Now for TON - what is in store for the ecosystem this year?
From Arty Shatilov, Co-Founder @nomis_protocol
📊 Perhaps the key trends [in 2025] will be Hyperliquid-based products and a new wave of memefication: meme-ETFs, perp trading and other forms of speculation.
🌐 Telegram social graph solutions are also expected to grow, from casual gaming to social trading.
🎮 Onchain games combining gamification and financial incentives (e.g. Farmville + perp trading) may become an important driver of user activity.
From Arty Shatilov, Co-Founder @nomis_protocol
📊 Perhaps the key trends [in 2025] will be Hyperliquid-based products and a new wave of memefication: meme-ETFs, perp trading and other forms of speculation.
🌐 Telegram social graph solutions are also expected to grow, from casual gaming to social trading.
🎮 Onchain games combining gamification and financial incentives (e.g. Farmville + perp trading) may become an important driver of user activity.
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Will we finally see deployed restaking projects this year?
Insight from Misha, Co-founder @ Symbiotic
"The lagging protocols had this time to figure out the last elements of their design and start implementing them as well. 2025 will be production [year].
Protocols that are trading promises are not going to be as successful as they were before. So 2025 is the year to get it.
Our industry is built by dreamers, but for some reason, they don't have imagination. You have to show them, like, look, this is the Oracle network. This is how it works. You have a registry, you have network middleware and you have off-chain parts. You need this, this and this to get you started."
Insight from Misha, Co-founder @ Symbiotic
"The lagging protocols had this time to figure out the last elements of their design and start implementing them as well. 2025 will be production [year].
Protocols that are trading promises are not going to be as successful as they were before. So 2025 is the year to get it.
Our industry is built by dreamers, but for some reason, they don't have imagination. You have to show them, like, look, this is the Oracle network. This is how it works. You have a registry, you have network middleware and you have off-chain parts. You need this, this and this to get you started."
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Last prediction of the week - the future of AI agents.
Opinion from Daniil Shcherbakov, Co-Founder @ton_tongames
🎇 The biggest trend of 2025, which is clearly carrying over from 2024, will be the deep integration of artificial intelligence into Web3.
🤖 AI is no longer trusted solely with technical routines but is also, in a way, tasked with managing communities. AI agents are becoming the main characters in communities: they engage with members and can maintain “live” conversations.
👾 There is already evidence that this works: crypto enthusiasts are increasingly motivated to hold tokens longer in order to remain part of exclusive communities
Opinion from Daniil Shcherbakov, Co-Founder @ton_tongames
🎇 The biggest trend of 2025, which is clearly carrying over from 2024, will be the deep integration of artificial intelligence into Web3.
🤖 AI is no longer trusted solely with technical routines but is also, in a way, tasked with managing communities. AI agents are becoming the main characters in communities: they engage with members and can maintain “live” conversations.
👾 There is already evidence that this works: crypto enthusiasts are increasingly motivated to hold tokens longer in order to remain part of exclusive communities
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Forwarded from Olly Kovalieva
#web3job #epicweb3
🧞Epic Web3 is looking for a X Growth Manager to take Twitter (X) presence to the next level, grow and engage with the community.
We organize global Web3 & deAI conferences. Over the past two years, we've hosted more than 30 events worldwide.
📌 What We’re Looking For:
• 1+ year of experience in Web3
• Strong experience with Twitter (X) growth strategies
• Familiarity with growth hacking techniques
📍 Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a growth strategy
• Create daily tweets (posts, memes, threads)
• Generate viral memes to engage the Web3 community
• Reply to trending posts and quote-tweet relevant content to build visibility
• Maintain a content calendar to ensure consistent posting
• Track, analyze key metrics, and adjust strategy for better results
✅ What We Offer:
• Remote work with a flexible schedule / part-time
• Opportunities in the fast-growing Web3 space
• Collaborate with a passionate, driven team
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🧞Epic Web3 is looking for a X Growth Manager to take Twitter (X) presence to the next level, grow and engage with the community.
