The Open Network

2022-08-05 17:44:17 TON Crosschain Roadmap

One of the overall missions of TON is to unite blockchains and the internet into a single network.

We’d like to share with you what projects are working toward this goal at the moment:

TON Sites and TON Proxy [Q3]

We plan to launch the TON Sites and TON Proxy components at the end of this quarter. In addition to the two components, we plan to provide the capability of smart contract communication with sites and vice versa.

Crosschain NFT transfers [Q3]

The XP.Network dev team is about to complete its work on a multichain bridge via which users will be able to transfer NFTs between TON and multitude of blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Tron, Tezos, Elrond, Algorand. Decentralized oracles will keep the bridge running.

Crosschain token transfers [Q3]

The RSquad dev team has been working on a bridge through which users can transfer any token (altcoins) from Ethereum and BNB Chain to TON and back. This new functionality will be added to ton.org/bridge and will operate by a similar principle.

Rainbow bridge with EVM-compatible blockchains (Ethereum, BNB Chain, and others) [Q3 2022–2023]

Decentralized oracles control transfers between networks at the moment. This common approach is a stable and safe solution. However, we plan on taking it to the next step and making it ideal: All operations will occur only through smart contracts without any intermediaries.

To make this happen, new tools need to be created so that the smart contracts from other blockchains can verify the authenticity of TON blockchain’s data and vice versa. We and blockchain developers from the RSquad have come together to work on Solidity code that will be able to verify TON blocks and transactions. After that, we plan to make FunC code that can verify EVM blocks and transactions.

The project has grand aspirations, but the Rainbow Bridge solution will fully launch in 2023. However, the developers plan on publishing results, code, and tools intermittently.

Toncoin bridge update

On the ton.org/bridge site, the ability to transfer Toncoin among Ethereum, BNB Chain, and TON has been available for over a year already. In that timespan, a large number of crypto transfers from users has been processed. A UI update is in the pipeline to make everything even more convenient for users. Thank you to developer Zavtramen. Open / Comment

2022-07-30 12:04:23 The TON DNS auction has started! Open / Comment

2022-07-29 16:13:37 The TON DNS auction starts tomorrow, July 30, at 9:00 UTC on the dns.ton.org site.

Network validators, on Aug. 2, it is planned to set the root DNS contract in the network config by voting — all validators need to participate. Open / Comment

2022-07-14 20:52:29 Last week, we were pleased to announce that TON has become a sponsor of the competitive programming platform Codeforces.

Codeforces is a popular platform where tens of thousands of the world’s strongest programmers compete in various competitions at the highest level.

More than 11,000 programmers took part in our last event, CodeTON.

In total, more than 1.5 million people are registered on the site. Open / Comment

2022-07-14 20:52:29 Results of the first-ever Hack-a-TON!

The hackathon’s goal was to show the best application of TON payments technology in 48 hours. We received over 80 submissions.

The teams made MVPs showing the use of TON Payments in various areas — social networks, API, streaming, calls, advertising, games, internet traffic, decentralized finances, and more. The ideas are so cool that we decided to double the prize pool.

It was also the first TON programming event with an offline part — the participants could gather in Prague.

See the results on the @toncontests channel. Open / Comment

2022-07-14 20:52:29 Mytonctrl update

TON has a very convenient tool for installing and maintaining a node or a validator.

Just take a server with the recommended hardware requirements and run one script.

The mytonctrl tool received a big update c83a3a:

New functionality
— Quick installation mode using dump download.
— Nominator pool support is now in the master branch with new improvements.
— Validators can now issue certificates for liteservers.

Improved work with wallets
— Added support for different wallet versions (v1, v2, v3) and wallet version detecting.
— Import & export wallet by address and private key.
— Now no restart is required to apply changes to wallets.

Stats improvement
— More info in the status command and more accurate calculation of indicators — e.g., TPS.
— Display of past elections, validators, and complaints.
— Improved telemetry (disks iops, network pps, uname, memory, swap).

Misc
— Refactoring.
— Miner removed.

Thank you to igroman787, the permanent maintainer of mytonctrl. Open / Comment

2022-07-01 14:55:18 Introducing TON Payments

TON Payments is a technology for micropayments and a micropayment channel network. It can be used for many instant off-chain value transfers between parties without network fees. Safeguards built into the system ensure that these transfers are as secure as on-chain transactions.

Read more: https://telegra.ph/TON-Payments-07-01 Open / Comment

2022-06-30 18:21:27 Introducing TON DNS

TON DNS is a service that allows users to assign a human-readable name to crypto wallets, smart contracts, and websites.

With TON DNS, access to decentralized services is analogous to access to websites on the internet.

Read all about this new TON component: https://telegra.ph/TON-DNS-06-30 Open / Comment

2022-06-28 11:02:13 Toncoin mining has successfully ended

Today, the last Toncoin was mined, signaling the successful closure of TON’s initial distribution.

Read all about this major event:
https://telegra.ph/Toncoin-mining-has-successfully-ended-06-17 Open / Comment

2022-06-21 15:55:14 Today’s Cloudflare outage brought down a large portion of the internet

Luckily, a company that provides network services to millions of sites quickly fixed the problem.

The current internet has become quite fragile due to centralization and excessive corporate dominance. We wrote about this earlier, predicting that the number of such incidents will only increase.

We see the future of the global network in decentralization and blockchain technologies. TON has a chance to play a decisive role in this because TON is a decentralized metacloud.

Our vision is described in more detail in this article: https://telegra.ph/TON--The-metacloud-06-15 Open / Comment