TON Blockchain: The goal is to have +500 million new blockchain users in 5 years!

9 min readJan 12, 2024

“Unfortunately, we — the 96% of the world’s population living elsewhere — are dependent on decision-makers elected by the 4% living in the US…rnrnrn…today, we are in a vicious circle: you can’t bring more balance to an overly centralized world exactly because it’s so centralized. We did try, though. We’re leaving it to the next generations of entrepreneurs and developers to pick up the banner and learn from our mistakes.”
Pavel Durov

“Merhaba” to everyone. This article was written to get acquainted with Ton blockchain and discuss TON’s goal of making 1/3 of Telegram’s users, which consists of about 800 million people today, blockchain technology and crypto users by 2028. I will try to share with you this journey that I started as a social miner from the TCHub family of DAOLABS and what I learned along the way. As always, I will stick to the facts in my hand and write down my personal opinions accumulated in my heart. This article doesn’t contain any investment advice, nor does it impose any responsibility on the
Dao Labs company.
The reason why I started my article with this historic announcement, which Pavel Durov seems to share with feelings of anger, defeat, and rebellion in 2020, is another historical statement made today. January 10, 2024, we received the news that the SEC has approved BTC’s spot ETFs today. Finally, including BTC in spot ETFs on mainstream stock exchanges is a turning point in the history of Blockchain — Cryptocurrency.

The Durov brothers started the TON Blockchain and GRAM coin project with high hopes in 2017, and 4 years after the court decision that resulted in the SEC banning GRAM in 2020, the SEC left its uncompromising stance on cryptocurrency. The SEC, a strong advocate of the bosses of classical finance for many years or the giants of traditional finance, has had to accept the reality of cryptocurrency.

Follow the roadmaps of Ton Blockchain and Telegram. You will come across the spirit of young, passionate, extraordinarily intelligent, libertarian and stateless! 2 Russians at every moment of the ton blockchain creation adventure that started in 2018. Pavel and Nikolai Durov.
Here is the first sentence of Ton Blockchain’s whitepaper.

Sincerely, Nikolai Durov! and Pavel Durov! Please accept my respect not only for blockchain technology but also for the fact that you have been fighting to protect our personal data, privacy and freedom of opinion for many years, risking all kinds of dangers, including statelessness, with these ideals.

Let me briefly share the success story of these two extraordinary people who have achieved great struggles. But browse the Internet a little, and be sure to read the life story of the Durov brothers, who chose this unusual life, which you will find interesting.
The Durov brothers spent most of their childhood in Italy due to their father’s job as a philology professor at an Italian university. Nikolai, born in 1980, collected gold medals in the mathematical olympiads for three years, at 96, 97, and 98. He was just 16 years old! He studied programming at university. Nikolai Durov is known as the person who brought to life the ideas of his brother, Pavel Durov. You will see Nikolai’s signature on Telegram and Ton Blockchain technical documents, even on Vkontakte, the first social media platform they built. Pavel also knows enough programming to be able to hack!, but he is making his university career in philology like his father. Pavel was born in 1984 and is the architect of VK, known as the Russian Facebook. Nikolai built the VK platform, and from 2006 to 2014, Pavel earned his fortune from VK as a founding manager. However, VK, which has become a major social media force with over 100 million users, has been subjected to pressure from the Russian administration after 2011. A troubled process begins for Pavel, who responded negatively to the pressure to delete the account of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. (here is the message)

The brothers, who resisted the Putin administration until 2014, are forced to leave Russia. Brothers who have been living stateless for a long time manage to get citizenship from a small country in the Caribbean.

The building idea of creating Telegram, an encrypted messaging application, was based on Pavel’s realization that there was no secure application or network where he could communicate with his older brother during the police raid on his home in Russia. The TG application, launched in 2013, has attracted an influx of users, with WhatsApp changing its policy on personal data in 2021, and it has exceeded 500 million users in a short time.

Important milestones of Telegram and Ton Blockchain:

During the #TOKEN2049 events on September 13, TON Blockchain gave the news from its official Twitter page with the following sentences.

TON-based wallet_tg goes live for Telegrams’ 800 million users in a new integration.
Let’s celebrate the largest Web3 onboarding event ever together!

Let’s dive deep into the event. And let’s look for answers to a few questions.
First question: Is Ton Blockchain a Layer1 chain that the Durov brothers decided to develop in 2018, with the capacity and speed to scalability to a 9-digit number of users?

I know we will find the answer we are looking for in Ton_blockchain’s whitepaper.

