👛TON integration* in Telegram

The Beta version of Telegram for Android 10.0.6 now offers quick and convenient access to @wallet!

By the end of the 3rd quarter, users will get open access to TON Space: a non-custodial wallet bot supporting tokens and NFTs.

Telegram devs are currently working on a channel "boost" scheme similar to Discord. Boosts would allow subscribers to support channels by voting and unlock special opportunities for administrators, such as publishing stories on their channel.

It is very likely that these boosts could be purchased for TON, which would be a good way of getting more users acquainted with the blockchain.

Support for Mini Apps: these are independent services running inside Telegram. They are similar to bots but have their own interface, accessible from the tabs in the main menu of the application.

*This information was inferred from the beta features of the application and may not be reflected in the final release.

Check out all the other innovations in Telegram's upcoming beta version.

Your beta tester @TonPost

💖Token2049 Singapore will start today!

During today's conference, Steve Yun, the president of the TON Foundation, and John Hyman, the Telegram's Investment Director, will hold a joint presentation.

So far, we know that the speech will cover the integration of Web 3 and the TON blockchain into the Telegram messenger. Truly historic times.🍷

The Open Builders team will conduct a live broadcast on September 13, 10:00 (UTC+3).

Make sure to set yourself a reminder so as not to miss it!

Your apprehensive @TonPost

🎈TON x Telegram Partnership

As previously reported, TON Foundation announced a partnership with Telegram messenger at the TOKEN2049 conference.

Here are the main takeaways from Steve Yun, President of the TON Foundation:
🔍TON ecosystem expanded through the leadership of its community
🔍Telegram provides a platform and access to a huge user base of 800 million people
🔍Wallet provides convenience through the use of the TON blockchain, a decentralized network
🔍The end goal is to put cryptocurrency in every user's wallet and make it as simple to use as sending an SMS
🔍TON Space is a standalone digital wallet in Telegram, ready for public release
🔍With this TON-based Telegram wallet, users can send digital assets in just two simple clicks
🔍TON aims to attract 500 million users over the next five years

Here are the main takeaways from John Hyman, Chief Investment Officer of Telegram:
🔍Telegram is the only consumer social media platform open for creating mini-apps in Web3
🔍It strives to protect freedom of speech and the right to own digital assets for all its users around the world
🔍All new and existing users will be able to access @wallet from the Telegram menu
🔍TON-based projects will gain priority access to Telegram Ads in the messaging app
🔍In 3-5 years, the number of Telegram users will reach 1.5 billion
🔍Granting users ownership of their identity and assets is consistent with the company's values of personal freedom
🔍Starting in November, Wallet will be integrated into all user accounts outside the United States

We feel that this public announcement of the partnership was an astounding success! We will continue supporting our growing audience and watch this formidable Web3 machine gain momentum.

Your Web3 Oracle @TonPost

🤫A slide from the presentation

This slide shows the synergy to be gained from combining the capabilities of the TON blockchain and Telegram messenger.

TON Space, Digital Assets, TON Connect, DNS together with Telegram, Mini Apps, and Telegram Ads make an ideal space for building and developing a Web3 ecosystem.

The future started today @TonPost

🎤TON Believers Fund keeps on growing

Since our last post, the fund has progressed quite a bit:
- Total balance: 246,443,756 TON (≈$458,385,387)
- Deposits: 185,536,196 TON
- Reward pool: 60,907,476 TON
- APY: 8.44%
- Time left before freezing: 1 month and 9 days
- Largest contribution: 40,000,000 TON

Meanwhile, TBF has become the fourth-largest fund in the TON ecosystem, and we can do even better than that.

Furthermore, the TBF balance currently constitutes 4.84% of the total TON supply.

📊Top wallets committed to holding on to their tokens in the near future:
1. Frozen: 1,081,389,417 TON
2. TF Reserve Wallet: 531,223,515 TON
3. Staking: 503,216,971 TON
4. TON Believers Fund: 246,443,756 TON

All funds of TBF will be fully released within 5 years, just by the time TON Foundation and Telegram are planning to attract 500 million users.

Your TBF Club Member @TonPost

👑Hear it from the Man himself!

Pavel Durov posted his perspective on the TON blockchain and its potential.

