TON Community

16 May 2024 16:30

Tonkeeper releases a huge update

Tonkeeper introduces the W5 standard in Tonkeeper Pro with gasless transactions, lower fees, and a new developer plugin interface. The new Tonkeeper Battery feature enables immediate use of stablecoins and NFTs without KYC, managing blockchain fees automatically. For details, check out this blog post.

Want to win from a $100,000 prize pool?

Join the Tonkeeper developer contest!

TON Community

15 May 2024 19:56

Open League Season 2 is done, and S3 has already begun!

@League results since March:

▪️ Daily Active Wallets: 311,900 (+725%)
▪️ DeFi Total Value Locked: $206M (+800%)
▪️ DEX Daily Trading Volume: $29.2M (+177%)

Keep onchain activity high and provide liquidity via the @Open_League_Bot to earn your slice of the 30M Toncoin. Detailed results, S2 winners, leaderboards, and insights.

TON Community

15 May 2024 14:45

The Gateway 2024

The Gateway, TON's second annual live conference, will be hosted in Dubai on November 1-2, 2024.

Tickets go on sale in June. Stay tuned for more updates!

TON Community

14 May 2024 18:09

TON Innovators: Connecton VPN

Connecton VPN is the first VPN service powered by TON Blockchain. They're developing a decentralized VPN protocol with its own native currency on TON.

Discover their journey, unique features, and future plans here.

TON Community

13 May 2024 14:30

Introducing W3BFLIX

In our newly launched blog series 'Future Giants', we interviewed @W3BFLIX, aiming to become the ‘Netflix’ on Telegram — an innovative streaming service and film crowdfunding platform being developed on TON Blockchain and soon to be accessible via a Telegram Mini App.

For more details, check out this blog post.

TON Community

11 May 2024 11:00

Introducing new Major @League contestant, @JVault: With the JVault App, you can access more than 50 staking pools with a TVL of ~$3,500,000.

Learn more in the Jvault Official Roadmap.

TON Community

10 May 2024 16:02

Open League Digest for the week. TON reaches $200M TVL, $800K Airdrop, and @league winner @investkingyru gave $300K winnings to his community.

Join @league — more info.

TON Community

09 May 2024 17:28

Gaming Tokens & NFT traders airdrop: eligibility and distribution rules

TL;DR:
▪️@League just airdropped 120,000 Toncoin (TON) to the most active traders of whitelisted Gaming and NFT-related tokens on @dedust or @stonfidex between April 1, 12:00 UTC & May 7, 00:00 UTC.

▪️Whitelisted assets included the tokens and NFT collections of games participating in the App Battle of The Open League (Ton Punks, Tap Fantasy, Arbuz, Tongochi, Gatto, Fanton, XPLUS, The Pixels).

▪️Check out the new airdrop calendar page for hints about future airdrops. Full Rules and eligibility criteria will be published on TON Research.

Rewards were allocated to 1,757 eligible wallets based on the total score:

▪️Scores 1-5: 50 TON
▪️Scores 6-7: 70 TON
▪️Scores 7+: 100 TON

Stay tuned. Join @league. Turn 🔔 on!

TON Community

08 May 2024 17:00

​The Open League Digest

The Open League Season 2 is LIVE and rewards continue! 30M Toncoin will go to you, TON Community.

Let's celebrate our collective success! In Season 1, a whopping $9 million was distributed among the 894K TON users who participated, catapulting our community to new ATH’s.

MAUs = 1.5 million (up 264%)
TVL = $200+ million (up 900%)
Jetton Holders = 1.28 million (up 1023%)

New leaderboards are reset and live on The Open League website.

Keep on-chain activity high, complete quests, provide liquidity via the @Open_League_Bot and keep watch of our new channel @league for hints on eligibility for more Airdrops.

Highlights from the last week:

▪️ The Open League S2 announcement on X
▪️ EVAA Protocol tops the chart with the fastest growing TVL on TON this April
▪️ The Open League Hackathon extended the application deadline
▪️ USDt-TON with Bybit | 120,000 $USDt rewards
▪️ Get APY with Wallet Earn
▪️ Storm Trade launched daily trading tournaments with NFTs & whitelists for upcoming IDO in rewards
▪️ Catizen now has 5M Catizens in Kittyverse

A TON of new, additional incentives for you from The Major League Projects:

▪️ $50,000 Liquidity boost on StonFi from REDO
▪️ Three new farms at StonFi
▪️ All Major League contestants will get up to a 25k Toncoin LP boost to the DEX they choose.

