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Hi TON builders! 👋

We really care about providing you with the most relevant, useful, and updated resources to navigate TON Ecosystem. We know that topics like funding, more credibility and go-to-market are often the most painful points and the ones you always have a lot of questions on.

That's why we created a series of practical guides to help you succeed

📈 TON Marketing Series (Complete 4-part guide)

▪️ Part 1: From 0 to 100 Users - Finding Your First Believers
▪️ Part 2: From 100 to 10K Users - Distribution Secrets
▪️ Part 3: Going Viral - KOL Marketing & Paid Ads
▪️ Part 4: Building Your Marketing Machine

💰 How to Get Funding on TON: A Complete Guide for Founders and Developers

✅ Telegram Verification Guide for TON Projects

We have so much to share that we decided to create a separate section on TON Builders Portal called Useful Resources. It already features all these guides, as well as other important materials for founders and developers in TON Ecosystem.

🔗 Explore the new section: https://builders.ton.org/founder/resources

TRBE: $1M Marketing Grant for TON Builders

TRBE, the AI-powered KOL marketing platform supporting campaigns for MultiversX, Immutable, BNB Chain, and more, is now extending resources to TON Ecosystem. With 100,000+ verified KOLs and creators across Web2 & Web3, TRBE brings its expertise to TON builders.

What’s available for TON projects:
▪️ $1M Grant Pool in TRBE tokens
▪️ Up to $100K credits per project
▪️ ~1 year free access to TRBE’s platform, tools, and team support
▪️ Backed by a decade of global campaign experience, $40M+ paid to creators, and trusted by brands like Disney, Meta & TikTok

👉 Grants cover platform access & tools. Campaign execution and KOL payouts remain the responsibility of each project.

Learn how TON projects can access this $1M opportunity!

⏰ Reminder: TON Builders Call Today

📱 Topic: Getting Started with Telegram Apps Center

Agenda:
▪️ How to list your Mini App using TON Builders Portal
▪️ Best practices to build and grow your audience
▪️ Updates and opportunities from the Tapps team
▪️ Live Q&A with TON Studio team

🗓️ Date: September 25
⏰ Time: 3 PM CET | 5 PM GST | 9 PM HKT
📍 Platform: YouTube, Zoom, and X

🔊 Featuring: Evgeniia Smelova, BD at TON Studio

💬 Submit or upvote questions: https://app.sli.do/event/8uJzTTUd2eo8RcBwcPAzFC

➡️ Join here

🌐 webdom.market is LIVE on Tolk!

webdom, the first-ever marketplace for TON DNS domains and usernames on Tolk is here.

🛠️ What’s new?

▪️All smart contracts are fully rewritten on Tolk and are open source. 
▪️Independently audited

👉 Read the full audit report here.

⚙️ Why it matters?

These upgrades mean that TON domains are now traded on updated infrastructure:
⚡ Lightning fast
🔒 Super secure
💎 More reliable than ever

Built for the future of TON, webdom is just getting started and is a significant step forward.

⏰ TON Dev House at ETH New Delhi 2025

Just one day left until the start of TON Dev House in New Delhi, hosted by TON SSEA Hub.

📅 Sept 25, New Delhi

We’re bringing together selected developers for a full day of coding, networking, and sessions on building with TON.

Prize pool and activities:
▪️ $1000 prize pool for coding challenges
▪️ Onchain SBTs
▪️ Talks and demos
▪️ Networking opportunities
▪️ Merch kit, food, and coffee

Open for active builders and developers

 👉 Register now: https://luma.com/bmn7lwyh

TON Hubs Events – Upcoming September 2025

Join TON Hubs events to meet builders, learn skills, create exciting projects, and expand your network.

🌏 TON SSEA Hub events

💎 TON Dev House
📅 Thursday, September 25
📍 New Delhi

🌏 TON East Asia Hub events

💎 Live Coding Course & Coding Challenge #13
📅 Thursday, September 25
📍 Online

💎 TON Dev Bootcamp EA #2
📅 Saturday, September 27
📍 Macau

🌍 TON Europe Hub events

💎 Workshop & Q&A: Fundamentals of GTM for Early-Stage Projects
📅 Tuesday, September 23
📍 Online

💎 Talk: Building on TON (ETH Sofia)
📅 Wednesday & Thursday, September 24-25
📍 ETH Sofia

💎 Investor & Demo Day
📅 Wednesday, October 1
📍 Madrid

🌍 TON CIS Hub events


💎AMA session w/ TONCO
📅Tuesday, September 23
📍Online

💎Roast Session #37
📅Thursday, September 25
📍Online

💡 Let us know which city you’d like to see our next events in!

