❌✈️ Unfortunate case of “Too good to be true”

It has come to light that scammers from Russia have found two new ways to steal Telegram accounts. This time, it’s more technical.

1️⃣ The user receives a "system notification" stating that someone has logged into their account. To prevent unauthorized access, they are offered to disable the unauthorized user on the Telegram website. The link points to an exact replica of the official Telegram website, but it's fake. As soon as the user clicks on the link, he completely loses access to the account.

2️⃣ The user receives a message they received access to Telegram Premium. When trying to log in and activate the "gift", their Telegram account gets stolen.

Don’t take the easy route.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🌐 TON Hackathons with Dora Hacks

On Twitter and its Telegram channel, the TON Society published some mysterious images called Dora Hacks. That’s because together with Dora Hacks, a decentralized community of developers, they are preparing several hackathons in different cities and
countries.

Dora Hacks is a global organizer of professional coding conferences and one of the most active developer associations. It funds Web3 startups to create open source and DAO applications. To date, Dora has 100,000 monthly active users from 152 countries around the world.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🗓 SafePal now supports the main TON network

SafePal’s cold wallet is 100% autonomous, as it doesn’t need connection to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or NFC. Now, the owner of the device has full control over their assets.

It's cheaper than its Ledger and Trezor counterparts, but just as secure. It has a USB interface, used only for firmware updates. In contrast, the Ledger Nano S requires a USB connection to confirm and sign transactions.

You can link and switch between an unlimited number of wallets on one device. The wallets can also connect freely DApps, which support exchanges such as Uniswap, Binance DEX, 1inch, Pancakeswap, Compound and others.

Another important feature is that SafePal can transfer Toncoins and stablecoins between TON and other more profitable blockchains. This allows for quick conversions, good rates, and bypassing exchanges. The wallet acts effectively as a bridge.

By the way, SafePal is available as hardware, software, and even a browser wallet.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

⚙ OpenMask now supports Minter

OpenMask, a tool for developers and wallet added the Minter service to environment, which serves to create and manage jettons on the TON network. People can use it to easily mine, list and transfer their own jettons.

The tool is certainly useful for supporting startups. But there is a problem: not all issued tokens and jettons have value. Usually they're are not worth much, and are beneficial only to their owners.

In 2022, according to research, almost 117,629 scam tokens were issued, about 350 per day. They are mostly issued on BBNB networks (12% of all BEP-20 tokens) and ETH (8% of all ERC—20) are fraudulent. Since fall 2020 over 2 million investors have lost their money forever from such scams.

Deep Ton would like to know your opinion. This problem is quite serious. Is there a solution to it? During the period under review, $4 billion worth of scam tokens were placed on CEX, including jettons.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🔗 Orbit Chain launches the Orbs Jetton

Ozys, known as the Orbit Bridge developer and a partner of TON, has just added the ORBS token to its cross-chain bridge assets. ORBS is now available on The Open Network through all its decentralized applications (dApps).

The ORBS token will also be listed on Megaton Finance after this DEX AMM will be launched on the TON network in January 2023.

This is a significant advancement in ORBS/TON compatibility and interoperability, given that in 2022 Orbit Bridge processed transactions of more than $12 billion and accumulated over $200 million in total value locked (TVL).

🔗How will this impact the development of TON? What do you think?

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🪙📶 Ku Coin Christmas Carnival: imagine the future of cryptocurrencies with TON!

Our host is Tim Tsai, talking to guest speakers Alec Korba and a Whale Coin Talk representative.

There will be a draw of $500 Ton for 10 winners for $50 coins each.

Read up on the conditions here.

Watch here at 14:00 (UTC) .

🎙 Offers from OKX and Huobi that should not be ignored

🔻 OKX promotion "Mystery Box"
Remuneration of 200 APY (annual percentage yield) over 5 days.

🔹What to do:
To get this reward, buy Ton on OKX during the promotion period. There is a maximum of 250 coins per participation, with a locking period of 5 days.
Other offers are also available:
30% APY - 60 days
15% APY - 30 days
10% APY - 15 days

🔻Huobi: staking at 20% per annum

🔹What to do:
Buy Ton on the exchange (“buy” transactions only). Transfer to staking at 20% per annum and for a period of 30 days. The offer will close on February 20, 2022.
— Register
— Get to the second level of verification.
— Deposit coins into staking according to the instructions.
More info here.

May the Force be with you🔸

Your Padawan @DeepTonEng

🦋 CryptoBot has made the important decision "to consolidate all coins pertaining to its payment service" in cold storage. This is to ensure the safety of its user funds during the upcoming TON provider update.

Here is the aforementioned cold wallet.

👛 RSquad has developed a light version of TON client for Ethereum Virtual Machines

In August, Deep Ton talked about RSquad, a cross-chain solutions developer for TON. Back then, the team was working on two projects at once: deploying a working bridge for trading altcoins on the ETH and BNB networks and creating a TON Trustless Bridge for exchanges on EVM blockchains.