We organize global Web3 & deAI conferences. Over the past two years, we've hosted more than 30 events worldwide.
• 1+ year of experience in Web3
• Strong experience with Twitter (X) growth strategies
• Familiarity with growth hacking techniques
• Develop and implement a growth strategy
• Create daily tweets (posts, memes, threads)
• Generate viral memes to engage the Web3 community
• Reply to trending posts and quote-tweet relevant content to build visibility
• Maintain a content calendar to ensure consistent posting
• Track, analyze key metrics, and adjust strategy for better results
• Remote work with a flexible schedule / part-time
• Opportunities in the fast-growing Web3 space
• Collaborate with a passionate, driven team
Send us a DM @Ni_balaba
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Epic Web3 build & grow products in Web3 🔜 Devconnect Argentina 🇦🇷
Are tap-to-earn games still alive? How to onboard active TG users? What will games be like in 2025? The new podcast with Daniil Shcherbakov, Co-founder @ton_tongames, a game publisher specialising in Telegram games! Available on: 📍 Spotify - https://t.ly/D7WBa…
Making successful Web3 game: 3 tips from @ton_tongames and their founder Daniil Shcherbakov
📈 Focus on quality over trends
Many developers in the Telegram gaming space rely on trends like "click-to-earn" mechanics, where players perform basic actions to earn tokens or rewards.
Instead, emphasize creating polished, meaningful gaming experiences that provide lasting value. This approach ensures their games appeal to broader audiences and maintain retention beyond initial hype cycles.
🧠 Create a careful token strategy
Don’t launch a token prematurely to generate short-term interest. Better focus on building games with robust monetization, loyal audiences, and sustainable economics.
Token launches should be considered only when they add meaningful utility to the game and its ecosystem. By delaying token generation events, you can avoid the pitfalls of hype and create more stable, engaging products.
🪙 Make monetization user-centric
A key component of the strategy should be respecting users.
Rather than bombarding them with intrusive ads or exploitative monetization tactics, they focus on creating experiences where users feel encouraged, not pressured, to spend money.
This transparent and respectful approach earns trust and engagement from the player base.
Many developers in the Telegram gaming space rely on trends like "click-to-earn" mechanics, where players perform basic actions to earn tokens or rewards.
Instead, emphasize creating polished, meaningful gaming experiences that provide lasting value. This approach ensures their games appeal to broader audiences and maintain retention beyond initial hype cycles.
Don’t launch a token prematurely to generate short-term interest. Better focus on building games with robust monetization, loyal audiences, and sustainable economics.
Token launches should be considered only when they add meaningful utility to the game and its ecosystem. By delaying token generation events, you can avoid the pitfalls of hype and create more stable, engaging products.
A key component of the strategy should be respecting users.
Rather than bombarding them with intrusive ads or exploitative monetization tactics, they focus on creating experiences where users feel encouraged, not pressured, to spend money.
This transparent and respectful approach earns trust and engagement from the player base.
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The 4 most important challenges in restaking
From the talk with Nader Dabit, Misha, Adam Efrima, Tigran Bolshoi & Warren Paul Anderson
⚖️ Imbalanced expectations - the rapid growth of restaking protocols like EigenLayer has generated significant hype. However, the ecosystem is still in its infancy, leading to a mismatch between expectations and deliverables.
⚠️ Slashing risks - slashing, a critical component of restaking security, has not been fully implemented in most protocols.
Its absence means current risk-taking remains limited to smart contract vulnerabilities and governance risks.
🤖 Technical complexity - advanced cryptographic solutions like ZK proofs and FHE are essential for scaling privacy and security in restaking.
However, these technologies remain resource-intensive and are not yet ready for widespread use in generalized applications.
🛍 UX - establishing a universally understood framework for evaluating AVS risks is a critical UX gap. Without this, both developers and users face uncertainty when assessing potential risks and rewards.
