CAT — TON Validator, Apps and News

🌎 Back in the day, billions of dollars were attracted and a large community was formed to support the blockchain of the Telegram team. The platform was supposed to become one of the largest projects at the time, but the plans were not meant to be, and in May 2020, under the conditions of the settlement agreement with The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Telegram was forced to abandon the development of the project and transfer it to the community. Now the network called The Open Network (TON) is a whole ecosystem that will unite other blockchains, apps and services to create the new, decentralized and open Internet. The new TON has already begun integration into Telegram using different apps and bots like @CryptoBot, @wallet and others. Moreover, the project has even been supported by Pavel Durov, one of the founders of the TON blockchain. Starting today, we will publish in this channel the main news, useful services and apps based on The Open Network. TON news in Russian can be found on @ruton.

Channel name was changed to «The Open Network»

🏁 Telegram team are discontinuing support of the test network of the TON Blockchain. Team validators will be switched off not later than 1.08.2020. Please save all relevant data and terminate your testing process. If you need to continue testing after this date, you can install your own testnet validators as explained here, here and here.

The original TON development team is discontinuing its active involvement with the TON project due to reasons explained here. The efforts of the team have been redirected to other projects. Some of the internal development branches that have been in active development and testing may get integrated into the main branch. Some minor bugfixes and Github issue answers may occasionally appear if any of the members of the original team have the spare time and inclination to contribute to the community's efforts. The principal development of the TON code is transferred to the open source community.

🧬Third-party TON-based projects A list of projects on TON submitted for the Telegram blockchain competition.

Changes described in the previous item have been enabled at 16:12 GMT. All unupgraded full nodes, validators and clients stopped working. If you experience this, please upgrade.

⚠️ Changes have been introduced into the block format. Please upgrade all validators, full nodes, lite-clients and TONLib instances. Old software may stop working 13.04 when the new features are enabled.

Improved performance of validators running on weaker machines by removing debug-only checks. Please upgrade your validators to continue the heavy-load testing of the testnet. Consider deploying validators on higher-performance servers.

⚠️ A bugfix needed to combat memory exhaustion on weaker validators introduced. Please recompile and restart. As soon as 2/3 of all validators are upgraded, testnet will resume working.

⚠️ Changes have been introduced into the block format. Please upgrade all validators, full nodes, lite-clients and TONLib instances.

⚙️ConfigParam-HOWTO.txt Step-by-step instructions to create configuration parameter proposals and vote for or against them.

🌐DNS-HOWTO.txt Step-by-step instructions to register your own TON DNS domain, for example for your TON Site.