Back in 1665–1667, when self-isolating during the Great Plague | The Open Network

Back in 1665–1667, when self-isolating during the Great Plague that swept England, Isaac Newton had made a number of scientific discoveries that subsequently impacted the entire world.

As time passed by, the period that saw Sir Isaac’s major breakthroughs in optics and calculus along with the invention of laws of motion and universal gravitation became known as the ‘Year of Wonders’.

Fast-forward to 2020, and a couple of open-source developers calling themselves ‘Newton’ decided to give a new life to the TON technology amid the lockdown inflicted by the most recent pandemic in history.

As a result of extensive research and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, today we have a fully operational TON network that delivers fast and cheap transactions and whose horizontal scalability makes it capable of withstanding any amount of load.

As of today, TON is one of the few PoS-powered networks with functioning sharding. But what may look as the final destination to many other projects is just the point of take-off to us.

We aim to fulfill TON’s original vision, which is a protocol uniting all existing & new blockchains and the Internet itself into a single global network.

The next-gen worldwide network will be built as an aggregator of networks and blockchains, meaning it’ll require a fitting tech.

‘Newton’ has since evolved into TON Foundation and acquired new talented devs. While we continue our work, the community grows by the day.

We don’t know if what we do in the present will ever come close to be remembered by the title of ‘Year of Wonders,’ but we have a feeling that we’re on the right path.