🚀 The AI Hackathon review period has been extended until April 3.

The results exceeded all expectations: over 160 submissions, 4x the previous contest.

The volume and variety of projects submitted have genuinely impressed us. A strong mix of thoughtful, creative, and technically impressive work from across the ecosystem.

We definitely didn’t expect that. So, we are extending the review period to April 3 to ensure we have enough time to review every submission thoroughly.

While you wait, two new features just dropped on the Identity platform:

🔹Makers. Add your teammates to submission. Everyone gets the participation badge.
🔹Comments. Talk about projects. Feedback, questions, discussion, all on submission pages.

Thank you for the energy, creativity, and effort you brought to this hackathon.

Keep building! ✨😎

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🎬 Tech Updates EP4 | Iryna Schnipper

Iryna leads Developer Relations at TON Foundation, focused on documentation, feedback loops, and helping developers build faster.

In this episode, she explains how the team is improving onboarding and reducing time to start building on TON.

👉 Watch the full episode
👉 TON Documentation

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🎁 Gift Fest Season 2 has begun with $300,000 worth of rewards!

The biggest gift festival on Telegram is back! Here's what to expect this season ✨
🤑 $300,000 prize pool
🫢 $14,000 grand prize
📲 iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, MacBook Air, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Dyson
🎁 Plush Pepe, stocks, gold, and more.

💥 Partners this season:
Tonkeeper, Wallet in Telegram, Getgems, Mira, Tribute, PlayDeck, GoMining

New season, new mechanics, new giveaways.

🎮 Try the Mini App

Give us a 👍 if you are participating!

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TON AI Agent Hackathon is officially closed.⭐

Two weeks ago we put out a challenge: build AI agents on Telegram and TON. 150+ teams answered.

That's more than we expected, and the quality of what was submitted genuinely impressed us.

✅ Track 1: Agent Infrastructure ($10K)
✅ Track 2: User Facing Agents ($10K)

Judging is underway. Winners announced next week.

👉Check out all of the submission here

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💎 TON at OpenClaw Lobster Cave | Cannes

If you're building AI agents on TON, this is your moment.

TON and Hacken team are launching OpenClaw Hackathon:
✅ Start Date: March 25
✅ End Date: March 29, midnight
✅ Result Date: March 30

Join the 200+ builders who have already registered and start building. TON offers the best distribution in the world through Telegram.

👉 Register now

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The agent economy debate might be focused on the wrong question.

A more important one: where should agents actually live?

Max Crown, President and CEO of TON Foundation explores this in his latest blog post.

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🚨 TON AI Agent Hackathon last 24 Hours

79 projects submitted. $20,000 in prizes.
Submissions close March 25, 11:59 PM UTC.⏰

If you have something in progress, now is the time to push it over the line.

👉 Submit your entry here

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🎬 TON Pay | Nikola, VP Payments

Legacy payment rails were never built for what's possible today.

Nikola Plecas, VP of Payments and Angela Brasington, US Hub Lead at TON Foundation, on what TON Pay unlocks.

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🎬 Tech Updates EP3 | Aleksandr Kirsanov

Aleksandr Kirsanov is on the TON Core Team and the creator of Tolk, a next-generation language for smart contracts on TON.

In this episode, he explains what Tolk solves and what's next for smart-contract development.

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The TON AI Agent Meetup Tour is going multi-city across Asia! ✨🚀

We're bringing together builders, developers, and AI enthusiasts to explore why Telegram + TON is the most powerful platform for deploying AI agents in the wild.

Keynotes. Live demos. Hands-on workshops. Real deployment.

Co-hosts include Alibaba Cloud, Fudan MBA Blockchain Club, TinTinLand Dev Community & many more

📍 Tour stops:
✅ Hangzhou - Mar 13
✅ Shanghai - Mar 14
✅ Macau - Mar 15
🔜 Beijing - Mar 21 Register Here
🔜 Shenzhen - Mar 22 Register Here

Still two stops to go. Come build with us.

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🤩 Chef Andre Rush is making waves in the Telegram ecosystem!

His latest collaboration with DuckMyDuck has officially secured the spot as the #1 game by Stars spending. 🥇

This is a massive proof of concept for the Telegram creator economy:

✅ Engagement goes beyond just reading posts.
✅ Interactive experiences are the new standard for community building.
✅ Creators and games are merging into one seamless ecosystem.

