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Argentina's incumbent president Javier Milay retweeted a post about how to buy LIBRA. Apparently, for those who didn't make it at the first attempt, he is giving a second chance, so to speak.

make sense. making reward for influencers in native project's token - bad idea. the solution is to onboard partner with listed-already token and provide their token as a reward for inviting activity. native token - for faithful players.

I read channels and chats, including developers, and realize that nobody really knows where TON is going. There is no clear vector of development. Blockchain was supposed to be the foundation of a new internet that would unite all other blockchains, but instead everyone rushed to launch tokens/schmokens, tap on the phone screen and buy gifts for Stars to decorate Telegram. TON Core criticizes projects for creating smart contracts in one shard, yet they themselves call it an innovation to create two tokens in one shard and demonstrate how they can be instantly swapped there as well. What's the point if it's not scalable? Or does every shard now have to have its own DEX? Others complain that the blockchain doesn't expand to more than 16 shards. But it's not clear why it's needed at all, if there are no high-loaded projects and few users. And someone even makes EVM on TON - for whom? For Solidity developers? TVM is asynchronous, and they are trying to pull something on top of it with crutches. Even if they succeed, it won't be safe, because the code will still be compiled in Fift. It feels like everyone is just studying the technology and doing nonsense. Only TON Core is working hard and posting a report. Are developers bored or are they busy creating their own projects?! Where are we going?

Meanwhile, someone decided to bring down TON once again.

TON Wallet mentioned Memhash, and this is at least a positive thing

2 days ago everyone was branding $PX tokens. I intentionally did not mention the name of the project, because I think it's impudence to charge users 0.1 TON per stigma, in addition to 0.26 TON taken by the smart contract itself. So, this project paralyzed 1 of 16 blockchain shards on "listing" day, causing the $PX stigma to take over an hour. Shards are a technology that divides the blockchain into smaller and more manageable segments. They process user transactions in parallel, but even they can create a queue of blocks that are generated every 5-6 seconds. Simply put, users sent their transactions to one address en masse and queued up, causing one of the shards to become overloaded. At the same time, the blockchain itself continued to function, but 1/16th of its part was completely paralyzed. Now the blockchain is running on 4 shards (on that day it was 9 and maximum 16), but if we are talking about the growth of users and projects, what if 16 projects simultaneously decide to release tokens on millions of wallets using each shard for themselves? Would the blockchain go to sleep and the users go to Solana?

💎Sasha Notcoin, after listing the not pixel...when asked where the listings are on the CEX exchanges and where the liquidity is on the DEX with millions of dollars of in-app purchases.

The wrong person zigged yesterday 🙌 ✈️ Telegram has promised to send mini-apps developers to the 'gazenwagen' if they don't add TON Connect support to their apps by February 21. Reference: https://blog.ton.org/ton-telegram-exclusive-partnership-2025

Withdrawal of liquidity from DeDust rn Holders of $BUILD will have fun now 😅

Who is Manuel Stotz? Until recently, few people paid much attention to Manuel Stotz, as he was just a regular board member at the TON Foundation. However, he has reportedly played a very significant role in decision making and has now become the president of the Swiss TON Foundation. Interestingly, the foundation's website was updated just minutes after the announcement. I wish the whole blockchain thing worked just as quickly 😄 There is very little information about Stotz online. It is known that in 2021 his fund participated in a round of funding for Telegram, during which the company raised about $1 billion through the sale of bonds. Thus, Stotz and his fund have a direct financial connection to Durov's company. In addition, the Kingsway Capital fund led by Stotz owns a significant amount of TON tokens. According to him, TON is the largest token in the company's portfolio, and their acquisition began more than two years ago. This means that the fund is currently in a good profit due to the sale of Toncoin, which is the reason why we don't see growth. Kingsway Capital has also invested in the Tonstarter project, which has completed a $1.5 million funding round, but no ties to The Open Platform (TOP) and First Stage Labs (FS Labs) were found. In other words, Manuel supported Sasha Plotvinov (@notcoin founder) personally, but not Andrei Rogozov and his projects. It will be interesting to see how the change of president will affect the development of the TON ecosystem.

A man wrote to me, remarkably in English. He offered 750 TON for the cap, which I only have one, but asked me to send it to him first. I asked where he was from, and he said “from the United States”. Well, I immediately knew he was a scammer because Americans don't hold TONs. 🥶😂🤣

In a DM they write to me:

“In a popular bot there is a campaign ‘Give a New Year's gift to a friend’ in the form of random crypto. I made a gift to my girlfriend and she got TON. Now I don't have a girlfriend.”

Twitter despises TON

Continuing the fight against monopoly, earlier we observed how Asian projects that came to TON lived their lives and rejoiced in the ecosystem's possibilities. TON Foundation representatives actively promoted technology and integration with Telegram, positioning it as an analog of WeChat, but in web3 format. However, after some time in the ecosystem, even conservative Asian users began to realize how things really work in TON.

