🏆 We have our winners! 🏆

The TON x AWS Hackathon showcased some truly impressive builds - creative ideas, strong execution, and smart use of AI.
Big congrats to all the winners 👏

🥇 SplitTheBill
🥈 Sell Your Stuff
🥉 Zen Scan

🏅Best UX/CX: CalSnap
🏅Best Idea: Today For Us

Thank you to every builder who participated. This was a strong showing across the board.

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TON is heading to campus 🎓

• Feb 23 at Cornell Tech
• Feb 25 at Princeton

We’ll be working directly with students to explore real applications built on TON and what Telegram-native distribution unlocks.

These are campus-focused sessions for students only.

👩‍💻 Cornell students register here.

👩‍💻 Princeton students register here.

See you on campus!

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⏰ Reminder builders!

Join us tomorrow for the TON x AWS Winners Space 🏆

🕒 11AM ET

Hear directly from the teams who shipped & won.

Real builds. Real lessons.

Don’t miss it! 🚀

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ETHDenver builders, where you at?

If you’re attending, drop a comment. 🤝 Let’s meet in Denver.

🚀 TON x AWS Hackathon - Program Recap

From workshops to submissions to winner interviews, this hackathon was all about execution.

Highlights:
• Real AI-powered Telegram apps
• Strong builder insights
• Practical lessons shared live
• A community that showed up & shipped

Huge thank you to everyone who built with us. More workshops and events coming soon 💎
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Kicking off at ETHDenver with Stanford’s BASS Denver.

Cornell Tech and Princeton are next - university builders are a major focus for TON US Hub in 2026.

We’re building the campus-to-mainnet pipeline.💎

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❤️ Meet AppKit Alpha, a new way to build on TON.

AppKit removes blockchain complexity from application development. Developers no longer need to think about blockchain infrastructure. You can now focus on product and business logic.

It's never been easier to learn everything you need to integrate TON into your app, embed a wallet, accept the first payment, and ship a working user flow.

Turn ideas into working prototypes in minutes with AppKit and share them instantly.

🌐 Out of the box, AppKit provides everything you need to launch a production apps. Here's what already accessible to you today:
• Wallet management interfaces with simple APIs for connections, balance checks, and sending TON, tokens, and USDT
• DeFi protocol integration with a standardized interface. Any provider can plug in, giving developers unified flows for swapping and staking out of the box
• Customizable UI components you can match to your brand (design refinements coming in future updates)
• TypeScript and React support for modern frontend development
• TON Connect integration built in from the start

p.s. Since this is in alpha stage, new features and upgrades are ongoing.
AppKit is built for product-first teams: Telegram Mini Apps, web2 companies entering crypto, and startups that care about UX, speed, and scale. Combined with Telegram distribution, AppKit enables teams to go from idea to real users faster than traditional crypto stacks.

This is not another SDK. It’s a shift in how TON apps are built.

❄️ Try AppKit Alpha already today
📖 Learn more via our official blog

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🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.3 - TON Pay, AI, Gateway & more!

This week we will talk about the latest innovation in TON Ecosystem: How TON Pay is revolutionising payments, AI Agent Tooling Bounty, Recap of ETH Denver, upcoming Gateway, Groyp project spotlight, and more…

Together with our special guests: Nikola, Denis, Sahil, Julien & Special Guest Mickey.

🗓️ 20th February | 4PM UTC (Save to calendar)
🎤 On X, Telegram & YouTube

Don’t miss it 🫵💎

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TON US Hub | ETHDenver Update 🇺🇸

ETHDenver was an important week for expanding TON’s presence across the US ecosystem.

🤝 We spent the week in direct conversations with founders, infrastructure teams, investors, and institutional participants - introducing TON’s ecosystem, Gateway, and TON Pay, and exploring where TON can play a meaningful role in supporting the next generation of applications.

💡 Several themes became clear:

• Builders are actively looking for platforms that solve distribution, and Telegram’s scale continues to stand out.
• Institutional participants are paying closer attention to TON’s payments infrastructure and verification capabilities.
• University ecosystems remain one of the strongest pipelines for future founders, and TON is now directly connected to several of these networks.

We also had the opportunity to meet with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss TON’s expansion in the US and share perspectives on building responsibly as the ecosystem matures.

🎥 In parallel, we recorded a series of interviews with founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders. These will be released as part of the TON US Hub content pipeline to give the community direct visibility into the builders and partners shaping what’s next.

Overall, ETHDenver helped establish important new relationships and move several ongoing conversations forward.

TON US Hub remains focused on supporting builders, strengthening ecosystem partnerships, and helping bring meaningful applications onto TON.

More to come. 💎

📣The Roast Session is here!

Want to get your project off the ground? Looking for feedback on your product? Then submit your application and get ready to hear honest feedback on your project!

Ready? Apply here. ✍️

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📣 Introducing: TON Creator Spotlight

Creators deserve ownership.

Ownership of their audience.
Ownership of their distribution.
Ownership of their monetization.

📱Telegram enables direct connection.
📱TON enables direct monetization.

Together, they form a new foundation for creators.

Through our Creator Spotlight series, we’ll highlight creators building on Telegram and TON, sharing their stories, their communities, and how they’re creating new economic opportunities. 💎

Featuring amazing creators like Chef Rush 😋 and others coming soon.

If you’re a creator exploring Telegram, we want to hear from you.👇

The future belongs to creators who own their audience.

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