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Mainnet validators please update your software to new version:
— in mytonctrl run
— 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.
— 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.
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.
— 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 »
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 »
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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 ❤️
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.
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
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
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
Telegraph
Toncoin mining has successfully ended.
In July 2020, all of the available Toncoin tokens (98.55% of the total supply) became available for mining. The tokens were placed in special Giver smart contracts, allowing anyone to participate in the mining — up until today. Users mined around 200,000…
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
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
Telegraph
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. Your nickname on a decentralized network…
Introducing TON Payments
TON Payments is a technology for micropayments and a micropayment channel network. It can be used for many instant off-chain value transfers between parties without network fees. Safeguards built into the system ensure that these transfers are as secure as on-chain transactions.
Read more: https://telegra.ph/TON-Payments-07-01
TON Payments is a technology for micropayments and a micropayment channel network. It can be used for many instant off-chain value transfers between parties without network fees. Safeguards built into the system ensure that these transfers are as secure as on-chain transactions.
Read more: https://telegra.ph/TON-Payments-07-01
Telegraph
TON Payments
On the TON blockchain, block time is about 5 seconds. Even with an increase in network load, that time won’t increase either. In other words, in those 5 seconds, millions of transactions can be processed. Moreover, the TON blockchain has exceptionally low…
Mytonctrl update
TON has a very convenient tool for installing and maintaining a node or a validator.
Just take a server with the recommended hardware requirements and run one noscript.
The mytonctrl tool received a big update c83a3a:
New functionality
— Quick installation mode using dump download.
— Nominator pool support is now in the master branch with new improvements.
— Validators can now issue certificates for liteservers.
Improved work with wallets
— Added support for different wallet versions (v1, v2, v3) and wallet version detecting.
— Import & export wallet by address and private key.
— Now no restart is required to apply changes to wallets.
Stats improvement
— More info in the status command and more accurate calculation of indicators — e.g., TPS.
— Display of past elections, validators, and complaints.
— Improved telemetry (disks iops, network pps, uname, memory, swap).
Misc
— Refactoring.
— Miner removed.
Thank you to igroman787, the permanent maintainer of mytonctrl.
TON has a very convenient tool for installing and maintaining a node or a validator.
Just take a server with the recommended hardware requirements and run one noscript.
The mytonctrl tool received a big update c83a3a:
New functionality
— Quick installation mode using dump download.
— Nominator pool support is now in the master branch with new improvements.
— Validators can now issue certificates for liteservers.
Improved work with wallets
— Added support for different wallet versions (v1, v2, v3) and wallet version detecting.
— Import & export wallet by address and private key.
— Now no restart is required to apply changes to wallets.
Stats improvement
— More info in the status command and more accurate calculation of indicators — e.g., TPS.
— Display of past elections, validators, and complaints.
— Improved telemetry (disks iops, network pps, uname, memory, swap).
Misc
— Refactoring.
— Miner removed.
Thank you to igroman787, the permanent maintainer of mytonctrl.
Results of the first-ever Hack-a-TON!
The hackathon’s goal was to show the best application of TON payments technology in 48 hours. We received over 80 submissions.
The teams made MVPs showing the use of TON Payments in various areas — social networks, API, streaming, calls, advertising, games, internet traffic, decentralized finances, and more. The ideas are so cool that we decided to double the prize pool.
It was also the first TON programming event with an offline part — the participants could gather in Prague.
See the results on the @toncontests channel.
The hackathon’s goal was to show the best application of TON payments technology in 48 hours. We received over 80 submissions.
The teams made MVPs showing the use of TON Payments in various areas — social networks, API, streaming, calls, advertising, games, internet traffic, decentralized finances, and more. The ideas are so cool that we decided to double the prize pool.
It was also the first TON programming event with an offline part — the participants could gather in Prague.
See the results on the @toncontests channel.
Last week, we were pleased to announce that TON has become a sponsor of the competitive programming platform Codeforces.
Codeforces is a popular platform where tens of thousands of the world’s strongest programmers compete in various competitions at the highest level.
