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🎨 TON Art Contest - Live Judging

600+ artworks. 7 days of submissions. Now it’s time to select the winners.

20 artworks will be chosen by the judges: @s0meone_u_know, @zenith_ton, @damx & @monkeybgg

Each artwork will be scored from 1 to 10, top 20 will receive prizes.

🗓️ 18.03.26 | 13:00 UTC
🎤 On X, Telegram & YouTube
🔔 Art by @Inosuke7000
Set a reminder and join the session.

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🎨 TON Art Contest #2
Submissions are officially closed.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined: 600+ artworks submitted by artists and 8,105 community likes from supporters voting for their favorite pieces. ❤️

Next step: LIVE judging.

🏅 20 winners
💰 $2k prize pool, $100 each

How judging works:

📅 March 18, 4 PM UTC
🎥 Live judging stream: 4 judges will score each artwork from 1 to 10

Judges:
• 2 from TON Foundation
• 2 from TON Community: @Damx & @MonkeyBgg

🏆 Once all scores are submitted, the top 20 highest-rated artworks will win.

Community likes will help guide the judges and also have their own leaderboard.

🔔 Stay tuned for judging day.

Let’s celebrate the creativity together 🚀

P.S. all the evaluations will be within the MiniApp, as well as all the Art Submissions, and displayed for everyone to take a look at themselves + support their favourite creators!

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🪙 Report: Telegram as the default AI interface

A new report from IdentityHub looks at Telegram as an emerging interface layer for AI.

Instead of separate apps or dashboards, AI agents can operate directly inside chat, enabling faster workflows and simpler user interaction.

For teams building on TON, this highlights new opportunities around bots, Mini Apps and AI-driven services.

👉 Read the report

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💎 TON Pay | The Why

Payments shouldn’t require every builder to implement their own infrastructure.

Across Telegram apps, this often meant building wallets, checkout flows and settlement logic independently.

TON Pay helps streamline that 🫴

One SDK. A ready-to-use solution for Mini Apps, bots, and backend services. One-time payments, recurring payments, and subscriptions. Non-custodial, so users keep control of their funds.

Build faster, without rebuilding the same payment stack. ⛏️

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🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.6 is LIVE!

This week we discuss COCOON AI, decentralisation, and the benefits of Confidential Compute network.

Together with our special guests: @BlockchainBK from AlphaTON Capital, Matthew from Atlantic AI, JonMichael from FarmGPU & @moontrips from TON Foundation

Watch on Telegram, X or YouTube 🎤

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Unfortunately, due to the Middle East conflict and safety conditions in the UAE area, we have made the decision to cancel Gateway Dubai, originally scheduled for May 1 and 2, 2026. This was a difficult call, but the safety and well-being of our community always comes first.

If you purchased a ticket to Gateway through Luma, Moongate or Tribute, or booked hotel reservations through promocode, you will receive a refund within the next 14 days. For further questions, please contact: gateway@ton.org.

We are currently examining different formats to produce a Gateway event before the end of this year. An announcement will be forthcoming in the near future. We look forward to seeing you soon.

💎 TON Pay Workshop This Friday

Payments on TON are becoming easier to integrate.

This Friday, we’re hosting the first TON Pay workshop with a live walkthrough and Q&A session.

TON Pay is newly released. If you’re building or exploring payments in the ecosystem, this session will cover the basics and answer common questions.

🗓️ Friday, March 13
🕑 2 PM UTC
📍 Live on X (@ton_blockchain)

👉 Questions for the team? Submit them here

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BotFather grew from 3.5M to 7.4M monthly active users after AI agents started taking off on Telegram. That is 111% growth. The momentum is real.

TON is natively embedded in the same app where all of this is happening.

The opportunity is right here.

TON AI Agent Hackathon.

$20,000. Two tracks. Two weeks.

Track 1: Agent Infrastructure ($10K)

Build tooling and primitives that help power the next generation of AI applications on TON. This can include wallet integrations, agent coordination, payment flows, developer tools, and other core infrastructure.

Track 2: User Facing Agents ($10K)

Build AI agents that users can interact with directly inside Telegram. This can include commerce agents, payment bots, assistants, trading tools, automation products, and other practical AI-powered experiences.

📆 Hackathon dates: March 11-25
🧠 MCP Docs
💎 For more information and registration click here

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💎 Tech Updates EP2 is live!

Yesterday we announced TON Rust Node. Today, hear from the team behind it.

Roman Nguyen, CTO of RSquad Blockchain Lab, shares what they built and why it matters for infrastructure on TON.

💬 What would you like to see from TON by 2027?

😏 Watch the full video here

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Creators are already combining their audiences on Telegram. 🤩

Chef Rush recently collaborated with one of Telegram’s largest creators, Danila Poperechnyi, and the result quickly spread across the CIS community. 🚀

The video has already reached 100K+ views, with additional reach coming from reposts across Telegram channels.

This is the power of the Telegram ecosystem: creators connecting directly with their audiences and amplifying each other’s communities.

👀 Watch the collaboration

On Telegram, creators grow together. 😎

✨Visit Elephant Store to see where the magic happens for collectibles.

