Anatoly Makosov

The gaming projects Catizen, Rocky Rabbit, WatBirds, and Hamster Kombat minted coins on the TON blockchain and listed on exchanges.

It is too early to summarize the technical results: the influx of users is so great that the excitement not only persists, but will probably continue to grow in the coming days.

Hamster Kombat was the first time Mintless Jetton technology was used. It was a success. Notably, most users did not provide their TON wallet address in advance, so only about 10 million of them received coins using this new method. The rest receive coins by picking them up on their own from a special smart contract.

Despite the heavy load, the TON blockchain continued to steadily create blocks and process transactions. At the time of Hamster Kombat's launch, backend failures of some wallets, services and exchanges, including Binance, were observed at first, indicating an unprecedented load on the infrastructure. However, the work of all services was quickly restored.

Let me remind you that these gaming projects have multi-million audiences, and Hamster Kombat airdrop has 131 million users.

TON is the only blockchain that can, in principle, cope with events of this scale.

We'll keep an eye on the situation as it develops. There will be more interesting numbers and statistics next week.

Surpassed 10 million monthly active wallets 🤘

https://tonstat.com

TGE's schedule for the week (so I don't forget)

September 20 - Catizen @CatizenAnn (19M MAU).

September 23 - Rocky Rabbit @rockyrabbitio (18M MAU) + WatBirds @gameechannel (12M MAU).

September 26 - Hamster Kombat @hamster_kombat (100M MAU).

Question for the new season of The Open League and game projects that are planning their minting 3 days before Hamster Kombat - do you really think that 239 million users is not enough and you need to add another ten million on top? 😅

Next challenge

✅ May 2024 - Notcoin minting - 20 million MAU

✅ August 2024 - DOGS minting - 50 million MAU

😱 September 2024 - Hamster Kombat minting - 100 million MAU

A grand event will soon take place - the initial coin distribution on the TON blockchain of Hamster Kombat game project. Users will be able to get the coins to their blockchain wallets. On the same day, Hamster will be listed on the world's largest exchanges such as Binance, OKX and Bybit.

Hamster Kombat has already attracted an incredible audience even by Web2 standards - over 239 million players, of which around 100 million are actively playing every month.

These numbers are comparable to the scale of the entire crypto industry, and no blockchain event has ever before attracted such a large number of users.

Each such event is a step forward in the development of blockchain technology. TON has previously successfully hosted mintings of Notcoin (with ~20 million monthly active users) and DOGS (~50 million MAU). Of course, things don't always go perfectly, but we learn from our mistakes and move on. The TON Core team is keeping a close eye on the situation and is ready to respond to any changes.

Right now, the team, validators and product and service developers are finalizing the last preparations before this milestone moment. The TON community, while remaining pioneers, continues to pave the way for mass adoption of cryptocurrencies.

✅ TON2024.09 update with fixes and optimizations.

✅ Restart of penalties for poorly performing validators.

✅ Mintless Jettons technology.

TON Mintless Jettons

Introducing the new TON Mintless Jetton technology. It is a jetton that can be instantly distributed to hundreds of millions of users on the TON blockchain, with network fees costing less than a dollar. The user's ownership of their coins is guaranteed by cryptography and a smart contract.

As an example, we created a test jetton called Mintless Points (for testing purposes only, no other value) and distributed it to 18 million wallets in the TON mainnet.

This jetton is compatible with regular jetton in TON. The only difference is that the smart contact is not created in advance, but during the user's first action.

Popular TON ecosystem products such as Tonkeeper, MyTonWallet, Tonviewer, Tonscan.org, TON API, Toncenter have announced that they will soon support Mintless Jetton technology.

We encourage all products and services in the ecosystem to consider integration as well.

On September 26, the famous game project Hamster Kombat will apply this technology during its coin giveaway. Considering Hamster Kombat's gigantic audience, this event has all chances to become the largest airdrop in the history of cryptocurrencies.

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The system of penalties for poorly working validators will be fully operational next Monday, 9 September.

We will provide additional tools in the coming days to make it easier for you to assess whether your validator is working well.

If you are compliant with the hardware requirements and guidelines, you are OK.

https://t.me/tonstatus/134

But according to TON API data there are already 1.3 billion transactions, we missed the anniversary 😁

1 billion transactions in TON 🚀

Half of them occurred in the last 100 days.

https://tonscan.org/blocks

According token terminal reached 1.1 million active onchain users on Thursday (DAU).

Let me remind you that since the beginning of the year:

The number of smart contracts has grown 13 times.

MAU (monthly active users) by 24 times.

https://www.tonstat.com/

Actions taken:

1. MINTING METHOD

Issue

Notcoin used mass mint coins to its users. DOGS tried a mechanism where the user picks up their own coins by himself. The technical arrangement of this process turned out to be not the most optimal. It creates a lot of unnecessary transactions that could have been avoided. The number of users is already record-breaking, and this increased the load several times more.

Solution

Yesterday, DOGS switched to mass minting.

Further improvement

For the next projects, we invented a new TON Mintless Jetton technology. As well as reducing network load, it allows coins to be distributed to hundreds of millions of users and radically reduces projects' network costs for initial minting. More details about Mintless in the following posts.

2. VALIDATORS

Issue

Some validators continue to perform poorly. It also took many hours of waiting while most validators applied an emergency update.

Solution

Validators are requested to update their contacts https://t.me/toncoin/1498.

Clearly, there is a need to improve the decentralised system for penalising weak validators.

