Sharding in TON
The Daily TON Telegram channel has published a thedailyton/the-main-feature-of-ton-sharding-in-simple-terms-4dfc30838e24">new article about scaling in The Open Network. It explains TON's infinite sharding mechanism in simple terms and highlights this core network feature's main pros and cons.
If you understandably had difficulty grasping the idea of scaling before and couldn't follow why it is important or how it works, we highly recommend checking out thedailyton/the-main-feature-of-ton-sharding-in-simple-terms-4dfc30838e24">this article — it will help clear up some of the confusion.
In this piece, you'll discover exactly how TON processes such an extensive number of transactions and why our blockchain is ideally suited for mass adoption.
TON Community Weekly Digest
Here’s a roundup of the most exciting news from the past seven days in The Open Network (TON) ecosystem.
Network Growth:
The number of new accounts created on TON grew from 2,998,036 to 3,040,845 (+1.4%) between July 17 and 23, 2023.
Ecosystem News:
▪️TON Blockchain registered its 3 millionth address. Read more.
▪️Our Twitter page crossed the 200,000 followers mark. To celebrate, we launched a quest, where everyone will receive a special NFT and the chance to participate in a draw for free Telegram Premium accounts. Read more.
▪️The Tonkeeper team added the ability to confirm ownership of TON DNS domains directly within the wallet interface. Read more.
▪️We introduced the community to DAOLama, a TON-based NFT lending protocol that allows you to borrow Toncoin against your NFTs and rent other users’ NFTs. Read more.
▪️We also introduced TON Jobs to the community, a job aggregator in the TON ecosystem where users can find jobs in TON projects, and teams can post job openings. Read more.
▪️The beta version of the advanced analytics platform re:doubt launched. The platform supports multiple tools to analyze the TON ecosystem. Read more.
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Introducing TON Jobs – Launch Your Web3 Career in the TON Ecosystem
Whether you're a seasoned Web3 professional or an aspiring enthusiast looking to dive into this evolving industry, TON Jobs got you covered! TON Jobs is an aggregator curating a variety of remote and onsite jobs within The Open Network Ecosystem.
All jobs posted on TON Jobs are paid in crypto! Embrace the future of Web3 and kickstart your new career with TON Jobs. Unleash your potential, explore new possibilities, and join a vibrant community reshaping the world.
Projects building on TON can submit their open positions via the TON Jobs channel here.
🚨Attention TON DNS Owners!
We want to remind you that you must confirm ownership of your domain names annually.
It’s been almost a year since the first auctions were launched; therefore, owners must renew their TON DNS ownership as soon as possible.
This can now be done using Tonkeeper.
In the latest update, the wallet team added a feature allowing you to manage TON DNS domains in the app. To renew a domain name from your collection, open the wallet, select the desired domain, and click “Renew.”
You can also renew your TON DNS domains through a regular browser following these instructions.
Please remember that expired domains will be returned to the TON DNS public auction, and your ownership will be lost.
😍 Open Rating has reached its first milestone
Open Rating is a platform for independent evaluation of projects in TON Ecosystem through research and compiling a detailed report based on specified criteria.
💪 In the three months since launch, we have succeeded in:
➡️ Recruiting 15 talented report reviewers and raters.
➡️ Publishing the first 11 reports.
➡️ Updating the report structure to Report [v2], in which we combined basic and technical evaluation criteria. The new version of the report is now used for more than just DeFi projects and includes specific sections for each segment.
➡️ Reaching 22,671 views.
🗳 Open Rating includes on-chain ❤️ voting to show community opinion and love for the product. Each vote goes along with a 1-Toncoin transaction to make it harder to scramble votes.
🎁 To celebrate our first milestone, we want to distribute 500 Toncoin, to those who contributed to their Open Rating reviews and reports ❤️👇
@tonana_dev @metabomj @menschee @qpwedev @russgov @pewpewgogo @rpaHbco3HAHNR @CripticHood @SandS_CAPITAL @dannya0000 @cyber_ea @olnemo @vkitaev @hanna_kubeka @chak_zefir
👏 Thank you for the great work, folks 👏
💡 We’d like to remind you that anyone can join the Open Rating Club team by submitting an application.