👉 Watch the Collab with DuckMyDuck
👉 Follow Chef Andre Rush

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📍 WalletCon is heading to Cannes, and TON will be there.

Meet TON’s payment experts on March 31, 2026 at WalletCon, where industry leaders, infrastructure builders, and tech teams gather in one space in the French Riviera. ✨🚀

Look for your friends from TON to share advice, solve problems, and show you how easy it is to build with us. Tickets are free and still available.

👉 Register now

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💎 New report: Telegram as the default AI interface

A new report from IdentityHub explores why Telegram is becoming a natural interface for AI, where conversations, workflows and automation happen directly in chat.

For creators, builders and communities on TON, this model unlocks new ways to interact with users and deploy AI-powered services.

😏 Read the full report

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💎 How Fragment Works

Here is what you can do when you run Fragment on TON
✅ Buy, sell, and auction Telegram collectibles (usernames, numbers, Gifts)
✅ Fund Telegram Ads with TON
✅ Withdraw creator rewards and Stars
✅ Gift or purchase Telegram Premium👉

Connect your TON wallet. Connect your Telegram account. Start transacting.

New to Fragment? We broke down everything: wallet setup, how auctions work, fees, KYC, and how funds move between Telegram and Fragment.

👉 Read the full guide
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🎬 Tech Updates EP2 | Roman Nguyen

A look inside the infrastructure powering TON. Roman is the CTO of RSquad Blockchain Lab, building builders use every day.

In this episode, he breaks down the TON Rust Node and what a DevOps-first approach means for running TON infrastructure.

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💎Tolk v1.3 is here, and it’s no longer just a smart contract language

Tolk is evolving into a general-purpose language and a foundation for a broader TON development toolchain. This release introduces capabilities needed for libraries, frameworks, and developer tools beyond contracts.

The TON Core team is moving full speed to rethink the developer experience from the ground up.

Big updates are on the way, and more details will be shared soon.

Building on TON has never been this easy. And we are just getting started.

👉 Start building on TON

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💎 WalletConnect now supports TON.

WalletConnect's global network, which connects 500M+ users across 700+ wallets and facilitated more than $400B in transaction volume in 2025, now has access to TON's expanding stablecoin economy and DeFi ecosystem.

To enable this, TON Connect protocol has been extended to support WalletConnect as a transport layer, allowing TON dApps to interact with multichain wallets without building wallet connection support from scratch.

💎 What this means for the ecosystem:

• Wallets with WalletConnect can now support TON with minimal integration effort.
• Institutions gain access to TON's DeFi and liquidity layer.
• Apps can attract non-TON native audiences.

🏅 Fireblocks and SafePal are among the first to integrate TON through WalletConnect. Through Fireblocks' network of 2,400+ institutional clients, organizations can now tap into TON-based DeFi, including liquidity pools and liquid staking, and incorporate TON into existing treasury workflows.

With institutional capital flowing in, TON's DeFi platforms like STON.fi, DeDust, Tonstakers, Affluent, Storm, and TONCO stand to benefit from deeper liquidity, which in turn means better opportunities for everyday crypto users.

👉 Read more: https://walletconnect.com/blog/walletconnect-adds-support-for-ton-expanding-stablecoin-payments-across-a-fast-growing-ecosystem

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⚡ Sub-Second Finality Is Coming to TON

TON Core is upgrading the blockchain to significantly increase block production speed, targeting sub-second user-perceived transaction finality, enabling end-to-end interactions in under 1 second.

Improving the blockchain is only part of the upgrade. Ecosystem apps need to adapt to deliver this experience to users.

Developers can start testing now and prepare for the upgrade.

What projects should do
🔹 Wallets & apps: switch to real-time Streaming API
🔹 Nodes & liteservers: update to versions supporting sub-second transaction finality
🔹 Indexers: ensure infrastructure handles higher block production without lag

📘 Full upgrade guide: How to adopt sub-second finality

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The Blockchain Payments Consortium website is now live + a fresh Substack is out explaining what BPC is solving for.

Nikola Plecas, VP Payments at TON Foundation, shares the full breakdown in his latest blog post.

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📺 OFF SCRIPT with TON | Full Playlist

A Barclays trader who walked away to create Rekt Guy. The CEO of Animoca Brands on why every Web3 project needs a Telegram strategy. A global banking analyst on the future of money. An undisputed heavyweight champion who started with a handmade punching bag.

4 episodes. 4 conversations that reveal what most interviews miss.

