TON Ecosystem Overview
Launchpad
Wallet
Cross-Chain Bridges
Staking
Lending
DEX
Stablecoins
Other
CEX
Platform
Collectibles
Browsers and Analysis Tools
VPN
Developer Tools
Forward the Original Title：’背靠 10 亿 Telegram 用户，爆发前夜的 TON 生态大盘点’
TON’s technical logic is centered around high-speed applications. Transactions are based on messages and are directly on-chain, supporting point-to-point communication. TON’s dynamic sharding architecture also facilitates the scalability of its applications. The initial design concept was to serve a large number of users.
When we talk about Ethereum, we talk about staking protocols and L2 scaling solutions. From time to time, when the gas fees on the Ethereum mainnet skyrocket, we will think of the advantages of various high-performance L1s. However, there are only a handful of public chains that have truly entered the public eye and been widely discussed. Solana is one of them, due to its thriving ecosystem, thriving dog coins, and extremely strong wealth effect. Cosmos is another one, with its ecological application chain growing, and the public chains on top of it also have a continuous wealth effect. NEAR has also recently attracted market attention due to its AI hotspot, NEAR DA, chain abstraction, etc. Public chains that have not yet been launched, such as Monad and Berachain, have been attracting attention and attention even in the testnet stage…
At a time when hot sectors in the market are rotating extremely fast, it is even more difficult to attract users to stop and stay. What’s more, TVL’s public chain TON currently only has 50 million US dollars. This seems too insignificant in a public chain or L2 that can easily reach billions or tens of billions.
But in fact, TON is taking a different path. It does not rely on DeFi. With over 900 million monthly active users of Telegram, TON is more focused on cultivating its strengths in ordinary user experience, social networking, application tools, and games. For example, the native wallet embedded in Telegram allows ordinary users to seamlessly enter the crypto world. Although the multiple mini-games are simple and crude, they can attract a lot of participation after integrating social and NFT factors. In particular, there are quite a few small tools that are very popular with developers and users.
TON’s technical logic is centered around high-speed applications. Transactions are based on messages and are directly on-chain, supporting point-to-point communication. TON’s dynamic sharding architecture also facilitates the scalability of its applications. The initial design concept was to serve a large number of users.
TON has had a roller coaster ride since its inception. It was initially highly anticipated, but then its plans were put on hold after being sued by the US SEC. It was eventually taken over and developed by the community, but it went through ups and downs during this period. In the subsequent bear market, no one cared about the project for a long time. However, things started to improve last year. According to the fourth quarter report of 2023, TON’s developer community has grown to 13,000 people, and the monthly active users of tAPPs have increased by 75% month-on-month in December, reaching 12,000.
Where are the gold-mining opportunities for TON? Foresight News will outline the ecosystem for you one by one.
Infrastructure
Launchpad
Tonstarter is a Launchpad platform on TON, with investors including DWF Labs, Kingswap, etc. As of now, about 13 IDOs have been conducted.
TonUP is a Launchpad platform. Foresight X has also collaborated with TonUP to launch a funding program designed to support innovative projects in the TON ecosystem, with a total amount of $200,000.
A simple ICO platform, the operation is simple, introducing a full-feature dashboard to manage token sales.
XTON seamlessly bridges between blockchain networks through Telegram, and recently launched a native cross-chain launch platform tailor-made for the TON ecosystem. This dynamic platform aims to simplify the interaction between crypto users and decentralized applications (dApps) directly through Telegram messaging service.
Wallet
Built-in TG wallet that supports peer-to-peer transactions and invoicing.
Official native TG built-in wallet, supports buying cryptocurrencies with bank cards, currently supports USD, EUR and RUB payment, its self-custody wallet TON Space supports Bitcoin, TON and stablecoin trading.
Mobile phone wallet, has been launched in Apple and Android app stores, supports browser plug-ins, supports NFT display.
Mobile APP wallet, has been launched in Apple and Android app stores, supports TON staking. No need to register or provide personal information to get started. Compatible with all existing TON wallets.
Non-custodial mobile phone APP wallet, has been launched in Apple and Android app stores, supports TON staking and block browser functions, also supports interactive price charts, address book, spam filter and integration with third-party services such as CoinMarketCap, tonscan.org and Getgems.
