On this warm day for many, I want to summarize the premature results of the month on the $TON blockchain. It has become a tradition for me and I wait for the end of the month to enjoy myself and you with warm memories, but this time, there are more year-end results ahead.

There were many offline events, such as TON Czechia in Prague, TON France in Paris, where we talked about TON blockchain technology and the future of its development, and STON.fi speaker Martin talked about #DeFi and the #Omniston protocol and the development of STON.fi.

The Emerging TON Gaming Ecosystem is another major event that took place in Dubai, bringing together representatives from major blockchain projects like $CATI and TON.

The month did not stand out with major listings on $TON , I can only remember $GOATS, but now the project has only about 17 million capitalization, but it did not even appear on STON.fi.

#Memcoins on TON have finally gained popularity, I see them more and more often on STON.fi. They come from Blum Memepad, and the best ones end up on STON.fi. The one I remember the most is $VILARSO, who by the way has half a million TVL on STON.fi.

This month, just recently $BTC broke a new ATH, and all month long it has been pleasing liquidity providers with high APRs in pools throughout the pool. On top of that, some pairs on STON.fi have been constantly maintained. For example, in $JETTON/$USDT APR is about 60% for several months already. At the moment, there is still farming in:
$STON/USDT, APR - 48%
$MAJOR/TON, APR - 76%
$HPO/TON, APR -- 212%.

The #TON blockchain has become very usable after announcing integration into Telegram, passing the whole year of TapTap ( $NOT $HMSTR ) game, announcing the expanding to the United States.
So, there are 2 major DEXes on the blockchain that run only on the #TON blockchain. Let's compare them in three main categories:
1. Metrics:
• TVL:   STON.fi - $148M; DeDust - $88M
• Unique active wallets:  STON.fi - 353K; DeDust - 118K
2. User inteface
DeDust welcomes the user with an interface made in dark and orange colors. From a PC everything looks good. But if you check from some mobile device, the result will be quite different - for many months, the icons of tokens simply do not load on some smartphones, by the way, even on a PC in some places this problem remains.

On  STON.fi the interface is made in light and blue colors (dark theme available), and in my opinion looks more soft and calm than on DeDust. In addition, the interface of liquidity pools conveniently describes farming programs, and the Trust Score is present on the swaps tab.

3. Development
STON.fi is actively developing Cross-Chain between $TON nd other blockchains. With the first planned network - Tron ($TRX) a test swap has already been done. In the future it is planned to create a Cross-Chain without bridges and wrapped tokens with the above blockchain and EVM-compatible networks, e.g. $ETH and $BNB.
Also, in the future, the #Omniston protocol will be compatible with these networks, which is already in beta and improves the classical swap system by preparing quotes from different liquidity sources in advance

Swap.Coffee is a DEX aggregator that selects the best offer among several DEXs to provide the best rate. And for large swaps, the swap can be split into multiple swaps with multiple DEXes at once to increase stability. STON.fi in turn is the largest DEX on the #TON blockchain, actively developing solutions to improve the quality of the platform and Cross-Chain.

1. Swaps
It would seem that DEX aggregators should provide a better exchange rate than DEXes, but there are caveats here as well.
For example, when swapping $1M $NOT to $USDT on Swap.Coffee, a user will get $7653, while on STON.fi only $7641. But when swapping a smaller amount, for example 10000 $HMSTR to $TON the results will be similar: 5.44 TON on STON.fi and 5.4 TON on Swap.Coffee. But, you have to spend 0.4 TON for a swap on Swap.Coffee and only 0.2 on STON.fi. Thus, DEX aggregator shows itself better at swaps for larger amounts, and STON.fi - for smaller amounts.
By the way, STON.fi is developing the #Omniston protocol, which also chooses the best rate among liquidity aggregators, but it also provides zero slippage.

2. Interface
Both products are oriented to end users, so it is quite appropriate to compare their interfaces. Swap.Coffee has a sharper and more aggressive interface, and additional functions are not obviously located. STON.fi is the opposite: the interface is made in soft colors, which is a plus for me personally.

3. DEX vs DEX aggregator
The main function of both products is the same - swap. But the ways to achieve it are different: Aggregators take liquidity from different sources, and DEX are those sources. This is the main functional difference - liquidity pools. They are available only on DEX and provide quite high APRs for liquidity providers. Also, some liquidity pools participate in farming, providing even higher APRs. For example, for the $MAJOR/TON pair the APR is 72% and for the $DOGS/$X pair it is 66%.