More than 11,000 programmers took part in our last event, CodeTON.
In total, more than 1.5 million people are registered on the site.
Codeforces is a popular platform where tens of thousands of the world’s strongest programmers compete in various competitions at the highest level.
More than 11,000 programmers took part in our last event, CodeTON.
In total, more than 1.5 million people are registered on the site.
The TON DNS auction starts tomorrow, July 30, at 9:00 UTC on the dns.ton.org site.
Network validators, on Aug. 2, it is planned to set the root DNS contract in the network config by voting — all validators need to participate.
Network validators, on Aug. 2, it is planned to set the root DNS contract in the network config by voting — all validators need to participate.
TON Crosschain Roadmap
One of the overall missions of TON is to unite blockchains and the internet into a single network.
We’d like to share with you what projects are working toward this goal at the moment:
TON Sites and TON Proxy
We plan to launch the TON Sites and TON Proxy components at the end of this quarter. In addition to the two components, we plan to provide the capability of smart contract communication with sites and vice versa.
Crosschain NFT transfers
The XP.Network dev team is about to complete its work on a multichain bridge via which users will be able to transfer NFTs between TON and multitude of blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Tron, Tezos, Elrond, Algorand. Decentralized oracles will keep the bridge running.
Crosschain token transfers
The RSquad dev team has been working on a bridge through which users can transfer any token (altcoins) from Ethereum and BNB Chain to TON and back. This new functionality will be added to ton.org/bridge and will operate by a similar principle.
Rainbow bridge with EVM-compatible blockchains (Ethereum, BNB Chain, and others)
Decentralized oracles control transfers between networks at the moment. This common approach is a stable and safe solution. However, we plan on taking it to the next step and making it ideal: All operations will occur only through smart contracts without any intermediaries.
To make this happen, new tools need to be created so that the smart contracts from other blockchains can verify the authenticity of TON blockchain’s data and vice versa. We and blockchain developers from the RSquad have come together to work on Solidity code that will be able to verify TON blocks and transactions. After that, we plan to make FunC code that can verify EVM blocks and transactions.
The project has grand aspirations, but the Rainbow Bridge solution will fully launch in 2023. However, the developers plan on publishing results, code, and tools intermittently.
Toncoin bridge update
On the ton.org/bridge site, the ability to transfer Toncoin among Ethereum, BNB Chain, and TON has been available for over a year already. In that timespan, a large number of crypto transfers from users has been processed. A UI update is in the pipeline to make everything even more convenient for users. Thank you to developer Zavtramen.
One of the overall missions of TON is to unite blockchains and the internet into a single network.
We’d like to share with you what projects are working toward this goal at the moment:
TON Sites and TON Proxy
We plan to launch the TON Sites and TON Proxy components at the end of this quarter. In addition to the two components, we plan to provide the capability of smart contract communication with sites and vice versa.
Crosschain NFT transfers
The XP.Network dev team is about to complete its work on a multichain bridge via which users will be able to transfer NFTs between TON and multitude of blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Tron, Tezos, Elrond, Algorand. Decentralized oracles will keep the bridge running.
Crosschain token transfers
The RSquad dev team has been working on a bridge through which users can transfer any token (altcoins) from Ethereum and BNB Chain to TON and back. This new functionality will be added to ton.org/bridge and will operate by a similar principle.
Rainbow bridge with EVM-compatible blockchains (Ethereum, BNB Chain, and others)
Decentralized oracles control transfers between networks at the moment. This common approach is a stable and safe solution. However, we plan on taking it to the next step and making it ideal: All operations will occur only through smart contracts without any intermediaries.
To make this happen, new tools need to be created so that the smart contracts from other blockchains can verify the authenticity of TON blockchain’s data and vice versa. We and blockchain developers from the RSquad have come together to work on Solidity code that will be able to verify TON blocks and transactions. After that, we plan to make FunC code that can verify EVM blocks and transactions.
The project has grand aspirations, but the Rainbow Bridge solution will fully launch in 2023. However, the developers plan on publishing results, code, and tools intermittently.