🤓 Open Rating creates reports based on publicly available data about the project/protocol at the time of compilation.
💁♀ The project team or reviewers can always supplement the report with relevant information so that we can update the data after their verification.
Share in the comments which Open Rating project report you are waiting for the most👇
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3 Million Accounts on TON Network🥳
The three-millionth account was registered on TON Blockchain today!
The Open Network (TON) reached the figure of 2 million accounts in January this year, bringing the account growth over the last six months to approximately +50%.
Congratulations to the community for reaching new heights. Despite the crypto winter, TON continues demonstrating impressive growth, driving the most optimistic expectations for the next crypto spring.
The First Decentralized Token Farming Program in TON Ecosystem
The Liquidity Mining Rewards Campaign program on The Open Network (TON), where participants had the opportunity to become a liquidity provider for top DEX tokens on attractive terms, has ended.
However, STON.fi DEX has launched its own farming program for its STON token. It offers unique terms for supplying liquidity to the STON/TON and jUSDT/TON pools.
This is fully decentralized, smart contract farming and the first solution in the TON ecosystem. The STON.fi promotion will run until August 4.
The TON DeFi segment continues growing, convincing us that other platforms will introduce similar decentralized solutions.
Read more about liquidity pools in this article.
Please ensure you take into account the possible risks before investing.
Interview With Narek Abovyan, Head of TonTech at FSL
The ton-company">TON & Company YouTube channel has released a fresh interview with TonTech team member and TON ecosystem contributor Narek Abovyan.
Narek talked about his fascinating journey in the blockchain industry, his role in Getgems, and his contribution to the creation of TON NFT standards (in particular, the Soulbound standard).
He also talked about the Getgems launch, TonTech’s plans, a collaboration with TON Play, and more.
We recommend watching the interview — it’s available on YouTube.
TON Accelerator hosted its inaugural Demo Day
In early July, the first-ever TON Accelerator Demo Day took place, marking the start of a monthly series of events. The primary purpose of this program is to showcase promising projects being built on TON. These innovative ventures have been identified through various channels, including hackathons, meetups, and TON Accelerator submissions. By joining TON Accelerator, these projects will gain access to invaluable mentorship as well as the potential for fundraising opportunities.
During this first event, a total of eight early-stage projects across diverse verticals were featured. All of them shared a common goal: to achieve mass adoption and leverage the power of TON Blockchain. These projects were specifically recognized for their effective utilization of the unique design space provided by TON and Telegram. Each project delivered a short presentation accompanied by a Q&A session.
Please check out the video of the showcase here and learn more about the projects by reading this TON Blog post and by following the projects’ social media accounts.
TON has entered the top-5 blockchain ecosystems for developer influx
Electric Capital recently conducted an extensive study analyzing the activity of blockchain developers in various crypto projects over the past year. The findings of this study have now been published in a comprehensive report.
Despite the obvious challenges faced by the industry, which has seen a 22% decline in blockchain developers compared to June last year, TON Ecosystem has displayed remarkable resilient growth. Over the past 12 months alone, the total number of TON developers has surged by 102%, and we now have over 170 specialists working in the ecosystem.
As a result, TON took 4th position in the rankings of developer growth over the year, marking a truly outstanding achievement, particularly given the market conditions.
As you know, developers play a special role in The Open Network's philosophy, and we warmly welcome all specialists and builders to join the ecosystem and help us reach mass adoption.
Liquid staking is now available on TON
What is liquid staking?
Liquid staking is a crypto solution that allows users to stake their tokens and earn rewards without sacrificing flexibility. Unlike traditional staking, which requires users to completely lock up their crypto for a specific period, liquid staking provides users with special tokens that can be freely traded and used in DeFi apps while they continue to earn rewards. This solution offers both earning potential and liquidity, all while contributing to the security and stability of the network.
Liquid staking on TON
TON Foundation has recently developed a new liquid staking contract to improve the convenience and accessibility of the ecosystem's DeFi segment. These smart contracts for liquid staking are currently being trialed on the testnet and are expected to be launched on the mainnet soon. Once released, the community will be informed about the various possibilities and solutions for liquid staking in the ecosystem.