In addition to independent influencers on TON, Twitter users are popping up on TON, openly calling out the TON Foundation and The Open Platform for answers. Here are examples of the discussions: “Why is liquidity so low and the number of active users continues to decline? Stop hiding behind Q1-Q3 statistics. Prepare similar data for Q4 and compare - you'll see how bad it is” read more To this they reply: “Low liquidity is due to the fact that new users of cryptocurrencies (50-60% of all newcomers) are not ready to bring liquidity. And projects are unsuccessful not because of the TON Foundation, but because they themselves cannot become wealthy” read more “So it's the community's fault? Right? Of course!” read more “No. There's no one to blame - it's a natural growth process. Some projects are more successful, others less so. You need to stop complaining and start looking for the positives. Just like in life, what's the point of being negative?” read more Other authors are joining the discussion, expressing dissatisfaction with what is happening in the TON ecosystem: - “People see no reason to add liquidity. All people on TON are thieves” read more - “A lot of people are leaving the network. Soon there will be no one left in the ecosystem” read more - “Most wallets are inactive. Many are sybils and micro-airdrop hunters. Volumes on DEX are practically zero. The NFT market is stagnating. I don't understand how the $TON price stays so high” read more - “TON relies solely on Telegram and Durov” read more - “While you are creating fake statistics, users are leaving the TON blockchain and it is turning into a dead network!” read more - “TON is not decentralized. It's actually extremely centralized” read more - “The myth of a completely decentralized community on TON doesn't work. Everyone knows who makes the key decisions. As long as that person tries to shift responsibility to the “community”, the situation will only get worse” read more - “Is 12 million onchain trading volume in TON an impressive result? Even the average Pump Fun trader generates more volume than the entire network, lol” read more - “Many big projects in TON are either frustrated and silent or already planning to leave the ecosystem” read more Twitter gives the impression that it's impossible to convince anyone of the prospects of the TON ecosystem. People there do not sit in Telegram and do not know about its history or the current state of affairs. And maybe it's for the best. At least you can't delete comments on Twitter, as they have been doing in the TON Community for 3 years.

Telegram's monkey business I've been reading the news after the New Year binge and let me tell you, TON and Telegram (hard to believe) manage to fuck up their reputation and scare away a wave of newcomers to this bullrun. It's good to see that I'm not the only one with the impression that Durov trusts and helps exclusively his acquaintances or comrades. He would never praise DeDust as a product that attracted a lot of people to TON even before Notcoin. Durov is generally accustomed to doing everything with other people's hands, so that, if anything, you can “cut it off” and move on with your life. Anonymous numbers, usernames - everything through Fragment, not directly through Telegram. And so it is with all the other projects. His familiar people became tools to test the Telegram team's hypotheses. Rogozov deals with @Wallet, Sasha Plotvinov, as his right-hand man, produces products under his brand. But if you go to top.co, you can see that Notcoin, Blum, Open Builders are all part of TOP's portfolio. NFT-stickers, which Durov promised to release with 50% commission distribution for the creators, is launched again not by Telegram, but by Sasha and no distribution is visible, all the stars were taken by TOP. Renat Roxman (Major), who was previously mentioned by Durov, for some reason is the first, even before the official announcement, to get a tick for organizations to give out their ticks for 20,000 stars. Other bots with similar functionality, after submitting an application, wait weeks for a response and get nothing. And those who are not immersed in all this don't even realize that all this was launched not by Telegram, but by someone else's hands. NFT-stickers won't take off? Well, they'll just delete the market as a bot and that's it. Telegram didn't launch it, so no complaints. Will they take off? Telegram will tell at the next Krito forum about its successes. It's funny that the announced NFT-stickers are still not in release, but NFT gifts are already on the hype and are actively resold on the secondary market, even the @nft channel has appeared.

I don't understand what's going on anymore. It's pure Telegram business. Pure Monopoly. Toxic environment at all.

Telegram was unprofitable, Durov gave them the task of making products on TON, they created a monopoly, and now they are stealing money from everything they can. Telegram has become profitable - the haircut has intensified. And no one cares that the creators of applications and projects are leaving the TON ecosystem because it is impossible to create something of their own here and compete with TOP.

Biweekly update Tech + A staking UI was added to https://app.hyperliquid-testnet.xyz/staking on testnet to make it easier for users to test and familiarize themselves with staking Product + Added $ / % toggle to favorites bar + Added aggregation selector to full order book view on mobile + Enabled order book set size on click setting on mobile + Expanded TP/SL input fields proportionally when expanding the order form horizontally on desktop + Updated OI error message to be clearer, and more misc. UI improvements Trading + VIRTUAL, PENGU, USUAL, and FARTCOIN perps were listed + BLZ perps were delisted + OI reached a new ATH of >$4.3B + 24h volume reached a new ATH of >$15B Community Highlights + deBridge and Synapse integrated Hyperliquid, enabling cross-chain deposits + Sandwich Trading and Teal Street added support for Hyperliquid + Defillama began tracking Hyperliquid's fees on its dashboard: https://defillama.com/fees. Note that this does not include native spot auctions. + Jan organized a PURR Christmas donation to support a cat shelter: https://www.purrburn.fun/make-a-difference + As always, you can find more great content, analysis, etc. from the community in ⁠the community-research channel in Discord

Max leverage has been updated for various assets. Increases in max leverage reflect improved liquidity. Decreases in max leverage ensure platform stability during extreme volatility. Note that max leverage decreases do not affect the liquidation price of open positions until they are modified. To reduce positions that exceed initial margin requirements under the new max leverage, use reduce-only orders. The first non-reduce-only order that modifies a position will subject it to the new max leverage and maintenance margin requirements. As a reminder, maintenance margin is half of the initial margin at max leverage. E.g., if max leverage is 20x, the maintenance margin is 2.5%.

By community request, you can now long or short $FARTCOIN with up to 3x leverage. Listing is not an endorsement of the project. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do not trade assets you are unfamiliar with and do not understand the risks for. Exercise control. NFA. https://hyperfoundation.org/ https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/FARTCOIN

Another day, another ATH. Hyperliquid reached a new all-time high in 24h volume of >$15B.

Hyperliquid reached a new all-time high in 24h volume of >$13B.

By community request, you can now long or short $USUAL with up to 5x leverage. Listing is not an endorsement of the project. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do not trade assets you are unfamiliar with and do not understand the risks for. Exercise control. NFA. https://hyperfoundation.org/ https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/USUAL