TON Blockchain
TON (The Open Network) is a fully decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed by the Telegram team to onboard billions of users. It boasts ultra-fast transactions, low fees, easy-to-use apps, and is environmentally friendly.
🔗 Main links
📊 On-chain stats
🌎 Communities
📈 Listings & Ratings
TON in numbers
- TOP-25 on CoinMarketCap Up from 206th place since the start of 2022
- 2.8 mln accounts on TON Up from 150k accounts since the start of 2022
- Over 2.5 mln people worldwide follow TON 4x more than at the start of 2022
- TON Dev Community members: over 8k
Key features
- Telegram & TON Telegram and other projects are integrating the TON blockchain into the messenger used by 700 million users.
- Focus on Mass Adoption Products are designed with easy-to-use solutions so that everyone can use them freely.
- Toncoin: The future of currency It's used for transaction fees, securing the blockchain through staking, deciding how the network develops, and settling payments.
- Performance TON is a high-performance blockchain that completes millions of transactions per sec.
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⚡️ TON vs ETH vs Solana
Overviews & Analysis
Telegram Messenger
Telegram is the fastest growing mobile app in 2021
Today:
- 750M+ Monthly Active Users
- 500B+ Monthly Channel Views
- 60M+ Channels, 4M+ Bots
- 10M new sign-ups every week
@wallet integration in Telegram
Wallet currently enables users to store and send Toncoins and USDT with just one click.
Username sales in Telegram
Telegram has integrated the TON blockchain to sell usernames in the form of NFTs and to enable purchasing a Premium Membership subscription for Toncoins.
For Developers
Checklist to start your journey on the TON blockchain
- ✅ Visit the Developer portal
- ✅ Read the Documentation
- ✅ Discover Six Unique Aspects of TON Blockchain that will surprise Solidity developers
- ✅ Learn about the FunC
- ✅ Discover what it's possible to develop using TON Blockchain
- ✅ Write your first Smart Contract
- ✅ Take a look at the Step by Step Guide for Working with Your First TON Wallet
Programming languages
- FunC: a new language similar to C++. Skilled programmers can start a project in just two weeks.
- Fift: a high-level stack-based language is used for local manipulation with cells and other TVM primitives.
- Tact: high-level language. Development difficulty decreased by 40%.
- Golang, Python, C++, TypeScript
TON Features
- A flexible multi-blockchain platform
- A peer-to-peer network (TON P2P Network, or just TON Network)
- A distributed file storage technology (TON Storage): similar to IPFS
- A network proxy/anonymizer layer (TON Proxy): similar to Tor Routing
- A Kademlia-like distributed hash table (TON DHT)
- TON Payments: similar to Lightning Network
Useful Links
Official Telegram dev chats:
Useful dev communities:
Participate in events
- TON Footsteps A reward program for TON contributors
- TON security bug bounty You can target a reward of up to $100,000 in Toncoins for vulnerability, depending on the severity
- TON Events Calendar Live and upcoming crypto events, blockchain conferences, meet-ups, hackathons and other promotions
- TON Contests Contests announcements channel
Articles
For Founders
Participate in Grants and Bounties
- The Open Challenge A reward program offering up to $20M in Toncoin to teams launching projects on TON that increase the TVL in the ecosystem
- Grants Program The TON Foundation invites talent to imagine and realize projects that have the potential to integrate with the daily lives of users
- TON Footsteps A reward program for TON contributors
Cooperate with Ecosystem Funds
- First Stage Labs A venture studio focused on building and scaling Web3 startups, lead by Andrew Rogozov, a founding member of the TON Foundation
- TAV $90M Ecosystem Fund for The Open Network
A hub for TON Builders & Investors: TON Society TON official recruitment page: TON Jobs
Launching with Tonstarter
Fundraise and successfully launch your project on TON 💎
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💵 Raise Funds
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📈 Advisory
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⚡️ PR / Marketing
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🧠 Organising smart IDO and Airdrops
Bring your project to TON
We will connect you with investors and help your project settle in the TON ecosystem