Technical comparison of TON with some other networks

As of 2022, TON Blockchain remains one of the few truly scalable blockchain projects. As such, it still is the most advanced blockchain project, capable of performing millions and, if becomes necessary in the future, tens of millions of true Turing-complete smart contract transactions per second, requiring only minor internal changes. TON still remaining at the cutting edge of general-purpose blockchain technology.

https://ton.org/comparison_of_blockchains.pdf

@wallet bot now uses the full power of the new bot API and can be added to the attachment menu.

We welcome independent developers who are working on the implementation of the TON ADNL transport protocol in different programming languages, in addition to the original C++ implementation:

TypeScript - adnl-js

Rust - adnl-rs

Golang - tonutils-go

Kotlin - ton-kotlin/ton-adnl

We recommend to keep eye on them and join the development if you are interested.

The ADNL protocol and the built-in support for Merkle Proofs in TON - these technological solutions bring us closer to a full-fledged decentralized Internet. We will talk about this in more detail in the future articles.

We remind you that the recommended RAM size for the validator is 64 GB, the minimum is 32 GB.

If you are validating on hardware with less then 32 GB RAM - immediately stop sending new election requests (type command set stake 0 in mytonctrl), you should not participate in subsequent elections until you improve the hardware.

This is a mandatory requirement for network stability.

MEXC now supports Toncoin (TON) mainnet.

The token data standard TIP-64 has been expanded, it is suitable not only for NFT but also for Jettons.

Please use the recommended token metadata fields.

Please note that the development of TON is fully migrated to the original https://github.com/ton-blockchain.

Use sources and submit PR's to this repository.

FunC programming language update

Useful update of the FunC programming language for writing smart contracts for TON.

List of new features »

TON Core Update 2022.05

Node

— Improved persistent state serialization - optimized memory usage; nodes start the serialization process now not at the same time.

— Improved peer-to-peer network stability and DDoS resistance.

— Improved lite-server DoS resistance for running get-methods.

— Initial node synchronization improved - nodes with low network speed and/or bad connectivity will synchronize faster and consistently.

— Fixed some theoretical edge cases in TVM arithmetic operations related to big numbers (2**63+).

— RocksDB updated to a newer version.

TonLib

— Support smart contract libraries.

— Get-methods completely fill c7 register.

— Get-methods support Slice arguments.

— Improved messages listing for transactions.

— Added extended block header params.

— Added getConfig method.

Misc

— Fixed rarely manifested bugs in Asm.fif.

— Lite-client supports base64 remote public key as CLI argument.

Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!

Mainnet validators please update your software to new version:

— in mytonctrl run update then upgrade https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton.

— if you don't use mytonctrl please manually rebuild code from master branch of https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton.

Update your validators one by one, don't update all at the same time.

New testnet

Developers usually test their products on a testnet (a separate network where coins have no value) before launching them on the mainnet.

This week TON testnet was completely relaunched on powerful hardware to increase its stability and responsiveness. Testnet API, explorers, wallets and other testnet infrastructure have been updated.

We launched the previous testnet exactly a year ago, when there were not so many developers. We are glad to see that now the number of TON developers has increased greatly, so that the previous testnet, launched on rather weak hardware, has ceased to cope with the load.

We remind you that you should follow the @tonstatus channel if you:

— TON network validator;
— developer of TON service;
— Toncoin is integrated into your product;

The @tonstatus channel posts important technical announcements and network updates.

Nominator pools

In the Q1 of this year, the first TON staking pools (nominator pools) were launched by the TonWhales team on their own smart contract. At the moment, users have staked more than 7.5M Toncoins in these pools!

Today we present an alternative version of the pool smart contract. This smart contract is natively integrated into the mytonctrl tool used by validators.

This means that now any validator can easily run their own pools and users can stake Toncoins into these pools.

The tonvalidators.org catalog has been created where validators can publish their pools, and users can find the most suitable pool for a stake.

tonvalidators.org »

@mobile - anonymous international eSIM that you can purchase with TON.

IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for FunC language gets major update

With the new update, the plugin has overtaken the Solidity plugin in terms of functionality and convenience:

— Syntax highlighting;

— Code completion;

— File templates;

— Goto declaration;

— Code formatting;

— Support not only FunC but also Fift and TL-B;

— Support for the latest FunC language updates;

The source code is open. We thank the author andreypfau for the excellent work.

Install FunC Plugin from IntelliJ catalog »

Happy coding ❤️

Hack-a-TON

Online Hack-a-TON with a prize fund of 40,000 TON will start on July 1 and will run for only 48 hours.

Unite in teams of up to 4 people and get ready for a brainstorm and the implementation of MVP in JavaScript.

More on @toncontests.

Today’s Cloudflare outage brought down a large portion of the internet

Luckily, a company that provides network services to millions of sites quickly fixed the problem.

The current internet has become quite fragile due to centralization and excessive corporate dominance. We wrote about this earlier, predicting that the number of such incidents will only increase.

We see the future of the global network in decentralization and blockchain technologies. TON has a chance to play a decisive role in this because TON is a decentralized metacloud.

Our vision is described in more detail in this article: https://telegra.ph/TON--The-metacloud-06-15

Toncoin mining has successfully ended

Today, the last Toncoin was mined, signaling the successful closure of TON’s initial distribution.

Read all about this major event:
https://telegra.ph/Toncoin-mining-has-successfully-ended-06-17

Introducing TON DNS

TON DNS is a service that allows users to assign a human-readable name to crypto wallets, smart contracts, and websites.

With TON DNS, access to decentralized services is analogous to access to websites on the internet.

Read all about this new TON component: https://telegra.ph/TON-DNS-06-30