Here's a summary of recent TON updates:📊📊📊
Integration with Telegram & Ecosystem Growth:
Telegram continues to deepen its integration with TON, aiming to onboard 30% of its users to TON by 2028.🌎🌎
TON's ecosystem is expanding with various applications and services, including TON Storage (decentralized file storage), TON Proxy (privacy enhancement), TON DNS (human-readable domain names), and TON Sites (decentralized website hosting).
Telegram's self-custodial wallet has expanded to US users, potentially unlocking a large new demographic for TON. This wallet, integrated directly into Telegram, facilitates instantaneous peer-to-peer transactions and borderless payments, including low-cost USDT payments.
Telegram Gifts, which were upgraded into TON-based collectibles in early 2025, signify a move towards integrating digital ownership into user behavior on social platforms.
Technological Developments:📊📊📊
The "Cocoon" decentralized AI network has gone live on TON, positioning TON at the intersection of cryptocurrency and AI. This development suggests that TON is becoming an infrastructure layer for decentralized AI (DePIN), with the potential for millions of users to contribute computing power.
TON has a multi-level architecture using sharding and instant messaging between chains, designed for scalability and fast, low-cost transactions. It utilizes a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus model for network security and reliability.
Market Performance & Outlook:
Toncoin (TON) has shown recent bullish momentum, with a price increase of 5.06% in the last 24 hours and 15.10% over the past 7 days as of January 3, 2026.
The price rally is partly attributed to Telegram's launch of its self-custodial wallet in the US.
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