Tickets now available for TON's annual live conference
The Gateway, TON's second annual live conference, will be hosted in Dubai on November 1-2, 2024, at the Grand Hyatt Convention and Exhibition Center. For more details and updates, keep an eye on the official website.
Limited early-bird tickets are now on sale at a discounted price — grab yours now! For a smoother experience, we suggest getting your ticket via mobile.
Also, we welcome side-events, community activities, sponsorships, and partners before and during the conference. Get in touch with us at gateway@ton.org.
TON Culture Kings: ARBUZ
In the latest feature of TON Culture Kings, where we dive into the wild world of memecoins and community projects on TON, we interviewed ARBUZ.
Discover how ARBUZ is making waves by offering users a fresh and fun way to earn juicy rewards. Read more here.
TapSwap coming to TON
TapSwap, the Tap-2-Earn Telegram Mini App with over 26M social media followers, will launch on TON.
Launched on February 15, 2024, it has seen massive growth. Users earn in-game tokens by tapping and completing missions and tasks. Today, the app boasts over 50M users worldwide and nearly 1M active online.
Stay tuned for our upcoming Space with them on X tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.
State of TON DeFi Q1 2024
Total Value Locked (TVL) has seen significant growth — an impressive 7x increase! This growth is primarily driven by The Open League, which has been boosting user engagement with massive rewards for both users and projects. Additionally, the memecoin hype has sparked increased activity on TON DEXs.
Liquid staking propels TON into the top 20 chains by TVL, remaining the dominant sector. For a detailed analysis, dive into the full report.
Yescoin's explosive growth
Yescoin, a TON-based viral swipe game on Telegram, has reached 18M+ users from nearly every country on earth, with 6M+ connecting their wallets in just over a month.
Leveraging Telegram's viral social mechanisms and unique swipe gameplay, Yescoin aims to bring the next billion users to Web3. For more insights, check out our recent interview with them.
3 days left to apply for The Open League Hackathon
Last minute lovers, this one goes out to you:
💎 $2,000,000 prize pool, access to The Open League fast track, funding by TON Ventures, and more.
Submission deadline: June 15, 2024.
🧠Cheat code: existing projects are welcomed, no ban on the premade code.
All the hackers get the priority access to the exclusive builders growth program.
Submit your project now and grow the next 1B user Telegram Mini App 🦄
The Open League Season 4 kicks off tomorrow
Starting tomorrow at 11:00 AM UTC, we're launching boosted pools on STON.fi and DeDust with over $1.8M in rewards for the next two weeks. More than $730K of these rewards come from projects. A huge shoutout to these teams for their incredible support to TON Community.
This season features four leaderboards, including two new battles: DeFi and NFT, along with the Token and App categories.
Introducing this season’s boosted liquidity pools: WEB3, FNZ, BOLT, KINGY, STON, JVT, HYDRA, WALL, COFE, JETTON, DFC, DUREV, and LLAMA.
Keep onchain activity high and provide liquidity via the @Open_League_Bot to earn rewards!
Maincard launches on TON
Maincard, a Web3 sports fantasy management card game, is now live on TON.
To reward active players, Maincard has announced a program with a prize pool of up to 50,000 Toncoin – don’t miss today’s AMA session to learn more.
Maincard will also soon list its token, $MCN, to enhance the gaming experience.
Join now to claim two free game cards and start playing!
Latest updates from MyTonWallet
MyTonWallet is constantly evolving, offering an improved user experience and innovative features, including gasless payments, NFT functionality and enhancements, zero TON balance transactions, in-app browser, and many more.
Additionally, MyTonWallet introduced a utility token, freely distributed to more than 250K users, boosting daily users to over 300K and earning the #1 spot in CertiK's crypto-wallet ratings.
Explore all the latest features!
Get ready for The Open League Season 4
Applications are now open for @league’s Season 4, featuring battles in Token, App, NFT, and DeFi categories. Key updates:
▪️ The Major and Minor Leagues will be merged. As usual, winners of the previous season will get an LP boost.
▪️ Applications for the fresh DeFi and NFT battles are open, but their start dates are to be determined. Contestants in the DeFi battle will be competing to achieve the highest TVL at risk.
▪️ To be eligible to compete in the App battle, teams with Telegram Mini Apps need to integrate a new SDK.
▪️ The top 10 projects on the leaderboard by the end of Season 4 will get an LP boost in Season 5.
Applications close on June 11, 2024, at 11:00 AM UTC. Projects that miss the deadline can join Season 5.
Apply here!
Explaining FIT21 and what it means for the future of decentralization
TON Foundation believes that the newly passed Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) is a positive step for Web3 and the blockchain industry.
FIT21 establishes clear standards for what makes a blockchain decentralized, outlining a five-prong test that assesses governance, token distribution, code stability, promotion, and token creation.
To dive deeper, check out this blog post.
Cashback in Toncoin (TON)
You can now earn cashback in TON with Tribute. Make purchases in any currency via Wallet, and receive cashback in TON.
How?
▪️ Buy a digital product or make a donation via Wallet in Tribute.
▪️ Tribute credits 3% of the purchase amount and converts it to TON.
▪️ Cashback is sent to your Wallet within 2 weeks.
▪️ Minimum payout is 0.000001 TON.
For more details, check out this post.
Catizen reaches 1,5M+ daily active users
Catizen is a popular TON-based Telegram Mini App that has recently experienced massive growth:
▪️ Onchain users: 695K
▪️ Total in-game Catizens: 10M
▪️ Onchain transactions: 4,2M
Catizen uses advanced AI to create lifelike virtual cats that learn and develop unique traits based on their interactions with users, blending entertainment within a Play-2-Earn token mining experience. Check out this blog post to learn more.