Stay tuned for the latest updates for The Open League. Turn the 🔔 on. Join @league @league @league @league @league @league. More updates are coming.

Hint: 🎮 🪙 🖼️

TON Community

07 May 2024 12:55

​TON is partnering with Arkham to bring useful data to millions of TON & Telegram users

Arkham's intelligence platform will soon include support for The Open Network. Arkham is also coming to Telegram and has begun building its platform in a Telegram Mini App. This will provide over 900M Telegram users with lightning-fast access to Arkham data.

TL;DR:
▪️Arkham is a blockchain analytics platform that aims to transform complex blockchain data into refined and actionable insights. The platform leverages advanced data science and AI to filter, interpret, and present data in a user-friendly manner.

▪️This collaboration will allow Arkham to provide free crypto data for TON builders and users, but also provide greater access to Arkham’s insights through one of crypto’s most-used messaging apps: Telegram.

▪️With TVL reaching $200 million, more financial tools are realizing the value of TON and Telegram. Arkham’s Integration of TON data and creation of a Telegram Mini App is a testament to TON's unique market position and phenomenal growth.

Check out Arkham on X to learn more about this integration.

Stay tuned for more updates & keep your 🔔 notifications on!

TON Community

06 May 2024 10:00

​TON Ecosystem Roundup

As the TON Ecosystem keeps on growing & expanding, the last week brought several updates from four ecosystem projects: DeDust, Smeshariki, Tele, and ION.

DeDust

DeDust has launched a staking program to share revenues with users. Last month, the total trading volume exceeded $300 million, generating over $300,000 in protocol revenue. Starting this month, such commissions will be converted into $SCALE and distributed among stakers.

TELE

TELE Protocol introduced their new Telegram Mini App, offering deploy and mint features after they achieved remarkable success with their Initial DEX Offering (IDO), raising an impressive $300,000. In the new product, users can freely deploy their own brand tokens and get up to 90% share of the minting fees, while the minters will be rewarded with $TELE based on their contribution.

Smeshariki

Characters from the legendary Smeshariki cartoon series also known as Kikoriki are now living on the TON blockchain. Artoy’s limited-edition collection "Smeshariki x TON. Season 1" featuring 5,000 unique NFTs, including 1,000 rare pieces. Their NFT Collection was sold out in 10 minutes.

ION Finance

ION Finance, the first concentrated liquidity dex on TON Blockchain, has launched its initial features on Mainnet, introducing two engaging events for the TON Community. The first event enables participants to create their own community tokens using TON Minter, while the second invites users to make their own liquidity pools with their tokens. Users can now get involved and participate through the ION Finance Mainnet bot on Telegram.

Stay tuned for more updates and developments from the TON Ecosystem.

TON Community

03 May 2024 17:58

Pantera Capital Joins TON Governance as a Validator

We're thrilled to share that Pantera Capital, a leader in blockchain investments, has chosen to join TON governance as a validator. Even crypto-native institutions are now seeing the vision of a Web3 ecosystem in Telegram and how that can be a tool to onboard the masses to blockchain.

TL;DR:

▪️ Pantera Capital is one of the First U.S. institutional asset managers focused exclusively on blockchain technology.

▪️ Why TON? According to Pantera’s blog, they believe TON will lead the next wave of crypto adoption. We’re inclined to agree… There is no more important mission to TON community, than this.

▪️ With Pantera's rich history and expertise in Web3, we’re proud to welcome them to the ecosystem.

Celebrate this exciting moment in TON Community’s journey. As we all continue to innovate and demonstrate the power of TONxTelegram for the mass adoption of crypto technology, more institutions will continue to take notice. Slowly, then suddenly.

Let's put crypto in every pocket and pave the way for a decentralized future together!

TON Community

02 May 2024 12:30

Changelly rolls out the Probably Serious Quiz to support the launch of USDt on TON

TL;DR:
▪️ Changelly, a global crypto exchange serving over 7 million users worldwide, has launched the Probably Serious Quiz.
▪️ Upon completing the quiz, participants will enjoy a 0% service fee for USDt on TON and Toncoin swaps on Changelly.