Mooli enhances Toncoin (TON) integration
A new update to the Mooli cryptocurrency portfolio tracker is now available, allowing users to manage not only Toncoin and TON Jettons stored in their wallets but all staked coins in general.
Every asset, including Toncoin or Jettons, staked in any mechanism, will now be displayed in the total balance of a user's portfolio.
Mooli has also extended support to the TON Connect standard, enabling users to connect to the service through any TON wallet of their choice.
Portfolio trackers are valuable tools that offer a single, unified interface for monitoring changes in asset prices within a user's crypto portfolio.
In addition to Mooli, which initiated its support for TON in early May, users on TON can also explore CoinStats, another popular cryptocurrency portfolio tracker.
TON Community Weekly Digest
Here’s a roundup of the most exciting news from the past seven days in The Open Network (TON) Ecosystem.
Network Growth:
▪️ The number of registered TON accounts has increased from 2,856,414 to 2,883,916 (+1%) between June 26 and July 2, 2023.
Ecosystem News:
▪️ Tonkeeper has launched an extension for Chrome and Firefox. Read more.
▪️ CoinStats, a popular cryptocurrency portfolio tracker, has introduced support for Toncoin (TON). Users can now connect their TON wallet to the service and monitor their portfolio. Read more.
▪️ We invite users to take part in the public testing of Storm Trade, a new DEX based on TON. Read more.
▪️ The official ton.org website has received a major update with new features, including a "Get or Sell Toncoin" section and an article recommendation mechanism for TON Blog. Read more.
▪️ RocketX, a hybrid CEX and DEX aggregator, now supports Toncoin (TON), enabling users to transfer crypto from +85 blockchains to TON. Read more.
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The Open Network (TON) supports encrypted messaging
The Open Network (TON) has introduced an exciting update that allows users to send transactions with end-to-end encrypted text messages, ensuring privacy and security. The decentralized TON Blockchain guarantees message delivery and offers a low network fee of approximately 0.006 Toncoin, making it suitable for everyday messaging.
The encrypted messaging feature is currently supported by standard web and desktop wallets for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and MyTonWallet, while upcoming updates for TON mobile wallets and Tonkeeper wallet will include this functionality for mobile users. This update is a significant contribution to enhancing the freedom, stability and prosperity of TON Ecosystem.
New ton.org updates
There have been a few notable improvements made to the official TON website:
▪️ A "Get or sell Toncoin" section has been added, which shows users all the various options for buying and selling Toncoin.
Convenient filters have been introduced, allowing users to choose their preferred trading method (such as a bank card, P2P trading, or cryptocurrency exchanges) and specify their desired trading pairs (e.g., TON-USDT, TON-USDC, TON-BTC, etc.).
▪️ TON Blog now features a recommendation mechanism: after reading an article, the site will provide you with recommendations for similar materials.
We invite you to explore ton.org and let us know what you think about the recent improvements!
💰 $5,600 worth of TON – that's how much we've raffled off so far. Complete the Summer Raffle tasks, earn tickets, and win prizes from Wallet. Make sure not to miss out on the remaining $14,400 in TON!
Читать полностью…Builders, re:doubt Beta is Now Live!
We are thrilled to share the exciting news of the Beta release of re:doubt, a cutting-edge analytical platform that is set to transform the way you analyze TON cryptoverse!
re:doubt Beta comes packed with powerful features designed to empower the community with essential tools and insights. Here's a sneak peek at some of the highlights:
▪️Jetton Market Feed
Stay informed and never miss a beat with real-time market updates. re:doubt's Jetton Market Feed delivers breaking data to keep you ahead of the curve in the dynamic world of Jettons.
▪️Advanced Live Charts in Partnership with TradingView
Elevate your technical analysis with live, interactive charts powered by the industry-leading TradingView. Gain a comprehensive understanding of market movements, identify patterns, and make data-driven decisions with confidence.
