The Open Network

2024-04-22 11:06:07 USDt on TON

— Already integrated into @wallet and into many exchanges, onramp and services.

— Free withdrawals from major exchanges and @wallet until the end of June.

— 11M Toncoin rewards for USDt users.

— USDt-TON Learn and Earn campaign on OKX.

— Low on-chain fees.

— Soon: on-chain fees in USDT.

https://ton.org/en/borderless Open / Comment

2024-04-22 11:06:07 Key highlights of the groundbreaking perfomance of Telegram, TON and Tether at TOKEN2049

— Telegram is #6 most used app in the world. 900M MAU, 360M Mini Apps MAU. The number of Mini Apps users can be doubled.

— Telegram Mini Apps, Wallet and TON blockchain provide unprecedented opportunities for developers — an example is Notcoin, which engaged 35M users in 3 months.

— Telegram has launched Ad revenue sharing — payments and withdrawals in TON.

— Telegram will also launch optional monetization of large public chat groups.

— Announce of a revenue sharing model for tips to creators — withdrawals in TON.

— Telegram will allow users to buy digital goods and services — withdrawals in TON.

— Telegram will tokenize stickers and emoji.

— Tether launched USDt on TON. Tether noted the scalability of the TON blockchain and its low fees.

Recording of the perfomance » Open / Comment

2024-04-22 11:06:07 Validators voted to reduce fees

Network fees decreased by 2.5 times. We thank the validators for your choice.

This is the first use of the TON fees reduction mechanism on the mainnet.

Validators also voted for the first precompiled smart contract, which will further reduce fees for USDt in particular.

Developers please pay attention to the guidelines. Open / Comment

2024-04-18 12:54:01 Voting to reduce network fees

TON has always been known for its low network fees.

Fees in TON are fixed (in Toncoin) and do not depend on the load in the network in any way. However, given the rise of Toncoin price, they are no longer so low in terms of dollars.

Fortunately, TON provides a mechanism for reducing the cost of fees by network-wide voting.

We encourage validators to vote for this fee reduction.

https://telegra.ph/Making-TON-the-Most-Affordable-scalable-Layer-1-Network-04-16

How to vote » Open / Comment

2024-04-01 18:39:40 The Open League Season 1

$115M for TON Community

Read more:

https://blog.ton.org/april-1st-the-open-league-season-1-115-million-in-toncoin-community-rewards

For projects:

https://blog.ton.org/the-open-league-season-1-for-projects Open / Comment

2024-02-29 19:26:21 After my last post, some people expressed concern that, as a result of ad sales exclusively for TON, Telegram may end up holding an unhealthy share of Toncoin, which will be too concentrated for a decentralized ecosystem. We acknowledge these concerns and have come up with a solution.

To limit Telegram’s share of TON at ≈10% of the supply, we’ll be selling the upcoming surplus of our TON holdings to long-term investors — under 1-4 years lockup and vesting plan, but at a discount to the market price. This way free-floating TON will get locked up, stabilizing the ecosystem and reducing volatility.

Potential investors in TON have been actively trying to reach out to us through various means. To make the process of any TON sales from Telegram fair and streamlined, we set up a new email address [email protected], where large investors ($1M+) can express their interest. Thanks to the participation of more long-term holders, TON will remain stable and decentralized. Open / Comment

2024-01-28 19:55:21 The highlights of 2023

The most significant of last year's many events:

Mass-adoption:

— TON x Telegram;

Performance:

— World blockchain speed and scalability record;

— 80M transactions in 15 days in mainnet;

Tokenomics:

— Achieving transparency and predictability for more than 66% of tokenomics [1] [2] [3];

— Implementation of the mechanism of burning half of the network fees, achieving deflationary in December;

Recognition:

— The Dubai Financial Services Authority added TON;

— Swiss non-profit TON Foundation;

— The Gateway Conference;

Decentralization:

— Deleting the configuration key;

— Network-wide votings has become commonplace;

Usability:

— Lots of updates to wallets, DEX's, staking, bridge and every service in the TON ecosystem;

Integration:

— TON x Trust Wallet, Ledger, Amazon Web Services, Tencent Cloud, Elliptic, Blockchain.com, Animoca Brands, Bitget Wallet, Atomic Wallet, Changelly and many others;

Technology:

— Zero-Knowledge on TON;

— Constant kernel and developer updates;

Read more detailed review and developer report on the blog. Open / Comment

2023-12-20 22:12:16 Validators voted to activate TVM update

Now TON developers even more equipped to develop cutting edge protocols. Open / Comment

2023-12-08 00:47:26 Call for Network Validators to get in contact

The TON blockchain is experiencing reduced performance now due to a backlog of transactions in the queue to be validated. We’ve received a response from many validators on the network who have already upgraded using the patch provided this morning.

However, there are still some we have been unable to reach. We need to collect the machine specifications from all validators to progress the upgrade as quickly as possible. If you maintain a TON validator node, please get in touch with us urgently so we can resolve the network performance issues.

You can reach the team via this google form. If you know someone who maintains a validator node on TON, please also feel free to forward this message. Open / Comment

2023-12-07 13:43:10 For the last two days, the TON blockchain has realized a new milestone while experiencing a significant slowdown in transaction processing.

No smart contracts or user assets are at risk. All sent messages will be processed.

We're working on fixing the problem.

Tech report »‎ Open / Comment