Users can now buy Telegram Stars, Premium, and also create Stars or Premium giveaways using $USDT on TON.
This makes payments easier for people who prefer stablecoins, while still keeping everything inside the TON ecosystem.
Important note: Usernames, Anonymous Numbers, and Telegram Gifts still remain TON based.
Donβt forget you can buy stars and premium from @hoton without KYC. We will be integrating $USDT asap following the fragment update.
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There is no official explanation yet, but it could be for different reasons.
Maybe some users found a way to exploit the system.
Maybe Telegram noticed that users were losing TON and decided to pause it for safety reasons.
Or maybe it was simply an early test phase, and the game may return later with better rules and improvements.
Either way, it was interesting to see Telegram test something like this directly inside the app.
@TonNomads
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TonNomads
The Emoji Stake game is back!
To avoid π² spam in our community chat, iβve created a dedicated group where anyone can play.
Check it outπ @PlayEmojiStake
NOTE: You Telegram account needs to be in Level 5 before you can play, hereβs how you can get to level 5.
To avoid π² spam in our community chat, iβve created a dedicated group where anyone can play.
Check it out
NOTE: You Telegram account needs to be in Level 5 before you can play, hereβs how you can get to level 5.
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Assign a bot to read and reply for you β with granular control over its rights and chat access.
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Most people see TON at $2 and think "nothing's happening."
I see a $10B ecosystem that's about to wake up.π And I'm not leaving my laptop until you see it too.
π The TON ecosystem is going through a major transformation right now, and this is only the start. Thanks to Pavel Durov (@durov), TON has finally come alive. The MAKE TON GREAT AGAIN movement #MTONGAπͺ has officially taken the wheel, and from here, things only get better.
So where does TON stand today?
Current Fully Diluted Valuation: ~$10.4B
Price per TON: $2
What's coming next?
In my view, TON's market cap should, at the very minimum, match Telegram's valuation. And how much is Telegram actually worth? Trust meβ¦ way, way more than $10 billionπ
What should we be doing right now?
β Just focus. Build. Grow your projects. Don't get distracted by short-term price action.
Remember: long-term vision always beats short-term speculation.
π The believers stay. And the believers win.
I see a $10B ecosystem that's about to wake up.
So where does TON stand today?
Current Fully Diluted Valuation: ~$10.4B
Price per TON: $2
What's coming next?
In my view, TON's market cap should, at the very minimum, match Telegram's valuation. And how much is Telegram actually worth? Trust me⦠way, way more than $10 billion
What should we be doing right now?
Remember: long-term vision always beats short-term speculation.
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Now we know what WhatsAppβs founder meant when he said he βsold his usersβ privacy.β
Stay safe β stay Telegram!
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Reuters
Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy claims
The Texas Attorney Generalβs Office on Thursday sued WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms Inc alleging βthey misled consumers about the strength and scope of WhatsApp's βencryption measures, which a Meta spokesman denied.
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TON Core
Next technical objective: increasing shardchain performance Under normal load, TON operates on a single shardchain. Under peak load, dynamic sharding is activated: the network splits into multiple shardchains, increasing throughput while maintaining staticβ¦
TON CORE just shared the next technical objective for TON.
In simple terms, TON wants to make one shardchain handle much more activity before the network needs to split the work across multiple shardchains.
Shardchain sounds technical, but it simply means a transaction processing lane inside TON.
Think of it like a road, If there are only a few cars, one road is enough, but if traffic becomes too much, TON can open more roads by splitting into multiple shardchains.
But opening more roads too early can add a few extra seconds because the network now has to coordinate between those roads.
So the goal is simple:
Make one shardchain stronger first, let it handle more users, more apps and more transactions smoothly, then only split into more shardchains when the traffic becomes really heavy.
That means faster transactions, better validator performance, more network capacity, stable fees and better preparation for serious Telegram scale.
MTONGAπ
@TonNomads
In simple terms, TON wants to make one shardchain handle much more activity before the network needs to split the work across multiple shardchains.
Shardchain sounds technical, but it simply means a transaction processing lane inside TON.
