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🍌 JUST IN: Telegram is back to validating The Open Network.

🍌 JUST IN: DeDust intern has created and shared his wallet address. Unlike the Telegram intern, he says he knows what HODL is.

⭐️ Who is keeping the ecosystem alive?

⚫️ This post is a follow-up to our Friday piece on the decentralized internet on TON. If you have not read it yet, we recommend checking it out first.

⚫️ If you open the app directory on ton.app, you will quickly notice that TON has lost quite a few projects over the years. Of course, every network goes through new app launches, failed experiments, and sudden exits — that is a natural part of any ecosystem. But in some areas, it is hard not to notice how much smaller TON has become.

⚫️ Distributed storage is a good example. In the previous post, we mentioned services that still let users upload files to TON Storage. Surprisingly, they are among the few that still work. At least several other services with similar functionality have shut down over the past few years.

⚫️ Against this backdrop, Resistor stands out — someone we have covered more than once on the channel. His website, resistance.dog, brings together the products he has built recently: Tonnet Browser, Teleton, x402-ton, a Cocoon client, plugins for AI agents, ZK protocols, and other tools for TON. All of it is free and open-source.

⚫️ We know for sure that Resistor is not the only one still actively building on TON. If you are working on a product in the ecosystem right now, or know someone we should cover, write in the comments. We will turn it into a separate post.

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🍌 JUST IN: Telegram intern from X has started selling the tokens that community members sent to his wallet. Earlier, they shared their TON address.

🍌 JUST IN: Telegram has shut down 52 validators.

⚫️ According to Validator Clock, Telegram’s nodes are no longer participating in network validation. Around 100M GRAM has been unstaked, and the number of active validators has dropped to 347.

⚫️ Elections for the next validation round end in about 30 minutes, and Telegram’s nodes are not participating there either. It is still unclear why Telegram turned off its validators. If this continues, the yield for the remaining validators may increase significantly.

🖊 Thanks to our subscriber Evgeny for sharing this information.

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🍌 JUST IN: Uranus has introduced advanced settings for launching tokens on TON — creators can now customize supply, the amount of GRAM allocated to bonding, fee levels, and the token split between the curve and LP.

🪙 TON returns to its Web3 roots

⚫️ About a month after the major ton.org redesign, The Open Network’s website has received another noticeable update. This time, the homepage brings together the main ways TON can be used: Telegram-native use cases, including anonymous numbers, usernames and gifts, developer tools, and a separate Decentralized Internet section.

⚫️ The latter is especially interesting. TON was originally envisioned as broad infrastructure for building its own decentralized internet. TON DNS, TON Proxy, TON Sites and TON Storage were all described by Nikolai Durov in the original whitepaper. But over the past few years, amid the clicker boom and the rise of Telegram Gifts, this part of the network has almost faded from view.

⚫️ Out of this whole stack, .ton domains remain the closest thing to a user-facing product. Webdom acts as a marketplace for them: users can buy, sell and manage domains, as well as track detailed market analytics. For now, .ton domains are still mostly used as human-readable wallet addresses, although they can also serve as addresses for decentralized websites.

⚫️ For those who want to try launching a TON Site themselves, ton.run already has a detailed guide. And if you do not want to deal with hosting, you can upload files through @ResiStorageBot instead. The catch is that accessing such sites still requires setting up TON Proxy or installing Resistor’s Tonnet Browser, where the proxy is built in by default.

🖊 We want to believe that this section appearing on the homepage is not accidental — and that Telegram may soon truly return to TON’s roots and breathe new life into the ideas that were there from the beginning.

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🍌 JUST IN: The official website of The Open Network, ton.org, has been updated once again.

💀 What happened to the AI hackathon winners?

⚫️ In March, TON Foundation held the AI Agent Hackathon — the last competition launched under the ecosystem’s previous leadership. Participants were invited to build infrastructure for autonomous agents on TON. The winners were ENACT Protocol, Catallaxy, and Imago.

⚫️ ENACT Protocol was building a secure settlement system for AI agents. The idea was that one agent could create a task, another could take it on, payment would be locked in a dedicated smart contract in advance, and the result would be verified by a selected evaluator — either a human or an AI agent. The project had a working MCP server and SDK, but after the hackathon, public development has almost stopped: there have been no new GitHub commits over the past two months.

⚫️ Imago, an AI model aggregator for TON, has followed a similar path. The project also emphasized its integration with Cocoon — a computation layer on top of TON where AI models are meant to run without sending user data to major AI companies. But it met the same fate as the previous project: after the hackathon, GitHub activity faded away.

