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We are pleased to announce that the token bridge is in the final stages of testing. Using this bridge, users can transfer any ERC-20 or BEP-20 tokens (for example, USDC or USDT) originally created on Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain to the TON Blockchain, with the ability to return them back. The transferred tokens will be represented on TON as regular Jettons so that TON services, such as DEXs, will be able to work with them without any additional modifications. You can get acquainted with smart contracts and testnet version: Solidity smart contracts » FunC smart contracts » Testnet bridge »

At the after-party, we recommend you go to check the Telegram auction smart contracts for strength.

The TON contest team will never let you get bored! Large @toncontests are regularly held on various topics: sometimes you need to write the most optimized smart contracts on FunC; sometimes, you need to find bugs in ecosystem apps or show the best application for newly launched TON components. Hack-TON-berfest is underway right now, yet you still have time to participate. In addition, tomorrow at 09:00 UTC, there will be a very interesting new event: We put 30,000 TON in smart contracts that intentionally have a vulnerability. The persons who hacks the smart contracts first will be able to steal TONs for keeps! More about TON Hack Challenge »

Mainnet validators: Please start update of your node software from October 6 8:00 GMT to new version: — in mytonctrl commandline run update then upgrade. — if you don't use mytonctrl please manually rebuild code from master branch of https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton. Update your validators one by one, don't update all at the same time. Please avoid update one hour prior and two hours after start of new validation cycle; on October 6 new validation round will start around 16:00 GMT, thus avoid update in 15:00-18:00 GMT span.

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 Miscellaneous - 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!

Network security update Network update is scheduled on October 6 08:00 GMT. We are asking mainnet validators to schedule time for upgrade your validator software. Detailed instructions and information will be published on October 6.

Introducing TON Sites, TON WWW & TON Proxy Are you ready for real Web3? Today we open the TON Network for users and launch TON Proxy and TON Sites with integrated TON DNS — decentralized, secure and reliable services that surpass the familiar WWW in terms of ease of use. https://telegra.ph/TON-Sites-TON-WWW-and-TON-Proxy-09-29-2

Deposit events for TON on Huobi Global.

Toncoin is listed on Huobi Global. Please note that toncoin.fund, a $250-million fund and the first in the TON ecosystem, was founded with the help of investment company Huobi Incubator and Huobi Group.

Developers, please note that there have been additions to the standards: - Added forward_payload format to NFT and Jettons standards. - Added note about data encoded in TL-B schema in Token Data standard.

TEPs TON Enhancement Proposals is the new home for current and future The Open Network standards, which replaced TIPs on GitHub Issues. The process of studying the current standards, suggesting and discussing new standards has become more convenient. Thanks to hacker-volodya for his help in creating TEPs.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 News channel to stay up-to-date with all the latest news.

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!

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 [Q3] We plan to launch the TON Sites and TON Proxy components at the end of this quarter. In addition to the two components, we plans to provide the capability of smart contract communication with sites and vice versa. Crosschain NFT transfers [Q3] 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 [Q3] 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) [Q3 2022–2023] 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.

Setting the root DNS in the network config Validators please vote for setting Ef-OJd0IF0yc0xkhgaAirq12WawqnUoSuE9RYO3S7McG6lDh address in config 4 as root DNS. To vote via mytonctrl you need to use the command: vo 28570401098048530419903479567404779787541823236808968536408335541289727996611 If you don't use mytonctrl use this instruction. The DNS source code can be found on the GitHub.

The TON DNS auction has started!

The TON DNS auction starts tomorrow, July 30, at 9:00 UTC on the dns.ton.org site. Network validators, on Aug. 2, it is planned to set the root DNS contract in the network config by voting — all validators need to participate.