In a recent article, RSquad reported on the completion of the first and most crucial stage of the TON Trustless Bridge development with its first light client - Geth. The client runs on an EVM and connects to the main ETH network. This solution allows developers to validate blocks and transactions directly on the Ethereum network.

This enables TON to become a Trustless Bridge to EVM-compatible networks without intermediaries such as oracles or off-chain relays, adding significant transparency and security to the blockchain. In fact, intermediaries are the most vulnerable targets of hacker attacks. The service also promises to be faster and cheaper than similar solutions on the market.

The team still has a lot of work ahead. First of all, preparing EVM smart contracts to be equally compatible with various blockchains. This will enable applications (dApps) to take data from the TON network, verify it independently, then parse and perform actions on EVM-compatible blockchains.

Currently, a dApp is being developed to get "users acquainted with the functionality and make their first trustless exchange on test networks," said Roman Nguyen, CTO of RSquad.

Anatoly Makosov, one of the main developers of TON, mentioned plans "to post the source code on Solidity in December". The launch of a full-fledged Trustless bridge will take place in 2023, but the interim results, code and tools will be published during development."

Some code has already been posted on GitHub, and you can read more news about the team and the project here and on their channel.

Yours truly @DeepTonEng congratulates the RSquad and wishes them success in future projects.

👛 RSquad has completed the testing and verification of smart contracts for its token bridge. This enables transferring any ERC-20 or BEP-20 tokens from the Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain networks to the TON blockchain and back.

Those tokens will be listed on TON as regular jettons, enabling services like DEX to interact with them normally.

Everything went smoothly. Now get ready for a competition to find vulnerabilities in those smart contracts with a prize fund of $50,000.

Go team, go! 😀

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🌐 Reminder about DNS service, a key component of TON

According to the blockchain roadmap, the next of its 4 key components is TON Storage, and it's coming soon. But more on that next time.

Let's take a look back at TON DNS, which has temporarily fallen off the radar. DNS distributes domain names, websites, accounts, and smart contracts in Web3. It's the only way to access websites on the new decentralized Internet.

✅ A bit of history

At the end of June 2022, TON DNS was officially launched. A month later, its first auction opened with tremendous success. Then, the Telegram team joined in with its auction platform called "Fragment" for the usernames of its messaging system. Later, the network's validators voted to include the domain *t.me in the root smart contract of the blockchain.

✅Top things to know about TON DNS

🔽The blockchain DNS service sells *ton domains , and the Fragment auction platform sells *t.me domains. Both registers are linked to The Open Network.

🔽Names are considered NFTs, and NFTs can be sold or donated on marketplaces such as Getgems.io or Disintar.io. In other words, usernames do not lose value after acquisition; on the contrary, their price may gain value. Also, NFTs are certificates of ownership of the purchased domain.
🔽DNS is now selling first-level domains; as the TON and Web3 networks are deployed, their owners will be able to sell or lease subdomain names.

🔽You can transfer coins between wallets and payment services using just the nickname, without having to enter a long string of letters and numbers.

🔽TON DNS is also used for partial token issue burning.

At the moment, there is no real use of domain names on Web3 yet. But as the technology gets deployed, things will start to change.

What do you think should be done to accelerate mass adoption?

Your ever-improving @DeepTonEng

👛 Tonkeeper has been upgraded to version 2.8.0

Now, besides being a wallet, it’s becoming a browser of decentralized applications (dApps). Not everything is still connected, though. For example, sites on *.ton have yet to be supported. But you can already use Getgems with no problems.

The developers also added AED to its list of currencies and promised protection against scams and spam.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

🌐Awesome! TON Storage is about to be released this week!

This is the fourth main component of the TON blockchain, conceived by the Durov brothers, authors of the project. TON Storage is an essential provider of cheap and secure information storage in a decentralized network.

As reported by Russian TON, now every user can become a storage provider using their devices and even receive payment in Ton. Thus, Ton begins to work as a utility token, making decentralization a reality. This is exactly how the Ton blockchain was intended to develop.

There will be two types of files:
➡️ public — visible to everyone
➡️ encrypted — accessible only by the owner

"In the future, TON Storage may continue its integration, and Telegram will allow any user and third-party service to store data in a reliable distributed storage."

Yay, Community!🔥

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng

😎 The first installment of the Fragment saga has finished

...In which Fragment completed its sale of available numbers. Now you (most probably) won't be able to buy a random number. But on the other hand, numbers can still be purchased on the secondary NFT market, with a 30-50% markup — from 16 to 20 Ton. And some could be cheaper, as low as 5 Ton.

A total of 136,558 anonymous numbers have been sold.

After number auctions will have finished, we will be waiting for the second installment.

Yours truly, @DeepTonEng