End date: May 7, 2024.

Changelly seeks to grant the most convenient access to the newly launched stablecoin and support the growth of the TON Ecosystem.

They offer safe and fast crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto exchanges of over 100,000 trading pairs with 24/7 live customer support.

📱 Changelly is available on the desktop, iOS, and Android.

If you're new to stablecoins, also check out Changelly's blog article "What Are Stablecoins?" to learn more about USDt on TON.

Please note that the 0% service fee for exchanges of USDt and TON on Changelly does not include the network fee.

Jump in and get 0% fees for USDt on TON and Toncoin exchanges on Changelly!

TON Community

01 May 2024 17:15

Get 50% APY with Wallet Earn

Wallet has joined forces with TON Foundation to introduce Wallet Earn, featuring 5M Toncoin in rewards. Now, you can easily earn rewards directly within Wallet in Telegram — no need to download a new app.

Enjoy a 50% APY for the first 2 weeks followed by 25% APY for the next 2 weeks.

How to participate?

Simply deposit up to 3,000 USDt into your bonus account in Wallet. You can add funds at any time during the deposit period and receive daily rewards, which you can withdraw daily or at the end of the campaign.

Enhanced security for Wallet

All Wallet users can now further secure their assets by setting a Passcode, which is required to approve transactions. This Passcode is securely encrypted and stored locally on the user’s device.

Terms & Conditions apply. For more details and FAQs, read this post.

Try Wallet Earn now and get 50% APY!

TON Community

30 Apr 2024 19:00

​The Open League Hackathon

TL;DR:
▪️ We’re extending the deadline to apply for The Open League Hackathon til June 15th.
▪️ TOL Hackathon is the fastest way for any project to join The Open League.

The deadline for The Open League Hackathon has been extended. This gives more teams the chance to join and refine their projects. With over 220 projects already registered, the aim is to further increase participation and encourage innovation. Contestants will build new Web3 Onboarding & GameFi, Web3 Social, DeFi, and eCommerce use cases on TON and Telegram.

New dates:

▪️ Registration deadline: June 15, 2024
▪️ Hackathon end date: July 15, 2024

Why apply?

▪️ $2 million prize pool.
▪️ Fast track to The Open League program with a 50,000 Toncoin boost for your token's liquidity pool.
▪️ Top projects may secure funding from a $500,000 pool provided by TON Ventures.
▪️ A chance to meet with TON Foundation members and VC/investors on TON in Dubai during Gateway.

Mass adoption only happens on TON. Build it. Register now!

TON Community

16 May 2024 15:00

Use Toncoin and USDt-TON with over 100 million retailers across the globe

Oobit, backed by Tether, now enables instant crypto payments on TON. Similar to Apple Pay®, you can add Toncoin and USDt-TON to your everyday routine. Tap & Pay at over 100 million retailers worldwide.

Download the Oobit app and start paying with Toncoin and USDt-TON today!

TON Community

15 May 2024 16:19

Join us now at the Open League Summer AMA

Speakers
✅️Vladimir Alefman, DevRel Manager at TON Foundation
✅️Ekin Tuna, Director of TON Society
✅️Jack Booth, Marketing Director at TON Foundation
✅️Viktor, Content Manager at TON Foundation

Discussing
➡️How to win The Open League Hackathon?
➡️Why you should join the IRL Bootcamp?
➡️What are the opportunities for the hackers?

Live now: https://x.com/ton_society/status/1790743864078217584

TON Community

15 May 2024 09:15

14 teams have received grants and will join The Open League

14 innovative projects have recently received grants from TON Foundation. Among them, Jump Trade is developing 3 Telegram Mini Apps with virality mechanics, while XPLUS’s all-in-one entertainment app boasts 1.3 million registered users and 180,000 daily active users.

These 14 teams are already showing impressive traction and will soon join The Open League to compete for a share of the 30 million Toncoin.

Read the full Grants Report for March & April to discover more innovative projects on TON.

TON Community

14 May 2024 14:41

Introducing: Open League Summer

13 IRL Bootcamps. 13 Cities. 1 massive hackathon with $2 million in rewards. 1 ecosystem-wide massive rewards competition to win a share of Open League’s $200 million rewards. The Goal? 1,000 New Telegram Mini Apps for you, TON Community! Learn more.