Toncoin bridge update
On the ton.org/bridge site, the ability to transfer Toncoin among Ethereum, BNB Chain, and TON has been available for over a year already. In that timespan, a large number of crypto transfers from users has been processed. A UI update is in the pipeline to make everything even more convenient for users. Thank you to developer Zavtramen.
TON Core Update 2022.08
Node
— Optimized memory usage for blockchain state serialization.
— Improved performance of internal database.
— Updated dependencies: abseil-cpp and crc32.
— Added detailed stats on ADNL network usage.
— Improved auto-builds for wide range of systems.
— Extended error notes for unacceptable external messages.
— Catchain DoS protection.
FunC
— Allowed unbalanced code branches (not every branch should
— Corrected inline functions behavior.
— Allowed ifelse statements.
Validators please update your software as described here.
Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!
Node
— Optimized memory usage for blockchain state serialization.
— Improved performance of internal database.
— Updated dependencies: abseil-cpp and crc32.
— Added detailed stats on ADNL network usage.
— Improved auto-builds for wide range of systems.
— Extended error notes for unacceptable external messages.
— Catchain DoS protection.
FunC
— Allowed unbalanced code branches (not every branch should
return).— Corrected inline functions behavior.
— Allowed ifelse statements.
Validators please update your software as described here.
Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!
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Introducing a major @wallet update: The popular service now has a new user-friendly interface.
On the home screen, you can see your balance, transaction history, and buy or send Toncoin. You can now buy Toncoin in just a couple of taps without leaving Telegram — you only need to link a bank card to the service once.
There’s no need to chat with the bot to use the wallet: simply add @wallet to the Attachments Menu, start the bot, and send Toncoin directly within chats with your contacts.
If you are still not familiar with the service, right now is a great chance to get to know it: There’s no service fee for purchasing Toncoin, and the exchange rate is as close as possible to the market price.
The developers continue to improve the service, equipping it with better features and making it one of the most integral parts of the TON ecosystem.
Join the Wallet News channel to stay up-to-date with all the latest news.
On the home screen, you can see your balance, transaction history, and buy or send Toncoin. You can now buy Toncoin in just a couple of taps without leaving Telegram — you only need to link a bank card to the service once.
There’s no need to chat with the bot to use the wallet: simply add @wallet to the Attachments Menu, start the bot, and send Toncoin directly within chats with your contacts.
If you are still not familiar with the service, right now is a great chance to get to know it: There’s no service fee for purchasing Toncoin, and the exchange rate is as close as possible to the market price.
The developers continue to improve the service, equipping it with better features and making it one of the most integral parts of the TON ecosystem.
Join the Wallet News channel to stay up-to-date with all the latest news.
Forwarded from Pavel Durov
I'm really impressed by the success of the auction TON recently conducted for their domain/wallet names. Wallet.ton was sold for 215,250 Toncoin (~$260000) while casino.ton was sold for ~$244000.
If TON has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved @ usernames, group and channel links for auction. In addition to millions of catchy t.me addresses like @storm or @royal, all four-letter usernames could be made available for sale (@bank, @club, @game, @gift etc).
This would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via NFT-like smart-contracts. Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji, could later also become part of this marketplace.
When it comes to scalability and speed, TON probably has the best technology to host such decentralized sales. Our team can write bullet-proof smart contracts for TON (since it was us who invented its smart-contract language), so we are inclined to try out TON as the underlying blockchain for our future marketplace.
Let's see if we can add a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram in the coming weeks.
If TON has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved @ usernames, group and channel links for auction. In addition to millions of catchy t.me addresses like @storm or @royal, all four-letter usernames could be made available for sale (@bank, @club, @game, @gift etc).
This would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via NFT-like smart-contracts. Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji, could later also become part of this marketplace.
When it comes to scalability and speed, TON probably has the best technology to host such decentralized sales. Our team can write bullet-proof smart contracts for TON (since it was us who invented its smart-contract language), so we are inclined to try out TON as the underlying blockchain for our future marketplace.
Let's see if we can add a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram in the coming weeks.