Adiele Wisdom Nnamdi
2 min readJan 6, 2024

Introducing TON COIN

What is TON?

The Open Network (TON) is focused in putting crypto in every pocket. By building a Web3 ecosystem within Telegram Messenger, TON is giving billions the opportunity to own their digital identity, data, and assets.

The Open Network Foundation empowers TON projects without controlling TON technology and is one of many network contributors in the decentralized TON Community. TON operates on an open-source codebase, allowing contributions from anyone, and has no single controlling authority.
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Toncoin ($TON) is TON’s native crypto currency. It is used for network operations, transactions, games or collectibles built on TON.

News/ Latest update

Last September, the official TON X-account posted something about their goals for the years to come: They plan to reach 800 million users by 2028.

It’s goal is reaching that massive number of potential users based on their Telegram presence.

- The TON Foundation is working exclusively with Telegram to integrate and promote the TON Web3 ecosystem.
- TON Space wallet is now available to the 800 million active Telegram users.
- TON ecosystem will be the first to have access to Telegram’s global ads platform.
This is truly an amazing opportunity for TON and its community!

📣 TON Foundation announced it started working with @telegram, and @wallet_tg is now available to 800 MILLION USERS!

This is the greatest #Web3 mass adoption event ever.

TF aims to 33x current active #Web3 users!

The goal is 30% of telegram’s active users, onboarded to #TON by 2028. An estimated ~500M people.

The latest @a16zcrypto report, puts monthly active Web3 users at 15M across all major chains. Making TON the most active chain.

Telegram is working with TF to put digital ownership in their user’s hands!

#TON is perfect for Web3 projects looking to build on existing user experience rails and scale to billions of users.

"TON ecosystem is designed to make crypto feel like social media." @steveyun_ton

Existing @wallet_tg users can access the TON Space wallet today right from the Telegram menu.

But the excitement doesn't stop there. Come November, this feature will begin rolling out globally - by default - to all Telegram users outside the US.

Integrating TON Space self-custody wallet into @telegram makes crypto simple and enriches the Telegram #Web3 App ecosystem.

For builders, it gives their users seamless onboarding and enables dApp authorization and transaction signing, without ever leaving Telegram.

This is undoubtedly the biggest onboarding event in #Web3 to date. With plans to onboard 33x more active Web3 users than ALL chains today.

#TelegramFi will be seamless, simple and give you full control of your digital activity in @telegram.

#TONxTelegram starts now.

SUMMARY:

Key takeaways! 🤗
- The TON Foundation is working exclusively with Telegram to integrate and promote the TON Web3 ecosystem.
- TON Space wallet is now available to the 800 million active Telegram users.
- TON ecosystem will be the first to have access to Telegram’s global ads platform.
This is truly an amazing opportunity for TON and its community!

Stay Tuned 👇

Official Page: https://ton.org
Telegram: https://t.me/toncoin
Blog: https://blog.ton.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ton-blockchain/
X (FKA Twitter): https://twitter.com/ton_blockchain