Its absence means current risk-taking remains limited to smart contract vulnerabilities and governance risks.
However, these technologies remain resource-intensive and are not yet ready for widespread use in generalized applications.
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Gm fam!
Here are 3 events you must not miss in the February:
🇭🇰 TG Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with topics like user acquisition for Telegram apps, successful viral case studies and how to build successful Telegram games!
Catch speakers from @blumcrypto, Animoca Brands, @timetoterminal, @storm_trade_news & @fintopionews.
🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect a day packed with keynotes, workshops, and panels diving deep into the latest in the restaking space. With Ether.fi, Eigen & many more.
🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - side event for web3 developers, tech founders, and enthusiasts seeking in-depth of modular stack and layer 2 scaling solutions.
Expect chads from Somnia, Starkware, Linea, Veridise, Fluent, Pharos, Redstone, Brevis.
Here are 3 events you must not miss in the February:
🇭🇰 TG Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with topics like user acquisition for Telegram apps, successful viral case studies and how to build successful Telegram games!
Catch speakers from @blumcrypto, Animoca Brands, @timetoterminal, @storm_trade_news & @fintopionews.
🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect a day packed with keynotes, workshops, and panels diving deep into the latest in the restaking space. With Ether.fi, Eigen & many more.
🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - side event for web3 developers, tech founders, and enthusiasts seeking in-depth of modular stack and layer 2 scaling solutions.
Expect chads from Somnia, Starkware, Linea, Veridise, Fluent, Pharos, Redstone, Brevis.
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DeFAI: be bullish or be bearish?
4 different opinions
🎶 “Most DeFAI teams are going about it the wrong way. Implicit development requires a completely different approach from the start—teams will need to redo 95% of their architecture to build B, and then spend a year building the base infra” - Vivaldi, Founder journal & research on biohacking, defi, ai
💻 “The future of finance is permissionless and open. Autonomous AI agents will handle everything seamlessly in the background. DefAI is the next big wave—stay bullish“ - Pushpendra Singh, Co-founder of PushpendraTech & SmartViewAI
📈 “DeFAI's market cap is under $1 billion, but I anticipate it could reach $25–$50 billion by the end of 2025“ - Sam Ruskin, Research analyst @messaricrypto
🐵 “What scares me is that 99% of the DeFAI projects we see now won’t survive the next cycle. Most are just memes with a GPT wrapper slapped on top” - The Smart Ape, building BasePumpFUN
4 different opinions
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We’re pumped to introduce our co-host for Telegram Builders Day in HK - @timetoterminal 🚆
These guys are building a gaming platform with financial instruments packed with mini-games tied to $TON, so you can score $TRMNL just by playing 🤑
📅 Catch them on February 17th in Hong Kong!
Grab a free ticket here:
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These guys are building a gaming platform with financial instruments packed with mini-games tied to $TON, so you can score $TRMNL just by playing 🤑
📅 Catch them on February 17th in Hong Kong!
Grab a free ticket here:
https://t.ly/cmEMm
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Why are vanity metrics useless?
From the panel discussion with:
🟢 Daniil Shcherbakov (Co-Founder @ton_tongames)
🟢 Ricky Wong (CFO & Co-Founder @CatizenAnn)
🟢 David Ching (Strategic Investments & Partnership @ Animoca Brands)
🟢 Serge Suchkov (Co-Founder @battlesjam)
🟢 Inal Kardan (Partner @ TON Ventures)
From the panel discussion with:
🟢 Daniil Shcherbakov (Co-Founder @ton_tongames)
🟢 Ricky Wong (CFO & Co-Founder @CatizenAnn)
🟢 David Ching (Strategic Investments & Partnership @ Animoca Brands)
🟢 Serge Suchkov (Co-Founder @battlesjam)
🟢 Inal Kardan (Partner @ TON Ventures)
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Don't miss our next event!