This summer! PITCH. BUILD. GROW. WIN.

TON Community

13 May 2024 10:00

USDt-TON reaches 200 million in circulation

USDt-TON has doubled its success, reaching $200 million in circulation in less than a month after launch, setting a new record as the fastest growing launch in the history of Tether’s USDt.

Wen 1 billion?

TON Community

10 May 2024 18:00

TON Culture Kings: DUREV 💎 In TON Culture Kings, we examine the weird and wonderful world of memecoins on TON Blockchain.

Today, @poveldurev takes the podium – read it

TON Community

10 May 2024 14:33

We have identified a scam website (TON-USD(dot)org).

Please do not connect your wallet to this site. Be careful about anything claiming to be official but not based on official website addresses. Do your own research before connecting wallets.

TON Community

09 May 2024 14:30

Free withdrawals to TON are live on OKX, Bybit, KuCoin and MEXC

Tether’s USDt is now available on TON, and users can already seamlessly deposit, withdraw, earn, and utilize USDt on TON across multiple exchanges and wallets.

Enjoy free withdrawals to TON on OKX, Bybit, KuCoin and MEXC.

Get ready for Notcoin launch, and get earning. Three massively rewarding campaigns are now live on major exchanges:

▪️OKX: USDt-TON Learn and Earn campaign with 20k Toncoin in rewards.
▪️Bybit: Learn & Earn with 80k USDt in rewards and refer & earn with 40k USDt in rewards.
▪️KuCoin: "Community Incentives + Learn & Earn + Trading Competition" with $200K prize pool.

Meanwhile, turn the 🔔 on. Join @league & stay tuned for more updates!

TON Community

08 May 2024 13:00

TON Innovators features Catizen, a Web3 virtual pet game on TON

Catizen is using TON Blockchain technology to transform the gaming experience for millions of Telegram users, bringing together blockchain, AI, PocketFi, video shorts, the Metaverse, and e-commerce.

TL;DR:
▪️ Catizen already has a community of 5+ million users. Catizen is another example of how TON community is building rapidly growing projects to user levels unheard of in the crypto space.

▪️ Catizen uses advanced AI to create lifelike virtual cats that learn and develop unique traits based on their interactions with users, blending entertainment with in a play 2 earn token mining experience.

▪️ This project improves upon two already successful case studies: gaming launchpads and Pinduoduo on WeChat. While integrating Notcoin features like referrals and leaderboards. This creates a unique GameFi experience that combines referral mechanics, in-game staking, and token mining.

Check out the full story on our blog to learn more about Catizen’s approach and future plans, and play now.

Stay tuned for more updates & keep your 🔔 notifications on!

TON Community

06 May 2024 17:27

TON DeFi is on Fire! TON just crossed $200 Million Total Value Locked (TVL)

Only days after our announcement of $100 million USDt circulating on TON, and another milestone is achieved: $200 Million TVL!

When The Open League began March 1st TVL stood at $22.9 million. TVL since then has grown 900% to $206.74 million.

Now it's time to double down once more!

❤️ t.me/League

The Open League is getting it's own channel, with plenty of new surprises to come.

Join, Win, Earn, Play, Quest, Collect, Build, Repeat.

@League @League @League @League

TON Community

04 May 2024 14:10

​The Open League Season 1 is officially over

Season 1 has been an absolute madness in terms of growth for the TON Ecosystem & brought every metric to the new All-Time-Highs, while distributing $9M between all 894K participants.

We introduced new leaderboards, launched Memelandia and DeFi Grants, and boosted the rewards for top projects.

Here’s how we rewarded the winners.

TL;DR
▪️ Top 6 DeFi projects were awarded the total of a whooping $875K prize pool.

StonFi: $496K | DeDust: $250K | Storm Trade: $87K | Evaa Protocol: $22K | Daolama_ton: $10K | JVault: $6,5K

▪️ TOP 10 of The Major League winners will share the prize pool of $875K

$KINGY: $375K | $PUNK: $250K | $STON: $125K

▪️ TOP 3 Winners of The Minor League will share $150K worth of rewards:

$JVT: $75K | $ANON: $50K | $WEB3: $25K

▪️ For TOP 10 contestants in the App Battle we've got $875K worth of rewards!