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💎 The TON Rust Node by RSquad Blockchain Lab is now available.

This production-grade implementation of the TON protocol is designed for cloud-native infrastructure and large-scale validator operations.

Key highlights:

• Deployment: Container-first architecture with Docker and Helm, enabling node launch in under 10 minutes.
• Management: Nodectl provides a unified control plane for elections, staking, governance, and analytics.
• Security: Private keys are never stored unencrypted, with HashiCorp Vault integration and architectural separation between execution and custody.

Deploying one node or a hundred requires the same operational effort.

Learn more 👇

👉 TON - Rust Node Docs
👉 RSquad - TON Rust Node
👉 Watch Video

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💎 Chef Andre Rush x Mr. Freeman

Former White House chef meets the internet’s most savage animated philosopher.

No cooking, just a wild conversation about culture, influence, and the future.

Watch the full interview here ⤵️
https://t.me/nosignalgohome/204

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TON Art Contest #2 is LIVE ❤️

Degens, artists, memelords… this one’s for you.

🎨 Create artwork around TON Community, memes, NFTs, games, or anything in the TON universe
🛒 $2000 prize pool in USDT on TON
🏆 20 winners, $100 each
⏰ 7 days to cook

How to enter:
• Create your art
• Add your signature
• Like & repost the main post
• Upload it to @artcontestjudge_bot
• Share it on X or Telegram
• Use #TonArtContest2

👀 New feature: Community Likes

The community can now help surface the best pieces.

• Open the @artcontestjudge_bot MiniApp
• Drop a like on the art you vibe with
• Likes will be visible to judges

After submissions close, we’ll host a LIVE curation session with 4 judges and some artworks will be featured on TON Community X.

⚠️ Max 2 submissions per artist

Remember: quality > quantity

Now go cook something legendary. TON degens are watching. 🫵💎

We are monitoring the situation in the Middle East and its potential impact on our Gateway event in Dubai on May 1 and 2. All options are under consideration. Safety for our community is our number one priority at TON Foundation. We will share a final decision with you by March 20th. Thank you.

🚀 From campus presentation to deployed mini app in one week.

Last week we visited Cornell Tech to introduce students to TON and Telegram mini apps.

Students opened live applications, explored how they work inside Telegram, and learned how TON provides the economic layer powering payments, ownership, and programmable value.

What started as curiosity quickly turned into action.

Just one week later, one of the students has already built and deployed his own mini app on TON, live inside Telegram.

Check out @QuantumMarkets_Bot!

This is exactly why we bring TON to campuses. 🎓

Students don’t just learn about the technology. They experience it, experiment with it, and begin building with it almost immediately.

The next generation of builders is already here. 💎

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The TON builder ecosystem is moving quickly. 💎

14 projects just received Fast Grants to build the tooling layer for AI agents on TON 🤖

From SDKs and agent infrastructure to coordination and discovery, builders are already shipping the foundations.

🏆 Peep all the winners here.

And this was only the fast round.
⚡ Bigger experiments are coming next.

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🎙 TON Real Talk Ep.5

This week we’re talking about something big for TON’s future: universities and the next generation of builders. 🎓

Why campuses matter.
How developers are discovering TON.
And what’s coming next.

🎤 Hosted by Moontrips with guests from @alphatoncapital_official and Stanford Blockchain.

🗓 March 5 | 4PM UTC (Save to calendar)
📍 X • Telegram • YouTube

See you there 💎

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🥳 We’re proud to welcome Chef Andre Rush, a globally recognized culinary leader and influencer with over 20 million followers, to Telegram and TON.

🎙 He recently collaborated with the legendary Mr. Freeman, where they recorded a powerful and thought-provoking podcast together bridging culture, influence, and the future of digital communities.

👀 More info here

👉 Join his official Telegram channel

Telegram enables creators to own their distribution. TON enables creators to build and monetize within their community.

Together, they unlock entirely new possibilities.

💎 Chef Rush has already begun actively engaging in the ecosystem and he’s preparing upcoming initiatives on TON, including:

• AI-powered experiences
• Digital collections connected to real-world assets
• Exclusive Telegram-native community activations
• BeIncrypto interview

This marks an important step in bringing global creators into the TON ecosystem, expanding adoption, culture, and creator ownership worldwide. 🌍

Let’s give Chef a warm welcome! 🤗

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📣 Introducing: TON Creator Spotlight

Creators deserve ownership.

Ownership of their audience.
Ownership of their distribution.
Ownership of their monetization.

📱Telegram enables direct connection.
📱TON enables direct monetization.

Together, they form a new foundation for creators.

Through our Creator Spotlight series, we’ll highlight creators building on Telegram and TON, sharing their stories, their communities, and how they’re creating new economic opportunities. 💎

Featuring amazing creators like Chef Rush 😋 and others coming soon.

If you’re a creator exploring Telegram, we want to hear from you.👇

The future belongs to creators who own their audience.

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📣The Roast Session is here!

Want to get your project off the ground? Looking for feedback on your product? Then submit your application and get ready to hear honest feedback on your project!

Ready? Apply here. ✍️

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