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2022-10-11 21:35:40 ​A new TON NFT standard has been finalized.

We’re happy to announce that after a lot of hard work and endless testing, the TON Foundation has approved the standard for a Soulbound TON NFT.

A Soulbound token is a particular kind of token. It cannot be transferred or sold because it is meant to remain in its owner’s wallet forever.

This token standard will help to create new use cases for NFT technology.

For instance, a Soulbound token can be used as a way to keep track of a wallet’s accomplishments, hold essential documents (driver’s license, diplomas, etc.), and create a digital passport that will allow users to pass KYC verifications more quickly, sell subscriptions, and issue custom discount coupons.

Additional features include returning and burning tokens.

We can’t wait to see how the Soulbound NFT will be used out of the gate and the genesis of new use cases.

The team behind the Getgems NFT marketplace initiated the standard, issuing a grant in a partnership with TON Punks.

Getgems has already integrated the Soulbound token on its platform. Open / Comment

2022-10-11 00:21:11 TON Society is excited to share the TON Diamonds art-video of the exhibition Annihilation by Ellen Sheidlin at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

To see the video w/o downloading: https://twitter.com/ton_society/status/1577988406482714625?s=20&t=z2i9Rn1bTo9x1LQQpMeC3w

This event which took place Sep 1-4 was historical: First ever participation of TON NFT in a worldwide platform with a famous artist Ellen Sheidlin in a captivating space in Louvre Museum.

During this exhibition, we had the chance to share about the capabilities of TON blockchain and the NFT market with artists from all over the world. We also established contacts and arrangements with international artists. Feedback and tags on social media and channels were also gained. TON Diamonds also gave the holders the opportunity to visit the exposition free of charge.

All of the above are significant milestones in the development of the NFT and TON blockchain at the international level. TON Diamonds is blazing a trail and aims to create a marketplace whereby digital art from famous artists are traded, strategy that is differentiated from previous collections/marketplaces.

TON Diamonds will also host an exhibition in Dubai on October 14-15.

TON Society believes that NFT is here to stay and support teams that are trail blazing utility and real life artist conversion to this space. Open / Comment

2022-10-09 20:38:30 ​TON Community Weekly Digest

Here’s a roundup of the ecosystem’s most exciting news from the past seven days.

Network stats update:

The number of new accounts created on TON from Oct. 2 to 8 grew from 1,317,980 to 1,335,273 (+1.3%).

News:

The @wallet Telegram bot launched its P2P market, where users can trade cryptocurrencies directly with one another. The market was developed like a web bot and has a convenient interface.

The TON ecosystem is going to host a series of events called Hack-TON-berfest as a sign of support for Hacktoberfest, a festival of open-source projects where developers can contribute to the development of TON-based projects.

Betting company BilBet integrated the Toncoin cryptocurrency.

The first-ever search engine on TON, searching.ton, was launched.

We published a short list of popular TON browser extensions.

TON Society published an art video from a September exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where artist Ellen Sheidlin displayed her TON-based NFT collection, Annihilation.

TON Society published photos from the offline hackathon Hack-a-TONx Prague, which was held at the start of the month.

TON’s core was updated.

Stay up-to-date with the latest developments brewing in the TON ecosystem by turning on the notifications to this channel. You won’t want to miss a thing! Open / Comment

2022-10-08 21:30:00 ​TON browser extensions

The TON ecosystem continues to expand, with a handful of wallets already releasing their browser extensions.

These extensions play a vital role in the ecosystem, allowing users to interact with major TON components and services — e.g., DEXs and NFT marketplaces — manage their cryptocurrencies based on TON, and even view decentralized sites in their browsers.

These browser extensions make working with the blockchain simple and convenient, allow users to sign in to services with a single click, and facilitate payments in a split second.

Today, we want to tell you about three of the most well-known TON extensions.

MyTonWallet

A noncustodial crypto wallet with open-source code, it allows its users to view TON sites directly within your browser without altering any of your settings.

The team behind MyTonWallet was the first to implement support for the TON Proxy component. When you turn on the “TON Proxy” function in your extension settings, you’ll have immediate access to any Web3 site on TON.

The wallet has a sleek and modern user interface and supports all TON standards: tokens (Jettons), NFT, TON DNS, TON Proxy, and TON Magic.

MyTonWallet extension on Google Chrome
Official website: https://mytonwallet.io/

Uniton

Uniton is a noncustodial cryptocurrency Web3 wallet from the Tegro team.

Uniton supports custom tokens (Jettons) on TON, allows crypto transfers via TON DNS names, and has multi-accounts, the ability to switch among multiple wallets in a streamlined interface (This function is currently only available in the web version).

The developers plan on adding a function that will display NFTs.

Uniton extension on Google Chrome
The mobile and web versions of the wallet are available on the official website: uniton.app
Telegram: https://t.me/TonExtension

TON Wallet

TON Wallet is the go-to wallet developed by the TON Foundation.

This wallet’s extension is user-friendly, lets users sign in to any TON site or service, and gives users full control over their Toncoin — storing, receiving, and sending.