See you there!

📱 TON Builders Call: Getting Started with Telegram Apps Center

GM Builders 👋 This week’s session focuses on the key distribution channel in the ecosystem: Telegram Apps Center.

What we’ll cover:
▪️ How to list your Mini App via TON Builders Portal
▪️ Best practices to build and grow your audience
▪️ Updates and opportunities from the Tapps team
▪️ Live Q&A with TON Studio team

🗓️ Date: September 25
⏰ Time: 3 PM CET | 5 PM GST | 9 PM HKT
📍 Platform: YouTube, Zoom, and X

➡️ Join here: https://luma.com/9ywxq5uz
🔊 Featuring: Evgeniia Smelova, BD at TON Studio
💬 Submit or upvote questions here

📢 Key updates and announcements will be shared on this channel.

TON Nest Workshop: The Early Stage Playbook

GM Nest! 👋 This week, get insights on surviving your first 12 months.

Join us for a session with Eugene Korchun (Co-Founder & COO, MemHustle) as he shares what works (and what doesn’t) in early-stage startups.

💡 We’ll cover:
▪️Reality Check: Why 90% of startups fail (it’s not money) & what matters most.
▪️Product Strategy: Focusing on core value + fast prototyping.
▪️Team & Roles: The importance of role clarity (Visionary, Operator, Hustler) to avoid chaos.
▪️Financial Survival: Unit economics, runway & classic early mistakes.

🗓️ Thursday, Sept 11
⏰ 3 PM CEST | 5 PM GST | 9 PM HKT
❤️ Expert: Eugene Korchun
➡️ Join here!

🛠 TON Nest Workshop: Smart Contract Best Practices 🛠

GM TON Builders! 👋 This week, we’re hosting a workshop on TON smart contract development with Nikita Kinelovskiy, Co-founder & Smart-Contract Lead at Bidask Finance.

💡 Topics:

➡️ Key challenges in on-chain development
➡️ Best practices for secure, efficient contracts
➡️ Future of smart contracts on TON
➡️ Lessons from building a team & dev blog

🗓 Date: Thursday, August 21st
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM CEST | 5:00 PM GST | 9:00 PM HKT
📍 Platform: Zoom (livestreamed to YouTube & X)
➡️ Join: https://lu.ma/5b59bhdp

💬 Bring your technical questions!

🎨 Workshop: UX/UI for Telegram Mini Apps 🎨

GM TON Builders! 👋 Want to design seamless, native experiences for Telegram Mini Apps? This Wednesday, TON NEST is hosting a special workshop with Dima & Sofiia from Groovy Minx, where we’ll dive into best practices for user-friendly designs on TON.

💡 Learn the key principles for creating smooth user journeys on Telegram.
Perfect for founders, devs, & designers!

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, Aug 20
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM CEST | 5:00 PM GST | 9:00 PM HKT
📍 Platform: Zoom (Livestreamed to YouTube & X)
➡️ Join: https://lu.ma/f1eqlfts
💬 Bring your design questions!

TON Devs Wanted: Share Your Feedback on Tolk 1.0!

TON Foundation is gathering feedback to enhance Tolk 1.0, the new programming language designed for TON smart contracts. 🛠️✨

This short survey (⏱️ less than 6 minutes) will help shape the future of TON tooling, documentation, and developer experience.

💡 Share your thoughts, highlight the gaps, and influence the development of smart contracts on TON.

Fill out the survey here!

🚀 Happening Today - TON Nest Workshop: Leveraging Liquidity

GM TON Builders!👋 In just a few hours, join Denis, Founder of Storm Trade, for a hands-on deep dive into bootstrapping & scaling liquidity for DeFi projects on TON.

🗓 Today, Thursday, Aug 14
⏰ 2 PM CEST | 4 PM GST | 8 PM HKT
📍 Where: YouTube | Zoom | X
👉 Join live: https://lu.ma/1uzn1q0j

💬 Bring the questions, we got the answers!

Workshop at TON Nest: Web3 Media Marketing 101

GM TON Builders! 👋

Getting featured in top crypto media can be a game-changer for any project. But how do you cut through the noise and tell a story that journalists actually want to cover?

This Wednesday, our builder program TON Nest is hosting a workshop to give you the inside scoop.

