🪙 Why does TON need AI agents?

⚫️ At the end of last year, we wrote about TON’s updated documentation. An AI chat assistant was added to docs.ton.org, allowing users to ask questions about the documentation directly. It was a relatively minor change, but a useful one for developers: if you cannot find the page you need, just ask the bot. It was especially helpful for newcomers just getting started with the ecosystem.

⚫️ Now AI in TON is gradually moving beyond documentation. This spring, the ecosystem got its own MCP — a toolkit that allows AI agents to interact with the blockchain: making transactions and swaps, managing .ton domains, and working with NFTs.

⚫️ The first products have already started to appear. One of the early movers was Teleton, which lets users turn a Telegram account or bot into an autonomous agent — essentially something like OpenClaw, but with access to Telegram and the TON ecosystem. MyTonWallet took a more user-facing approach and embedded an agent directly into the wallet. There, it helps users send coins, swap tokens, stake assets, and make sense of their portfolios.

🖊 Which naturally raises the question: why do we need this if most of these features already exist in the interface? You can check your balance, tap Swap, or open a token page without AI.

⚫️ In our view, the more interesting use cases begin where a traditional interface starts to fall short. For example, an agent could explain to a newcomer why a swap went through at a different price than expected, what slippage is, or how staking differs from lending. For more advanced users, it could become a powerful trading tool: gathering information from multiple sources — Telegram channels, group chats, analytics platforms, and more — before deciding whether to swap one token for another.

⚫️ And since we’re talking about TON, the blockchain could probably use tools capable of surviving an encounter with Telegram’s billion users. After all, explaining the network’s quirks to all of them manually sounds like quite the staffing problem, doesn’t it?

Have you already tried Teleton or the AI agent in MyTonWallet?

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