💎 TON Pay | The Why

Payments shouldn’t require every builder to implement their own infrastructure.

Across Telegram apps, this often meant building wallets, checkout flows and settlement logic independently.

TON Pay helps streamline that 🫴

One SDK. A ready-to-use solution for Mini Apps, bots, and backend services. One-time payments, recurring payments, and subscriptions. Non-custodial, so users keep control of their funds.

Build faster, without rebuilding the same payment stack. ⛏️

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🪙 Report: Telegram as the default AI interface

A new report from IdentityHub looks at Telegram as an emerging interface layer for AI.

Instead of separate apps or dashboards, AI agents can operate directly inside chat, enabling faster workflows and simpler user interaction.

For teams building on TON, this highlights new opportunities around bots, Mini Apps and AI-driven services.

👉 Read the report

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🎨 TON Art Contest #2
Submissions are officially closed.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined: 600+ artworks submitted by artists and 8,105 community likes from supporters voting for their favorite pieces. ❤️

Next step: LIVE judging.

🏅 20 winners
💰 $2k prize pool, $100 each

How judging works:

📅 March 18, 4 PM UTC
🎥 Live judging stream: 4 judges will score each artwork from 1 to 10

Judges:
• 2 from TON Foundation
• 2 from TON Community: @Damx & @MonkeyBgg

🏆 Once all scores are submitted, the top 20 highest-rated artworks will win.

Community likes will help guide the judges and also have their own leaderboard.

🔔 Stay tuned for judging day.

Let’s celebrate the creativity together 🚀

P.S. all the evaluations will be within the MiniApp, as well as all the Art Submissions, and displayed for everyone to take a look at themselves + support their favourite creators!

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🎨 TON Art Contest - Live Judging

600+ artworks. 7 days of submissions. Now it’s time to select the winners.

20 artworks will be chosen by the judges: @s0meone_u_know, @zenith_ton, @damx & @monkeybgg

Each artwork will be scored from 1 to 10, top 20 will receive prizes.

🗓️ 18.03.26 | 13:00 UTC
🎤 On X, Telegram & YouTube
🔔 Art by @Inosuke7000
Set a reminder and join the session.

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🎬 Tech Interview EP3

Smart contract development on TON is evolving.

Aleksandr Kirsanov, creator of Tolk and member of TON Core Team, explains why projects are migrating from FunC and how Tolk simplifies development.

We covered:
❓ Why Tolk replaces FunC
🛠 Production-ready smart contract language
🚀 The vision for a unified dev stack
⚡️ Faster project development

😏 Check here

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🤩 @ChefRush1 has been exploring the interactive side of the Telegram ecosystem.

His latest collaboration is with DuckMyDuck, currently the largest Telegram game by Stars spending.

👉 This highlights a key aspect of Telegram’s creator economy communities can engage with creators not just through content, but through interactive experiences.

👀 Play DuckMyDuck.

Creators, communities, and applications, all connected inside Telegram. 😎

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The time is NOW! 

🎤 We are live on TG, X & YT
🎨 20 Artworks - 20 Winners - To be selected

Come check it 🫵❤️

🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.7 — Dev Updates

Dev updates first, including Rust Node progress with Roman Nguyen (RSquad).

Hosted by Anastasia Yugova (CIS Hub Lead), Dmitry (CIS Community Lead), Anthony Tsivarev (VP of Ecosystem Development) & Daniil Sherbakov (GameFi BD).

🗓️ 03/19 at 13:00

🚀 On X, Telegram & YouTube

Tune in.

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🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.7 is LIVE!

Dev updates, Rust Node progress with RSquad, plus GameFi projects such as Glance, EdChess and iTerra.

With Anastasia, Dmitry, Anthony & Daniil.

😏 Watch on Telegram, X or YouTube

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🎬 TON One on One | Max Crown x Gio

Most aren’t ready for what Web3 looks like in 2 years.

Less friction. Less noise. More real usage.

🚀 Watch it now

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⚪ 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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