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We start the year with another event — SE Telegram Builders Day in Hong Kong from @epicweb3! 🪭
The day before Consensus HK starts, speakers from #Blum, #TerminalStation, #AnimocaBrands, #StormTrade, #Fintopio, #TONFoundation and other projects will gather on one stage.
Participants will discuss the latest trends, attracting users and investments, secrets of viral projects, the future of the ecosystem and much more that awaits us in 2025.
🗓️ February 17, Hong Kong
🎫 Get a free ticket 👈
The day before Consensus HK starts, speakers from #Blum, #TerminalStation, #AnimocaBrands, #StormTrade, #Fintopio, #TONFoundation and other projects will gather on one stage.
Participants will discuss the latest trends, attracting users and investments, secrets of viral projects, the future of the ecosystem and much more that awaits us in 2025.
The event is FREE, but places are limited, so hurry if you want to join.
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Telegram Builders Day | Consensus Hong Kong 🇭🇰 · Luma
Telegram Builders Day in Dubai was a blast 🚀 so we're kicking off the 2025 event season with a deep dive into the Telegram & TON ecosystem!
Join us for…
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What lies ahead for agents beyond the hype? 🧞♂️ 🤖
Join us in Denver alongside industry experts from CoinFund, Giza, Valory & Olas, Subsquid, Assisterr, and more.
Together, we’ll explore autonomous and multi-agent systems, on-chain agent infrastructure, cybernetic mechanisms in Crypto x AI, and much more.
✨ 20 industry-leading speakers
✨ 300+ attendees
✨ Keynote talks & panel discussions
Secure your spot
📅 February 25
📍 ETHDenver
Join us in Denver alongside industry experts from CoinFund, Giza, Valory & Olas, Subsquid, Assisterr, and more.
Together, we’ll explore autonomous and multi-agent systems, on-chain agent infrastructure, cybernetic mechanisms in Crypto x AI, and much more.
✨ 20 industry-leading speakers
✨ 300+ attendees
✨ Keynote talks & panel discussions
Secure your spot
📅 February 25
📍 ETHDenver
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Why is everybody talking about DeepSeek now? And how it can destroy Nvidia?
🤑 Training top AI models today is prohibitively expensive. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic spend over $100M on compute alone, relying on massive data centers with thousands of $40K GPUs.
DeepSeek flipped the noscript, managing to train AI models on par with GPT-4 and Claude for just $5M.
How?
🤖 By rethinking AI from the ground up. Traditional AI operates with excessive precision, using 32 decimal places for every calculation. DeepSeek simplified this to 8, reducing memory requirements by 75%.
The real game-changer? DeepSeek's "expert system." Instead of activating all 1.8 trillion parameters like traditional models, they call on only the 37 billion parameters needed for a task.
📉 This method decreases costs and hardware requirements dramatically:
- Training cost: $100M → $5M
- GPUs needed: 100,000 → 2,000
- API costs: 95% cheaper
💪 This enables smaller teams to compete in AI without billion-dollar data centers. It also poses a significant threat to Nvidia, whose business model depends on selling high-margin, expensive GPUs.
DeepSeek flipped the noscript, managing to train AI models on par with GPT-4 and Claude for just $5M.
How?
The real game-changer? DeepSeek's "expert system." Instead of activating all 1.8 trillion parameters like traditional models, they call on only the 37 billion parameters needed for a task.
- Training cost: $100M → $5M
- GPUs needed: 100,000 → 2,000
- API costs: 95% cheaper
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3 accounts that you should read to get the best alpha
🐸 @ahboyashreads - daily curated alpha from different sources
📚 @cryptogoodreads - archive of interesting tweets, threads, articles, blog posts etc.
⭐️@infinityhedge - news that matter
🐸 @ahboyashreads - daily curated alpha from different sources
📚 @cryptogoodreads - archive of interesting tweets, threads, articles, blog posts etc.