💡 What we'll cover:

▪️How to craft a compelling narrative for your project.
▪️The do's and don'ts of reaching out to crypto journalists.
▪️How to turn your launch or milestone into a media-worthy event.
▪️Understanding the difference between earned media and paid promotions.

This is a must-attend session for any founder looking to build their project's credibility and reach.

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, August 13th
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM CEST | 5:00 PM GST | 9:00 PM HKT
📍 Platform: YouTube & Zoom & X

➡️ Tap in here: https://lu.ma/fccme800 
💬 Bring your questions – this session is all about action!

🛰 Peer-to-Peer Messaging over TON
by @systemdesigndao

Native P2P messaging tool running over the The Open Network using Go libraries.

🎯 Use Case / Benefits for Developers
– Data exchange across platforms (macOS ↔ Android) P2P
– Works locally over Wi-Fi
– Ideal for LAN-based messaging

⚙️ How it works
1. Download the binary for your OS
2. Run the app
3. Exchange messages by scanning or entering another peer’s public key in the same network

🔐 Currently distributed via binaries only and working only in Terminal.

💾 Download and verify from sddao-v1 GitHub Repository

Introducing the Jetton 2.0 Smart Contract

Transfers and operations with Jetton 2.0 are up to 3 times faster under heavy network load compared to jettons of the previous version.

This improvement was achieved thanks to new shardchain optimizations—the jetton-wallet holding a user’s token balance is now always deployed in the same shardchain as the owner’s wallet. This became possible after the TON node introduced functionality to deploy smart contracts into a specific shardchain (StateInit.fixed_prefix_length).

The smart contract is a direct successor of Jetton 1.2—used for popular tokens like $NOT—written by the TON Core team and covered by unit tests.

We would like to thank Andrew G Kiba, a community developer who made a contribution to the contract’s design.

A Tolk-language version of the smart contract will be released later.

https://github.com/ton-blockchain/jetton-contract/tree/jetton-2.0

Share Your Tapps Experience!

Calling TON builders! We're conducting a quick survey (4 minutes) to understand your experience, from listing to scaling your projects on the Telegram Apps Center. Your valuable feedback helps us improve and grow the ecosystem.

Share your thoughts here

Workshop Update: Rescheduled

Hey builders,
Heads up: The "Investor Outreach 101" workshop with Daniil Shcherbakov, scheduled for today, is postponed. This is due to an unexpected issue with the speaker.

Sorry for the short notice!

We've rescheduled it for next Wednesday, August 6th, so you won't miss out.

New Details:
🗓 Date: Wednesday, August 6th
⏰ Time: 3 PM CEST | 5 PM GST | 9 PM HKT
📍 Link: Same Luma link as before.

Thanks for understanding. See you next week!

Workshop at TON Nest: Investor Outreach 101

Remember that last workshop on fundraising misconceptions? TON Nest is bringing back Daniil Shcherbakov (Co-Founder @ton_tongames) for a deep-dive into Investor Outreach! This isn't just theory; it's for founders ready to ship and get funded.

Learn the exact plays and tactics to pinpoint the right investors and craft outreach that actually gets replies.

💡 What we'll cover:

• Finding Investors: Go beyond generic searches. Discover where the real players are.
• The Power of "Warm Intros": And what to do when you're starting cold.
• Crushing Cold Emails: Learn the structure, personalization, and hacks that'll 2x your reply rates.
• Mastering Follow-ups: Why persistence is your secret weapon and how to build a winning sequence.

This is your playbook to land that crucial first meeting. Let's make it happen.
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, July 30th
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM CEST | 5:00 PM GST | 9:00 PM HKT
📍 Platform: YouTube & Zoom

➡️ Tap in here: Luma link
💬 Bring your questions – this session is all about action!

Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. Not financial or investment advice.

🚀 STON.fi Is Coming to Warsaw!

Stonfiers! Get ready for an amazing evening in Poland's capital. We're hosting Builders Meet Users: STON.fi & TON Poland — a special meetup where builders, users, and everyone curious about the TON ecosystem come together.

🗓 When: July 29, 5:30 PM – 10:30 PM
📍 Where: Warsaw

👥 Meet our team:
🗿 Ethan Clime — Head of DevRel & Grant Fund, STON.fi
🗿 Dawid Urbas — DevRel Manager, STON.fi

Whether you're building on TON, exploring DeFi, or just want to connect with fellow Stonfiers — this is your chance to hang out with the team behind STON.fi and dive deep into the TON ecosystem.

Come join us for an evening of networking, insights, and good vibes! 🎉

🔗 Secure your spot 🔗

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