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🏁 TON leads Layer-1 blockchains in finality time. 🔗 Sources: https://telegra.ph/Comparison-of-Layer-1-blockchains-by-finalization-time-05-01

🚀 The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster. ⚡️ Block rate increased 6×. ⏱ Transactions are now instant, subsecond. 🪙 This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA). Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×. ✂️

✨ Our new fully private AI Editor lets you translate and proofread your messages — or rewrite them in Tribal, Zen, Corp, Biblical, or Viking styles. 🎨 This month, anyone will be able to create & share their own styles. 🐣 A new platform inside Telegram is being born!

Meet the most powerful polls tech in social media. Telegram's update packs a dozen new features: 🗳 Attach photos, videos & audios to options 💡 Let users suggest new options in active polls 🔐 Disable revoting for fixed results 😃 Shuffle options per user ⏱ Set time limits on polls 👀 Show who voted next to each option 📊 View results without voting 🔔 Get notified when someone votes 📂 View all polls in groups / channels 🫣 Hide results until the poll ends 🧠 Add correct answers and explanations for wrong picks 🔜 We're already working on more — 📊 polls stats, plus options to limit voting to channel subscribers or users from selected countries. Bot rigging of polls in large channels became a massive issue, and we're building the tools to stop it. 🛡

🔄 Your massive monthly Telegram update is out. 🧠 100% private AI Editor for your outgoing messages. 🗳 The most powerful polls in any messenger (+12 new features). 🖼 Support for Live Photos & Motion Photos. 🤖 Ability for [AI] Bots to create [AI] Bots for users — in one tap. 📹 Demos: https://telegram.org/blog/ai-editor-mighty-polls-and-more

😎 Telegram was banned in Russia — yet 65M Russians still use it daily via VPNs, with 50M+ sending messages every day. The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive banking failure — cash briefly became the only payment method nationwide yesterday. 😂 🧊 Iran banned Telegram years ago, with a result similar to Russia. The government hoped for mass adoption of its surveillance messaging apps, but got mass adoption of VPNs instead. Now 50M members of the Digital Resistance in Iran are joined by 50M+ more in Russia. 😙 🤝 Welcome back to the Digital Resistance, my Russian brothers and sisters. The entire nation is now mobilized to bypass these absurd restrictions. Thousands are building VPNs and proxies. On our end, we’ll keep adapting — making Telegram’s traffic harder to detect and block. ✊

💸 Telegram has fully repaid the bonds we issued 5 years ago. 🎆 💰 Since 2021, we’ve built an innovative monetization strategy and reached profitability in 2024. As a result, our new bond issuance last year was oversubscribed. 💪 🙏 Thank you for your support!

A major holder of Heart Locket gifts was scammed out of 135,000 TON ($173,000). After his transfer, the scammers sent “dust” from an address that almost completely matched his wallet — with identical first and last characters. Later, out of habit, he copied this similar address from his transaction history and sent the funds to the attackers himself. UPD: The scammer returned the money, keeping 10,000 TON.

📝 All Telegram chatbots can now stream responses to users in real time — great for AI assistants.

Whales have been actively buying Cardano (ADA) since mid-February — Santiment data.

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Tether’s gold reserves have increased to 148 tons — in the last quarter of 2025, the company purchased about 26 tons of gold and added another 6 tons in January.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," announced via X that he had sold some of his Bitcoin and gold holdings, declaring that he would now patiently wait for a new market bottom. He added that he would inform X when he began buying again. Kiyosaki noted that he had previously stopped buying Bitcoin at $6,000, gold at $300, and silver at $60. He also mentioned that he had enough Ether and would buy more later, emphasizing his philosophy of making a profit when buying, not selling. Kiyosaki had previously stated that a "selloff" had begun in gold, silver, and Bitcoin and that he was preparing to buy more.

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Top decentralized perpetual exchanges (DEX) by weekly trading volume.

This week, tokens worth over $132 million will be unlocked. The largest amount — $58 million — will be unlocked by $TON on January 22.

Currently, over 56% of the Bitcoin network is powered by renewable energy sources.

Ton announced a new blockchain consensus called Catchain 2.0 and shared details about the upcoming blockchain acceleration, where block finalization will take 0.3 seconds instead of the current 2.5 seconds.

In 2025, Solana was the absolute leader in terms of transaction count, processing over 121 billion operations throughout the year. The TON network entered the top 10 most active blockchains, handling approximately 839 million transactions.