▪️Overview of Current Trading Pairs
Seamlessly navigate through the vast array of trading pairs with re:doubt's comprehensive overview. Effortlessly explore new opportunities, discover correlations, and make strategic moves in the ever-expanding crypto landscape.
▪️Historical Data
Access historical market data to conduct in-depth backtesting and gain valuable perspectives on market trends. re:doubt ensures you have a solid foundation to make well-informed decisions.
Visit re:doubt to try it out now!
🦙Introducing DAOLama — A Lending Protocol for NFTs
DAOLama is a decentralized service through which users can receive Toncoin collateralized by NFTs and rent NFTs from other users. The platform supports all popular collections on The Open Network (TON).
Why is this necessary, and how does it work?
Some NFTs can be valuable even when temporarily owned. For example, you can borrow an in-game NFT to access a special tournament, quest, or exclusive access to certain events.
The service works on smart contracts and guarantees the return of the pledged tokens at any time before the end of the loan period.
Notably, Tonkeeper has integrated DAOLama into its app, providing access to the lending protocol directly in their wallet.
🎉 Celebrating 200K Followers on Twitter!
We're thrilled to share this incredible moment with you all. Thanks to your unwavering support, we've hit a fantastic milestone - 200K followers on Twitter!
To celebrate this remarkable achievement, we invite you to join the TON OG Quest through the Community bot and embark on a unique adventure in The Open Network (TON). Dive in and explore the amazing features within the TON ecosystem.
Why join the TON Quest? 👀👇
💎 Special TON Collectible: Earn a rare and valuable token exclusively crafted for this celebration.
🏆 20 Free Telegram Premium Subscriptions: Participate in the draw for a chance to win one of these exclusive subscriptions!
All you need to do is complete 7 simple tasks - that easy! - and claim your TON NFT to become part of this exclusive TON OG Quest!
🎁👉 Join now!
Thank you for being part of our ever-growing community. Together, we'll continue to reach new heights! 🥂🚀
😍 Open Rating has reached its first milestone
Open Rating is a platform for independent evaluation of projects in TON Ecosystem through research and compiling a detailed report based on specified criteria.
💪 In the three months since launch, we have succeeded in:
➡️ Recruiting 15 talented report reviewers and raters.
➡️ Publishing the first 11 reports.
➡️ Updating the report structure to Report [v2], in which we combined basic and technical evaluation criteria. The new version of the report is now used for more than just DeFi projects and includes specific sections for each segment.
➡️ Reaching 22,671 views.
🗳 Open Rating includes on-chain ❤️ voting to show community opinion and love for the product. Each vote goes along with a 1-Toncoin transaction to make it harder to scramble votes.
🎁 To celebrate our first milestone, we want to distribute 500 Toncoin, to those who contributed to their Open Rating reviews and reports ❤️👇
@tonana_dev @metabomj @menschee @qpwedev @russgov @pewpewgogo @rpaHbco3HAHNR @CripticHood @SandS_CAPITAL @dannya0000 @cyber_ea @olnemo @vkitaev @hanna_kubeka @chak_zefir
👏 Thank you for the great work, folks 👏
💡 We’d like to remind you that anyone can join the Open Rating Club team by submitting an application.
Share in the comments which Open Rating project report you are waiting for the most👇
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TON Community Weekly Digest
Here’s a roundup of the most exciting news from the past seven days in The Open Network (TON) ecosystem.
Network Growth:
The number of new accounts created on TON grew from 2,947,406 to 2,993,572 (+1.6%) between July 10 and 16, 2023.
Ecosystem News:
▪️ Attention all TON DNS owners! Shortly, some of you will have to renew your domain ownership. We kindly ask you to read this post.
▪️ The @wallet team unveiled its revolutionary payments system, Wallet Pay, which allows users to pay for goods and services offered on Telegram in cryptocurrencies. Read more.
▪️ Electric Capital conducted research on blockchain dev activity for the past year, and its results showed that TON finished fourth in the growth of the number of devs. Read more.
▪️ The ton-company">TON & Company YouTube channel published an interview with TonTech team member and TON ecosystem contributor Narek Abovyan. Watch the interview.