The TON Blockchain is actually a collection of blockchains. Because no single blockchain project is capable of achieving our goal of processing millions of transactions per second, as opposed to the now-standard dozens of transactions per second.

The unique master blockchain contains general information about the protocol and the current values of its parameters and, most importantly, the set of hashes of the most recent blocks of all workchains and shardchains

Workchains contain the value-transfer and smart contract transactions. They can handle up to 2³², with diverse rules for transactions and VMs. However, they all must satisfy certain basic interoperability criteria to make interaction between different workchains possible and relatively simple. In this respect, the TON Blockchain is heterogeneous. Similar to the EOS and PolkaDot.

Shardchains: Each workchain is, in turn, subdivided into (2⁶⁰) shardchains having the same rules and block format as the workchain itself but responsible only for a subset of accounts, depending on several first (most significant) bits of the account address. In other words, a form of sharding is built into the system. Shardchains are enabling scalability.

If my memory is accurate, Cardano was the first to try the sharding mechanism on Layer1 chains. In 2018–19, the Elrond chain was able to achieve very high transaction speeds using the sharding architecture. I agree that dividing transaction and data transport into shard chains in Layer1 projects increases scalability and transaction accuracy.

When Ton Blockchain was first coded, it used proof-of-work consensus like blockchain. Later, the POS system was switched from the PoW. PoS made a significant difference in the acceleration of the network.

Due to the concern that blockchains may be too dull for those not interested in their architecture, I am leaving the link to the whitepaper here for enthusiasts and closing this topic. However, I am also sharing the video of the transaction speed test that Tonblockchain conducted publicly under the supervision of Certik last October 31. You can also see that TON Blockchain can go up to 106,000 TPS. So, without a doubt, I can write that Telegram’s Ton Blockchain is ready for 500 million users in terms of speed and scalability.

World's Fastest Blockchain - TON Record Attempt

On October 31, we proved that TON is the fastest and most scalable blockchain in the world.During public performance…

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We may try to investigate how the project, which is ready with the Network architect, will encourage potential users on Telegram to use blockchain.
How will it provide the motivation needed to achieve mass adoption?
For that, dive into the interests of Telegram users. If you do a scan inside Telegram, you will already see that the most significant audience outside the groups and channels that follow blockchain or cryptocurrency projects is found in gaming groups. I believe that the first target audience of Ton Blockchain is gamers. And does They have an initiative for this?
Two Big Steps attract my attention: First, the infrastructure and professional support partnership: Animoca!

Look what Yat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, says:
When it comes to gaming specifically, hypercasual is important. We’re refocusing on that, going back to the mobile playbook. What brought people into mobile gaming and gaming in general? It was casual gaming. We think casual gaming is another way we can get new players onboard. The combination of gaming and Telegram is quite powerful. Gaming is probably the biggest platform on Telegram right now. That’s why we made the investment in TON. As a way to onboard people, Telegram has close to 700 or 800 million users. They can start playing games and get into Web3 that way. We’re hoping to broaden the space.
Animoca’s experience in blockchain games, as well as being one of the largest validators of the network, is simply amazing!

One of the smartest inventions imaginable to experience Web 3 by combining most of the telegram users with the game is the NOT coin game! The beta of the very simple but addictive note coin digging game launched as Ton blockchain’s memecoin ended last week, and this week, we are all digging NOT coins.
First of all, the coin’s name was very, very true.
It is very suitable for sloganization and driving puns on it. The slogan we spread by referring to Shakespeare with the motto “To TON or NOT to TON” is very memorable.
Ton’s marketing manager, Jack Booth (@jbfxdotme) or “Aspiring Notcoin whale”, by his definition, shared telegram’s meme coin and first-week statistics with the following message from his X account.

The fact that the meme coin has been dug up so much in just 6 days, reaching almost 3 million registered users, shows that Yat Sui has invested in the right place.

By looking at these statistics, I can easily establish the sentence that the crypto adventure that started with the gaming wallets of telegram users until 2028 will play a big role in mass adoption.
I will finish my article by sharing the resource links that make me think they should be read.
As I wrote when I started, I tried to stick to the facts and share what I have accumulated in my heart with you.
As a social miner, I will finish by writing a sentence that passes through my heart on every platform I dive into the story of TON and telegram. “These Guys are from us!” We were burned in the same fire, locked in the same goal.
“Ton Blockchain Guys” will make us take big steps!”

Written By: ipek

TON Blockchain: The goal is to have +500 million new blockchain users in 5 years!

World's Fastest Blockchain - TON Record Attempt

On October 31, we proved that TON is the fastest and most scalable blockchain in the world.During public performance…

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