Total Value Locked: The Importance of This Metric for Web3 and TON 🖥
Total Value Locked (TVL) represents the amount of funds locked in a DeFi protocol or network.
In 2024, TON Foundation initiatives like The Open League helped boost the TON ecosystem’s TVL 20-fold — from $14M to $290M (and up to $775M at its peak).
Why is this metric so important for the network? Because TVL directly affects:
1⃣ User experience. High TVL reduces slippage during swaps on DEXes, impacts borrowing rates in lending protocols, and maximizes rewards through products like Tonstakers Earn in liquid staking.
2⃣ Trust in the ecosystem. Large users will deposit significant amounts into products only if they are confident in their quality and security — meaning products with already high TVL can be trusted naturally.
3⃣Network perception. While the number of users, transaction count, and even trading volumes can be artificially inflated, TVL is a metric that cannot be easily manipulated.
👩 Additionally, staking TVL contributes to the overall security of blockchains — a larger amount of staked funds reduces the risk of attacks on the network’s consensus.
Celebrate 2025: Join the Time Capsule NFT Event! ❄️
What’s your greatest wish for TON? Make it part of history by joining our Time Capsule NFT Event and leaving your mark on the future.
🎁 How to Participate:
1️⃣ Share your wishes in our Community by January 1st.
2️⃣ Your wish will be minted as a unique NFT.
3️⃣ The most inspiring wishes will receive 3 tsTON.
🥳 Looking Ahead:
Next year, your NFT time capsule will be returned to you to see if your wish came true!
Join our session with BigPump by PocketFi, Phosfor Man from Open Builders, $LAMBO token, WAGMI HUB, and $TURBO 🎤
🗓 Today at 2:00 PM UTC on Tonstakers' main channel, we’ll host the MemeFi 2024 session.
What to expect:
🔵 Memes: Just a fad or for the long run
🔵 Predictions for MemeFi in 2025 and beyond
➡️ Have Questions? Drop them in our community and make sure you're there to get them answered live!
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Join our session with Tonkeeper, xRocket, Storm Trade, EVAA Protocol, and STON.fi! 🎤
🗓 Today at 2:00 PM UTC on Tonstakers' main channel, we’ll host the DeFi 2024 session.
What to expect:
🔵 A year-end recap of TON DeFi's most significant achievements
🔵 Insights into challenges, milestones, solutions, and innovations
🔵 A preview of exciting new features and opportunities shaping DeFi on TON in 2025
➡️ Have Questions? Drop them in our community and make sure you're there to get them answered live!
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Join our session with YesCoin, TON Punks, Cat Gold Miner, and Cats! 🎤
Today at 2:00 PM UTC on Tonstakers' main channel, we’ll host the GameFi 2024 session.
What to expect:
🔵 Wrapping up the year with the biggest TON GameFi achievements
🔵 GameFi to DeFi: The immersive bridge that emerged this year
🔵 TON GameFi 2025: What’s coming next?
➡️ Have Questions? Drop them in our community and make sure you're there to get them answered live!
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Liquid Staking Trends in Web3 🖥
The DeFi ecosystem is constantly evolving, with new applications and mechanics emerging regularly to optimize liquidity and increase rewards.
We invite you to dive with us into the key staking trends beyond the TON ecosystem, as studying the experience of external projects allows us to assess the efficiency and demand for various solutions.
⬆ Reward Tokenization: Protocols like Pendle allow users to deposit liquid staking tokens and split the principal and its yield by tokenizing them.
🎓 Example: Imagine you can split a rental agreement into two parts: the rental property itself and the rental income, digitizing each of them. Subsequently, you can use both of these digitalized assets separately: for instance, deposit the property token into a liquidity pool while holding the rental income token to continue receiving rewards.
Currently, restaking is the most popular trend in staking evolution thanks to the rising amount of L2s and DeFi protocols.
Reward tokenization, on the other hand, could enhance ecosystem liquidity in a similar way to Tonstakers Earn.