▪️ The STON.fi DEX is offering unique conditions for liquidity providers for its STON/TON and jUSDT/STON pools. The offer runs until Aug. 4. Read more.
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💲Our Summer Raffle with $20,000 prize pool worth of TON has just started!
Complete daily tasks in Wallet and win a share of the $20,000 in TON until 31st of July. Every day we will randomly select 10 winning tickets, whose owners will receive a share of our daily prize pool directly on their Wallet account! Our daily prize pool increases every day and all payouts will be made in Toncoin.
👇 Here's how it works:
Open the raffle page in Wallet and start earning tickets by completing simple tasks. The more tickets you get, the better your odds of winning. The total number of tickets you can earn increases by 100 each day.
👉 Here's how many tickets you can get for each action*:
🎟 5 tickets if you buy crypto via bank card;
🎟 4 tickets for P2P Market purchases;
🎟 3 tickets if you deposit crypto on Wallet from an external wallet or exchange;
🎟 2 tickets for sending crypto to a unique contact on Telegram;
🎟 1 ticket if you swap crypto
*exact amount of crypto is indicated on the promo page in Wallet
Raffle terms
Raffle FAQ
🔥 But there’s more: on the last day of our Summer Raffle, we'll randomly choose 5 tickets worth $1,000 in TON each! All the winners will be announced on our channel daily from 12:00 PM UTC till 01:00 PM UTC, so stay tuned. Good luck to everyone! 🍀
[🏆 Join the raffle now ! 🏆]
Introducing Wallet Pay: A Revolutionary Technology for Shopping With Cryptocurrency.
The @wallet team is launching Wallet Pay, a groundbreaking payment system that allows users to purchase goods and services on Telegram using cryptocurrencies.
This unique tool seamlessly integrates with any Telegram bot or service, enabling users to easily make payments in Toncoin, USDT, or Bitcoin directly via the Telegram messenger interface.
Wallet Pay is both simple and easy to use. It eliminates the need for novice crypto users to navigate complex and unintuitive crypto payment services, streamlining the entire process to just a few clicks within the merchant bot or Telegram Web App.
Moreover, @wallet users can conveniently and instantly top up their cryptocurrency accounts with a debit or credit card during the payment process, greatly simplifying the use of digital assets.
Wallet Pay is an extraordinary tool for Telegram, empowering its over 700 million users to embrace blockchain technology and integrate crypto into their daily lives, ultimately bringing us closer to the mass adoption of digital currency.
You can try Wallet Pay via the test bot or apply as merchant using the website.
Attention TON DNS domain owners
The first TON DNS auctions started on July 30, 2022, and we kindly ask users to note that the deadline for renewing domain name ownership is fast approaching.
We want to remind you that, unlike traditional centralized domain registrars, TON DNS does not require a conventional renewal fee. Instead, it is enough to demonstrate ‘signs of life’ by sending a minimal amount of Toncoin (TON).
Please carefully read the following instructions: Non-renewed domains will be returned to the TON DNS open auction.
Instructions:
(1) Go to the dns.ton.org website using a regular browser or the decentralized Tonkeeper browser within the wallet interface.
(2) Connect the TON wallet that was used during the auction.
(3) Click on the "My Domains" button to view a list of your domains along with their expiration dates.
(4) If there is less than three months remaining before a domain's ownership expires, we highly recommend renewing it immediately. To do this, click on the respective domain, then select "renew this domain," and confirm the transaction within your wallet.
Please note:
This message only applies to TON DNS owners — short Telegram (t.me) usernames do not need to be renewed.
Since the start of the auction, a total of 27,000 domain names have been registered, involving 6,000,000 Toncoin (which were subsequently burned and removed from circulation).
TON Community Weekly Digest
Here’s a roundup of the most exciting news from the past seven days in The Open Network (TON) Ecosystem.
Network Growth:
▪️ The number of registered TON accounts has increased from 2,887,001 to 2,943,686 (+1.9%) between July 3 and July 9, 2023.
Ecosystem News:
▪️ TON Foundation has released its report for Q2 2023. The report highlights some of TON’s most notable developments and achievements over the past three months. Read more.
