Anatoly Makosov

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I am closing this Telegram channel in favor of my English-language Twitter account: https://x.com/anatoly_makosov.

My Russian-language channel will remain on Telegram: @anatolii_makosov.

The TON Core team channel is also available only on Telegram: @toncore.

I bought some gold. 🥇

Yesterday, two things happened:

🎂 I turned 35.

⛏ We fixed a bug that caused TON masterchain block production to pause for about an hour. We published a report about the incident.

wallet.ton.org

Together with the MyTonWallet team, we’ve updated wallet.ton.org — a non-commercial, fully open-source web wallet for TON.

wallet.ton.org was the first web wallet in the TON ecosystem, created by me and Kirill Emelyanenko back in 2020. Its code became a foundation for many wallets that followed.

There are more feature-rich wallets that support multiple networks, built-in swaps, and staking, while wallet.ton.org is a simple, fallback, reliable, and open tool that will always remain accessible and free.

The new version stays true to these principles, while adding support for all actual TON technologies — Jettons, Mintless Jettons, NFTs (including Telegram Gifts), TON DNS, TON Connect, Ledger, and more. It’s also been significantly improved in terms of usability.

The MyTonWallet team will continue maintaining this non-commercial version. An updated Chrome Extension is currently under review and will be available soon.

Huge thanks to the MyTonWallet team for their support!

https://t.me/telegram/372

Was pondering the topic of paid likes and messages back in 2023.

I think other social platforms will inevitably introduce the same functionality, while Telegram is at the forefront as usual.

https://www.okx.com/ru/learn/developer-stories-02-ton-makes-web3-fun

My interview that I gave to OKX in August but which was published not so long ago.

Some things have changed since then: HMSTR has been minted, TOLK has been released, an exclusive agreement between TON and Telegram Mini Apps has been signed, the peak MAU has increased not 20 times but 50 times.

We're consistently moving into a really mass audience.

Note that the article is my personal point of view.

About the "Developer Stories"Series

Web3 developers have made significant contributions to the advancement of the crypto industry. Their innovation and technical capabilities have injected lasting vitality and motivation into the entire industry, not only improving the technology itself but also providing support for future applications and business models. However, despite their active contributions, they often receive little to no attention.

The "Developer Stories" series, launched by OKX Web3 in collaboration with Chain Catcher, aims to help readers understand the roadmaps, technical insights, latest trends, market dynamics, and comments on hot topics of the day from the perspectives of different chains' core developers. It seeks to enhance the voice of Web3 developers, bring these most active and interesting people closer to the audience, and provide them with the greatest support.

NOT Pixels

The TON blockchain is like a multi-core processor.

Imagine running a single-threaded program on a multi-core processor. It will certainly run, but it will be less efficient because only one core is utilized instead of all of them.

The situation is similar with sending tokens and creating smart contracts in TON.

Yesterday at the NOT Pixels minting event, the TokenTable service initially used a “single-threaded” method to send tokens to 500,000 users. While this had little to no impact on the blockchain itself and had a negligible impact on shardchain, a portion of NOT Pixels users were left unsatisfied - some of them received their tokens after an hour's wait. Messages on TokenTable contracts were executed sequentially, not in parallel.

TokenTable is a good tool for sending tokens in TON, and has previously successfully minted for games with much larger audiences using a “multi-threaded” sharded approach.

We recommend that developers working with large audiences consider sharding to provide a better UX for your services.

However, we also ask users to be understanding: service developers on TON are pioneering the use of asynchronous technologies on the blockchain. Many of the new approaches and paradigms pioneered in TON are just beginning to be actively adopted.

In TON Core, we continue to work on improving our “processor” so that even suboptimally written smart contracts can run at maximum speed.

TON Core: Roadmap 2025 H1

In this roadmap, we've captured the key highlights of what the TON Core team plans to do in the first half of 2025.

Briefly:

— Biggest "Accelerator" Kernel Update in Mainnet

— New tools for validators

— New version of Toncenter API with new functionality: Actions, Pending, Emulation, Domains

— UX guidelines and work with leading community products

— Payment Network Layer 2 release

— Research on sidechains

— New version of TOLK 1.0 programming language with structures, pattern-matching and smart contract interfaces

— Help in launching TON BTC Teleport

— Development of new standards in close communication with the community: Pending transactions ID, Smart contract interfaces, Secure typed signature of arbitrary data., TON wallet mnemonics, Multiple account generation algorithm

Read the full roadmap:
https://telegra.ph/TON-Core-Roadmap-2025-H1-01-22

TON Core: Overview of 2024

In this report, we have compiled the major releases that the TON Core team has made or participated in during 2024.

Briefly:

— Growth of onchain users by 50 times

— 9 major TON kernel updates

— Reduction of commissions by 2.5 times

— New tools to optimize network commissions

— USDT Launch

— Jettons support by exchanges and Highload-wallet V3

— Giant coin mintings of Telegram gaming projects: from NOT to HMSTR

— Tools and guidelines for mass sending

— Mintless Jettons' new technology

— Emergence of the Shardchain Optimization Paradigm

— New programming language TOLK

— Toncenter API Updates

— New development tools

— MyTonCtrl 2.0 validator tool major update

— Restarting the decentralized penalties for poorly performing validators

— Wallet 5.0 smart contract & Gasless transactions

— Mutisig V2

— TON Payment Network Beta

Read the full report:
https://telegra.ph/TON-Core-Overview-of-2024-01-22

We have created a separate channel @toncore where TON Core team will post all technical updates.

I'm dangerously close to turning my channel into a food blog.

I started a Twitter account:

https://x.com/anatoly_makosov

Happy New Year!

In December and January, I spent time in a couple of unusual locations in the middle of the desert.

The static and minimalist landscape, as well as the relative distance from civilization, helped to provide a bit of a distraction and refresh my mind.

There was a lot going on in 2024, both grand successes and new challenges to which we were looking for solutions. In the next posts I will publish a TON Core report on what was accomplished in the past year and our plans for 2025.