⚫️ Against this backdrop, the third winner looks more alive. Catallaxy, a marketplace for digital goods with payments in GRAM, is still moving forward. Today, users can buy not only digital goods such as subscriptions, keys, and access to AI services, but also specific tasks performed by agents: checking a TON token, comparing DEX rates, web scraping, video summarization, or image generation. An AI agent can also buy a product there, by the way — the project has an MCP server for that.

Place your bets on how soon the new head of The Open Network approves the idea of holding another hackathon.

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🍌 JUST IN: Dan Okhlopkov, Head of Analytics at TON Foundation, has estimated that Telegram is used by at least 217 million people every month.

⌨️ What types of pools are there on TON?

⚫️ In earlier posts, we already explained what liquidity pools are and why they matter. Since then, the ecosystem has added new mechanics: alongside regular pools, you now often see stable pools, CLMM, DLMM, and other models.

⚫️ Let’s start with the basics — CPMM. These are the classic pools most users are familiar with: two assets are deposited into a pool, for example GRAM and USDT, and traders swap one token for the other. The price adjusts automatically: the more a trade changes the token ratio inside the pool, the more the exchange rate moves. Pools like this work well for pairs where the two assets can freely move in price relative to each other.

🖊 By the way, the updated CPMM v2 on DeDust lets liquidity providers withdraw earned fees separately, while giving token creators more flexibility when setting up a pool.

⚫️ Stable pools are used for assets that are expected to trade close to each other in price. For pairs like jUSDT/USDT or GRAM/hGRAM, a regular formula does not work as well: even small slippage can hurt. A stable pool is designed to reduce losses on swaps when the price is close to the expected rate.

⚫️ Another type is concentrated liquidity pools, or CLMM. We wrote about the first DEX on TON using this model here. In this setup, the liquidity provider chooses the price range where their funds will be active. If they choose the range correctly, capital is used more efficiently, and traders get lower slippage.

⚫️ There are also more advanced models. For example, DLMM is a model where liquidity is distributed across narrow price segments, or “bins.” Another pool type, DAMM, adds dynamic fees: when the market is calm, fees are lower, but during sharp moves they can increase.

⚫️ In practice, though, users only need to remember one simple rule: different pairs need different pools. So choose your pools wisely — and do not lose money to unnecessary slippage.

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💡 What to do while waiting for the next step of MTONGA?

⚫️ TON is not exactly in its loudest news cycle right now. The main thing everyone is waiting for — the next step of MTONGA — has not been announced yet, so if you want something to do inside the ecosystem, you have to look for it yourself.

⚫️ For example, Wallet has launched the second season of Bonuses. This time, the mechanics are team-based: users can join clans, complete tasks, open cases, and earn Bonuses. The total prize pool is $750,000, with $400,000 going to the top 50 teams on the leaderboard and another $350,000 distributed through individual rewards.

⚫️ For those who are more into trading, DTrade has launched a competition. To participate, users need to generate as much trading volume as possible through the bot. Every 50 Gram traded gives one ticket, and the total prize pool is $5,000.

⚫️ If contests are not your cup of tea, you can always go back to memecoins. Sure, TON is not Solana when it comes to the market conditions, but runners still appear from time to time. The easiest way to track new launches and trade them is through x1000.finance.

⚫️ And if you have some Gram sitting in your balance and do not feel like clicking too many buttons, you can try liquid staking. Right now, Hipo is showing the highest APRs in the ecosystem — 20.45%.

⚫️ And if you have already done all of that, there is still the best option: open our X and like The Daily TON’s posts. We would appreciate it!

Though it would better for the next step of MTONGA to finally arrive.

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🔥 Is there life in the old dog yet?

⚫️ In TON, complaining has almost become an ecosystem-wide habit. To be fair, some of the criticism did not come out of nowhere: the GRAM price has been fairly quiet lately, and the broader market has not exactly been at its best either. So it is no surprise that any quiet period quickly turns into claims that the ecosystem is dead.

⚫️ But if you look beyond the mood in the chats, the picture is a little less bleak. Existing products are still shipping: wallets are adding new features, DeFi services are rolling out updates, and some teams are still launching new projects even in this kind of environment.

⚫️ One of the clearest examples is Teleton. We have already covered it in a separate post, so we will not go too deep here. Let’s just say that right now it is probably the main continuation of the AI trend in TON. If you have not tried Teleton yet, it is worth checking out what agents can already do — especially since project’s developer, Resistor, is building it solo and completely for free.

⚫️ Another example is the GroypFi team. They have already launched Topblast, currently the most popular token launchpad on TON, and are now preparing Gramstox — a platform for trading tokenized stocks on TON. At the same time, the team is not limiting itself to TON’s existing audience and is trying to reach users from outside the ecosystem, including trenchers from other networks.

