Historic Moment as BIT accepts Toncoin for trading fees
TON Foundation, in a strategic partnership with BIT Exchange, is making history today. For the first time ever, a cryptocurrency exchange is enabling users to pay trading fees with a token that isn't a stablecoin or a platform token. Instead, Toncoin, the native token of TON Blockchain will be the collateral of choice.
The utility of Toncoin doesn’t end there. BIT Exchange, known for its specialization in crypto derivatives trading, is expanding its crypto derivatives offerings to include futures trading for Toncoin, too. This development will further enrich BIT’s range of services, which includes portfolio and unified margin management, as well as options, perpetual futures, and spot trading.
That's just the beginning! BIT users will also enjoy a limited-time 10% discount on trading fees when using the newly live 'Deduct with TON' feature.
This significant milestone in the crypto industry is a testament to the robust strategic partnership between TON Foundation and BIT, a partnership that traces its roots back to January 2022 when BIT first listed TON.
As we journey to onboard the next 100 million users onto Web3, we are thrilled to introduce a feature that propels us closer to this goal and broadens the horizons of crypto trading.
For more details, read more here.
With every step we take, we're shaping the future of trading - and it starts with TON. Onwards and upwards! 🚀
Wallet 3.0 Updates
The Wallet team has released Wallet 3.0 with an improved interface and new user-friendly features.
▪️ Asset categorization
All your assets in Wallet are now divided into 2 categories: "Dollars" and "Crypto." The first displays your stablecoins, while the second section houses the rest of your assets.
▪️ Balance top-up button
Topping up your Wallet balance has become even easier: click on the "+" icon on the main screen and select one of the available methods. You can deposit crypto from an external wallet, purchase on the P2P Market or use a bank card.
▪️ Cryptocurrency sales
The team introduced a "Sell" button on the main screen, which directs you to the P2P Market, allowing you to easily and privately sell assets to other users.
You will find a more detailed description of the new version of Wallet here.
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 3,047,223 to 3,105,027 (+1.9%) between July 24 and 30, 2023.
Ecosystem News:
▪️A final reminder to all TON DNS owners to renew your domains! Read more.
▪️The Daily TON has published an article about The Open Network's Infinite Sharding Paradigm. thedailyton/the-main-feature-of-ton-sharding-in-simple-terms-4dfc30838e24">Read the article.
▪️First Stage Labs published a comprehensive report "The State of TON DeFi Q2,” discussing the latest developments in the TON's DeFi segment. Read more.
▪️CoinMarketCap, the world's largest cryptocurrency aggregator, hosted an AMA with representatives from the TON Ecosystem. Listen to the AMA.
▪️TON Foundation invites TON developers to help the ecosystem by sharing their experience with blockchain development by completing a short survey. Read more.
▪️DeDust DEX has introduced a new routing mechanism, allowing exchange users to trade assets that do not have a direct trading pair. Read more.
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A final reminder for TON DNS owners
It has already been a year since the launch of the first TON DNS auctions. In the very near future, many of you will need to renew your domains.
The most convenient way to do this is through Tonkeeper's wallet interface. Detailed instructions can be found here.
You can also verify TON DNS ownership through a regular browser by following these instructions.
It's also important to note that, if your domain expires, it will be returned to the TON DNS open auction.
Join the TON AMA session hosted by CoinMarketCap
CoinMarketCap is hosting a conversation about Telegram bots and TON Ecosystem at 15:00 UTC!
Kirill Malev, a Junior Partner from First Stage Labs, Sasha from Open Builders, and Aksi from Getgems will be leading the conversation.
You can join the session here.
Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to gain valuable insights into the newest trends in crypto and the latest developments on TON! See you there!
An overview of TON DeFi for Q2 2023
First Stage Labs has released a new comprehensive report titled "The State of TON DeFi Q2" that provides an in-depth analysis of the developments in our ecosystem's DeFi segment during Q2 2023.
Here are some of the most notable achievements that were highlighted in the article:
▪️ The number of registered TON addresses increased by +23.6% over the last quarter.
▪️ TON's market capitalization grew by +108.5% and the network's TVL also surged by 30.4%.
