The Open Network:TON Crosschain RoadmapOne of the overall missions of TON is to unite blockchains

The Open Network:
TON Crosschain Roadmap

One of the overall missions of TON is to unite blockchains and the internet into a single network.

We’d like to share with you what projects are working toward this goal at the moment:

TON Sites and TON Proxy

We plan to launch the TON Sites and TON Proxy components at the end of this quarter. In addition to the two components, we plan to provide the capability of smart contract communication with sites and vice versa.

Crosschain NFT transfers

The XP.Network dev team is about to complete its work on a multichain bridge via which users will be able to transfer NFTs between TON and multitude of blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Tron, Tezos, Elrond, Algorand. Decentralized oracles will keep the bridge running. 

Crosschain token transfers

The RSquad dev team has been working on a bridge through which users can transfer any token (altcoins) from Ethereum and BNB Chain to TON and back. This new functionality will be added to ton.org/bridge and will operate by a similar principle.

Rainbow bridge with EVM-compatible blockchains (Ethereum, BNB Chain, and others)

Decentralized oracles control transfers between networks at the moment. This common approach is a stable and safe solution. However, we plan on taking it to the next step and making it ideal: All operations will occur only through smart contracts without any intermediaries.

To make this happen, new tools need to be created so that the smart contracts from other blockchains can verify the authenticity of TON blockchain’s data and vice versa. We and blockchain developers from the RSquad have come together to work on Solidity code that will be able to verify TON blocks and transactions. After that, we plan to make FunC code that can verify EVM blocks and transactions.

The project has grand aspirations, but the Rainbow Bridge solution will fully launch in 2023. However, the developers plan on publishing results, code, and tools intermittently.

Toncoin bridge update

On the ton.org/bridge site, the ability to transfer Toncoin among Ethereum, BNB Chain, and TON has been available for over a year already. In that timespan, a large number of crypto transfers from users has been processed. A UI update is in the pipeline to make everything even more convenient for users. Thank you to developer Zavtramen.

TON Core Update 2022.08

Node

— Optimized memory usage for blockchain state serialization.

— Improved performance of internal database.

— Updated dependencies: abseil-cpp and crc32.

— Added detailed stats on ADNL network usage.

— Improved auto-builds for wide range of systems.

— Extended error notes for unacceptable external messages.

— Catchain DoS protection.


FunC

— Allowed unbalanced code branches (not every branch should

return

).

— Corrected inline functions behavior.

— Allowed ifelse statements.

Validators please update your software as described here.

Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!

Introducing a major @wallet update: The popular service now has a new user-friendly interface.

On the home screen, you can see your balance, transaction history, and buy or send Toncoin. You can now buy Toncoin in just a couple of taps without leaving Telegram — you only need to link a bank card to the service once.

There’s no need to chat with the bot to use the wallet: simply add @wallet to the Attachments Menu, start the bot, and send Toncoin directly within chats with your contacts.

If you are still not familiar with the service, right now is a great chance to get to know it: There’s no service fee for purchasing Toncoin, and the exchange rate is as close as possible to the market price.

The developers continue to improve the service, equipping it with better features and making it one of the most integral parts of the TON ecosystem.

Join the Wallet Newschannel to stay up-to-date with all the latest news.

I'm really impressed by the success of the auction TON recently conducted for their domain/wallet names. Wallet.ton was sold for 215,250 Toncoin (~$260000) while casino.ton was sold for ~$244000.

If TON has been able to achieve these results, imagine how successful Telegram with its 700 million users could be if we put reserved @ usernames, group and channel links for auction. In addition to millions of catchy t.me addresses like @storm or @royal, all four-letter usernames could be made available for sale (@bank, @club, @game, @gift etc).

This would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via NFT-like smart-contracts. Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji, could later also become part of this marketplace.

When it comes to scalability and speed, TON probably has the best technology to host such decentralized sales. Our team can write bullet-proof smart contracts for TON (since it was us who invented its smart-contract language), so we are inclined to try out TON as the underlying blockchain for our future marketplace.

Let's see if we can add a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram in the coming weeks.

Step by step, TON is moving forward to become truly mainstream so that ordinary users can enjoy the security, transparency and benefits of decentralized technologies.

In fact, TON is the only modern blockchain project that is really moving in this direction.

The contribution of each member of the community brings us closer to complete this historical mission, just as the development of the internet was the collective work of various enthusiasts.

New tutorials for TON developers

— 10 FunC lessons from basic to advanced.

— TON Hello World and other articles on society.ton.org.

— Participating in @toncontests is a great way to learn TON. Also, for learning purposes, you can study past contests.

— FunC quiz for selfcheck.

— New “TON” tag on stackoverflow.

— Updated documentation.

We also want to remind you that we are proud to be the sponsors of codeforces.com and that we have a chat for developers.

TON Core Update 2022.10

Node

— Added extended block creation and general perfomance stats gathering

— Forbidden report data on blocks not committed to the master chain for LS

— Fixed bugs related to invalid TVM output (c4, c5, libaries) and non-validated network data; avoided too deep recursion in libraries loading

— Fixed multiple undefined behavior issues

FunC 0.3.0

— Introduced multi-line asms with quotes

— Bitwise operations for constants

— Allowed duplication of identical definition for constants and asms

Misc

— Added build of FunC and Fift to WASM

— Improved debug in TVM

— Introduced new tonlib methods:

sendMessageReturnHash

,

getTransactionsV2

,

getMasterchainBlockSignatures

,

getShardBlockProof

,

getLibraries

.

Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!

Validators please update your software as described here.

The launch ofa P2P exchange in the @wallet bot

The previous @wallet update introduced a simpler UI that allows users to send coins directly in the messenger, which is the most convenient way in the world to send crypto to someone.

This month, @wallet launched a P2P exchange — users can now directly buy and sell cryptocurrency to and from one another.

The launch ofan auctionofTelegram usernames on the TON blockchain

Now you can purchase a beautiful Telegram username with Toncoin, which will be assigned to you on the TON blockchain.

Users can put their usernames up for sale or auction on fragment.com or a little later on other marketplaces, such as getgems.io or disintar.io.

Telegram Usernames and TON DNS

Given that Telegram usernames comply with TON DNS standard, we consider it a great idea to add the "t.me" domain zone to the TON DNS root smart contract.

Almost all TON wallets and apps allow you to enter a ".ton" domain instead of a wallet address.

After updating the root TON DNS, it will be possible to enter a Telegram username into TON apps in the same way as ".ton" domains. In other words, you will be able to send Toncoins to "any.t.me" address. The TON apps themselves will not require modifications.

Since the blockchain configuration can only be changed by validator voting, we’re scheduling a network vote for this proposal on Oct. 31at 12:00 UTC. Validators, please be ready to send your vote at this time. Detailed instructions will be posted later.

TON Foundation x CertiK

CertiK is a well-known and highly sought-after company in the blockchain industry that is professionally engaged in searching for vulnerabilities and checking smart contracts, services, and blockchains for security.

This spring, the TON Foundation team began massive work with CertiK to check the TON blockchain’s core code and the main system services and smart contracts.

The first public results are now available on the company’s website. The “Audits” section has also appeared on the Toncoin page on CoinMarketCap.

At the moment, audit reports covering the TON core (catchain), TON system smart contracts, and smart contracts of vesting wallets have been published.

The audit has confirmed how bulletproof TON is, and non-critical bugs were discovered and promptly fixed by the TON Foundation team.

In the future, the remaining parts of the audit will be published.

In the course of their work, specialists from CertiK studied the TON blockchain and the FunC smart contract programming language, which means that now other projects and products based on TON will be able to order audits from CertiK.

This is excellent news for the ecosystem, TON projects, and the industry.

Interaction with such professional auditing companies is an essential addition to our open Security Bug Bounty Program.

The population of the Earth recently exceeded 8 billion people. According to the most optimistic estimates, only a few percent of the population have ever used a crypto wallet. TON has all the prerequisites to change this and become a truly massive blockchain network.

In a new article for the developer community, we will identify what has been done to date in the TON project and set out priorities for the future.

https://telegra.ph/TON--next-steps-11-16

The blockchain industry was built on the promise of decentralization, but ended up being concentrated in the hands of a few who began to abuse their power. As a result, a lot of people lost their money when FTX, one of the largest exchanges, went bankrupt.

The solution is clear: blockchain-based projects should go back to their roots – decentralization. Cryptocurrency users should switch to trustless transactions and self-hosted wallets that don't rely on any single third party.  

We, developers, should steer the blockchain industry away from centralization by building fast and easy-to-use decentralized applications for the masses. Such projects are finally feasible today.

It took only 5 weeks and 5 people including myself to put together Fragment – a fully decentralized auction platform. We were able to do this because Fragment is based on The Open Network, or TON – a blockchain platform that is fast and efficient enough to host popular applications (unlike Ethereum, which unfortunately remains outdated and expensive even after its recent tweaks).

Fragment has been an amazing success, with 50 million USD worth of usernames sold there in less than a month. This week, Fragment will expand beyond usernames.

Telegram's next step is to build a set of decentralized tools, including non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges for millions of people to securely trade and store cryptocurrencies. This way we can fix the wrongs caused by the excessive centralization, which let down hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency users. 

The time when the inefficiencies of legacy platforms justified centralization should be long gone. With technologies like TON reaching their potential, the blockchain industry should be finally able to deliver on its core mission – giving the power back to the people.

An important community request to TON miners who have never used their coins

The level of interest in TON from the open-source community has grown exponentially over the year.

One of the main challenges of 2022 was reaching a community consensus on what the circulating supply is. Today, different data aggregators show different statistics. They often use a definition that simply does not capture the uniqueness of the TON’s history.

Therefore, we are proposing to launch a community-wide effort to determine what the community should consider dormant, inactive or uncirculating supply going forward.

Currently, the total number of inactive mining addresses with a balance of over 1 TON is 204. The total balance of these addresses is about 1.08 Billion TON. The full list of these addresses, which is public and on-chain, is made available by the independent data aggregator TonTech.

We kindly ask all owners of these inactive mining wallets — the genesis wallets that received Toncoin directly from Givers without the history of a single outgoing transaction — to activate and make an outgoing transfer to any address on the TON network by 00:00 UTC on January 1, 2023.

Through this community exercise, we hope to achieve greater clarity and certainty on the tokenomics of the TON network. The community has the right to know. This will remove the obstacles and hindrances faced by some contributors. We kindly ask all miners to take part in this initiative.

The data will be useful for providing a more accurate data to service providers, such as CoinMarketCap. It will remove discrepancies between different statistics.

We strongly encourage all members of the TON community to spread information about this initiative in order to reach as many participants as possible.