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2022-01-12 20:15:22 Our New Year airdrop event is still open.

In case you’ve missed our announcement earlier, we’d like to extend a friendly reminder that there’s still time to participate in our New Year Toncoin airdrop event, which is giving away a total of $1.5 million. Each TON blockchain user can receive 0.5 Toncoin.

The event will now run until Jan. 13, and to learn more about the event’s conditions, you can read this post or visit @Toncoin_eng_bot.

We also have video instructions on YouTube and Telegram. Open / Comment

2022-01-11 18:41:53 Ladies and Gentlemen:

2022 is the year.

After four years of blood, sweat, tears, and active development from some of the most brilliant engineering talent on the globe, we're finally at the cusp of something great.

Something that has eluded all others, even as they reach untold heights, successes, and trillion dollar valuations.

Mass adoption.

The ability for each and every individual - no matter who they are, where they are from, or where they live - to lead an independent financial life, free from discrimination, encumbrance, and impediment.

Ubiquitous access to a fair and unprejudiced financial system is nothing less than wholesale transformation, a radical departure from the broken systems of past and present that have left so many behind.

Mass adoption opens a new, equitable path to all, not just the fortunate few.

Mass adoption is our mission.

And the vehicle for our mission is The Open Network. And 2022 is going to be the year we begin to see the fruits of our work.

It's going to be a great year, and we're so happy you're with us.

Open / Comment

2022-01-10 20:00:47 ​​TON Community weekly digest.

Here’s a roundup of the ecosystem’s most exciting news from the first week of 2022.

Network stats update:

The number of new wallets created on TON from Jan. 1 to 8 grew from 133,426 to 150,048 (+12.4%).

News:

— Our $1.5-million New Year airdrop event went live.
— TON’s roadmap underwent some changes.
— Developers from the TON Foundation published their own roundup of 2021.
— The Telegram Tonometer bot added the TON Business Cards function to its services.

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

2022-01-09 13:09:53 ​​Updates to TON’s roadmap.

Due to unprecedented growth in Q4, 2021, developers at the TON Foundation have had to update the project’s roadmap and reprioritize a few goals.

In Q4, 2021, the TON Foundation launched its decentralized subscription service, TON Subscriptions, and it managed to complete technical integrations with some of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges.

In Q1, 2022, the TON Foundation team is going to focus on developing the TON Developers Program, TON DeFi, and TON Nominators.

In Q2, 2022, users can expect TON DNS and TON Payments to launch.

In Q3, 2022, TON Proxy and TON Sites are expected.

And in Q4, 2022, TON Storage will launch.

Why the TON Foundation updated the roadmap:

The number of new developers joining the TON ecosystem has been growing exponentially — faster than the TON Foundation expected.

Third-party developers have been actively working on TON and creating new products; however, they’ve experienced a small snag due to little information and few instruments available.

Therefore, TON’s core team has decided to redirect the workflow and reprioritize specific projects.

First, the team is going to release the TON Developers Program, a program for TON developers. It will include additional documentation and learning materials and improve the API, SDK, and other tools developers use.

Second, at the beginning of 2022, the TON Foundation will concentrate much of its resources on developing TON DeFi — smart contracts for TON-native tokens, NFTs, and liquidity pools on the TON blockchain — since the community has shown immense interest in these services.

Finally, the TON Nominators service is for both users and validators; therefore, its development is a top priority for the TON Foundation.

The updates to the roadmap were a necessary step to take from the team of developers.

However, the roadmap is now up-to-date and can better represent where the team is on its journey to finalizing the projects and services you’ve been waiting for.

@tonblockchain Open / Comment

2022-01-06 13:17:16 $1,500,000 Giveaway video instructions Open / Comment

2022-01-06 10:53:34 We’re giving away $1,500,000

Thanks to you, we’ve reached 600,000 subscribers across all our TON community channels. Therefore, we’re excited to announce a crypto airdrop event: We’re giving away a total of $1,500,000 worth of Toncoin.

Each participant can earn 0.5 Toncoin.

From 2:00 pm Jan. 6 to 11:59 pm Jan. 13, Central European Time

Conditions:
Add Toncoin to “Favorites” on CoinMarketCap
Follow TON on Twitter and retweet this post
Create a Toncoin address with @wallet
Submit your entry to @Toncoin_eng_bot

You can find more details here: @Toncoin_eng_bot

Video instructions: https://t.me/toncoin/250 Open / Comment

2022-01-05 01:30:00 Principles to stay safe in the crypto world.

We want to take this opportunity to remind you that among quality and reliable TON projects may lie scam services.

Here are a few examples of how they scam unsuspecting users:

1. They attract users and investors by promising lucrative returns and then quickly disappear with everyone’s money.
2. Hackers might exploit loopholes or weak coding in smart contracts, making off with millions of dollars.
3. Scammers can also steal people’s crypto simply by announcing an “exploit” or a fake hacking attack.