L2 on TON — More Than Just Scaling ✈
This summer, two projects — TAC and DuckChain — announced their development of scaling solutions for TON. However, TON already scales using sharding and faces virtually no issues with transaction processing or fees. So why does TON need L2? 🤔
You'll learn about this and much more in the tonstakers/l2-on-ton-more-than-just-scaling-1e536dda118b">new Tonstakers article, including:
🔵 How popular L2s really are compared to L1s
🔵 What might happen to the TON ecosystem after the launch of EVM solutions
🔵 How EVM solutions for TON will work
➡ Read and share your thoughts in our community
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Black Friday with Tonstakers and Tonkeeper! 🤩
Stake with Tonstakers and get 100 Battery charges to forget about transaction fees! 🔋
How to participate:
1⃣ From November 29 to December 1, stake more than 5 TON on Tonstakers (via the Tonkeeper wallet)
2⃣ 100 random winners will receive 100 Battery charges each.
✈ Rewards will be sent to the winners by Dec 8.
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What Makes Liquid Staking Accessible? ✉
One of the key missions of TON is mass adoption — integrating blockchain into everyday life by creating accessible and user-friendly products, especially in the DeFi space.
How tgBTC Can Expand Opportunities on TON 🪙
At The Gateway, representatives of TON Foundation and RSquad Blockchain Lab announced TON Teleport BTC decentralized bridge and tgBTC token, an original wrapped BTC on TON.
Why is tgBTC better than the existing jWBTC?
🪙 jWBTС is a wrapped WBTC from Ethereum. It comes with drawbacks: transferring BTC is complex, and its only potential liquidity source on TON is WBTC holders on Ethereum. As a result, jWBTC has low capitalization of $360,000 and just $100 in daily trading volume.
For comparison, original WBTC on Ethereum — with all BTC holders as its potential liquidity source — has a market cap of $13 billion and an average daily trading volume of $400 million.
By contrast, the native USDT on TON, thanks to its integration with over 100 centralized platforms, expanded its liquidity potential to all USDT holders on centralized exchanges, regardless of the network. In six months, the native USDT on TON reached a market cap of $1.2 billion, placing TON fourth in USDT issuance among all blockchains.
$RoOLZ — a new project in token staking 🔥
$RoOLZ is the utility token of the RoOLZ project, which will be used within games, animated series, and other internal products. Last week, $RoOLZ was listed on STON.fi, Gate, KuCoin, Bitget, MEXC, and Bitpanda, and the token has already reached $8 million in market capitalization.
RoOLZ is one of the brightest projects on TON:
🟡 Over 2.5 million mini-app users
🟡 $1 million in trading volume for its NFT collection on Getgems
🔔 Weekly TON Ecosystem Digest
Missed the latest updates? No worries — Tonstakers has gathered a short digest of the most interesting events in TON ecosystem.
📰 Gateway Highlights. Announcements included TON Teleport BTC for bridging Bitcoin to TON, the launch of Society DAO to manage TON’s development, and the start of meme coin battles with a $1.25 million prize pool.
👏 The Open League Winners. Results for the sixth season of The Open League and the Degen airdrop have been published.
👥 Tonstakers x Community. Tonstakers and Community Bot campaign for stakers has concluded, with participants staking over 600,000 TON.
📌 GODL by RoOLZ. The animated Web3 game project RoOLZ has launched and listed its token GODL on STON.fi, Gate, KuCoin, Bitget, and MEXC exchanges.
💼 SafePal on Telegram. The non-custodial wallet SafePal has launched a mini-wallet app on Telegram with support for TON and Visa digital cards.
And more news from Tonstakers is coming soon!
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UPD: $PUNK Staking Continues 💲
The GameFi ecosystem team at PunkCity has extended staking for their utility token and added 20,000 $PUNK (~$21,000) to the rewards pool.
✅ Staking terms:
🔵 Staking rewards will be distributed until April 28, 2025
🔵 Funds will be locked for 30 days when staked
If you're already staking $PUNK, there's no need to withdraw and restake. You will automatically continue receiving rewards.
$10,000 and other rewards for staking with Tonstakers 🙏
This Saturday marks the end of the Tonstakers campaign in Community Bot. You still have time to complete tasks and claim your share of the $10,000 prize pool.
To secure a minimum prize in Tonstakers campaign, you need to be one of the top 255 participants.
Currently, you need 1,200 points: complete all tasks and stake a minimum of 218 TON. The more TON you stake and the more points you earn, the higher your prize — up to $1,000 for first place 🤑
New $GLINT Reward Pool 🛍
$GLINT staking on Tonstakers continues as TON Diamonds adds another 305,000 $GLINT ($30,000) to the reward pool.
