This article describes the contribution of TON’s early core team NEWTON, reveals its important role in promoting the development of the TON Foundation, and demonstrates the team’s efforts and achievements. (Preliminary summary: TON HackerHouse Bangkok Station has concluded successfully! TONX joins hands with 300 global developers to create innovative 70 projects) (Background supplement: TONX API joins hands with the top 20 ecosystem giants! TON developers are jointly built with Blum, Catizen, CoinGecko, and Google Cloud Ecology) Everyone may know the name TON Foundation, but few people know the story of its early contributors - the NEWTON team (TON core team). Through voluntary technical contributions, NEWTON was recognized by the Telegram official team in 2021, achieving the greatest "community takeover" technology transfer in the history of blockchain. As an early member of NEWTON, let me tell you this story. 1. Introduction: Joining the NEWTON team and team mission When I joined the NEWTON team, our main mission was clear: maintain the stability of the TON testnet2 code while enhancing development tools. Since we do not have direct control over the TON blockchain GitHub repository, but need to constantly update the code, we created a new organization called NEWTON. In order to ensure smooth network updates, we encourage the community to use the validator developed by NEWTON as the standard version. From its inception until June 2021, the NEWTON team completed several groundbreaking development and infrastructure projects. Let’s take a deeper look at the 10 key contributions that influenced TON’s early development. (1) mytonctrl: automated node management tool Our first major contribution is mytonctrl, a powerful automated tool for node installation and validator setup. It provided some basic functions such as wallet creation, contract deployment, transaction history retrieval, and even a DNS registration system - interestingly, the DNS at that time was not the same as the modern NFT-wrapped DNS we see today. mytonctrl can also configure validator, liteserserver, and litclients to make node data access and parsing easier. In 2021, we added CPU-based mining scripts and automated power tests to simplify TON minting. (2) tonmon: Visualizing the operating status of the blockchain. Having nodes and obtaining data is not enough; we need more visual tools to monitor the operating status of the blockchain. To better monitor blockchain health, we created tonmon. Key metrics tracked by the tool are: block creation time, shard status, dPoS election schedule, validator count and weight, and mining contract status. We can react quickly to any network anomaly. The network is very small in its early stages, with only about 80 validators worldwide. (3) tonmine: Monitoring the Giver contract We developed tonmine to track TON mining activities. Although the initial givers of the TON blockchain ranged from large to small, there are only 10 small givers left in 2021. tonmine shows daily mining statistics for each contract, with an average of 20,000 TON per day per contract - 200,000 TON total for all contracts. Mining difficulty varies greatly between different givers, depending on the number of miners - some givers have lower difficulty due to fewer miners, while others have extremely high difficulty. (4) Cross-chain bridge Before TON had jetton or NFT standards, we recognized the importance of cross-chain compatibility. The NEWTON team developed a TON native bridge for ERC-20 tokens on EVM-compatible chains and successfully tested it at bridge.ton.org. This enables seamless transfers between TON, Ethereum, and BSC. (5) @cryptobot: Telegram Bot Wallet In 2021, before Telegram’s mini app appeared, a team member developed the @cryptobot Telegram wallet. It initially supports BTC, TON, BNB, and USDT. After the launch of Telegram’s mini app, the wallet received a complete update. (6) toncenter: Simplifying blockchain data access With toncenter, developers no longer need to set up full nodes, study liteclient or liteserver, or worry about serialized data formats. toncenter provides a public API that greatly simplifies on-chain data access for various wallets and block explorers. While TON's infrastructure has evolved to have more API provider options, such as tonxapi.com today, toncenter continues to serve developers, which is a testament to the power of its design. (7) explorer.toncoin.org: TON’s first block explorer The first TON blockchain explorer is built into the core code base of explorer.toncoin.org. While incredibly fast, its data representation is too technical for most users. (8) ton.sh: a new generation browser In order to solve the complexity of explorer.toncoin.org, we created ton.sh. After solving the challenge of deserializing blockchain data, we released it using a public API. ton.sh focuses on basic functions: wallet balance, transactions, and especially notes. Memos were crucial for early TON users. Before the advent of TON Connect or complex DeFi contracts, memos were command operations, especially for deposit operations on exchanges. Although new browsers like TONScan and TONViewer have since emerged, ton.sh remains a historic milestone in TON development. (9) TonWeb: Basic JavaScript SDK Since TON smart contracts use two challenging languages, Fift and Func, the NEWTON team developed TonWeb, a JavaScript SDK that simplifies wallet creation, deployment and transactions. (10) TON wallet: My first TON wallet This TON wallet dates back to the Telegram era and is my first wallet, and I am still using it now. 2. Historic recognition: NEWT...