Always double-check website URLs and be safe when investing in new projects.

You can always read our steps to ensure safety when interacting with the TON blockchain and ecosystem, but be extra careful when using services and applications that are unlisted on ton.org or in the TON Apps suite. Open / Comment

2022-01-02 20:00:31 Crypto exchange Hotbit has listed Toncoin.

Trading is available in the USDT/Toncoin (ERC-20) pair.

Follow the link to start trading.

Daily trading volume on Hotbit exceeds $170 million, and over 1 million people use the exchange every day. Open / Comment

2021-12-31 22:00:21 ​​A year in review.

2021 was nothing short of historic for the TON blockchain.

In the spring of this year, the TON team was simply a small cohort of developers and supporters who were maintaining and improving the network, which was created by Telegram in 2018.

The project had no community and was relatively unknown at the time.

In August, when Telegram relinquished the ton.org domain and source code to the TON Foundation, the TON blockchain received a second chance.

The TON community, whose genesis was this summer, has rapidly grown to become one of the most active crypto communities on the internet:

— Over 50,000 subscribers in the TON Community channel.
— Over 600,000 subscribers for all our TON social media accounts.
— Over 35,000 people have added Toncoin to their “Favorites” on CoinMarketCap.

The TON community comprises proactive people who closely follow the network’s developments and are active TON blockchain participants.

In six short months, the network has grown immensely:

— The number of wallets created on the network grew from 76,000 to 128,000 (60%).
— The number of daily active users grew from 220 to 10,600 (4,700%).
— The number of daily transactions on the network grew from 48,000 to 122,000 (150%).
— The number of network validators grew from 10 to 155, and their stake has increased from 6 million to 194 million Toncoin since January 2021.

The numbers speak for themselves: The TON blockchain has gained a lot of attention and grown at a record pace this year.

Meanwhile, TON and Toncoin’s developments have caught the attention of major media outlets, including Forbes, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, among others.

This year, a notable moment came from none other than Pavel Durov, who expressed pride for the TON project and wished it all the best moving forward.

We also cannot forget the staggering success of Toncoin, whose value grew more than 30 times over the past 12 months.

Although Toncoin had little demand initially, it finally made its debut on some of the world’s largest centralized crypto exchanges for spot trading, such as FTX and OKEx.

While rubbing elbows with some of the most prominent cryptocurrencies in the world on centralized exchanges, Toncoin has also made appearances on decentralized exchanges, such as 1inch, Uniswap, PancakeSwap, among others.

The TON ecosystem has undergone so many changes and added so many services and products that it’s almost unrecognizable (in a good way).

Many talented teams of developers have joined the project and are actively improving the network, creating an environment conducive to healthy competition.

Thanks to them, the TON ecosystem has flourished into a robust milieu of mining pools, services, and applications, which are all located in the TON Apps suite.

This year has been a whirlwind, and we mean that in the best possible way. We’re setting the bar high for 2022 and hope that the network will continue to expand and that the TON Foundation will continue delivering high-quality services and updates.

Before signing off, we’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and extend a big thank you to everyone for all the support. This wouldn’t be possible without you! Open / Comment

2021-12-30 16:12:12 ​​A holiday-season gift for miners.

Starting on Jan. 1, 2022, mining pools TonWhales and TON Coin Pool, verified and certified by the TON Foundation, will not be collecting commission from miner rewards.

TON mining pool participants have spearheaded this generous holiday initiative, which became a reality thanks to the TON Foundation grant program.

The program will run until April 2022, and TON will cover miners’ commissions using its reserves of funds. If miners show interest in the program and prefer it to other pools, it may be extended.

Representatives from TON’s core community of developers will be observing and following whether the pools will complete their requirements honestly and whether they will provide users mining work without any fees.

The TON Foundation sees significant risks for users who connect their computing power to mining pools that have no partnership with or are unverified by the TON Foundation. Users who participate in these foreign mining pools do so at their own risk and without the protection of the community.

More specifically, concerns center around hidden commission fees, unexpected and unsanctioned seizure of income, or using a pool’s computing power for nefarious reasons toward other participants of the ecosystem.

For these reasons, the TON Foundation has decided to help honest market participants by removing the automatic commission taken and shifting everyone’s attention to increasing users’ income and developing the ecosystem.

Please note: Currently, only two resources have received financing for the program.

Maintaining a mining pool is an expensive process that hardly anyone would want to do when financial incentives are removed from the equation.

If you’ve come across a mining pool unlisted in our TON Apps suite that offers low commission fees or even zero fees, tread lightly: Participating in these pools carries high risks. Do your own research and be safe. Open / Comment