✅ Staking conditions:
🔵 Rewards will be distributed over 30 days with a lockup for this period
🔵 Staking with regular pool replenishment is planned until September 2025
If you're already staking, no need to withdraw and restake your tokens. You'll automatically continue receiving rewards.
Join Our Exclusive TON Ecosystem Session! 🎤
🗓 Today at 2:00 PM UTC on Tonstakers' main channel, we’ll host TON Ecosystem in 2024.
What to expect:
🔵 What truly drove TON this year?
🔵 Open League results and plans
🔵 Current and future trends
🔵 What’s TON’s boldest move for 2025?
➡️ Have Questions? Drop them in our community and make sure you're there to get them answered live!
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Bybit Web3 has natively integrated Tonstakers 📈
We are excited to announce that Tonstakers has become the first TON protocol to be integrated with Bybit Web3 Wallet.
Bybit is the second-largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume, surpassing $6 billion daily average, with 60 million registered users. The integration of Tonstakers provides these users with opportunities to earn passive rewards for holding TON and maximize them through Tonstakers Earn.
🕺 This integration is a significant step toward popularizing TON ecosystem among users worldwide.
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Even more rewards for stakers 🎁
Tonstakers and EVAA have special news for our stakers, and of course — special prizes!
The 5 stakers who provide the largest amount of tsTON on EVAA by the end of the year will receive an EVAA Friend Card NFT each. Their current value starts at 77.9 TON.
1⃣ Deposit tsTON on EVAA using Tonstakers Earn and earn 6.77% APY
2⃣ Use tsTON as collateral to borrow USDT and earn up to 8% APY
Explore Tonstakers Earn in the Latest Staking Rewards research 📊
Staking Rewards, the global aggregator for staking services, recently published an in-depth research report on Tonstakers Earn and its benefits.
The report covers:
🔵 An explanation of Liquid Staking and Tonstakers Earn mechanisms.
🔵 The impact of Tonstakers Earn on the TON DeFi ecosystem.
🔵 Tips to maximize rewards with Tonstakers Earn.
Tonstakers x Gate Web3 Wallet: Stake TON with up to 30% APR 🤩
For a month now, our users have been able to earn increased rewards from staking TON! Through Gate Web3 Wallet, you can complete Earn+ tasks and receive rewards from Tonstakers!
To participate:
1⃣ Create TON wallet in Gate Web3 Wallet
2⃣ Subscribe to Tonstakers and STON.fi
3⃣ Stake TON via Gate Web3 Wallet at ~5% APY
4⃣ Provide tsTON to the STON.fi liquidity pool at ~25% APR
Tonstakers is now in TokenPocket 💸
The largest multi-chain wallet, TokenPocket, has added the liquid staking application Tonstakers!
TokenPocket is one of the largest self-custodial crypto wallets with 25 million users, supporting EVM networks as well as TRON, SOL, SUI, and many others.
Tonstakers November Summary
📈 TVL increased to 46M TON (+9%)
👤 We now have 89K stakers (+15%)
❗ 67% of all TON in liquid staking are staked in Tonstakers
Highlights of the Month:
🔵 tsTON can now be used to pay transaction fees
🔵 We hosted the Community Bot campaign with a $10,000 prize pool
🔵 Together with Tonkeeper, we raffled 100 Battery refills for Black Friday
🔵 We prepared a material exploring the potential of wrapped tgBTC
👥 Plus, Tonstakers became the first DeFi protocol available for maximizing rewards in EVAA Earn.
Now, we’re getting ready for the New Year and the news December will bring us 🎄
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4 Reasons to Stake TON Instead of Just Holding 💎
Most users simply keep their TON in wallets, but staking TON is far more beneficial — even without considering Tonstakers Earn rewards of up to 34% APR 🤑.
Are you already staking? If not, share your reasons 👀
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🎤 New #TONLive Podcast with RoOLZ
Join us in an hour for an insightful session with 5 Slice Pie, founder of the RoOLZ project, on the Tonstakers main channel.
What to Expect:
🔵 GameFi to DeFi Evolution: Discover how DeFi tools empower and enhance game projects, unlocking new opportunities for the community.
