What is widely discussed about TON today?

Telegram Open Network is a next-generation blockchain platform. Pavel and Nikolai Durov created the TON concept in 2018 and then proceeded with development together with the team.

Unfortunately, in May 2020 Pavel closed the project.

However, our team’s contribution (open-source community) did not stop there. Since that "X-day" we have supported the platform and have continued the development. A month ago, we published an open request to the Telegram team, where we told them about our successes in working on TON. We also asked the Telegram team to provide us the domain ton.org and the repository github.com/ton-blockchain, since they no longer needed it.


The developers have agreed to our request!


Now we are the TON team. The only, non-fake, official one!

Our goal is to merge all existing blockchains into a new unified network. We want to turn the TON ecosystem into a real Web 3.0-Internet with decentralized storage, anonymous network, instant payments, and familiar convenient services.

We believe that TON is the Internet of the future, the next-generation Internet!

Certainly, the goal is ambitious. However, our enthusiasm is even greater 😎. We're working 24/7 on the TON ecosystem, and we're in a rush to share our success.

Elements of the ecosystem that are already functioning:

- TON Blockchain.

It's a scalable, multi-blockchain platform capable of processing millions of transactions per second.

- TON Services.

Third-party service platform. It allows you to create friendly, intuitive interfaces for decentralized applications and smart contracts. It also allows for decentralized web browsing.


Elements of the ecosystem we are still working on:

- TON Payments. 90% ready.

TON Payments is a platform for micropayments and a micropayment channel network. It can be used for instant off-chain value transfers between users, bots, and other services. Safeguards built into the system ensure that these transfers are as secure as on-chain transactions.

- TON DNS. 90% ready.

TON DNS makes blockchain mainstream by assigning human-readable names to accounts, smart contracts, services, and network nodes. With TON DNS browsing, blockchain becomes similar to surfing the World Wide Web. Working with blockchain will become as easy as surfing the Internet.

- TON Proxy. 75% ready.

This is a universal encryption shell for TON nodes, similar to an I2P network. It allows to develop decentralized VPN and TOR services for online privacy. TON Proxy, combined with elements of the TON DNS and TON P2P ecosystem, allows decentralized applications to protect themselves forever from centralized censorship.

- TON Storage. 50% ready.

P2P network, a distributed file storage technology. It's simply like the best version of Dropbox available. Torrent-like technology that will allow you to store and transfer large amounts of data. This technology has enormous potential!

- TON Workchains. 50% ready.

Today there is a wide variety of operating blockchains that are loosely connected to one another. Current attempts to use Bridging to establish interaction between them leave much to be desired in terms of both performance and decentralization levels. TON design will allow pooling all existing blockchains into a unified decentralized network.

TON consists of the masterchain and up to 2^32 workchains with different rulesets, i.e. different formats of account addresses and transactions, virtual machines for smart contracts and basic cryptocurrencies, etc. Yet, workchains can still interact using consistent basic rules.




This is just a brief description of the elements of the TON ecosystem. In reality, they are much deeper, more interesting, and larger than that.

On the channel, we'll talk about each of them in detail. We'll show how they can be useful for developers and crypto-enthusiasts, as well as for ordinary users.

Stay tuned! This is the beginning of a new TON era😎

What is Blockchain?

You need to urgently change your mind if you think blockchain is nothing more than a buzzword everybody is talking about! Here's a simple breakdown of the technology and why it's called the Internet of the Future.

Where is today's Web located?

It is stored on different servers. YouTube videos, for example, are stored on Google's servers. Your lunch and dinner information is stored on Grub Hub servers. Your passport information is stored on the government’s servers.

Servers are some kind of centralized hubs that store, process and transmit information.

Blockchain technology allows you to get rid of these data hubs completely, and make the internet decentralized - that's why it is sometimes called the internet of the future, or Web 3.0.

Here's how it works:

Blockchain stores all recorded information within data blocks. Miners create and maintain these blocks. You can read more about miners in the following article.

As opposed to a single centralized data hub, blockchain data is simultaneously stored among the network of a huge network of independent databases.

Let's try to imagine: you have a flash drive with your favorite photos recorded on it. This flash drive then suddenly crashes and your photos are lost forever.

In blockchain, this situation is eliminated because there are hundreds of thousands of people with the same flash drive, and destroying one of them does not affect anything.

Blocks cannot be deleted or changed (unlike conventional databases). When information appears in a block, it stays there forever. Each new block contains a link to the previous block, so actions within the network can be tracked at any time.

For example, someone had given you 1 Toncoin and you accidentally transferred that coin to your best friend.

In this case, coin ownership will remain with your friend forever (unless he sends the coin elsewhere), since all these transactions are recorded on a huge network of computers, they are immutable.

That is why decentralized ecosystems offer a lot of possibilities! We'll tell you what to expect from them in the next post.

Right now there are a lot of blockchains in the world, and they have almost no connection among each other or among centralized networks.

The goal of TON is to connect all of them into a single ecosystem and create a true Web 3.0

Breaking news!

Friends, you can NOW buy Toncoin on the EXMO exchange. The Exchange has recently announced the listing of TON. Today trading has finally started.

🔥🔥🔥

Here is EXMO deposit memo:

- Be sure to download the latest version of the wallet from ton.org/wallets.

- Don't use the mobile wallet for the next 2-3 days. It encrypts the message, as a result, the exchange would not be able to process the deposit. We'll let you know right away as soon as the mobile wallet will start working.

- Desktop versions and web wallets are fine, you can use them.

- During the deposit, paste the invoice number as the transfer’s comment. Otherwise, your deposit would not be processed!

- Make sure that the transfer confirmation window in your wallet definitely states the following: "Note: your comment will not be encrypted". This is important because EXMO exchange only accepts transfers with unencrypted comments.

Congratulations to the TON Foundation. Congratulations to all subscribers as well 😎

Looking forward to TON Coin being listed on other exchanges, it's a good start!

Unpleasant news has arrived.

On August 10, TON Venture Studio LTD (owned by FreeTON project which is itself funded by TONLabs) filed a complaint to Apple against a mobile wallet developed by one of the members of the TON community.

The subject of the complaint is the following: it violates Venture Studio's registered trademarks of TON and TON Wallet 😕.

However, TON Community's wallet is called Toncoin Wallet, not TON Wallet at all.

So here's the interesting thing, folks:

TON blockchain was designed and developed by the Telegram team. At the same time, TON Venture Studio LTD, which has nothing to do with Telegram, registered the project's trademark.

Now they are trying to use it for a corporate war with the ACTUALLY decentralized TON network, a direct successor of the Durov brother's work.

This raises a couple of questions to ask yourself:

1. Can a network be called decentralized if one of its members (TON Labs) owns the project's trademark and uses it for legal actions, without discussing anything with the project's community?

2. Is such action in line with the spirit of decentralized networks?

We will keep you informed.

Telegram has recently celebrated its eighth anniversary.

You know that TON was invented and developed by the Telegram team, and without Telegram, there would be no TON.

We send our best wishes and congratulations to Telegram 💪🥳.