Tap Fantasy: $375K | GetGems: $250K | Ton Raffles: $125K

▪️ TOP 5 liquidity providers will share $500K in prizes:

Tonstakers: $372K | Stakee: $74K | Bemo Finance: $50K

▪️ TOP 5 Community tokens: $ANON | $REDO | $BTC25 | $ARBUZ | $PEPE

But the real question is, who's ready for The Open League Season 2?!

More details already available on our Blog.

TON Community

03 May 2024 13:38

USDt-TON Reaches 100 million in Circulation in Just 2 Weeks

The iPhone reached 100 million sales within four years of its 2007 launch. Instagram achieved 100 million downloads two years after its debut in October 2010. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" sold 100 million copies by 2008, eleven years post-publication. "Gangnam Style" skyrocketed to 100 million views just two months following its July 2012 release.

USDT-TON reached $100 million in issued and circulating USDT in under two weeks, making it the fastest growing launch of Tether’s USDt in history.

TON Community

01 May 2024 21:06

The Open League Season 2 Starts Today

Open League S1 has contributed to ATHs across every metric in April. With a massive $9million distributed to all 894K TON users who participated in Season 1!

MAUs = 1.5 million (up 7%)
TVL = $159.52 million (up 59%)
DEX traders = 185K (up 21%)

Congrats to Season 1 Winners:
KINGY wins top prize in the Token battle winning $375K, followed by PUNK and STON, both winning $250K and $125K respectively.

Full Season 1 results of all leaderboards will be available on the TON blog soon.

Introducing Season 2’s Major League Lineup:
KINGY, PUNK, STON, DFC, RAFF, FNZ, JETTON, GRAM and welcoming JVT, ANON, WEB3, REDO, BTC25. All Major League contestants will get up to a 25K Toncoin LP boost to the DEX they choose for the 2 week season.

As always, you can find and access boosted pools via @open_league_bot.

Season 2 changes:
▪️ To speed up reward distribution Season 2 will last for 2 weeks instead of 1 month.
▪️ To simplify the competition there will only be 3 leaderboards; Apps, Token Major and Minor Leagues.
▪️ 5 Projects have been promoted to the majors in S2, and 5 relegated to the minors.
▪️ New leaderboards are reset and live at The Open League website.

Latest updates for The Open League only on this channel. Notifications on. More surprises are coming.

Hint: 🎮🪙🖼

TON Community

01 May 2024 10:00

Telegram’s 2024 Design Competition is underway!

Pavel Durov is reviewing submissions, and so are we. TON community members are already taking part, imagining new ways Telegram users could interact with TON.

Including this feature, highlighted above, moving tApps Center to Telegram settings and then to the main navigation!

Would this feature be handy for you? Drop a 🤑 below if you want to see it implemented.

Disclaimer: Votes here won’t mean it will happen, but its nice to dream. Only design competition participants can vote so if you’re a designer now’s your chance to influence the direction of TON and Telegram. You can join the competition here.

TON Community

30 Apr 2024 08:00

​USDt-TON with Bybit

TL;DR:
▪️ Join Bybit’s new events to earn your share of a 120,000 USDt prize pool.

To celebrate the launch of USDt on TON, Bybit has joined forces with TON Foundation to introduce two exclusive events, boasting a total prize pool of 120,000 USDt!

Campaign duration: These events are already active and will continue until June 23, 2024, 11:59 PM UTC.

Event 1: Learn & Earn - TON Airdrop of 80,000 USDt

Join and earn your share of the 80,000 USDt prize pool by following these four simple steps:

▪️ Register for the Learn & Earn event.
▪️ Read this article.
▪️ Take the quiz.
▪️ Trade at least $100 in Toncoin (TON) during the event period.

Eligible participants will equally share the prize pool, with a maximum reward of 3 TON per user.

Event 2: Refer & Earn - Invite New Users, Unlock 40,000 USDt in TON Rewards

Invite new users to sign up to Bybit and participate in the first event. For each qualified referral, both you and your referee will receive 0.3 TON each.

Terms & Conditions apply.

Earn your share of the 120,000 USDt!