Good news!

iOS TON wallet has been reviewed and is now available on the AppStore.

In addition, community members added TON support to the Ledger hardware wallet. The first integration with Ledger is already available in the web wallet tonwallet.me.

We are planning to add TON to the Ledger Live Catalog and for this we need your help.

Please make positive reactions to the pull request https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/pull/1091. This will help to add TON Coin to the list faster.

UPD: TON Coin added to SLIP-0044 with ID 607. Thank you!

A detailed denoscription of slashing of idle validators (TIP-13) and slashing of cheating validators (TIP-14) is ready.

Slashing is one of the most important parts of network stability and security.

At the moment, most validators use mytonctrl with already implemented slashing of idle and cheating validators.

We ask all validators who do not use mytonctrl to make their noscripts that implement voting for complaints as detailed in https://github.com/newton-blockchain/TIPs/issues/13#issuecomment-814360053

Thanks to sonofmom and akme, we have network monitoring tools tonmon.xyz and tonmine.xyz.

We were surprised to find that many users are spending significant power to pow-givers mining on the current network and this process is growing.

Since coins in the current network have value, it seems to make sense to create a separate testnet for development and testing.

Since we assume that the value of the TON coin will only grow, we ask you to participate in the creation of the fund of TON Foundation.

Please make a feasible TON coins donation to the address EQCD39VS5jcptHL8vMjEXrzGaRcCVYto7HUn4bpAOg8xqB2N which is controlled by community members. Once the multisig contract is ready the fund will be transferred there.

These funds will be used to further develop and maintain the TON network.

This is very important for us because the TON community is a non-profitable organization.

A substantial number of transfers were already made to the fund by the validators and miners of the current network and now we are kindly asking all of the coin holders who may be reached by that post not to stay away and make their donations.

In accordance with the messages above, the current TON network, which previously had the testnet2 ID, is being renamed to the mainnet.

For debugging and testing purposes, a separate testnet with test coins has been launched.

Testnet config added to the first post of this channel.

Updated wallets for Windows, MacOS, Linux - now you can use the mainnet blockchain ID in the settings.

Updated mobile wallets in the process of approval by stores.

All wallets validate the init block and key blocks of the network, so the mainnet blockchain ID guarantees that you are connected to the correct network.

Validators who for some reason do not use mytonctrl please use this punisher noscript https://github.com/newton-blockchain/punisher

This noscript implements receiving complaints about idle or cheating validators, checking complaints and voting for complaints to fine such validators.

This single file noscript has no dependencies and can be easily reviewed.

If you are using mytonctrl (recommended) you do not need to use this noscript as the complete slashing process is already built into mytonctrl.

TON Services are one of the core parts of The Open Network.

Introducing TON Store - a catalog of third-party TON apps and dapps.

There are big plans for the development of TON Store - adding new functionality, such as app ratings and user reviews, as well as expecting a large number of new apps.

We are impressed with the superior design and quality of the first third-party TON apps like @CryptoBot.

Introducing the TON-ETH Bridge - a user-friendly decentralized bridge that allows transfer TON Coins between the TON network and the Ethereum network.

The main development phase of the bridge has been completed and now you can test transfers between TON testnet and Ethereum Ropsten testnet.

You can find out how it works and check out the technical documentation.

Preparations have begun for the launch of the bridge on the mainnet.

Validators please update your software to the latest commit 4f0480b from the repo https://github.com/newton-blockchain/ton.

This network update aims to improve stability, launch the TON-ETH bridge and nominator-pools (a system for lending stakes to validators). You can read more about the changes here.

This update is required to take further steps.

Introducing TON documentation at toncoin.org/docs

In response to the public letter from our open-source community, the Telegram team agreed to transfer the ton.org domain and the ton-blockchain repository to the community.

While we are saddened that Telegram has been forced to withdraw its involvement from the TON project in 2020, community will continue to align ourselves with original intentions for TON as we further our work on its development.

Welcome to ton.org!

Mobile & desktop wallet users please update your wallet settings

* Make sure your wallet is downloaded from ton.org/wallets

* Make sure you have your recovery words backed up

Open Settings:

* In config url enter https://ton.org/global-config-wallet.json

* Enter mainnet into blockchain ID

Of course, your account and balance will be saved.

Web wallets are updated automatically (no action required).

If you cannot enter mainnet into blockchain ID - update your wallet from ton.org/wallets

If you have any problems with wallet connectivity - please check out https://ton.org/docs/#/howto/wallets

We are pleased to announce that testing of the ETH-TON bridge has been completed.

Validators please vote for network config -71 (bridge config) with hash D855FFBCF813E50E10BEAB902D1177529CE79785CAE913EB96A72AE8EFBCBF47.

You can get acquainted with the full information in TIP-35 and TIP-24.

To vote via mytonctrl you need to use the command:

vo 86288317131724994092252721964900886660334541228443687319705725361155044390570

Bridge between TON and Ethereum networks launched on the mainnet.

Now transfers of TON coins between networks are available for anyone at ton.org/bridge.

There are no limits, except that the transfer must be more than 10 TON coins.

You can find the address of the ERC20 TONCOIN token on ton.org/coin.

Validators please rebuild your ton to last commit of https://github.com/newton-blockchain/ton

If you use mytonctrl just enter upgrade command

Then please restart your nodes with flag -F 13991798:218126:7 at 15:30 UTC / 18:30 MSK
For mytonctrl users:
1. open /etc/systemd/system/validator.service
2. add flag -F 13991798:218126:7 to the end of ExecStart: thus full line will be as follows:
ExecStart = /usr/bin/ton/validator-engine/validator-engine --daemonize --global-config /usr/bin/ton/validator-engine/ton-global.config.json --db /var/ton-work/db/ --logname /var/ton-work/log --state-ttl 604800 --verbosity 1 -F 13991798:218126:7

3. Run systemctl daemon-reload
4. make systemctl restart validator at 15:30 UTC / 18:30 MSK

For other users please restart your validator-engine instance with -F 13991798:218126:7 flag added at 15:30 UTC

Thanks! Validators can now remove -F 13991798:218126:7 from the launch command.

MyTonCtrl users don't forget to do systemctl daemon-reload after removing the flag.

Validators please update your software to the latest commit 0d246dd of the repo https://github.com/newton-blockchain/ton.

This network update aims to launch the TON-Binance Smart Chain bridge.

This update is required to take further steps.

If you use mytonctrl just execute upgrade command.

It is interesting to watch the growth of the TON mining industry.

Over the past 10 weeks, the total hash rate has grown by almost 10 times!

In addition, enthusiasts have recently invented GPU mining of TON Coin and put it into open-source.

We welcome the idea of ​​creating simple GPU miner apps for Windows to make it easier for ordinary users to participate.

Proof-of-Work distribution of coins in a Proof-of-Stake network is a unique phenomenon.
This format of the initial distribution of TON Coins arose accidentally and spontaneously.

Perhaps this distribution format will become popular with subsequent various blockchain projects due to its obvious advantages - decentralization and equal conditions for receiving coins for everyone.

We would suggest the name "IPOW" for this type of distribution.

Validators please check that your software is updated to commit 0d246dd which becomes MANDATORY now: your validator will fall out the consensus upon voting for new config params. So, if you missed it - update as soon as possible.

Optionally please update your software to the latest commit 15dfedd of the repo https://github.com/newton-blockchain/ton. This network update fixes issues in TON VM.

If you use mytonctrl just execute upgrade command.