In short:
- TON was conceived several years ago with the goal in mind to serve many social media users
- Since 2020, TON technology has been supported and improved by the open-source community
- Last year, Telegram users obtained the opportunity to buy and sell usernames and identifiers on Fragment, a TON-based auction platform
- The initiative was a major hit, bringing Telegram an additional $120 million in revenue and a significant increase in the value of its digital assets
- This success demonstrated Telegram's Web 3.0 potential, allowing users to own their identity on social networks
- Now Telegram plans to integrate blockchain technologies even deeper by including TON Wallet in the settings and attachments menu for all users, with the exception of the United States and some other countries
- This will open up the gateway for many new functions, creating a new dimension of Web 3.0 for millions of Telegram users

Your stunning @TonPost

🏆TON in the TOP 10

The Open Network, after going head to head with TRX, broke ahead and took the 10th place on CoinMarketCap's cryptocurrency rating.

Its capitalization reached $7.48 billion, surpassing TRX (at the time of writing) by $15 million.

That makes TON even more attractive for new crypto exchanges and new audiences joining our Web 3 ecosystem.

Your crypto-pie @TonPost

👀In a blink an eye

TON already jumped to 9th place in the global ranking of cryptocurrencies by capitalization.

At the moment, its capitalization reached $8 billion, and is only ~$750 million away from the next line.

Yours truly, @TonPost

🆙One by one

TON keeps climbing up and has overtaken Elon Musk's favorite $DOGE, now going for $ADA.

This means that TON is already 8th in the whole world and is quickly approaching the next milestone.

The capitalization of TON has reached $8.85 billion, surpassing $DOGE by 12 million, and has only $150 million to go before the next rank.

TON entered the TOP 50 in September 2022 in 33rd place, and by December has reached TOP 20. Since then, it keeps relentlessly going up.

This will for sure make waves in the crypto community and will bring in new partnerships, developers, users, and that exact mass adoption that has been recently foretold at the Token2049 conference.

Your TON-loving @TonPost

📰A new Telegram update

Telegram now gives premium users a way to support their favorite channels! Each gets a vote, or "boost" that can be cast on any channel. The more boosts, the higher the channel's level. And every new level allows it to publish one additional story per day for all of its subscribers.

Regular users and channels can react using stickers, one for each story. Premium users, on the other hand, can react with up to 5 stickers at a time.

Stories can also contain audio files from the device's memory. Thus, users will be able to share their favorite music, audiobooks, or recordings.

These are some of the new features Telegram has introduced to solve challenges and create opportunities for development. Voting allows users to support their favorite channels and filter high-quality content. In addition to improved user engagement, it expands opportunities through a new system of recommendations, known as the "channel feed".

These new features will set Telegram on its way to become a big player on the Web's advertising space, so the goals for the 28th year may be reached sooner than we think, who knows🤷‍♂️

→ Detailed article on the update
💖Support us with a boost

Get it on
Android: Google Play, APK from the official website or verified channel.
iOS: App Store

Your people's @TonPost

Stay tuned for our upcoming Story, and a contest 😉

https://t.me/DeepTonEng?boost

Get it on
Android: Google Play, APK from the official website or verified channel.

📈Partnership with Chainbase and Tencent Cloud

TON Foundation has partnered with Chainbase and Tencent Cloud to speed up blockchain development as it enters a new era of mass adoption of Web3 in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tencent Cloud is a leading cloud provider that offers reliable computing resources and an optimized network connection through its global cloud infrastructure. It has steadily supported TON validators and plans to further expand its services to meet TON's needs for high computing intensity and network bandwidth.

Tencent Cloud and TON Foundation support the development of web applications, Telegram bots, and games that use TON. For all TON-based projects, Tencent Cloud will provide cloud credits and discounts on products available under the Tencent Cloud Startup Program (subject to approval).

Chainbase in turn will offer the first product for indexing TON data. This will make it possible to freely use, request, and analyze all TON data to suit the unique tasks of developers.

“Soon, we’ll be providing a readily accessible gateway to TON for millions of developers and end users. Our collaboration with Tencent Cloud is the latest milestone in our journey to accelerate the global adoption of blockchain technology. By joining forces, we can leverage our combined expertise to drive the development of technological solutions built on-chain. We are committed to working closely together with Chainbase and Tencent Cloud to provide developers with the tools” said Justin Hyun, Head of Growth at TON Foundation.

Our Web3 future is taking shape while we actively attract developers, expand cloud storage, hold contests for developing WebApps, constant Telegram updates, and many other initiatives.

Your dreamy @TonPost
Boost us

🔤TON x Metalist Game

Metalist Game, a leading company on the Web3 gaming scene, has announced its partnership with TON.

Metalist Game aims to attract a wide audience of Telegram users through its first messenger game.

Up to 800 million users will be able to enjoy Web3 games via @metalistgamebot, thanks to the full integration of TON Space into Telegram.

In addition to this, MG introduced its first trading card game called “Cards Ahoy". This launch is coupled with their new distribution of the on-chain identity called "Game Console".