Open source browser wallet. The application supports network functions: Jettons, NFT, TON DNS, TON WWW, TON Proxy, TON Sites, etc., and also supports Mac, Yubikey or mobile phone through Touch Id for biometric authentication.
In addition to the above-mentioned native wallets, there are also third-party wallets, including Bitget Wallet, Gem, SafePal, Coin98 Wallet, Trust Wallet and Ledger, etc.
Cross-Chain Bridges
Layerswap is a cross-chain bridge protocol that allows users to seamlessly transfer crypto assets across multiple ecosystems, including TON, Ethereum, Solana, L2, CEX, etc.
Cross-chain NFT bridge that currently supports over 30 chains, including ICP, Hedera, NEAR, Solana, etc.
Currently Rubic aggregates 70+ mainstream chains, 200+ DEXs and bridges, and supports one-click swap of 15,500+ assets with the best exchange rate, highest liquidity and transaction speed. It also provides dApps with tools to implement cross-chain swap.
Cross-chain bridge between TON and WTON.
Cross-chain bridge on BNB Chain.
DeFi
Staking
Staking protocol that ranks first in TVL among all applications. The current annual rate is 4%, and the total number of TONs staked is over 27 million.
Staking protocol that ranks second in TVL, with a TVL of $31.42 million. The total number of TONs staked is over 7.35 million, and the annual staking rate is 4.24%.
Decentralized open source TON staking protocol. According to the official website, it has over 9,000 active users, over 30 million TONs staked, and 7 staking pools. The minimum staking amount is 50 TON, and there is no upper limit.
Decentralized TON staking protocol, with a current annual rate of 4.76%. The current staking amount is over 970,000 TONs.
Lending
NFT lending protocol, currently ranked first in TVL among lending protocols, with over 20,000 NFTs staked and a total of $1.4 million in TONs borrowed. According to the official website, the most recent NFT used to pledge for loans is the Diamond series.
Built-in TG lending protocol, incubated by TON Starter Launchpad, Hack-a-TONxDoraHacks honorary finalist.
DEX
AMM trading protocol, with a TVL of over $1.7 million, ranking first among DEXs in the ecosystem, and supporting cross-chain between ETH, BNB Chain and TON. The first largest trading pair pool is SCALE/TON, reaching $5.9 million.
STON.fi（STON）
AMM trading protocol, about to launch cross-chain function. There are currently a total of 120 pools, and the current number of STONs pledged is over 21.12 million.
Derivatives protocol, supporting 100x leverage, TVL over $300,000, supporting cryptocurrency, stocks, foreign exchange, commodities (oil, natural gas, etc.), total TVL over $1.79 million.
AMM trading protocol, with 53 active pools, total TVL over $3.62 million, and the highest annual rate reaching 35%.
Trading protocol on Open Network, supporting limit order book, TG built-in.
Multi-chain Web3 asset management and social trading platform, supporting token trading on 15+ chains, including inscriptions.
In addition, there are DEXs such as Uniswap, DODO, PancakeSwap, etc.
Stablecoins
Decentralized over-collateralized stablecoin protocol, unlike the algorithmic type, is a community-driven, secure, crypto-backed, over-collateralized stablecoin based on CDP that can also be used as a lending mechanism. Supports liquid staking tokens from Bemo, Tonstakers, Hipo and Ton Whales as collateral for TON holders who do not want to sell.
Other
TonTogether is the first Launchpool project on TonUP, and its main business is lossless lottery. As the name suggests, even if the participants do not win the lottery, they will not lose anything. TonTogether will stake the TON tokens deposited by users to Tonstaker to earn interest on node staking rewards, and then randomly draw these earnings to the lucky winners.
CEX
Supports fiat currencies, supports Mastercard and Visa cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
A Spanish cryptocurrency exchange that has been operating since 2014. It currently supports trading of 250 tokens.
Supports VISA and Mastercard credit card purchases, including fiat currencies such as USD, GBP and EUR.
Others include Bitget, MEXC, OKX, Matrixport, Huobi, Wallet Bot, etc.
Games
It allows users to earn Notcoin points rewards by simply pressing a button in the app, while inviting users or directing traffic to other apps in the form of tasks. You can earn more points by joining teams and directing traffic to various channels. Notcoin has already been able to generate advertising revenue through its traffic generation capabilities.