🔵 Impacting TON Ecosystem with GameFi: Explore how GameFi is shaping the future of TON ecosystem, with insights into emerging trends and opportunities.
💬 Drop your questions in our community and be sure to join us!
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Earn more rewards for staking with Tonstakers and EVAA 🤑
Tonstakers became the first protocol available for reinvestments in EVAA Earn — a new DeFi product on TON.
With EVAA Earn, our stakers can now maximize their rewards:
1⃣ The user stakes TON with Tonstakers — receiving tsTON and staking rewards.
2⃣ Deposits tsTON into EVAA — earning rewards for providing liquidity.
3⃣ Borrows TON and stakes it again — earning even more tsTON and staking rewards.
Instant TON withdrawal: how Tonstakers makes staking convenient 🗃
Typically, withdrawing funds from liquid staking takes hours: the service waits for validators to return the staked tokens and only then transfers them back to users. Sometimes instant withdrawal is available, but it comes with an extra fee that can exceed the rewards earned.
With Tonstakers, you can forget about this: instant withdrawal is available to all users without any additional fees.
🎨 How does instant withdrawal work in Tonstakers?
When staked, TON goes into Tonstakers pool. At the start of a new validation cycle, the protocol sends all TON from the pool to the validators, who then stake them and return them with rewards. During the cycle, TON cannot be added to or removed from the validators.
Newly deposited TON in the pool do not participate in staking until the start of the next cycle. Tonstakers uses them as liquidity for instant withdrawals.
Instant unstaking of TON is only possible if there’s enough liquidity in the pool to process the request. If liquidity is insufficient, you’ll need to wait for new TON deposits into the pool or use regular unstaking at the end of the cycle.
Congtats to the Winners of the Tonstakers x Community Campaign 🏆
Your incredible activity showcased the strength of the TON and Tonstakers communities! We’re thrilled to begin distributing the prizes — tsTON will arrive to your wallets till November 8th.
The list of 255 winners is available by this link. We’d like to give a special shoutout to the top three:
🥇 @HostFat, the grand winner, claimed $1000 in tsTON.
🥈 @bltff took home a $500 prize.
🥉 @igor_krestinin with a prize of $250.
At the close of the campaign, 13,000 participants had staked over 600,000 TON, which can earn them around 2,000 TON monthly through staking and Tonstakers Earn.
Press 🏆 if you are waiting for new Tonstakers campaigns!
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tsTON is now available for gasless transactions 🙏
We’re excited to announce that using Tonkeeper our users can now pay transaction fees with tsTON🥳
📣 How it works:
🔵If you don’t have enough TON to cover transaction fees in Tonkeeper, it will be deducted from your tsTON balance.
🔵It's important: gasless transactions are available in W5 wallets only.
🔔 Friday TON News Digest
Missed this week’s TON news? No worries — here’s a brief digest of the most interesting updates.
💰 Integration with Binance Web3: Binance Web3 Wallet integrated TON and launched a campaign with weekly rewards.
⚡ AquaUSD for AquaXP: The decentralized stablecoin protocol Aqua Protocol recently launched on the mainnet and now offers a liquidity pool for swapping AquaXP testnet points for AquaUSD.
🙂 Memelandia Details: TON Foundation revealed details of the upcoming meme coin creator competition with a prize pool of $1.25 million. The competition starts next week.
⚽ Fanton x Premiere League: The fantasy football game, whose token is available for staking on Tonstakers Tokens, became an official partner of the Premier League and received licenses to mint football NFTs with special utilities.
📝 The Gateway 2024 Schedule: The first day of the conference will be dedicated to holders and Toncoin, while the second day will focus on ecosystem developers and product creators.
Next week will be exciting!
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Increase Your Sсore in the $1,000,000 Airdrop ⚖
In the recent post, we talked about The Open League airdrops in general, and today we’ll focus on the Normie airdrop with $1,000,000 prize pool.
Here are the details: Normie points are awarded for on-chain transactions with apps from the App League list. Currently, there are 83 projects listed, with Nomis standing out as the first on-chain reputation protocol on TON. It helps projects identify bots and fairly distribute rewards among real TON users.
According to the App League table, Nomis users earned 17 airdrop score at average, while other projects typically awarded 8-12 score. Earn more!