Holders of this ID will be able to receive various benefits in the TON and Telegram universes. For example, they will get access to the upcoming Genesis Blind Box distribution for the game "Cards Ahoy".

Metalist Game and TON formed this visionary partnership to open a new era of games in the Web3 Telegram ecosystem, which is further fostered by the current ongoing webapp contests.

→ More details about the partnership herе

Your web-third @TonPost

💪The biggest address in the ecosystem

The balance of our fund at the time of writing is 586,505,870 TON (~$1,284,447,856), which already makes it the largest fund holder in the TON ecosystem.

Total deposits amount to 432,400,446 TON, the reward pool grew by 154,105,318 TON, yielding an APY of 9.1%.

The fund's balance is 11.62% of the total Toncoin issue (5,047,558,528 TON).

Keep in mind that the goal of our fund is to attract large TON holders, early miners, and projects willing to support the community by freezing their funds for 5 years.

On October 23rd, a 2-year freeze will begin, followed by a 3-year vesting stage, in which depositors will be able to withdraw 1/36 of the invested funds.

→ Instructions on how to contribute
→ GitHub repository
→ TBF Club

Your TBF Club member @TonPost

🦙TBF is on DeFiLlama!

DeFiLlama has listed TON Believers Fund on its platform, thanks to which we can now see its TVL on charts.

DeFiLlama is a data aggregator that enables investors to monitor and analyze the market to identify high-yield liquidity pools, staking and borrowing options.

Listing increases transparency for new investors, letting them know exactly where and how much TON is locked in the ecosystem.

📈Now you can quickly access TBF statistics on DefiLlama, Tonscan and Tonviewer.

Your TBF Club Member @TonPost

💰TON rakes in 8-digit investment from MEXC

Today, MEXC Ventures announced a strategic partnership with the TON Foundation through a whopping 8-figure investment deal. The initiative aims to reduce entry barriers and foster the global adoption of Web3 .

As part of the deal, MEXC will provide marketing services and promote of TON-based projects on its platform. The company will also launch a TON collateral lending service and waive commission fees for trading TONcoin.

In addition, MEXC Ventures will continue to finance TON-based mini-apps and support TON-based projects as Megaton Finance, TONPlay, Fanzee and Sonet. MEXC and the TON Foundation are also discussing the possibility of financing a crypto wallet in Telegram, as per Justin Hyun.

"By working with MEXC, we will bring global access to the decentralized Web 3.0 ecosystem in Telegram", Hyun said, adding:

"The technology should be convenient and easy to use for anyone, no matter their knowledge of the world of blockchain. With TON on Telegram, crypto becomes as easy as texting."

The current trend is to focus on Ton Web Apps, a.k.a. mini apps, which will attract many developers to Telegram and the TON ecosystem. Most importantly, adopting cryptocurrency is now easier than ever: the legendary, minimalistic messenger with a huge amount of content, creators and projects now comes with monetization - a dream come true!

Your trending @TonPost

📖Tutorial for Telegram Web Apps

Following the recent breakthrough with MEXC, the website ton.org has added a page dedicated to Telegram mini-apps.

Here are some highlights:
- gain access to your user base on Telegram Apps Center
- become visible to your audience through advertising
- offer easy user login with @wallet, as well as integrated monetization
- TON blockchain at the heart of the Telegram ecosystem
- link to purchase Telegram Premium inside the Wallet
- launch the project via Tonstarter
- grants from TF and more

→ Go to TWA documentation
→ Go to the Mini Apps feature page

Simply yours, @TonPost

❤️TON Ecosystem Report: Q3 2023

The TON Foundation team has prepared a report on the TON ecosystem for the 3rd quarter of this year. Below we outlined some of the main achievements during this period:

- TON metrics: the number registered addresses exceeds 3.5 million
- Integration with Telegram: both sides announced plans to join forces
-TON Believers Fund: has accumulated over 700 million TON coins
- @Wallet & TON Space: will be integrated into Telegram, Wallet Pay, and a non-custodial wallet inside the messenger
- Telegram Mini Apps, Bots & tApps Center
- tApps Center: a repository of applications, games, and bots
- Partnership with Tencent Cloud
- TON Connect: a future without passwords
- Tonstakers: Liquidity staking
- Bridge upgrade
- Tools for devs, integration of Blueprint and IntelliJ IDEA, the introduction of compressed NFTs
- Contests for developers: Telegram Mini App Contest, TON Tact Challenge
- The Gateway: in-person TON conference, will be held on November 10-11 in Dubai

→ Read the full report here

Your ecosystematic @TonPost