A social casual game based on Telegram Mini App. Players can play together in groups through the group team function, and get rich rewards through weekly and seasonal rankings.
A large-scale 2D MMORPG game invested by TON Foundation. It is based on H5 technology. According to the official website, it has 730,000 global users. The official Ton version was launched on November 21, 2023.
A football play-to-earn chain game with built-in TG.
A game driven by NFT. Fight for tokens and rewards. Play rock-paper-scissors battles, join the community or chat directly with your opponents. Increase your chances of winning by buying eggs on the Getgems NFT marketplace. The last standing egg will win the grand prize.
A project that won the TON Foundation 2023 Q3 Grants. Players need to plant their Gattomons and mine a lot of resources in Gatto.
A P2E game on TON based on Telegram, a medieval role-playing game. Involves third-party quests for NPC skill upgrades and item mining. Many in-game activities are focused on social interaction. In battle, you can choose which part of your body to defend and which part of your enemy to attack. Your opponent can also choose what to protect and where to attack.
A play-to-earn platform where users can connect or create an account to access over 200 games, including play-to-earn, free-to-play and arcade marketplaces.
By developing land plots and purchasing and training Martian robots that work on these plots, you can obtain NFT licenses, which will give you access to more complex buildings. In addition, achievement rewards in the form of NFTs will be awarded at any stage of development, giving players an in-game advantage and can be sold on the project marketplace.
A play-to-earn game where you can earn rewards by fighting opponents.
A play-to-earn game that rewards you with PUNK, built into TG.
Players need to collect NFT chess pieces and upgrade warrior equipment to fight, and develop castles, craft equipment and gems.
WowFish
A social casual game based on Telegram Mini App. Players can play together in groups through the group team function, and get rich rewards through weekly and seasonal rankings. It was shortlisted for the first phase of the Ton Ecological Asia Incubator project.
Boomup
A social tower defense game based on Telegram Mini App. It provides a fusion of social engagement and reward opportunities by building, defending and enhancing personalized defense towers using TON-based NFT buffers. It was shortlisted for the first phase of the Ton Ecological Asia Incubator project.
NFT
Platform
Anom
NFT asset issuance and lending protocol, official website has not yet been launched.
Used to buy and sell anonymous numbers, transaction IDs are not tied to SIM cards, allowing you to use your blockchain account to log in to Telegram. These numbers are only valid for Telegram.
TON’s domain name system, allows users to assign short, readable names to crypto wallets, smart contracts or websites. The official website is relatively simple in style, similar to ENS.
NFT trading market platform, supports all kinds of audio, video or other creative NFT. In addition, the official also launched 15,000 frog image NFT sales.
The largest NFT trading platform on the TON ecosystem, you can trade Notcoin NFT, Telegram virtual numbers, Ton diamond and other NFTs.
Fragment is a Telegram virtual number trading platform launched by TON official in 2021. It can also trade Telegram IDs. Due to its special anonymity, the annual trading volume exceeds 10 million US dollars.
TOTKIT
NFT collection data statistics and analysis platform, the web version has been launched.
Collectibles
A total of 9999 PUNKS, a copy of PUNKS on Ethereum, with brighter and more vivid colors than the original.
3D robot image NFT, with a floor price of 7.5TON, a total transaction volume of 194,000 TONs, and a total issuance of 6,700.
Whale cartoon image, a total of 10,000 copies. This NFT can be used as a membership qualification, etc., and can use Ton Whales decentralized equity pool, network system, Whales Corp.’s latest news and other privileges.
A total of 17350 copies, the artistic image is a mermaid. Holding different types of mermaids will have different rights. The project party will airdrop benefits to NFT holders every 2 weeks.
AI art human image, holding NFT can also participate in the protocol income sharing, enjoy the priority and special price of future IDO, and enter the DeFi education club and other benefits.
Cartoon image, NFT holders can choose to “eat” chat messages or prevent them from being eaten according to their attributes.
Tools
Browsers and Analysis Tools
A TON blockchain data query tool that supports information such as market conditions, tokens, and prices. The interface style is similar to CoinmarketCap.
A blockchain browser designed specifically for TON, providing a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for NFTs, tokens, staking, etc. The interface style is relatively simple.
A simple browser that allows you to query by entering an address, domain name or transaction information.
