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⁨Passengers of the Titanic actually didn't want to leave the ship. For almost two hours after it hit the iceberg, people thought the Titanic was unsinkable. Lifeboats left half empty.

Only in the last half an hour, people started to panic. But by that time, it was already too late. Not enough lifeboats, Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. Now, I came here today to tell you that we find ourselves in a similar predicament, in a similar situation.

Our ship has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms. Personal freedoms are being eroded everywhere in the world, almost without exception.⁩

TOP Labs has graciously deigned to release yet another product… This time, they've decided to fully embrace the online casino aesthetic…

I honestly don't even know how to comment on this… Why? What's next? A shop selling illegal substances in fancy packaging as a mini app + TON Connect with auth via Telegram ID?

🛒 Russia's Finance Ministry is discussing with marketplaces the tokenization of goods in warehouses — sellers will be able to turn inventory or future revenue into digital tokens and raise money faster.

Simply put, the goods are still sitting in the warehouse, but can already work as a financial asset — attracting liquidity, speeding up turnover and partly replacing regular loans for sellers.

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🚀 stgTON — liquid staking on Gram smart contracts

Our team is launching liquid staking. Stake TON and get stgTON: a liquid token that grows in price and stays in your wallet.

📝 How it works:

• Stake TON → receive stgTON at the current rate
• stgTON appreciates against TON — yield comes through price growth, not lockup
• The token is liquid: hold it, transfer it, or sell it anytime
• Withdrawal: burn stgTON → get TON within 72 hours
• Non-custodial — funds stay under your keys, fully on-chain

Yield: up to ~12% APR (floating)

⛏ Staking: tegro.finance/staking
🧑‍💻 Docs: github.com/TegroTON/ton-gram-staking-docs

Transparency and security:

• Contract is verifiable — address and code_hash are published
• On-chain get_solvency — collateral visible in real time
• Money-path passed an independent adversarial audit
• Open docs + public repo: code samples, OpenAPI, llms.txt

Full stake → unstake → claim cycle tested on mainnet.

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The Fed kept rates unchanged. But the show goes on 🍗

On June 18, the Fed held rates steady, giving no signal of easing to the markets. The QT (liquidity tightening) program also continues.

The statement was neutral, but the tone is getting tougher: Powell made it clear that rates won’t be cut “at Trump’s request.”

💬 Political backdrop:
Trump lashed out at the Fed chair again, calling him a “drag” and “dumb,” demanding an urgent rate cut and claiming he’d do a better job himself.

What did Powell say?

⦁ The rate stays,
⦁ No rush to cut,
⦁ Waiting for more confidence that inflation is really falling,
⦁ New risk factor — tariffs that could push prices up.

🔍 What does the Fed actually look at when making decisions?

⦁ Inflation (CPI and Core CPI)
⦁ Labor market (unemployment rate, non-farm payrolls)
⦁ Economic growth (GDP)
⦁ Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE) — the main inflation gauge

Right now, all these indicators are borderline — the numbers don’t give a clear reason for either easing or tightening.

📈 Updated Fed forecasts:

⦁ GDP: 1.4% (lowered)
⦁ Inflation: 3% (up)
⦁ Unemployment: 4.5% (up)
⦁ Still projecting 2 rate cuts in 2025, but Powell stressed: “this is just a scenario, not a promise.”

📌 What this means for traders: 3 scenarios

1. Base (stable):
Fed waits for data → rate unchanged until fall → markets move sideways, volatility on data releases.

2. Bearish:
Inflation stays high or rises → Fed stays hawkish longer → pressure on stocks and crypto, dollar and Treasuries rise.

3. Bullish (unlikely):
Inflation drops sharply, economy slows → Fed cuts rates → markets rally, including crypto.

There’s only one Fed meeting left before the end of summer — August is traditionally a break. This means any statements from Fed officials in the coming month will be extra significant: even a slight shift in tone could either push markets higher or crush the current bullish mood.

The Fed makes decisions based on data, not emotions. Traders should do the same — don’t guess, calculate your options. Be ready for multiple scenarios and keep an eye on what and how Fed officials are saying.

About the former TON Foundation team (the ones who shut down, the old crew).

Audio from a work chat, but generally still relevant.

⚠️ Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has expanded requirements for collecting Russians' data — telecom operators now have to hand over more info to law enforcement: passport details, tax IDs, addresses, geolocation, domains, IP addresses, logins and banking credentials.