✅ Ovie Faruq on why the crypto space is unforgiving
✅ Robby Yung on Animoca Brands, gaming, and Web3
✅ Ronit Ghose on the future of money and Web3
✅ Oleksandr Usyk on starting boxing with nothing and winning everything

👉 Watch the full playlist

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🎬 Tech Updates EP4 | Iryna Schnipper | Documentation & Developer Relations

Iryna Schnipper leads the Developer Relations team at TON Foundation. Her background is in backend engineering and parallel queuing systems.

In this episode, she explains how the Developer Relations team transforms community feedback into product roadmaps and why documentation is the heartbeat of the ecosystem.

We covered:
▪️ How feedback flows from developers to engineering teams.
▪️ Building high-standard, consistent, and clear documentation.
▪️ Accelerating onboarding with tutorials, how-to guides, and references.
▪️ Treating documentation as a "living entity" that evolves with the product.

"We're reducing the time for developers to start building on TON’’. Our goal is for you to find answers instantly, without ever needing support.

👉 Watch the full episode
👉 TON Documentation

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🎬 TON Pay | Nikola, VP Payments

What is TON Foundation building for payments?

Nikola Plecas, VP of Payments and Angela Brasington, US Hub Lead at TON Foundation, on the commitment.

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🎬 TON One on One | Max Crown x Gio

What does Web3 look like in 2 years that most people aren't prepared for yet?

What TON president and CEO Max Crown predicts may surprise you. Watch the full interview

👉 TON One on One

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💎 TON at WalletCon | Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown, VP of Business Development at TON Foundation, takes the stage at WalletCon Cannes.
Discover what's next for stablecoins, payments, and latest tech releases.

📅 March 31 📍 Cannes, French Riviera

👉 Join TON on stage at WalletCon

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🎬 TON Pay | Nikola, VP Payments

Building for a global audience? Native payments inside Telegram changes everything.

Nikola, VP Payments at TON Foundation, explains why.

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📺 OFF SCRIPT with TON EP5 is Live

🏆 24-0. Olympic gold. Undisputed heavyweight champion.

Oleksandr Usyk started boxing at 15 in a gym with no ring and a handmade punching bag. What he reveals about the moments after winning Olympic gold may change how you think about success.

In this episode:
⭐Why he went straight back to his room after winning gold at London 2012
⭐ How a cheering crowd can sometimes work against you
⭐ Ready to Fight and Ready to Pay: his blockchain-powered ventures
⭐ His Telegram stickers, and who gets the first one

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🎬 Tech Updates EP3 | Aleksandr Kirsanov | Tolk

💎 A look inside the code powering TON's smart contracts .

Aleksandr Kirsanov, TON Core Team member and creator of Tolk, explains why this new language is the primary standard for TON.
In this episode, we dive into how Tolk ensures smart contract development "should no longer feel manual and mysterious."

We covered:
▪️ Why old approach was holding developers back
▪️ The vision: cover the entire smart-contract development
▪️ No more switching between languages
▪️ Unified templates with single command setup

"Smart contract development should no longer feel manual and mysterious.''

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🤩 Watch Chef Rush’s new video to see what’s fueling his inspiration this week.

Then, join the community on TON Real Talk for a deep dive into COCOON AI and the benefits of Confidential Compute Networks.

The future is on TON 🚀

👀 Watch TON Real Talk Ep.6

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💎 TON Pay | The Why

Payments should be solved once, not by every builder individually.

Before TON Pay, every app on Telegram needed to build its own payment infrastructure from scratch: wallets, checkout, settlement, all of it.

TON Pay puts an end to that ❣

One SDK. A ready-to-go solution for Mini Apps, bots, and backend services. One-time payments, recurring, and subscriptions. Non-custodial, so funds stay under user control.

No more reinventing the wheel. Just build.💪👨‍💻✨

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Unfortunately, due to the Middle East conflict and safety conditions in the UAE area, we have made the decision to cancel Gateway Dubai, originally scheduled for May 1 and 2, 2026. This was a difficult call, but the safety and well-being of our community always comes first.

If you purchased a ticket to Gateway through Luma, Moongate or Tribute, or booked hotel reservations through promocode, you will receive a refund within the next 14 days. For further questions, please contact: gateway@ton.org.

We are currently examining different formats to produce a Gateway event before the end of this year. An announcement will be forthcoming in the near future. We look forward to seeing you soon.

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