A professional NFT data browser that allows you to view data such as the total number of NFTs, the number of wallet addresses, and the trading volume of NFTs. It also supports viewing ranking confidence, 24-hour trading volume increase and other information.
NFT data dashboard, the homepage displays information such as block height, transaction rate per second and total number of block accounts. It also supports API.
Information display tool, including information such as project categories, 7-day UAW, TX and trading volume.
Displays the trading pools with the highest trading volume in the past 24 hours. Some real-time data is refreshed every 30 seconds.
VPN
A VPN tool that is private, fast, anonymous and secure. New users can use it for free for 30 days, and it supports computers and mobile phones.
Supports TON payment and login to Apple, Microsoft and Google app stores. In addition, it has over 5900 servers in over 90 countries/regions.
Developer Tools
Encrypted advertising platform, send checks using cryptocurrency and attract live audience to your channel/group, prevent bots and multiple accounts, and classify by country, built-in TG.
This tool allows developers to build decentralized applications on TON without having to deal with the underlying complex technology.
TON development plugin, supporting Fivet and FunC languages.
Cross-chain information protocol, the official website shows that it currently supports ETH, NEAR, Solana, TON and Aurora. Its test network supports cross-chain NFT.
Verify the contract address on TON.
One-click QR code generation tool.
TON developers can access TonFura’s Web3 developer platform, which simplifies dApp development and saves time for developers by providing development interfaces and built-in tools related to the TON ecosystem.
Social
Earn rewards by posting exclusive content and messaging your followers. The more likes you get, the more TON you get.
Tonex
A web3 social protocol which supports chat, posting, NFT, etc.
A step tracker that can connect to a wallet to record exercise data and earn money.
Easily fundraise through smart contracts, with built-in TG.
Zero Knowledge Proof
The first zero-knowledge project based on TON. Open source, and like Tornado cash, allows users to transfer anonymous transactions, including NFTs. So far, the total number of transactions has exceeded 23,000, and the total TVL has exceeded US$2.2 million.
Security
CertiK is a blockchain security company headquartered in New York City. It was founded by two professors from Yale University and Columbia University. CertiK can be called a pioneer in the field of blockchain security. It utilizes formal verification technology, AI auditing technology, and manual auditing by security experts to scan and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts to ensure their security.
Blockchain security company founded in early 2018. With many years of experience in threat intelligence, it mainly provides services such as security audits and anti-money laundering tracing, and has built a solid threat intelligence cooperation network.
A scalable security audit protocol that aims to find vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.
MEME
Ton Fish（FISH）
The first social meme token has so far exceeded 17,000 holders, more than 3,300 traders, and the current 24-hour trading volume has exceeded 1.8 million US dollars.
Ton Inu (TINU)
The meme coin with the image of a dog, which cooperates with FISH, has a total market value of more than 3 million US dollars and a 24-hour trading volume of 38,000 US dollars. In addition, a series of NFTs were issued, with a total of 444 copies, with a floor price of 56 TONs, and a total trading volume of over 4,000 TONs.
Inscriptions
Tonano（NANO）
The first inscription on the TON ecosystem, with over 20,000 total token holders and a total market capitalization of $2.75 million.
Gram20（GRAM）
Gram20 protocol is the second inscription protocol on TON. Different from TON20, this protocol has greater ease of use and more functions. Gram20 uses the Telegram applet front-end to execute the inscription protocol for deploying, casting, and transferring inscriptions, and goes online to the trading market to provide users with trading services. The Gram20 protocol supports limiting the time interval for users to mint inscriptions, imposing penalties for early minting, and setting the starting time. This is an improvement over the basic inscription protocol.
TONOT combines the concept of inscriptions with the social attributes of Telegram to create fair inscriptions for every community user. By binding and activating a Telegram account, TONOT ensures the authenticity of users who mint inscriptions.
FairTON is a fair-first, community-native, full-lifecycle project launch platform. FairTON is not limited to the BRC20 inscription protocol, but focuses on TON “localized” innovation, abandoning the Achilles heel of off-chain indexers, and realizing the primitive operation of inscriptions at the smart contract level.
TownSquare aims to effectively connect Telegram’s 800 million extensive user base with the inherent privacy, transparency, openness and sovereignty of the web3 world. The project focuses on developing the necessary infrastructure and key applications within the TON ecosystem. TownSquare plans to launch the first decentralized open source inscription indexer.
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