Think of it like a road, If there are only a few cars, one road is enough, but if traffic becomes too much, TON can open more roads by splitting into multiple shardchains.
But opening more roads too early can add a few extra seconds because the network now has to coordinate between those roads.
So the goal is simple:
Make one shardchain stronger first, let it handle more users, more apps and more transactions smoothly, then only split into more shardchains when the traffic becomes really heavy.
That means faster transactions, better validator performance, more network capacity, stable fees and better preparation for serious Telegram scale.
MTONGA
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A lot of people only noticed TON after it started getting attention.
I knew it before that, when conviction mattered more than attention.
To me, it was never just about price. It was a vision, and I was around when that vision had to survive on belief, community, and people who kept building even when the spotlight was not on them.
Iβve watched TON live through chapters most projects do not make it through. Telegram had to step away; the community carried it forward, and TON kept going when most people had already moved on.
Now, seeing TON back in Telegram's orbit again feels like the vision found its way back home. You only really understand that feeling if you were around early.
26th May 2021 is more than a date.
It reminds me that real visions can be delayed, doubted, and tested, but they do not disappear easily. In many ways, that feels like @monk too, patient, resilient, and still tied to the vision he started against all odds.
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I knew it before that, when conviction mattered more than attention.
To me, it was never just about price. It was a vision, and I was around when that vision had to survive on belief, community, and people who kept building even when the spotlight was not on them.
Iβve watched TON live through chapters most projects do not make it through. Telegram had to step away; the community carried it forward, and TON kept going when most people had already moved on.
Now, seeing TON back in Telegram's orbit again feels like the vision found its way back home. You only really understand that feeling if you were around early.
26th May 2021 is more than a date.
It reminds me that real visions can be delayed, doubted, and tested, but they do not disappear easily. In many ways, that feels like @monk too, patient, resilient, and still tied to the vision he started against all odds.
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Over the past few weeks, Iβve shipped a lot of updates to @Hoton
- Major UI/UX improvements
- USDT payments for Telegram Premium & Starsπ΅
- Improved referrals system + cleaner referral links
- Better purchase history
- Telegram third-party verificationπ for accounts, channels & bots. (appears on the left side of my name on my profile @damx & the @hoton_tg channel )
@hoton is becoming more than just a cheaper way to buy Telegram Stars & Premium.
More updates soon.
- Major UI/UX improvements
- USDT payments for Telegram Premium & Stars
- Improved referrals system + cleaner referral links
- Better purchase history
- Telegram third-party verification
@hoton is becoming more than just a cheaper way to buy Telegram Stars & Premium.
More updates soon.
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Gram
The native currency of TON
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πͺ Toncoin Name Change β Community Vote
TON has changed substantially in recent months. Telegram is taking on a leading role in the network and is becoming its largest validator. The chain itself is now 10Γ faster with fees down 6Γ. Gram was the name the network's founders gave the token in the original TON White Paper, and it's never left the codebase.
That is why Telegram is proposing to rename the native token from Toncoin to Gram, a fitting moment to bring it forward.
The blockchain stays TON / The Open Network, only the token's name and ticker change. Balances, addresses, contracts, NFTs, staking, DeFi, all unchanged. No swap, bridge, claim, or migration. No action required.
β οΈ Any site, bot, or link asking you to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is a scam.
How the vote works
Runs for one week on TON Vote, an established open DAO platform on TON βͺοΈ Voting power is weighted by TON balances
π Vote here
TON has changed substantially in recent months. Telegram is taking on a leading role in the network and is becoming its largest validator. The chain itself is now 10Γ faster with fees down 6Γ. Gram was the name the network's founders gave the token in the original TON White Paper, and it's never left the codebase.
That is why Telegram is proposing to rename the native token from Toncoin to Gram, a fitting moment to bring it forward.
The blockchain stays TON / The Open Network, only the token's name and ticker change. Balances, addresses, contracts, NFTs, staking, DeFi, all unchanged. No swap, bridge, claim, or migration. No action required.
β οΈ Any site, bot, or link asking you to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is a scam.
How the vote works
Runs for one week on TON Vote, an established open DAO platform on TON βͺοΈ Voting power is weighted by TON balances
π Vote here
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