The Open Network

2022-04-07 16:51:40 Some Q1 numbers

Over the past three months, the number of accounts created in The Open Network more than doubled from 170,270 on Jan. 1 to 382,148 on March 31.

The total number of subscribers across all TON social media pages and accounts surpassed 1.7 million subscribers — this number was merely 800,000 followers at the beginning of the year. Our community from over 10 countries read material in 12 languages.

Also, the growing interest is evidenced by the fact that the number of people following Toncoin at CoinMarketCap grew 6 times since the beginning of the year from around 35,000 to over 214,000 followers. Open / Comment

2022-04-04 21:54:13 The first NFT project for TON - ton.diamonds - has published instructions for deploying NFT collections, as well as a ready-made open source script and a web page for deployment.

You can use these tools to deploy your NFT collections on the mainnet.

Also, in the near future, the UI for deploying NFT collections will become available on TON-based NFT marketplaces.

Instruction & tools » Open / Comment

2022-03-31 19:05:34 We welcome hundreds of NFT projects created by various teams in TON.

You can check them out on new 3rd party marketplaces like getgems.io or disintar.io.

And NFTs are already supported by some blockchain explorers as well.

Moreover, 3rd party launchpads like rocketon.org have started emerging.

Now, when token standards have received release status, we invite all developers to implement and launch their projects on the mainnet.
In the coming days, deployment instructions and guidelines will be published for NFT authors.

More interesting things are coming further Open / Comment

2022-03-31 19:05:34 TON scalable DeFi standards are here!

For the last three months, we've been working to locate a proper solution for creating asynchronous scalable DeFi in TON.

The discussion was open and available on GitHub, all comments were considered and many of them influenced the final standard.

Today, we are happy to present ready-made standards and examples of smart contract implementation for Fungible, Semi-Fungible, and Non-Fungible tokens as well as applied contracts for NFT-marketplaces and ICOs.

TON tokens built on a new architecture: they are fast, cheap, provide new features, and ultra-scalable.

Read the article about the design and the benefits of TON DeFi »

NFT: Standard, Implementation, JS SDK »

Jettons (Fungible): Standard, Implementation, JS SDK »

Semi-fungible is combination of NFT and FT. Open / Comment

2022-03-31 19:05:34 First nominator pool by TonWhales team

You can stake Toncoins into the pool and earn income from this.

Unlike other forms of staking, nominator pools are the most useful: pool’s stakes participate in validation rounds and, as result, increase the stability and decentralization of the network.

The pool by the TonWhales team runs on their own open-source smart contract. It’s worth noting that TonWhales team has organized an emergency fund of 1 million TON, and also launched an open bug bounty program.

TonWhales Nominator Pool » Open / Comment

2022-03-31 19:05:34 Developer Program Q1 2022 Report

We’re happy to share what’s been done in this area:

— API and SDK significantly improved.

— TON documentation revisited: from basic concepts to Toncoin payment acceptance code examples.

— New network explorers emerged.

— Dev tools — e.g., MyLocalTON — majorly revamped. New perfect tools such as toncli and IDEA Plugin were delivered by developer community itself.

— Rules for publishing apps and dApps on the ton.app catalogue were eased. From now on, anyone can list their product following a simplified moderation procedure. Community channels issue round-ups of newly arrived TON products.

— Big work on TON browser extension as one of the main ways to interact with dApps.

— New independent dev platform tonic.cx, which hosts AMA sessions from time to time. In general, we see a notable growth of chats and other communication channels for TON developers in many languages.

— Special attention is paid to competitions among developers. @toncontests keeps organizing more and more contests, the most recent of which – CodeTON on Codeforces, saw over 11,000 programmers participate. At the time of writing, there’s an ongoing Smart Challenge with a prize fund of $30,000 — a great way to get acquainted with the FunC language that’s used for writing TON smart contracts.

We’re thrilled to see new products and teams along with pull requests to open-source repos coming in volumes.

We’re not stopping at this. TON developers and product creators will always be one of the top priorities in The Open Network. Open / Comment

2022-03-26 02:09:48 Why does TON have its own programming language?

We tell in a new article (spoiler: the next generation blockchain could not be made with old generation language): https://telegra.ph/Its-time-to-try-something-new-Asynchronous-smart-contracts-03-25 Open / Comment

2022-03-26 02:09:48 More then 11,000 programmers took part in the CodeTON contest on the Codeforces!

The top 1000 were awarded in Toncoins.

We invite CodeTON partipiants and anyone who wants to take part in the TON Smart Challenge on March 28th.

In this competition, you will get acquainted with the FunC programming language for developing TON smart contracts.

Contest page with details and sample task » Open / Comment

2022-03-24 21:46:01 https://telegra.ph/TON-NFT-Opens-up-New-Opportunities-for-Game-Creators-03-24-2 Open / Comment

2022-03-21 21:16:25 TON Foundation team are pleased to support the CodeTON round on Codeforces.

Codeforces is a famous project joining people interested in and taking part in programming contests.

Thousands of skilled programmers participate in each contest to determine the best and have fun.

CodeTON round » Open / Comment