Originally, TON was developed by the team behind Telegram Messenger. Although Telegram officially stepped away due to regulatory issues in 2020, the open-source TON blockchain was taken over by the TON Foundation – a decentralized community of developers and contributors – and has continued to grow ever since.
TON has the potential of mass adoption through Telegrams 900+ million users, as well as native wallets being rolled out in the Telegram platform. TON also has a growing DeFi, NFT, and gaming ecosystem with low fees, scalable design vs competitors like Ethereum or Solana.
Ultra-fast blockchain
TON is built for mass adoption, targeting millions (or even billions) of users. It claims to handle tens of thousands of transactions per second (TPS).
Native to Telegram
TON integrates very closely with Telegram, allowing features such as:
- In-app crypto payments
- On-chain identity and usernames (TON DNS)
- Tokenised assets (TON NFT, TON stablecoins, etc.)
Layer 1 blockchain
Like Ethereum or Solana, TON is its own base blockchain –not a layer built on top of another chain.
Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
Validators secure the network, and users can stake TON tokens to earn rewards.
Low fees, fast finality
Transactions are cheap (often less than a cent) and confirm within seconds.
Interoperable ecosystem
TON also offers decentralized storage (TON Storage), domain names (TON DNS), and even decentralized VPN services (TON Proxy).
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