TON — BLOG

😘 Pavel Durov confessed his love for the Telegram team and also announced that the messenger will soon allow users to add media to a message after it's been sent. Additionally, the update will include 5 new gifts.

📊 The number of TON holders has reached 100 000 000 — at the beginning of 2024, this figure was 4.3 million.

💸 The Gate exchange has invested $10,000,000 in the TON blockchain.

⚒️ Things Foundation launched MineX, a mining app using virtual graphics cards within Telegram. The project's token surged by 6000% in just 4 days, surpassing HMSTR in the Geckoterminal rankings.

🔫 The UN has released a new report highlighting a surge in cybercrime in Southeast Asia, blaming Telegram for it. According to the report, the messaging app is considered the location of «underground criminal markets.»

📺 Telegram announced a contest to create a new player with HLS streaming support — according to analysts, the messaging team might launch its own YouTube counterpart. The player is expected to be released in 2025, first in the iOS app, and later for Android and PC.

🕵️‍♂️ A group of criminals involved in stealing cryptocurrency from wallets in TON announced that they are moving to other blockchains because «there aren't many whales in TON, and that's bad for business.»

🌍 In Q3 2024, TON ranked among the TOP 5 most popular cryptocurrencies in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

✈️ Pavel Durov stated that Telegram was created to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — however, the company does not allow criminals to abuse the platform or evade justice.

💎 The creator of $GRAM announced the burning of 50% of the coin's supply, marking the largest burn in TON history. 2 520 958 617 GRAM = 8 354 391.91 USD

🧬 Yesterday, in just 1 hour, the TON blockchain processed over 1,000,000 transactions — this happened amid an airdrop and the listing of the HMSTR token on major crypto exchanges. The network handled the heavy load and continued producing blocks without interruptions.

🔒 SafePal announced a partnership with TON to integrate Mintless Jettons into the wallet — a token standard for conducting mass airdrops without overloading the blockchain.

🐹 Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) has been listed on exchanges. The starting price is $0.01 Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) has also been added to Crypto Bot.

👛 The Wallet will be temporarily restricted for users from the US and the UK due to corporate restructuring.

📈 Cryptoquant analysts report that the number of addresses and transactions on DEX exchanges in the TON network is rapidly increasing.

📊 Projects of the TON ecosystem by market capitalization and number of holders.

🦋 Catizen (CATI) has been added to Crypto Bot.

🧬 BNB Chain is integrating with Telegram — developers plan to actively launch new mini-apps in the messenger and use Telegram authentication for enhanced security.

💸 Bitget and Foresight Ventures invest $30,000,000 in TON.

🪙 Binance launches its own mini-application on Telegram.