🗞 Biweekly Digest: TON & Global

💎 1. Turning Telegram gifts into digital assets on TON

Some Telegram gifts can now be converted into TON NFTs and traded on-chain. Over the year: $78.6M in primary sales, $312.2M in secondary market, 541,000+ gifts trading on-chain.

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🏦 2. TON picks OpenPayd as its global fiat backbone

TON Foundation selected OpenPayd as a partner for global fiat operations. The European banking-as-a-service provider will enable on- and off-ramps for the TON ecosystem.

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💎 3. TON Strategy Company dropped from S&P index

TON Strategy Company (NASDAQ: TONX) has been removed from the S&P Software & Services Select Industry Index after 5 months. TONX trades around $2.43 — a -63% drop over the year.

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📊 4. Gifts as boosts: a new utility concept

A model has been proposed to replace classic user boosts with gift-based progression: each channel gets its own set of gifts to unlock new levels and features.

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⚠️ 5. AlphaTON vs Anduril: "historic investment" turns into a scandal

AlphaTON Capital announced a "historic investment" of $30M in Anduril, but insiders question the deal's authenticity. Potential scandal in the ecosystem.

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📉 6. TON NFT activity: signs of a slowdown?

TON dropped from 2nd to 4th place in daily NFT trading volume. Portals — the leading NFT marketplace in the TON ecosystem — moved to Polygon.

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📱7. Magnetto: quality Telegram traffic without burning your budget

Magnetto focuses on converting the daily flow of 2.5M new Telegram users into targeted traffic for bots, channels, and mini-apps.

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🛡️ 8. Durov, Britain and "V for Vendetta"

Pavel Durov criticized UK plans that effectively label end-to-end encryption developers as "hostile actors," comparing them to the totalitarian regime from the film "V for Vendetta."

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💼 9. MyTonWallet now tracks your portfolio's real value

MyTonWallet added a real value chart showing how the actual value of your holdings has changed over time, taking your balance into account.

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