⚫️ Some of the older TON teams are still building too. Meridian is a good example: it has been around since 2022, started as the first on-chain collection on TON, and has since grown into a large, active community. Now the team is preparing its own launchpad, which is expected to launch really soon.

⚫️ For all the criticism, TON is not an empty ecosystem. Builders are still here, products are still moving, and there is still enough strength for a new wave of activity. Hopefully, the next step of MTONGA will help bring more attention to the builders who are still here.

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📡 What is an indexer in TON?

⚫️ Blockchain is often described as an open database, but that wording can be a little misleading. Yes, all transactions are public. But if you open a raw block, you will not see a neat table with every wallet’s balance, its latest swaps, or the NFTs it has bought. What you get is a stream of technical data that still needs to be parsed.

⚫️ That is what an indexer is for. It constantly monitors the blockchain, pulls the relevant events from blocks, and stores them in a more readable database. In simple terms, it turns “everything that happened in TON” into a format that can answer specific product-related questions.

⚫️ For example, Gram Wallet uses an indexer to show transfer history, DeDust uses one to display the latest trades in a pool, and Getgems uses it to understand which NFTs belong to a user. Most users barely notice indexers when everything works, but they become obvious the moment something breaks: a balance stops updating, a chart gets stuck, or a swap fails to go through.

⚫️ Indexers rarely get discussed on their own, even though they play a major role in product quality. So the next time your wallet instantly shows your transfer history, remember the indexer working behind it.

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👁 How 2FA works in Gram Wallet

⚫️As we predicted, Gram Wallet launched a few days ago — a standalone app for TON Ecosystem from the MyTonWallet My Wallet team. It is based on MyTonWallet, but adds features that bring the wallet closer to Telegram.

⚫️The most notable addition is two-factor authentication via Telegram. You can now link the wallet to your personal Telegram account and confirm transfers, swaps, and other actions directly in the messenger.

⚫️Technically, this works thanks to the latest wallet version, which introduced plugin support. The 2FA plugin adds an extra approval condition for transactions, so even if an attacker gets your seed phrase, they still cannot simply sign and send a transaction.

⚫️The idea of 2FA in TON is not new. Back in late 2024, Mr. Freeman showed Zk2FA — a similar solution where confirming a transaction required entering a code from Google Authenticator. At the time, he even publicly shared the seed phrase for a wallet containing funds, but the money stayed where it was.

⚫️Back then, the problem was mostly usability. To make any transaction, users had to go to a separate website. In Gram Wallet, a similar mechanism has been adapted for regular users by adding 2FA directly into the app.

⚫️Of course, this feature is not for everyone, and active traders may find the extra step annoying. But if you are holding Gram long-term, 2FA is definitely worth trying.

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🏆 Polymarket comes to TON

⚫️ Over the past couple of years, prediction markets have become one of the most accessible crypto products for a broader audience. You do not need to study charts, listings, or keep asking why a token is going up in the first place — there is an event, a set of possible outcomes, and a price that shows how the market estimates each outcome’s probability.

⚫️ Now that experience has become available inside Telegram too. Predict with Polymarket has just launched, letting users make predictions on everything from sports and crypto to politics and culture.

⚫️ What makes it especially relevant for our ecosystem is that Predict with Polymarket works with USDT on TON. No separate wallet, no bridges, no manual asset transfers between networks: you simply need to connect a TON wallet, top up your balance, and open a position. At the same time, users get access to Polymarket’s existing liquidity, including active markets and real trading volume.

⚫️ Another important point: the app takes care of the technical side. All the cross-chain magic happens under the hood, so the user does not have to deal with it directly.

🖊 For our ecosystem, this is a good example of how crypto products in Telegram should feel: the blockchain runs in the background and does not force the user to figure out the technical details.

⚫️ Overall, we recommend opening @ipredict, trying it for yourself, and seeing how it works. Especially now that the FIFA World Cup has already started, and match markets are already available in the app.

Looks like we may have a candidate for an unofficial next step in MTONGA.

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📈 A memecoin starts with DexScreener

⚫️ If you’ve ever traded memecoins, chances are you’ve had DexScreener open. For on-chain traders, it has long been one of the go-to tools for tracking the market: you can quickly check a token’s chart, trading volume, liquidity, recent trades, and new pairs across different networks. TON is there too, by the way.

⚫️ But DexScreener is not just for traders. For memecoin creators, it has become something close to a gold standard. Want your token to be taken seriously? Then you need to update the token info: add a banner, a description, and links to your socials.

⚫️ That costs $300. By crypto standards, it is not a huge amount, but in memecoin culture it works almost like a basic credibility check. If a project is not willing to pay for a proper DexScreener listing, traders immediately start wondering: is this token even worth watching?