Seems to me the Telegram folks should hustle and start recognizing .ton domains ahead of the rollout of the built-in browser.

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😱 An interesting reference was absorbed by this open-source GitHub project

Literally, if you go to the website or the Telegram bot, just a couple of iterations are enough to get ecosystem-wide access to all products on the TON blockchain via .ton sites.

An elegant solution in a minimalist style. Works like clockwork, as they say. Give it a try, run some smoke tests. This little marvel is built on top of Telegram Passport and TON ID @LibermallIDbot 🤌

Introducing Tegro Card 💳

The new generation of crypto cards, built specifically for the Telegram ecosystem. KYC, bank compliance, and approvals are bottlenecks. We cut them out.

Open the Mini App @TegroCardbot and get your virtual card. That's it.

⚡️ Instant issue — issued on the spot, no bureaucracy, no waiting.
🔒 Zero KYC — absolute privacy, no documents.
💳 Crypto-native — instant top-ups with crypto, pay anywhere.
📲 Telegram ecosystem — full control over your balance without leaving the messenger.
🌍 Borderless — global access with no geo-restrictions.

The future of digital payments has to be fast and private. Your privacy. Your freedom.

Tegro Card. No KYC. Just Freedom.

My company built this service for my partner Lyosha Ruban's affiliate team @LinkFreeCRMbot — I recommend it for anyone who wanted a simple, free CRM without Bitrix24 or AmoCRM.

After signing up in the mini app, grab your key (API token) and register it in this bot @LibermallURLbot — then the tool's functionality will really come alive in a whole new way. Enjoy 🎁

Lately, the most popular Telegram bot for downloading content, Save As Bot, has been experiencing issues. Looks like it's also being run by ex-TON Foundation employees...

As an alternative, you can use this tg-bot or, for example, @SaveFastVideoFreebot 🤖

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If anyone's thinking about launching their own VPN, here's the TOP-10 users by monthly traffic usage. There are 30 people on the server. It's located in Amsterdam and costs ~$8 a month. This server runs OpenVPN.

Screenshot provided by my developer from Europe, Anton.

Contrary to the widespread FUD, TON validators are actually well decentralized.

The world's largest crypto exchanges and institutional companies participate in validating the network. Among those who have made public announcements are Blockchain.com, Pantera Capital, Kiln, Animoca Brands, P2P.org, Bastion Digital, and others. Recently, Telegram became the largest TON validator with a share of around 17%.

Regular users also participate in validation through liquid staking protocols.

Today there are about 400 validators on the network, and the total stake exceeds 1.15 billion TON.

I'll share something useful for entrepreneurs, SMM specialists, and content managers who run multiple channels across different social networks. A TG bot @BridgePostBot that lets you automate working with content.

I'm sure if you've got several projects going, this will be a literal game-changer for you. It integrates with ChatGPT, Claude, TonChatAI and naturally AI/ML API. It'll be especially useful for those who've been dreaming about automation via workflows through something like n8n or Google AI Studio, but never quite got around to it...

🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy.

Most importantly, fully AI-ready.

It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one developer flow. Start building!

🚀 The first cohort of Launches is live.

Today, 16 projects went live on Identity.

From this point, the community decides who stands out.

How it works:
– You clap 👏 for the projects you like, and your voting power depends on your Identity reputation
– No paid placements. Voting power = your reputation 🫴
– At the end of the week, the top projects will receive permanent badges on Identity 🏆

Here’s the first cohort:
• OmniMarket — prediction markets for Telegram communities
• EdChess — play chess and earn TON
• Toncenter SDK — AI-ready Python SDK for TON
• TON Agent Platform — no-code AI agents in Telegram
• TON Bridge — cross-chain liquidity for TON
• ENACT Protocol — on-chain escrow for AI agent payments
• Catallaxy — decentralized agents marketplace
• TeleGifts — AI-powered Telegram Gifts analytics and swaps
• Hash2Cash — Bitcoin mining based on RWA
• ODROB — financial layer for agents
• Rolls — PvP game with Telegram NFT gifts
• mena — P2P atomic asset exchange on TON
• Swift Gifts — Telegram Gifts aggregator
• TonGo — .ton DNS lookup service
• Watchi — AI focus coach with streaks and ambient sounds
• MOLVA — social game on TON

👉 Go check them out and vote for your favorites

Rankings close on Sunday.

📚 More about how Launches work.

🌍 With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet.

🧑‍💻 Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.