The Open Network

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

2022-02-21 15:52:46 HTTP API for TON has been greatly improved over the past months.

Developers can use the fast, multi-threaded and reliable toncenter.com by getting an API key in the bot for free.

It’s also possible to run your own API instance since it is open-source and can be easily installed. Open / Comment

2022-02-18 19:20:31 NFT standard received Release Candidate status

Developers of TON products and NFT authors can start implementing the technology on the testnet.

Specification »
Smart contracts »
JS SDK »

Main features of TON NFT:

— Cheap network fees. TON NFT deployment is ~500 times cheaper than in Ethereum and does not depend much on the market price of Toncoin.

— Scalability. Tokens have a distributed architecture, and collections with millions of NFTs will not be the bottleneck of the network.

— New mechanics. You can make new mechanics where one NFT smart contract can not only change the content of another NFT smart contract, but even change its code. Looking forward to games and other use cases for this. Open / Comment

2022-02-02 16:58:20 Toncoin’s ticker will soon be changed on exchanges and services from TONCOIN to TON.

The ticker of the wrapped token on Ethereum and BSC networks will remain TONCOIN as before.

During the transitional period, you may encounter both versions of the ticker. Pease check ton.org in case of doubt. Open / Comment

2022-01-31 23:39:12 Completion of the NFT standard

We invite developers to join us for the completion of the standard and the implemention of TON non-fungible tokens.

If you have specific suggestions for an improvement - you can comment on the current draft.

Please note that any flood, offtopic and messages that do not make sense will be deleted and their authors will be banned forever. Open / Comment