Who stands behind the TON Blockchain?

In the beginning it's worth saying that developers are trusted by Pavel Durov (we have already seen his post as minimum). Either former employees of VK, or winners of Telegram developer contests.

They don't give interviews and are infrequent visitors to public chats, calling themselves computer geeks.

The reason is quite simple: when you want to "bring to mind" a revolutionary blockchain, then you need to do work, not sit in social networks.

Nevertheless, we will tell you something about them.

You may find a list of main developers on official The Open Network GitHub. For now there are 11 members.

Let's analyze the information available on the Internet about four of them:

1. tolya-yanot (Anatoliy Makosov)

According to the official website, one of the initiators of TON project revival has the nickname tolya-yanot.

In the official Telegram @contests channel, tolyayanot takes 1st place in one of the contests in 2019 and bypasses 560 other participants, fitting the solution in 4 kilobytes.

2. highfeed (Oleg Oskolsky)

Developer of popular Telegram bots, such as:
— @livegrambot. 3 million bots serve 60 million users;
— @commentsbot. Popular bot before invention of native Telegram comments. Pavel Durov rewarded Oleg for this bot creation in the amount of $25 000;
— @controllerbot (The most popular bot for delayed posting in Telegram. Later the parts of it's functional was used by Telegram and embedded in messenger).

3. oleganza (Oleg Andreev)

Former and one of the first VK employees. You may see him in "Redakciya" reportage "Pavel Durov and VK. A history of ups and downs" (with eng subs). Also you may see there Oleg Illarionov.

4. brainfucker (Oleg Illarionov)

He is a frequent guest of tech conferences. He also is a former VK employee where he was responsible for Data storage and delivery.

Why the work in early VK should tell us something?
Under Durov's leadership in 2006-2014, VKontakte was a real tech leader and FaceBook's main competitor in the post-Soviet space. With a relatively small, talented team and Durov's managerial genius, VK reached great heights and still remains status of the most popular social network in several post-Soviet countries.