⚫️ By the way, for teams launching tokens on TON, x1000 has announced a promo: projects that launch on Uranus and meet three conditions will get a free DexScreener page update. More details are available in the project’s channel.

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🍌 JUST IN: The official Toncoin channel has been renamed to Gram of TON. The English-language channel has also received the username @gram.

📒 Essential The Daily TON reads for getting into TON

The Daily TON has been covering TON for more than four years. Over that time, we’ve built up a large library of materials: guides, explainers, deep dives, and posts you can come back to whenever you need them.

⚫️ For newcomers to the ecosystem, we have #howtoton — an educational series covering the basics:

— What is TON, Web3, and why are we all here?
— How to set up your first TON wallet?
— How to buy TON and why you need it?
— What is a TON address and what is TON DNS for?
— Why create multiple TON wallets?
— How to properly analyze a token before purchasing it?
— Where to store crypto assets and what is a “cold wallet”?
— What are OTC deals and how does over-the-counter trading work?
— What is a «Smart Contract Audit» and why is it important?
— What is liquidity provision and how can you profit from it?
— What should beginners know about liquidations?
— Beginner's guide to Telegram Gifts: what are they, anyway?

👁 Besides #howtoton, you can also use our other hashtags to navigate the channel:

— #antiscam brings together posts about staying safe online and avoiding common scam tactics.
— In #metrics, we explain how to analyze a token before buying it.
— In #gifts, we break down Telegram Gifts and their value for users.
— #opinion is where we collect our more subjective pieces on the state of TON and where the ecosystem could go next.

⚫️ In addition, we at The Daily TON have also published many other pieces that are still relevant today:

— Jettons on TON
— Bridges on TON: Part 1 and Part 2
— Commissions on TON. Part 1 and Part 2
— Who are validators and nominators?
— How do liquidity providers make money?
— What do beginners need to understand about APY?
— Multi-chain wallets with TON support: Part 1 and Part 2
— What are RWA (real world assets)?
— What is a lending protocol?
— How does liquid staking work?
— What are oracles?
— What is ZK?
— A brief overview of the main versions of TON wallets
— How to clearly explain custodial vs. non-custodial?
— How to sell NFTs without royalties and fees?
— How do DEX differ from CEX?
— How anonymous is the blockchain
— What is TON Connect for?
— What are gasless transactions for?
— How does the TON Sites technology work?
— How TON addresses work and why they have multiple forms?
— Payment Network: what is it and why is it needed?
— Analytics platforms for every use case
— What's difference between on-chain and off-chain?

⚫️ Given the current mood in the ecosystem, it’s also a good time to revisit our opinion series on how TON could move forward:

— Opinion 1: The Carrot.
— Opinion 2: Onboarding.
— Opinion 3: "Code Red”.
— Opinion 4: Transparency.
— Opinion 5: USP.

⚫️ Developers may also find this selection useful:

— Tolk becomes the primary language in TON
— What's inside Cocoon?
— Why does TON need a new node?
— Why is it so hard to make things simple for developers?
— EVM vs non-EVM
— Why was Acton created?

⚫️ We also have a few long-read articles:

— TON Blockchain: Three years later, a story of resilience and reinvention
— The main feature of TON: sharding in simple terms
— What a regular person can use crypto for: TON case study

Enjoy reading!

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🍌 What’s really going on with the TON rename?

⚫️ By the end of June, most of the TON ecosystem is expected to switch to the new GRAM ticker. This is the fourth step of MTONGA, and exchanges are handling the rename alongside ecosystem projects. That is the reason why TON pairs will be temporarily taken off and later brought back under the new name.

⚫️ The move has sparked debate in the community. At first glance, it really does look strange: if this is just a name change, why can’t exchanges simply replace TON with GRAM in the interface? Why delist old pairs, close futures positions, cancel orders, and relaunch trading?

⚫️ The issue is that, on an exchange, a ticker is not just the name shown in a trading pair. It is tied to futures, margin, loans, Earn products, trading bots, deposits, withdrawals, APIs, and internal accounting. That is why transitions like this are usually handled by shutting down the old markets and cancelling open orders.

⚫️ Polygon went through a similar process in 2024, when MATIC was migrated to POL. As with TON, Binance and Bybit also paused trading in the old pairs for several days, while OKX chose a smoother path: it listed POL first and only removed MATIC afterward. In both cases, the chart history did not carry over.

⚫️ The logic is the same with TON and GRAM. The difference is that this transition will likely have a real market impact. Before GRAM launches, the market will effectively be reset: old orders will be cancelled, some futures positions will be force-closed, and the new pairs will likely open with blank charts. So the next few weeks may end up being more interesting than the rebrand itself.

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