▪️ TON Wallet has incorporated new encrypted messenger functions. Users can now encrypt a text message when sending digital tokens, ensuring that no one besides the sender and recipient can view the message for the transaction. Read more.
▪️ The CAT project team has launched a new tool for tracking blockchain statistics at tonscan.org/stats. Read more.
▪️ First Stage Labs has introduced TonStat, an analytical service that allows users to easily monitor TON’s key metrics. Read more.
▪️ Mooli, a crypto portfolio tracker, now displays all staked digital tokens from your TON wallet. This update ensures that the staked coins are now represented in the overall balance of your portfolio. Read more.
▪️ It has been one year since the launch of the TON DNS domain name auction. We would like to remind you that it is necessary to annually confirm ownership, otherwise the domain will be returned to public auction. Read more.
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Introducing TonStat – a new tool for analyzing TON Blockchain.
The First Stage Labs team has launched TonStat, an analytical service that allows users to easily monitor key metrics on The Open Network (TON).
TonStat tracks various indicators, including the number of registered network addresses and wallets, the volume of Toncoin burned or staked, the number of NFTs issued, the amount of validators and several other important metrics.
The project will be continuously developed and updated with new charts. First Stage Labs aims to provide a comprehensive description of all the processes taking place on the blockchain, enabling users to independently assess the development dynamics of each ecosystem segment.
The TonStat website is able to display timely and accurate data thanks to the efforts of the TonAPI team.
📊 New beautiful page with general TON Blockchain stats is already available at tonscan.org/stats
Now you can track transaction activity, market price and trading volumes, total number of accounts, and much more. Over time, we plan to add new charts and useful data.
Launching the challenge in partnership with Tonstarter: get Glint Coin, extra farming boost for participating, and win one of the 42 Small TON Diamonds NFTs!
Tonstarter is the first launchpad on TON that supports blockchain projects through fundraising and IDOs of tokens at early stage. TON Diamonds first announced the partnership with Tonstarter in September, 2022, and in May this year the launchpad advised Glint Coin utility token launch.
In the midst of the first Glint Coin farming season we’re launching a collaboration and giving away prizes: Glint Coin, farming speed boost and small TON Diamonds NFT! To take part, go to the promo-page, connect your wallet and complete the tasks.
When you buy a TON Diamonds NFT from the official sale, you will get +100 Glint and 5% farming speed boost for each new Diamond for 2 weeks, and a 10% permanent boost right after joining.
Also, you can try your luck in the clicker activity — try to get the whole seed-phrase from a wallet with a small TON Diamonds NFT. The only thing you need to do is to click, click, click on the diamond on Tonstarter website. You can win up to three NFTs out of the 42 Diamonds available.
Hurry up to the collaboration page, connect your wallet and take part!
The Open Network (TON) Publishes Q2, 2023 Results
Over the past three months, several significant events have unfolded in TON Ecosystem, including:
▪️ The introduction of a mechanism for burning 50% of all network fees.
▪️ Toncoin placing 14th in the CoinMarketCap rankings.
▪️ Network TVL increasing by +2,200%.
▪️ Addition of new feature enabling liquid Toncoin staking.
▪️ TrustWallet, a prominent wallet in the crypto industry, extending support to Toncoin.
▪️ Numerous contests with huge prize funds.
TON Foundation has published another quarterly report and we invite you to peruse it to learn more about our notable highlights from Q2, 2023.
Storm Trade, a new DEX on TON Blockchain, commences public testing
The Storm Trade platform intends to establish itself as the first decentralized protocol for trading derivatives on TON and has recently launched an open test of the exchange on their testnet.
During this test phase, participants have the opportunity to trade a diverse range of resources with price values, even though they do not involve real assets. These include everything from cryptocurrencies to commodities like oil and gold, and even shares in famous companies like Tesla.
The team behind Storm Trade has set a timeline of two months to complete the test phase, after which they plan to launch the platform on their mainnet.
Notably, each user who participates in the test phase will be eligible for a reward.
All the relevant details and instructions can be found here.