▪️ New liquid staking and crypto lending options were introduced to the ecosystem.
Besides this, you can learn about several other new DeFi services that were launched during Q2 by reading the full report here.
💰 $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.
Subscribe and be the first to receive updates from TON ecosystem.
💲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).
🐶 Punk City GameFi contest #1
We are starting the contest season to create the best web3 games for $PUNK and TON ecosystems.
🔥 Contest will be held in two stages, each will last 3 weeks:
1. Entry selection. At first, we will select projects that meet the criteria listed below.
2. Showcase and voting. Selected projects will have an opportunity to show their developments in the holders' chat, collect feedback and finalize their product. Besides, these projects will receive product and technical advice from the Punk City team. At the end of this stage, our NFT holders will choose the winner by on-chain voting. The 2nd and 3rd places will be automatically passed to the next contest.
🧬 Project requirements:
– Team, MVP, and a solid gameplay concept.
– The project must be ready to integrate the $PUNK token. It must be the only token used in the project.
– The project team must burn 149 $PUNK, and its representative must be a member of our holders' chat to make the project eligible for the finals.
🚀 The winner will receive:
– A $5000 grant for Telegram Ads
– Assistance with integration to Punk City, as well as media support from TON Punks and friendly influencers.
– Assistance in raising investments for project development.
Fill out the participant form to join the game dev community and this contest. Good luck!
Presenting Megaton Finance's first-ever roadmap
Megaton Finance unveiled its first-ever roadmap, which includes exciting confirmed facilities and development plans including:
1️⃣ T@connect Portal
2️⃣ MEGA Game Zone
3️⃣ Leaderboard Stadium
4️⃣ MEGA Financial District
Explore the roadmap to discover the mysteries of the 'Undiscovered Zones' and get a comprehensive recap of Megaton Finance’s exceptional progress in the first half of 2023.
Crypto adventurers, an echoing call across the cosmos of The Open Network Ecosystem invites you to delve into the intricate depths of Megaton World.
Join the expedition now! 🚀
🤔 DeDust rolls out routing feature
DeDust.io introduces a new routing mechanism—this means you can seamlessly trade tokens that don't have a direct pair, all with a single click.
Here's how it works: Suppose you've got a hefty amount of jUSDC hiding in your wallet and you're looking to get your hands on some $SCALE. DeDust will find the most efficient route for your exchange, like jUSDC -> jUSDT -> SCALE or jUSDC -> TON -> SCALE. This nifty feature makes trading on DeDust.io not only simpler but also more beneficial.
And it's not just traders who win. It also brings good news to liquidity providers—the new routes will now tap into previously underused pairs (e.g., BOLT/SCALE), creating extra earning opportunities for the liquidity providers involved in these pairs.
So what are you waiting for? Get over to DeDust.io and give routing a spin!
Sincerely,
Scaleton Team
😎 Calling all brave TON developers!
RPG MODE: ON
Attention, adventurers of the TON realm! Your expertise is needed to enhance the power of TON! This is especially important if you're a new developer. By sharing your development experiences, you can help us make TON even more accessible and mighty! 💪
Starting a project in one evening is a real goal. The TON Onboarding team is on a quest to create a legendary onboarding experience for everyone, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned hero of coding. Together, we can achieve it!
If you have something to share, it's the perfect time! We humbly request all community members to share their development adventures with TON through this survey.
Prepare yourself for an exciting journey through 4 topics, a mere 5-8 minutes of your time!
Ready to embark on this heroic quest? Share your legendary experiences here:
👉 https://agkcv6ne.paperform.co/
There's still time to join @wallet's Summer Raffle
Only four days left to participate in @wallet's Summer Raffle! Don't miss your chance to win a share of the prize pool worth $20,000 in TON!
Just complete simple tasks like purchasing crypto, making P2P exchanges, depositing from an external wallet, making transfers within Telegram, or swapping crypto to earn tickets and increase your chances of winning big!
Time is running out, so make sure you earn some tickets before the raffle ends on the 31st of July.
For more information, check out the raffle FAQ and terms of participation.
Good luck to everyone!
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.
Subscribe and be the first to receive updates from the TON ecosystem.
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.