⚪ TON Pay | Nikola, VP Payments

How TON is building payments infrastructure?

Nikola Plecas (VP Payments) and Angela Brasington (US Hub Lead) break down the current approach, and how builders can have access to more than 1 billion active users. 

👀 Watch it now

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🚨 TON AI Agent Hackathon, final 24 hours

Submissions close March 25, 11:59 PM UTC

If you’re building, finalize and submit.

😏 Submit your entry here

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💎 TON at OpenClaw Lobster Cave | Cannes

OpenClaw Hackathon is live!

• March 25 → March 29, 23:59
• Results: March 30
• 200+ builders already in

Build AI agents on TON and ship fast with Telegram distribution.

👉 Register now

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💎 TON AI Agent Hackathon is closed. 150+ teams built in two weeks.

Agents that pay each other on-chain. Voice-controlled wallets. AI freelance marketplaces. Dispute resolution with on-chain settlement. The builder energy on TON is real.

Judging starts now. Winners announced next week.

🖥 View the submissions here

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🎁 Gift Fest Season 2 is live — $300,000 in rewards

• $300K total pool
• $14K top prize
• iPhone 17 Pro Max, MacBook Air, PS5, more
• Digital + physical rewards

Powered by: Tonkeeper, Wallet in Telegram, Getgems, Mira, Tribute, PlayDeck, GoMining

Runs fully inside a Telegram Mini App.

🎮 Join here

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💎 WalletConnect now supports TON.

WalletConnect's global network, which connects 500M+ users across 700+ wallets and facilitated more than $400B in transaction volume in 2025, now has access to TON's expanding stablecoin economy and DeFi ecosystem.

To enable this, TON Connect protocol has been extended to support WalletConnect as a transport layer, allowing TON dApps to interact with multichain wallets without building wallet connection support from scratch.

💎 What this means for the ecosystem:

• Wallets with WalletConnect can now support TON with minimal integration effort.
• Institutions gain access to TON's DeFi and liquidity layer.
• Apps can attract non-TON native audiences.

🏅 Fireblocks and SafePal are among the first to integrate TON through WalletConnect. Through Fireblocks' network of 2,400+ institutional clients, organizations can now tap into TON-based DeFi, including liquidity pools and liquid staking, and incorporate TON into existing treasury workflows.

With institutional capital flowing in, TON's DeFi platforms like STON.fi, DeDust, Tonstakers, Affluent, Storm, and TONCO stand to benefit from deeper liquidity, which in turn means better opportunities for everyday crypto users.

👉 Read more: https://walletconnect.com/blog/walletconnect-adds-support-for-ton-expanding-stablecoin-payments-across-a-fast-growing-ecosystem

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🚨 We’re hiring: Developer Relations Engineer (US-based)

We’re looking for someone from our ecosystem to help take TON to the next level in the US 🇺🇸

This is not just a job, it’s a chance to:
• Build real demos, dApps, and Telegram Mini Apps
• Work directly with builders across the TON ecosystem
• Lead workshops, hackathons, and developer programs
• Shape the developer experience across TON

You’ll be at the intersection of engineering, community, and product, turning complex ideas into things people can actually build with.  

Who we’re looking for:
• Experienced TON devs confident with the TON tech stack
• Strong builder (Rust, TS, Python, etc.)
• Loves helping other devs succeed
• Comfortable creating content, demos, and tutorials
• Comfortable to give in-person/online presentations/workshops/hackathons
• Already active in TON ecosystem and dev community 

We will hire from within the TON community, so if you’ve been building, experimenting, or contributing… this is your moment.

👉 Apply here

Or drop a message if you have questions.

Let’s build the future of TON, together.

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⚡️ Sub-Second Mainnet Activation Starts Now

TON Core has announced the mainnet rollout of the Sub-Second upgrade.

This is a consensus upgrade designed to move TON toward sub-second finality and bring on-chain UX closer to Web2 responsiveness.

Rollout plan:

📅 March 31: Validators upgrade nodes to the version supporting the latest consensus changes

📅 April 2: Validators vote to activate the new consensus on the basechain and enable a moderate block rate increase

📅 April 7: Validators vote to fully activate fast consensus on both the basechain and masterchain

👉 Full announcement

👉 Instructions for validators and apps

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🎤 Join Our Exclusive Cooking Workshop Session

Today at 21:00 UTC on the Tonstakers main channel, we go live with the second TONflix session where a cooking game will be designed and built in real time.

This session focuses on GameFi on TON featuring Chef Andre Rush, Angela from TON Foundation and Ethan, Head of DevRel at STON.fi.

What to expect:
🔵 GameFi as a growth driver of TON ecosystem
🔵 A live brainstorm on building a cooking game from scratch
🔵 A real time demo of a working game in action

➡️ Have strong cooking game references? Share them in the community, the best ones will be reviewed live!


🤩 Our links:
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🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.8 — US Growth 🇺🇸

Growth needs structure:
community → builders → partnerships → adoption

@moontrips (TON US Hub Lead), Ankit Raj and Clement Chaikov (Not Alone) break down what’s working in the US, and what still needs to be solved.

😏 Watch now on X, Telegram & YouTube

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📣Calling TON US Hub Builders 🇺🇸

🎤 We’re opening up the mic.

On April 30, we’re hosting the next TON Real Talk (English), and this time, we want to hear from YOU. 🫵

If you’re building on TON, this is your chance to:
• Share what you’re working on
• Get visibility in the ecosystem
• Talk through challenges
• Get support + feedback

🗓 April 30
⏰ 4PM UTC / 12PM ET

We’ve seen some strong momentum coming out of this group - let’s showcase it!

🙌 Interested in joining as a guest?
👉 Drop a comment and fill out this form.

Let’s build in public. Let’s build together. 💎

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⚡️ Storm Trade faced a sophisticated targeted attack — and held the line

We regularly see headlines about DeFi protocols getting hit: losing millions, users losing funds, projects shutting down. That’s exactly why security has always been one of the core priorities behind Storm Trade.

Yesterday, April 21, Storm’s infrastructure was targeted by a large-scale coordinated attack. The attacker compromised part of the infrastructure services, including the oracle subsystem, and attempted to manipulate asset prices.

The objective was clear — to drain funds from the protocol as quickly as possible. This is the exact scenario that has impacted dozens of projects across the industry.

However, Storm Trade was prepared for this.

Our monitoring systems detected abnormal activity at an early stage, and the team immediately paused the protocol before the attack could cause significant damage.

Confirmed damage is less than 2,000 TON (under 0.03% of TVL).

For context, similar attacks in the market have led to losses ranging from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. In our case, a multi-layered security architecture allowed us to contain the incident with minimal impact, fully covered by internal buffers.

What you need to know now:

Your funds are safe and protected by multisig.

• The TON Foundation has been notified, and next steps are being coordinated jointly.
• Withdrawals from vaults and unstaking are temporarily available via SDK (a user-friendly UI is already in development).
• Funds in open positions remain within the protocol and are fully protected. We will provide a transparent mechanism for returning them to users.
• The protocol will resume operations after a full incident investigation, an independent security audit, and a complete infrastructure rebuild.

What’s next: Today, the entire team is focused on one thing — bringing Storm back stronger, more resilient, and more secure than ever.

This incident proved the most important point: Storm Trade withstood a serious attack and validated the effectiveness of its multi-layered security system, combining technical safeguards, economic constraints, and real-time monitoring.

Thank you to everyone who stays with us.
Your Storm Trade team ⚡️
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