The Open Hack 2025: Build Real-World Apps on TON

The Open Hack 2025 is a hybrid mini-hackathon for developers across India to build consumer-facing apps on TON.

Over one month, participants will move from idea → prototype → TON integration through technical workshops, mentorship, and community engagement, culminating in a live finale during India Blockchain Week 2025 in Bangalore, where the top 10 teams will present to TON leaders, investors, and partners.

TON Builder Series: A 4-part technical workshop to help you build from idea → product → launch.

Prize Pool & Benefits:
🏆 $5,000+ USD
▪️ Mentorship and ecosystem support
▪️ TON swag kits and spotlight opportunities
▪️ Fast-track access to TON ecosystem exposure

📅 Hackathon Timeline
▪️ Nov 5-19: TON Builder Series (4-part technical workshop)
▪️ Nov 23: Final Submission Deadline
▪️ Dec 1: Offline Finale during India Blockchain Week 2025 in Bangalore

👉 Register: https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/theopenhack2025

🌀 Mr. Freeman x Elephant Store: TON Sticker Experiment

Mr. Freeman and Elephant Store launch a new sticker pack on TON with team battles, unique mechanics, and prizes.

Timeline:

📦 Nov 18 - Sticker Sale
Purchase mystery boxes without knowing what's inside.

🎁 Nov 21 - The Unboxing
Team battles, burn competitions, and on-chain challenges.

💎 Hidden Third Collection
Uncover rare stickers from a secret set. Follow Mr. Freeman for details.

🎮 Future Use
Stickers become avatars, emojis, and game assets in the Mr. Freeman Telegram Mini App.

Starts November 18.

TON Demo Day: Post-Event Report and Follow-up🚀

TON Demo Day connected selected projects with over 10 VCs in a private session focused on traction and infrastructure needs for TON's next phase.

Project Highlights

▪️ swap.coffee: DEX and aggregator combining liquidity across pools for better swap conditions

▪️ Bidask: Liquidity layer providing DeFi tools for traders and liquidity providers

▪️ Fonbnk: On-chain FX ramp enabling instant local-to-TON stable conversions across 30+ markets

▪️ Jagad: Payments and settlements platform linking Web2 businesses with Web3

▪️ Amihan: On-chain land treasury offering tokenized land assets with liquidity and DAO governance

Next Steps

The private format supported direct discussion. Interested VCs received project contacts, and all teams were featured in TON Investors Club for added visibility.

🎮 Next Demo Day

The upcoming session will focus on Gaming and SocialFi projects. Details coming soon.

🏆 A big moment for TON developer community

TON has been nominated for Best Ecosystem Program for Developers in the BeInCrypto 100 Awards 2025.
This recognition reflects the progress, creativity, and excitement our builders bring to the ecosystem.

Public voting is now live 👇

Vote here: awards.beincrypto.com

TON Community Roundup

Here are the latest updates from the ecosystem:

▪️ Miner's Game on TiltPlay: Start playing and earn TiltCoin with every move. Choose your field and bombs, avoid blasts, and withdraw anytime, or increase your risk for higher rewards. The 7,000 USDT Prize Pool Leaderboard begins on Oct 20, with early mining, invites, and preparation open from Oct 16-20. Read more.

▪️ Hipo Turns 2: The DeFi platform celebrates its second anniversary. Over the past year, Hipo has achieved significant progress and community milestones. Read the Hipo 2nd Anniversary Report to see key highlights.

▪️ TON City by Divinitas Labs: Build your Web3 metropolis on TON, a city simulator inside Telegram. Manage resources, trade with players, join guilds, and shape your city's economy. Active mayors can earn tokens for upcoming Divinitas Labs projects. 🎁 Bonus: Use the promo code TON on your account page to claim 3 rare boosters available to the first 100 players.

More updates coming soon!

🔥 MOVE Season One Went Live on TON: Telegram Gifts Reached the Real World

MOVE has launched on TON, a Pokémon GO-style game for Telegram's 1B+ users.

How it works: Explore your surroundings to discover Telegram gifts that randomly spawn near you. Collect all the matching gift cards before others to claim the actual gift.

This release marks a real-world use case for Telegram gifts on TON.

Try it here: 👉 t.me/moveontonbot

📝 TON GameDev Ecosystem Survey

We are collecting feedback from developers building GameFi projects on TON. Your input helps us understand current tools, key challenges, and which improvements would best support your workflow.

▪️ Share your experience with TON tooling
▪️ Describe pain points in your development process
▪️ Suggest features that would improve GameFi on TON

💬 Take part in this 10 minute survey to help guide future tools and ecosystem support.

Chat. Pay. Own.

Now in the USA.

Your chat is where life happens — planning, sharing, laughing, creating.
Now it’s where your money moves too.

With TON Wallet, send, gift, or earn without leaving the conversation.

Start now: @Wallet

Disclaimer

🚀 Integrate STON.fi Liquidity into Your App

STON.fi lets you add liquidity provision (LP) to your React app with a few lines of code. Users can earn rewards on their tokens directly in your app.

Why integrate STON.fi liquidity?
▪️ Enable users to earn from their idle TON or jettons through liquidity pools
▪️ Increase user engagement and retention with DeFi participation
▪️ Simple SDK/API setup: Install @ston-fi/sdk and @ston-fi/api to handle transactions and data.
▪️ Works with Tonkeeper, TON Wallet, and all TON Connect wallets
▪️ Low fees and high throughput on TON Blockchain
▪️ Immediate access to TON DeFi ecosystem

Get started:
Learn more about integrating STON.fi's liquidity and start with this Quickstart Guide.

