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As well as webdom — a marketplace of TON domains

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Happy new year! 2024 was huge for TON, 2025 will be even bigger!

TON is not a blockchain

If you look all the way back at the original TON whitepaper, you'll see that the proposed unique features of TON are not merely fast and cheap transactions. TON is a general network for creating decentralized (or at least federated) alternatives of existing services: trustless, uncensorable, robust, without a single failure point.

The current "web3" services are incredibly centralized. They are hosted on a normal domain name managed by ICANN, with centralized SSL certificates, on centralized servers, routed through Cloudflare. Even the data for "on-chain" assets is often just a link to something like a picture without an integrity check!

TON has all the components for building something better.

Here are the exact technologies mentioned by Nikolai Durov:
1. 📰 TON Sites
The Sites allow to host services in a truly decentralized way — with an on-chain DNS, through ADNL, a decentralized network, or TON Storage. This provides a number of benefits: your website cannot be blocked, a smart contract can manage the content, and the owner can prove that the website a user gets is the same as one that was open sourced
2. 💾 TON Storage
This is a decentralized version of Google Drive, similar to Torrents. It allows to host files and get paid when the files are downloaded, and much more
3. 🫣 TON Proxy
This is a decentralized VPN concept that hasn't been fully implemented yet

Currently, all of these technologies are under-developed compared to the blockchain. There is a ton of plans on the TON roadmap to develop them, so we expect a wild ride in the nearest future
Let's build on them together — towards a truly decentralized web!

I will be a speaker and a mentor on the Paris and Berlin bootcamps of the Hackers League Hackathon:

Paris — 18th to 20th of October
Berlin — 25th to 27th of October

Come and build on TON!

Here's how it works

👋 Introducing Agorata — a service to easily create TON Sites!

Here's how it works:
1. Get some TON domains — at dns.ton.org or getgems.io
2. Go to the bot: https://t.me/tonskiupbot, open the web app 🔨
3. Choose the domain and set up your website
4. View it through Telegram Browser or by adding .ski at the end

https://t.me/tonskiupbot

Wow, seems like a lot of you are

Are you ready?

🤔 How can you access TON Sites?

There are several ways to access one:
1. As mentioned, they are supported by the Telegram browser — you click on something like foundation.ton and it opens, simple as that
2. You can install our extensions for Chrome and Firefox. After that, you'll be able to simply open them in your browser
3. You can add .ski to the domain. Example: foundation.ton.ski

👋 Wellcome to the new subscribers!
Recently, Pavel Durov and the team integrated TON Sites into Telegram. This is a huge step for TON Sites!
You can try it out right now: foundation.ton

👨‍🍳 We have been cooking something great in the meantime. Stay tuned — soon, we will tell you more about that

Meanwhile, tell us your thoughts on TON Sites in the comments 🔽

Crypto Wallets on Any Web Domains

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and GoDaddy have teamed up to link traditional domain names to blockchain-based ENS names, aiming to seamlessly merge DNS with blockchain technology without extra costs or technical expertise. This partnership bridges the gap between traditional websites and blockchain, providing over 20 million GoDaddy users access to ENS benefits like receiving crypto payments. ENS, the leading naming protocol in crypto, enables users to associate human-readable names (e.g., "bob.eth") with complex Ethereum addresses, akin to DNS functionality in URLs. GoDaddy highlighted that this collaboration enables users to connect their domains (e.g., .com) to ENS-compatible crypto wallets, simplifying crypto payments reception.

TON.ski is a suite of products for the TON (The Open Network) ecosystem

Key offerings include a search engine for TON sites and DApps, domain services through Agorata and extensions to access TON Sites. At TON.ski, we focus on decentralization, integrating with TON Blockchain for enhanced privacy and security. We aim to provide a comprehensive solution for accessing, discovering, and creating content on TON.

🎙TON.ski offers a partnership opportunity for other TON ecosystem participants. We invite developers, NFT collection creators, and TON Domains owners to collaborate on TON Sites creation and enhancing TON NFT usage.

🔹For a deeper dive, visit ton.ski
🔹For more details on collaboration, contact: @searching_ton
🔔 Subscribe to our Eng channel: https://t.me/tonski_eng

Hello guys, TON Apps, the official "App Store" of the TON foundation, has recently published us at https://ton.app/utilities/searchington

It would be great if you write a review!

Do not forget to join our official Telegram Group as well: https://t.me/+6eujRmDwyR44NzA1

📣 Launch Searching.ton

We are glad to announce the launch of the beta version of the FIRST TON SITES SEARCH ENGINE.
You can reach http://searching.ton website via TON proxy in2.ton.org:8080

Join us, test us, leave feedback here @searching_ton_feedback_bot

Kind Regards, Searching Ton Team.

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