We have improved the complaint submission in the existing penalty system. On Monday we will publish the necessary documentation and announce the date when the fines will be fully operational.

Validators, please familiarise yourself https://t.me/tonstatus/133 with the requirements and guidelines to avoid fines.

If you don't want to do this, you can use staking https://ton.org/en/stake.

Further improvement

The decentralised penalty system will be further developed: the method for identifying weak validators will be improved and the penalty amounts will be increased.

3. DEXes

Issue

Some decentralised exchanges in TON have a central smart contract that is involved in all transactions. This creates a bottle neck.

Solution

Previously such smart contracts could negatively affect the entire network, after the latest TON 2024.08 update it only slows down a specific service.

Further improvement

Recommendation for blockchain developers: try to avoid single central points in your smart contract systems, distribute smart contracts and their interaction with each other as much as possible. Focus on the jetton-wallet and nft-item design.

Dedust.io DEX looks the best in terms of contract architecture.

4. MISCONFIGURATION OF VALIDATORS

Issue

The validator parameters state-ttl 3600 and --catchain-max-block-delay 0.4 do not work best under this load. The new recommended value is state-ttl 86400 --catchain-max-block-delay 0.5.

Solution

The parameters have already been fixed in previous days' updates.

CONCLUSION

The TON community has the honour of being discoverers and is at the forefront of the blockchain industry.

SHIBA INU on Ethereum, one of the most popular memcoins, has 1.4M holders and 13.4M transactions on it. These are figures over a 4 year period since its inception in 2020.

Projects like DOGS are gaining comparable numbers in the first few days of their launch on the TON blockchain.

These days there is an initial minting and listing of coins of DOGS https://t.me/dogshouse_bot game project with 50 million (!) monthly active users.

Not only TON, but the entire crypto industry has never seen such a scale. The world's largest exchanges such as Binance, OKX, Bybit went down on the first day.

The scale is growing rapidly: in May Notcoin with ~25M MAU was distributed and listed, today DOGS with 50M MAU, and ahead of us are gaming giants TapSwap (56M users), Hamster Kombat (239M (!) users) and other projects.

These are impressive numbers even by the standards of Web2. TON community are real pioneers.

Only those who do nothing have no problems. There was network downtime tonight, network operation has been restored. We see places to improve and are working on it. There will be updates this week.

The Telegram and TON projects are not about technology, but about people's struggle for freedom. Telegram gives people the freedom to communicate and TON gives people the freedom to share values. The two teams are committed to this mission, even though it's not easy in today's world.

In 2019, the SEC banned Telegram from issuing its own cryptocurrency, but TON's technology was continued by the community. This eventually made TON more autonomous, decentralised and sustainable.

It's clear to everyone that Pavel Durov is being detained on a completely far-fetched pretext. The Telegram team has a ready-made protocol of action for such cases.

The history of Telegram and TON projects, the obstacles that have already been passed, suggest that all challenges will be overcome.

✉️

TON 2024.08

Regular kernel update. As promised, improved security - network protection against some types of attacks. Also improved performance - in particular, Mikhail SpyCheese was able to speed up state serialization from 18 hours to 50 minutes (!).

All owners of validators and liteservers should definitely upgrade.

Let me remind you that validators should have at least 128Gb of RAM.

MyTonCtrl 2.0

It seemed that this Python code, written in one file by Igroman in 2020, turned out to be perfect at once and does not require any improvements.

However, the unbelievable happened - a major version of MyTonCtrl 2.0, a complete code refactoring and a lot of improvements, fixes and new functionality.

In addition, the documentation about MyTonCtrl and about running TON-nodes in general has been significantly updated.

Retracer

Made open-source tool for developers that shows the stacktrace of a failed transaction in the web-interface. Developers can use on a day-to-day basis until explorers build this directly into their UI.

🍌

Suggest a name for the programming language on TON.

— English;

— easy and unambiguous to read;

— not widely used anywhere;

I'll give out 100 TON to the best 3 choices on Monday. If there are no best choices, I will not give out anything.

https://t.me/suggest_lang_name

Punycode in TON DNS is not planned to be supported, because it is a space for phishing and fraud:

Try to distinguish notcoin.ton from nоtcoin.ton (the latter has a non-English letter "o").

Not to mention 😗 and 😙.

There is no point in buying punycode ton domains.

TON Sites

You should be prepared in case Telegram in the next update becomes a full-fledged TON browser and start opening TON sites.

Useful links:

Introduction

A reminder about the nature of the technology and why it is needed:
https://telegra.ph/TON-Sites-TON-WWW-and-TON-Proxy-09-29-2

Launch your TON site

To run your TON site, you need to run a web server and reverse-proxy.

There are two implementations of reverse-proxy: in C++ and in Golang by Oleg Baranov. Golang is even more stable.

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Open a TON site

Popular TON wallets support opening TON sites, for example, mobile Tonkeeper or browser extension MyTonWallet.

You can also install a standalone TON Proxy application by Oleg Baranov.

There is a ton.website service that allows opening TON sites in the browser.

Support the opening of TON sites in your product

You need to build a local entry proxy into your product.

There is a ready-made library and examples of usage for Android and iOS.

The public entry-proxy has been launched for demonstration purposes only, please do not use it.

TON DNS

TON sites use TON DNS. You can purchase a domain at dns.ton.org, NFT marketplaces getgems.io, or at ton.diamonds.

TON Connect

You can log in and interact with the site via TON Connect, which has improved considerably recently.

TON Storage

TON sites can be hosted via TON Storage, but more about that next time..