections such as Animals Red List, TON Earth and TON GUYS. He posted about the foundation in his personal blog.

TON Scan: a popular explorer of the TON ecosystem, allows users to track the presence of tokens and NFTs on wallet addresses and contracts. Supported the foundation by providing an additional feature: sending a deposit directly from the contract address.

TON Viewer: conveniently tracks transactions, costs and auctions of TON DNS and Telegram usernames. Showed their support by providing elaborate information and an infographic about TBF.

re:doubt: a deep analytical platform that provides TON network data in the form of accessible infographics. Showed their support by reposting about the foundation on their channel.

EVAA Protocol: a decentralized financial system that provides loans without intermediaries. It is transparent, safe and convenient for borrowers and investors, expanding access to the financial development of the TON ecosystem. Showed their support by reposting about the foundation on their channel.

TON NFT PLUS: a news channel about NFTs and everything related. Showed their support by reposting about the foundation on their channel.

On behalf of the projects that initiated Ton Believers' Fund, we thank everyone who joined in and supported this opportunity. We're stronger together!

→ Detailed information about the scope of the foundation (GitHub)
→ Instructions on how to contribute to TBF

Your TBF Club Member @DeepTonEng

🍩First contributions to the TBF reward pool

The first major contribution to the TBF prize pool for the community was made by ConnecTON!

10,256 TON were sent to the contract's address, and whoever can guess the significance of the number 256 will get a subscription to ConnecTON for 256 days!🎁

ConnecTON is a VPN service that supports various devices and payments in TON. The project offers 10 locations with ultra-high speeds and and a choice of 4 main VPN protocols. It is fast, safe and reliable.

A free 30-day period is available to everyone. If you like their service, choose a tariff and pay for it with TON directly from the Telegram bot.

We tested ConnecTON's VPN service, and can say that their Trojan VPN protocol has yielded Internet speeds that differed by not more than 5-10%, which is an excellent indicator!

Project's resources:
Web | News | Bot

Meanwhile, the contributions keep flowing in, so stay with us and find out about other believers and supporters of the TON community.

Your TBF Club member @DeepTonEng

💌Open Letter to TON Foundation

We, the TON Believers Fund (TBF), urge the TON Foundation to help resolve the centralization issue caused by early miners in our ecosystem.

Early miners have shown unwavering dedication to The Open Network's mission, but their presence has concentrated Toncoin supply, posing concerns for new participants. We fear sudden selling by a small group of miners triggering a panic with severe consequences for the community.

To address this, the TBF proposes a solution that rewards participants and ensures stability for newcomers. Our smart-contract pools donations, incentivizing depositors, while locked deposits and earned rewards released monthly over three years after two years of lock-up.

To entice miners to lock their tokens, we aim to offer a fixed long-term reward yield that exceeds regular staking. This will alleviate centralization concerns and boost confidence for new participants.

We kindly request the following from the TON Foundation:
1. Endorse our initiative and help recruit early miners to enhance credibility.
2. Donate and assist in gathering contributions for the incentive pool to match staking yields for five years, making token locking more appealing.
3. Aid us in promoting the campaign, earning TON Foundation support from ecosystem projects through collaborative promotion.

TON Believers Fund - provides the optimal solution for the current TON ecosystem, with support from various projects. We urge the wider community to join us in reaching out to the TON Foundation, endorsing our cause and sharing this letter.

Together, let's incentivize miners to lock their tokens and create a secure, prosperous future for the TON ecosystem.

Sincerely,
TON Believers Fund

🔗TBF has received support from blockchain infrastructures

Orbs has backed the initiative to freeze funds by contributing 10,045 TON to the TBF reward pool.

Orbs - is an open, decentralised and public blockchain infrastructure executed by a secure network of permissionless validators using Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus.

The project team has previously chosen the TON as the underlying blockchain for development and has already managed to implement services such as:
— TON Access - a robust decentralised RPC network for TON DApps that execute HTTP requests to the blockchain state from a browser;
— TON Vote - a decentralised on-chain service for making decisions, by voting.

“I believe that increasing decentralization is the best way to increase the value of TON blockchain. To do that, large long term holders should lock their tokens. This will signal the market that the coins in circulation are distributed well and expedite TON’s growth in the next few years”. — shared Tal Kol, founder of Orbs.

Project Resources:
Web | Twitter | Telegram | GitHub

Your TBF Club member @DeepTon

🙂A big investor supported TBF

Another major investor has joined the community idea and contributed to TBF 10,000 TON!

DWF Labs - is a digital asset market maker and web investment firm that provides support from token listing to market making and OTC trading solutions.

«This is a very important and truly decentralised solution that should increase TVL and reduce supply». — Andrei Grachev, Managing partner DWF Labs, shared.

Previously, DWF Labs, in partnership with another project, launched the first ever TON liquid-stacking protocol, and has also invested in the TON ecosystem and sponsored Hack-a-TON.

DWF Labs has offices in 6 countries and the investment company itself is an affiliate of Digital Wave Finance (DWF), one of the world's largest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading organisations with spot and derivatives trading on over 40 leading exchanges.

Project Resources:
Web | Telegram | Twitter | Blog

Your TBF Club member @DeepTon

⬆️Reward pool TBF continues to grow

We have identified the source of a large donation to the reward pool!

Kilo Fund is one of the main investors in TON, who has been supporting it from the very beginning and was also an miner. They have contributed 10,000 TON to our fund.

"As a miner, I am happy to donate funds to the community initiative. I urge all other miners to also participate". — the investor stated, Noah Kim.

Major players in the ecosystem are starting to gradually get involved, which shows support, commitment to the community and the future of blockchain.

Your TBF Club member @DeepTon

💼The ecosystem builder supported TBF

First Stage Labs participated in an initiative from the community and contributed 50,000 TON to the TBF Reward Pool, supporting the blockchain and its users.

First Stage Labs — is a team that builds and scales innovative blockchain companies and aims to drive mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and advance blockchain technology globally.

In addition, they invest in early-stage projects and provide broad expertise in the most sought-after areas for active company growth and development.

First Strage Labs co-founded Getgems, TON Play, Tonstarter and STON.fi. They have also invested in Tonkeeper and Fanzee.

The project has written a lot of useful articles, reviews, research and reports on their blog, which we recommend you to read.

"We are particularly excited to support this initiative because it leverages the true function of blockchain - to respect the interests of all parties and maximise their win-win". - shared Kirill Malev, junior partner at First Stage Labs.

Project Resources:
Web | Twitter | Blog

Another major connection to TON Believers Fund, can't help but make the community happy!

Your TBF Club member @DeepTonEng