UQUID enables Filipinos to pay government dues with USDt-TON
UQUID has launched a new payment service for Social Security System (SSS) members in the Philippines, allowing them to manage contributions and loans using USDt on TON.
This efficient, cost-effective solution benefits 42M SSS members, showcasing the potential for real-world, really valuable use cases for USDt-TON. Details.
UQUID also offers a seamless shopping experience for Telegram and TON users, enabling them to connect their accounts and shop with one click using their Telegram ID.
Flipster now accepts USDt deposits on TON
To celebrate this integration, Flipster is offering you the chance to:
▪️ Earn up to 26% APR on your entire USDt wallet balances, in addition to the benefits of the Flipster Earn and VIP Program.
▪️ Get a share of the 50K USDt pool rewards by starting to mint SBTs when you deposit USDt on Flipster using your TON wallet.
Terms & Conditions apply.
Get started!
Open League Summer
One month ago, TON Society launched 13 IRL bootcamps in 13 cities, where the community came together to PITCH, BUILD, GROW, and WIN. The response was incredible, with 2K participants and over 1K applications received for The Open League Hackathon, with $2M in rewards.
TON is becoming the hottest ecosystem for project launches. Are you ready for an explosion of new projects?
Summer is coming!
Introducing Bounty Bay
Bounty Bay is a Web3 social shopping platform on TON, aiming to transform the Web3 shopping experience for Telegram’s 900M users. During its beta launch, Bounty Bay has reached over 2.6M app views and 700K users.
Core features include in-app social referral mechanics rewarding active users, as well as the ability to form groups to unlock special deals.
Earn from great deals and exclusive offerings!
TON Ecosystem Roundup
As TON continues to evolve and expand, this week brings several updates from three ecosystem projects: JarvisBot, AIPets, and GasPump.
Let's take a closer look at their latest updates.
Explore The Open League and earn Notcoin
The Open League is a competition between projects that rewards you for playing and rewards projects for getting you to play. $40M+ in Toncoin already distributed, and much more to come.
Join the latest Notcoin Earn quest to discover everything about The Open League and earn your share of $40K in Notcoin.
Go to @notcoin_bot to start!
BREAKING: $500M Total Value Locked (TVL)
The GDP of a small country is in use across TON's apps. This incredible achievement is yours, TON Community!
From $22.9M TVL in March 2024 to more than half a billion today – over 2,000% increase. It’s still only the beginning. Slowly, then suddenly.
Pay for your travel with USDt on TON
Travala, a leading crypto-native travel booking service with over 2.2M properties and more than 400K activities worldwide, has integrated with TON.
You can now book millions of hotels, flights, and fun activities all around the world and pay with Toncoin and USDt on TON!
Learn more here.
TON Community has hit a major milestone — over 3 million subscribers on Telegram and more than 1 million followers on X!
A huge thank you to each and every one of you for believing in TON and our vision to empower 500 million users to own their digital identity, data, and assets by 2028.
Access to USDt on TON will be easier than texting; over 100 integrations are coming
More than 100 integrations with various local partners are planned for USDt-TON. Coming soon, we will find this asset is accessible to everyone, everywhere.
TON Foundation and Tether's Business Development teams are dedicated to this massive initiative. They've already integrated with local payment providers in Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, with dozens more planned across the globe!
Learn more here.
DeDust introduces new staking program with over $9M staked
In May, DeDust launched a new staking program where rewards come from swap fees, which are converted into SCALE and distributed as staking rewards.
This model grants SCALE a new utility. Since May 2, 2024, more than $9 million worth of SCALE has been staked on DeDust, generating high APRs, and over $288,000 worth of SCALE has been distributed among stakers. Details.
Storm Trade expands crypto futures trading with multi-coin collateral
Storm Trade has introduced multi-coin collateral for their TON-margined futures product. You can now trade futures contracts using TON or USDt as collateral in TON, BTC, ETH, DOGE, and even NOT trading pairs.
Leveraging your existing crypto holdings, you can unlock new trading opportunities. Storm Trade boasts over 10 trading pairs with TON collateral, all accessible directly via the @stormtradebot. Details.
To learn more about Storm Trade, check out this blog post.
Disclaimer: Futures trading carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Consider your financial situation and risk tolerance before trading. The information provided is for educational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice.
Open League Summer
Open League Summer bootcamps have been successfully held in Prague, Hong Kong, Berlin, Taipei, and Belgrade, filled with insightful sessions, prizes, and more.
Upcoming bootcamps will be held in Seoul, Warsaw, Tbilisi, Kyiv, and Gurugram over the next few days. Register now to secure your spot!
Can't join in person? Tune in to the livestreams on the TON Society channel.
PITCH. BUILD. GROW. WIN.
Hamster Kombat coming to TON
Hamster Kombat, a Tap-2-Earn management simulation game, is planning to launch its hamster ecosystem, including onchain assets, on TON.
Leveraging Telegram's viral social mechanisms combined with special reward cards and other features, the game has reached over 60M users with 24M daily active users. Also, Hamster Kombat’s HamsterKombat_Official/featured">YouTube channel became the fastest to reach 10M subscribers — in just 7 days. Plus, they have the largest Telegram channel with more than 21M subscribers.
To celebrate joining the TON Ecosystem, Hamster Kombat introduced a special "launch on TON" card, offering users additional rewards.
Stay tuned for our upcoming Space session with them on X this Monday at 16:00 CET.