The extension supports TON Magic and plans to add support for TON Proxy in the near future. Open / Comment

2022-10-07 20:46:30 Introducing the first search engine on TON

It has been several days, and the first projects developed on the recently-launched TON Sites have started appearing. The first search engine available at searching.ton popped up today and drew the attention of TON enthusiasts. The site, similar in appearance to well-known Google or DuckDuckGo, parsers all the web3 sites on The Open Network. Currently, it is toncenter.ton, just-for-test.ton, and foundation.ton. The developers kindly ask the first testers to send feedback to this user. You can follow upcoming updates and find more details on their channel.

We remind you that it is necessary to configure a proxy server to in1.ton.org:8080 before you visit .ton sites. TON Foundation posted detailed information on how to set up a proxy server on GitHub. Please, visit this page if you experience some problems.

Would you like to see The Daily TON on web3? Please share your opinions via our bot! And also, do not hesitate to ask us any questions regarding configuring proxy or anything else — we are always open to help you! Open / Comment

2022-10-06 19:16:44 ​Sports betting company BilBet has integrated the Toncoin cryptocurrency.

BilBet, a popular sports bookmaker in India and Uzbekistan, has added the options to make Toncoin deposits and withdrawals.

The platform supports all major local payment systems — in India, PhonePe, UPI, Paytm, and IMPS, and in Uzbekistan, Uzcard, and Humo.

BilBet is well-known in India and has been actively promoting its services on mass media channels. Some famous Indian bloggers and actors have become its ambassadors.

Any cryptocurrency that strives for mass adoption must integrate into superior products. Toncoin’s inclusion on BilBet is another step toward international recognition with exposure to gigantic markets, such as India and Uzbekistan. Open / Comment

2022-10-05 18:40:53 ​Reminder about the TON Society Telegram channel.

If you haven’t already, we encourage you to subscribe to one of the TON Foundation’s official Telegram channels, @tonsociety.

TON Society is where developers meet capital and a community that brings together true enthusiasts of the TON ecosystem — builders and key opinion leaders (KOLs) who propel The Open Network’s vision.

TON Society offers the following unique contents and news:

— Updates about the grants program and investments from ecosystem funds
— High profile team features to the broader community
— News about the latest TON Society blog posts for developers and investors
— Future event updates covering Hack-a-TON, conferences, local builder meetups, etc.
— TON Society chat for general discussion about ecosystem building
— Reminders of TON Society Twitter Spaces and town halls
— Engage with KOLs who answer interesting questions and not get drowned out by general community chat messages

In addition, TON Society will soon search for ambassadors - stay tuned!

If you’re an active participant in the TON ecosystem, we invite you to become a member of the @tonsociety community. Join now! Open / Comment

2022-10-04 16:54:34 A P2P exchange is now available in the @wallet bot.

Today, the @wallet bot team announced the launch of a new P2P market. Users can now directly buy and sell cryptocurrency to each other, with the service acting as a guarantor of the transaction.

The P2P market supports six different fiat currencies — United States dollar, euro, Russian ruble, Ukrainian hryvnia, Belarusian ruble, and Kazakhstani tenge — each with its own list of approved payment methods. In the current release, you can create an advertisement to sell Toncoin and purchase cryptocurrency by selecting an advertisement posted by another user.

This significant new feature has already been integrated into the interface of @wallet, whose team invites you to check it out and share your thoughts in the comments section of the Wallet News channel.

The @wallet developers have confirmed that even more innovative updates await us, and we will update you every step of the way! Stay tuned! Open / Comment

2022-10-04 00:11:40 Hack-TON-berfest has begun!

As we’ve told you before, the TON ecosystem is joining Hacktoberfest, a festival for open-source projects, and teams from the ecosystem are going to host activities during the event called Hack-TON-berfest.

The festival will run until the end of October, with enthusiasts helping open-source TON-based projects to solve tasks and project leaders reaching out to the community and asking for help.

You can also participate in our festival as a maintainer or a contributor.

To participate, go to the event’s main page and follow the instructions.

Over 20 maintainers have posted their repositories and await help from the community at this very moment.

Come and join us at Hack-TON-berfest! Open / Comment

2022-10-02 21:45:23 ​TON Community Weekly Digest

Here’s a roundup of the ecosystem’s most exciting news from the past seven days.

Network stats update:

The number of new accounts created on TON from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 grew from 1,297,985 to 1,315,906 (+1.4%).

News:

The first versions of the TON Sites and TON Proxy components launched, giving the TON community access to fully decentralized sites.

Singaporean crypto exchange BitYard listed Toncoin. Trading is available in the TON/USDT pair.

The biggest crypto exchange in Southern Europe, Bit2Me opened a knowledge database dedicated to The Open Network for Spanish speakers.

The TON Community blog was ranked first for the number of views for the past week on CoinMarketCap.

TON announced it was going to participate in this year’s Hacktoberfest, an annual festival for open-source projects.

LiberMall, a new NFT marketplace in the TON ecosystem, announced its testnet launch: test.libermall.com.

The final results were posted for the QA engineer contest, TON Test Challenge.

The ecosystem’s inaugural TON Design Challenge came to an end. The winners will be announced next week.

The offline hackathon Hack-a-TONx Prague was held in Prague, Czechia, with a total prize pool of $37,000.

Stay up-to-date with the latest developments brewing in the TON ecosystem by turning on the notifications to this channel. You won’t want to miss a thing! Open / Comment