⭐️@infinityhedge - news that matter
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Four events that you must visit this February:
💌 Telegram Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with speakers from Blum, Storm Trade, Fintopio, Terminal Station, Animoca Brands & TON Foundation.
🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect experts from Eigen, Ether.fi, Mode, Symbiotic, Hyle, Giza, Kernel DAO. & others.
👾 Agents Day - AI x Web3 (Feb 25th) - catch Giza, CoinFund, Zircuit, Valory, etc.
🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - joined by Starkware, Linea, Fluent, Taiko, =nil;, Caldera & more.
💌 Telegram Builders Day (Feb 17th) - with speakers from Blum, Storm Trade, Fintopio, Terminal Station, Animoca Brands & TON Foundation.
🥩 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - expect experts from Eigen, Ether.fi, Mode, Symbiotic, Hyle, Giza, Kernel DAO. & others.
👾 Agents Day - AI x Web3 (Feb 25th) - catch Giza, CoinFund, Zircuit, Valory, etc.
🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - joined by Starkware, Linea, Fluent, Taiko, =nil;, Caldera & more.
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Berachain: 3 innovations from the most hyped protocol of the last week
💧 Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism
Berachain uses a PoL model that integrates liquidity provision directly into network security.
Participants stake assets into liquidity pools, and these staked assets contribute to network security while also facilitating decentralized trading and lending activities.
The dual functionality enhances security while ensuring that liquidity remains active within the ecosystem, creating a more efficient and dynamic financial environment.
3️⃣ Tri-Token system
$BERA – The network’s native token, used for gas fees and staking.
$BGT (Berachain Governance Token) – A non-transferable governance asset earned exclusively through liquidity provisioning.
$HONEY – A native stablecoin mintable via over-collateralization.
🧸 Built on BeaconKit
BeaconKit is a new framework for Ethereum-based blockchains, serving as a modular consensus layer that brings CometBFT to EVM environments. It has several advantages:
🟢 EVM identical
🟢 Single slot finality
🟢 Optimistic payload building
Berachain uses a PoL model that integrates liquidity provision directly into network security.
Participants stake assets into liquidity pools, and these staked assets contribute to network security while also facilitating decentralized trading and lending activities.
The dual functionality enhances security while ensuring that liquidity remains active within the ecosystem, creating a more efficient and dynamic financial environment.
$BERA – The network’s native token, used for gas fees and staking.
$BGT (Berachain Governance Token) – A non-transferable governance asset earned exclusively through liquidity provisioning.
$HONEY – A native stablecoin mintable via over-collateralization.
BeaconKit is a new framework for Ethereum-based blockchains, serving as a modular consensus layer that brings CometBFT to EVM environments. It has several advantages:
🟢 EVM identical
🟢 Single slot finality
🟢 Optimistic payload building
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TON is one of the fastest growing blockchains with 40M active wallets, 400 validators & $215M TVL.
What are the next steps in finding new users?
Learn with the panel discussion “Scaling DeFi: Onboarding Telegram’s Audience to TON” with:
Igor Pugachevskiy, Co-founder @blumcrypto
Vivi Park, Lead of Growth Asia @storm_trade_news
Sergey Maslov, CTO @fintopionews
Fuji, Eco Partner @UTONIC_uTON
Justin Hyun, Co-CEO @FactorialFinance
Moderator: Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip
📅 February 17th, Hong Kong
Grab a free ticket here
What are the next steps in finding new users?
Learn with the panel discussion “Scaling DeFi: Onboarding Telegram’s Audience to TON” with:
Igor Pugachevskiy, Co-founder @blumcrypto
Vivi Park, Lead of Growth Asia @storm_trade_news
Sergey Maslov, CTO @fintopionews
Fuji, Eco Partner @UTONIC_uTON
Justin Hyun, Co-CEO @FactorialFinance
Moderator: Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip
📅 February 17th, Hong Kong
Grab a free ticket here
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