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2022-01-13 21:45:16 Who stands behind the TON Blockchain?

In the beginning it's worth saying that developers are trusted by Pavel Durov (we have already seen his post as minimum). Either former employees of VK, or winners of Telegram developer contests.

They don't give interviews and are infrequent visitors to public chats, calling themselves computer geeks.

The reason is quite simple: when you want to "bring to mind" a revolutionary blockchain, then you need to do work, not sit in social networks.

Nevertheless, we will tell you something about them.

You may find a list of main developers on official The Open Network GitHub. For now there are 11 members.

Let's analyze the information available on the Internet about four of them:

1. tolya-yanot (Anatoliy Makosov)

According to the official website, one of the initiators of TON project revival has the nickname tolya-yanot.

In the official Telegram @contests channel, tolyayanot takes 1st place in one of the contests in 2019 and bypasses 560 other participants, fitting the solution in 4 kilobytes.

2. highfeed (Oleg Oskolsky)

Developer of popular Telegram bots, such as:
— @livegrambot. 3 million bots serve 60 million users;
— @commentsbot. Popular bot before invention of native Telegram comments. Pavel Durov rewarded Oleg for this bot creation in the amount of $25 000;
— @controllerbot (The most popular bot for delayed posting in Telegram. Later the parts of it's functional was used by Telegram and embedded in messenger).

3. oleganza (Oleg Andreev)

Former and one of the first VK employees. You may see him in "Redakciya" reportage "Pavel Durov and VK. A history of ups and downs" (with eng subs). Also you may see there Oleg Illarionov.

4. brainfucker (Oleg Illarionov)

He is a frequent guest of tech conferences. He also is a former VK employee where he was responsible for Data storage and delivery.

Why the work in early VK should tell us something?
Under Durov's leadership in 2006-2014, VKontakte was a real tech leader and FaceBook's main competitor in the post-Soviet space. With a relatively small, talented team and Durov's managerial genius, VK reached great heights and still remains status of the most popular social network in several post-Soviet countries. Open / Comment

2022-01-13 15:58:02 Morgenstern's TON business card

https://tonometerbot.com/@/nemorgenshtern

Subscribe to his business card, who knows? maybe where he will start spending money) Open / Comment

2022-01-13 15:36:04 Russian rapper Morgenshtern gives a shout-out to TON.

The most popular rap artist in Russia, Morgenshtern praised the TON blockchain project on Instagram in a post to his 7.9 million followers, expressing the amount of trust he has for the team of developers and saying that he would be taking on an essential role in the network’s development and growth.

The rapper posted an Instagram Stories in which he announced he had bought $139,000 worth of Toncoin, which jumped 8% from $3.5 to $3.8 at the time of writing, by showing his followers a screenshot of his Tonkeeper wallet.

We’re ecstatic to see Morgenshtern, who has collaborated with Lil Pump and has become a household name in Russia, spread the good word of the TON project and Toncoin to a broad audience.

Text from offical community

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2022-01-13 15:19:41 NFT Mintosaurus for russian rapper Morgenstern

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2022-01-13 01:38:38 Yesterday we added NFT mintosaurs to our @tonometerbot. The bot activity became a record one in a day: more than 20,000 people visited the bot.

Extra proof that we are heading in the right direction.

The rating of the lucky owners of Mintosaurs and their avatars can be viewed here: tonometerbot.com/rating/nfts Open / Comment

2022-01-12 14:08:55 By the way!
Have you already seen the early promo-video of TON blockchain?

Watch it on our channel

Please write your thoughts in the comments below.
What particularly are you interested in? Don't be shy to ask a question. We will try to answer! Open / Comment

2022-01-12 05:41:13 The address our @tonometerbot uses to receive payments for TON business card verification gets its name in the TON browser.

Thanks to the TON development team for their trust! Open / Comment

2022-01-08 18:54:28 Adjustments in the roadmap

Some points of the roadmap have been swapped around:

In Q4 2021, TON Subscriptions, the decentralized subscription system, and technical integrations with the world's top exchanges were launched, which has caused a rapid growth of network users.

In Q1 2022, we will focus on the TON Developers Program, TON DeFi, and the launch of TON Nominators.

Q2 2022 – TON DNS and TON Payments.

Q3 2022 – TON Proxy and TON Sites.

Q4 2022 – TON Storage.

Right now you can notice a lot of new developers in the community chats working with TON, but experiencing some lack of information and tools.

Of course, we assumed that TON would be of interest to third-party developers and product creators, but we did not assume that it would happen so quickly.

Therefore, we consider it necessary to adjust the flow of work.

First, we are going to start the TON Developers Program: create additional documentation, tutorials, as well as improve API, SDK and development tools.

Previously, it was planned to start this project halfway through the year.

Also, at the beginning of the year, we will focus on TON DeFi – standard smart-contacts for tokens, NFT, liquidity pools on the TON blockchain, – as we see a great need of the community in this direction.

The launch of TON Nominators is important to both users and validators, which is also a priority. Open / Comment

2022-01-08 18:54:28 Developers have changed priorities in the roadmap due to soaring growth in the number of new side developer teams in the Community. Open / Comment

2022-01-07 19:34:01 Let's summarize:

1. Over the next year, Telegram will simply gobble up the majority of services of paid subscriptions and monetary support for authors on the Internet. This is a multi-billion dollar market.

2. A completely new type of interaction within communities will appear in Telegram, where users can reward each other with microtransactions simply by using likes.

3. The advertising system of the messenger will gain momentum.

4. The advertising market for direct placements in Telegram will grow by an order of magnitude. Although it grew 2-3 times a year anyway.

All this points in a market of half a billion users that will soon become a billion.

The currency / fuel / means of exchange for all this technical breakthrough will be Toncoin and TON blockchain technologies.

Guess what will happen to the coin rate by the end of next year. In November, everyone had already demonstrated how this coin can rise.

Is this the new Bitcoin? Ether? No guys. This is something more serious.

Still remember that guy that he recommended just buying Bitcoin for at least $1 in 2013?

Only a few listened to him) Open / Comment