🚀 New pools on DeDust

DeDust is releasing a new type of liquidity pool that separates trading fees from the LP position.

Current pools have two main issues:
▪️ Hard to track earnings
▪️ Token creators can’t collect fees from locked liquidity

CPMM v2 pools solve both:
▪️ Fees are collected and claimed separately
▪️ LP fees remain claimable even when liquidity is locked (locking must be done on DeDust)

Also, with these new pools, you can:
▪️ Choose which token fees are collected in
▪️ Choose the fee level at deployment
▪️ Create more than one pool for a pair

🌐 Start using the new pools on DeDust today.

🌕 Earn on Gold in TON Wallet

Receive up to 5% annual yield by holding tokenized gold XAUt0 in @wallet. Your XAUt0 is placed in the @affluentappbot Gold Multiply Vault, with rewards compounded automatically every day. 

How to start:
▪️ Open TON Wallet and go to the Earn tab
▪️ Select the Gold campaign and tap Start earning
▪️ Tap Deposit, choose the amount, and confirm

A simple way to diversify with tokenized gold.

Try it here

🔔 Cryptorefills on TON

Many people earn or hold crypto but cannot spend it where they shop. Cryptorefills lets users in 150+ countries pay with cryptocurrency for everyday needs, including mobile credit, eSIMs, travel, and gift cards for supermarkets, fuel, streaming, and games.

In many regions, high inflation and limited banking access make crypto a practical way to store value and pay online. Cryptorefills now supports TON payments and is available as a Telegram mini app, providing quick access to the full catalog.

Try it here.

🚀 SIDUS AI Hackathon: Build Your AI Agent

Build and launch an AI agent using the SIDUS AI framework. Compete for a $12,000 prize pool.

What is SIDUS AI? A framework for building advanced AI agents with customizable and pre-trained models, including the option to use TON.

🤖 What you can do:
▪️ Launch an AI agent using the Sidus AI framework through Telegram bots, TMAs, web apps, and more.
▪️ Build tools that support developers.
▪️ Contribute to the SIDUS AI ecosystem.

📆 Deadline: December 7
🔗 Register here!

Meet GENZA: The Gamified Dating Experience

GENZA is bringing a gamified dating experience to Telegram with the first 3D avatar builder. 

GENZA makes meeting people interactive. AI matches you by values and compatibility, and your 3D avatar lets you play co-op games to explore chemistry before meeting in real life.

What you can do now:
▪️Try the Telegram 3D Avatar Builder: create your virtual self, earn a top-tier outfit (rare items become NFTs on TON), and unlock a companion pet you can level up.
▪️Build a stronger match profile: complete personality Skill Up quests to improve AI matching.
▪️Increased revenue share: earn 20% from friends’ activity.
▪️Early Bird Lifetime Premium Subscription available.

⏳ Play it here 
📣 More news

🚀Scale Your TON Project with Fluence Cloudless Credits

Fluence, a DePIN platform, is offering Cloudless Compute Credits. It will help TON builders reduce infrastructure costs by up to 85% and support DApps or AI workloads.

💡 What You’ll Get:

▪️ Cost savings: grants that lower spending compared to centralized cloud providers
▪️ High-performance compute: CPU and GPU credits, including NVIDIA H100s
▪️ Onboarding support: assistance with setup and deployment

💰 Grant Tiers:

▪️ Builder: up to $5,000
▪️ Growth: up to $10,000
▪️ Enterprise: based on project scope

✅ Who Should Apply?

TON projects with an MVP and existing infrastructure costs, especially in data, nodes, gaming, or AI.

Apply here.

Workshop with AdsGram at TON Nest: TMA Marketing Playbook

This session is for teams launching or scaling a Telegram Mini App (TMA). TON Foundation is hosting AdsGram experts to cover key marketing foundations.

What You Will Learn:
▪️ TMA Marketing 101: Key concepts to know before running campaigns.
▪️ Prerequisites Checklist: What to prepare for effective traffic acquisition.
▪️ Future Roadmap: Overview of upcoming sessions on organic growth, paid traffic, and monetization.
▪️ Live Q&A: Address immediate questions and inform future topics.

Speaker: Vadim Sterlin, CEO at AdsGram

🗓 Date: Thursday, December 4th
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM CEST | 5:00 PM GST | 9:00 PM HKT
📍 Platform: Zoom (also on YouTube and X)

➡️ Join here

TON US Hub Launching in NYC

🗽 NYC builders: Join a holiday networking event with TON and AWS.

Connect with teams building on TON, meet fellow builders, and explore Telegram mini apps in the US.

🎅 Register to attend

Join TON US Hub

📢 Security Offer on TON Builders Portal: CertiK

TON is working with CertiK, the largest blockchain security auditor, to support projects that want to strengthen security and build user trust.

💡 What You Will Get:

▪️ Up to 30% off audits (20% off < $10K USDT, 30% off ≥ $10K USDT)

▪️ Free private key management consultation

▪️ Up to 50% off Bug Bounty, Team Verification, and Skynet monitoring

▪️ Vouchers for future security services

✅ Who Should Apply?

TON builders preparing for launch or major updates in DeFi, NFT, GameFi, or infrastructure.

Apply here. 

TeleCon 2025: Annual Review of the Telegram Ecosystem

Get ready for the event bringing together Telegram builders to outline key challenges and opportunities across the Telegram ecosystem.

📅 December 10, 6PM (GMT+4)
📍 Daos Hub, Dubai Internet City — Community Space, Floor 51
🌍 Global livestream available

Speakers:
▪️ Wallet
▪️ TOP
▪️ Telemetrio
▪️ Daos Hub
▪️ Boinkers

Join the event!