This article discusses the contributions of the early core team NEWTON of TON, revealing its important role in promoting the development of the TON Foundation and showcasing the team's efforts and achievements. (Background: TON HackerHouse Bangkok Station successfully concluded! TONX collaborates with 300 global developers to create 70 innovative projects) (Background Supplement: TONX API collaborates with 20 major ecosystem giants! Co-building the TON developer ecosystem with Blum, Catizen, CoinGecko, and Google Cloud) The name TON Foundation may be familiar to many, but few know the story of its early contributor — the NEWTON team (TON core team). Through voluntary technical contributions, NEWTON was recognized by the official Telegram team in 2021, achieving the greatest 'community takeover' technology transfer in blockchain history. 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: to maintain the stability of the TON testnet2 code while enhancing development tools. Since we did not have direct control over the TON blockchain GitHub repository but needed to constantly update the code, we created a new organization called NEWTON. To ensure smooth network updates, we encouraged the community to use the validator developed by NEWTON as the standard version. From its establishment to June 2021, the NEWTON team completed several groundbreaking development and infrastructure projects. Let's delve into the 10 key contributions that impacted the early development of TON. (1) mytonctrl: Automated Node Management Tool Our first major contribution was mytonctrl, a powerful automation tool for node installation and validator setup. It provides some basic features such as wallet creation, contract deployment, transaction history retrieval, and even a DNS registration system — interestingly, the DNS at that time was different from the modern NFT-packaged DNS we see today. mytonctrl can also configure validators, liteservers, and litclients, making node data access and resolution simpler. In 2021, we added CPU-based mining scripts and automated power tests to simplify TON minting. (2) tonmon: Visualizing Blockchain Operation Status Having nodes and accessing data is not enough; we needed more visualization tools to monitor the blockchain's operational status. To better monitor the blockchain's operational status, we created tonmon. The key indicators tracked by this tool include: block creation time, shard status, dPoS election schedule, validator count and weight, and mining contract status. We could respond quickly to any network anomalies. This network was very small in its early stages, with only about 80 validators globally. (3) tonmine: Monitoring Giver Contracts We developed tonmine to track TON mining activities. Although the initial givers on the TON blockchain varied in size, by 2021 only 10 small givers remained. tonmine displays daily mining statistics for each contract, averaging 20,000 TON per contract per day — a total of 200,000 TON across all contracts. The mining difficulty varies significantly between different givers, depending on the number of miners — some givers have lower difficulty due to fewer miners, while others are extremely difficult. (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 on bridge.ton.org. This made seamless transfers between TON, Ethereum, and BSC possible. (5) @cryptobot: Telegram Bot Wallet In 2021, before the mini app appeared on Telegram, a team member developed the @cryptobot Telegram wallet. It initially supported BTC, TON, BNB, and USDT. After the mini app launched, the wallet underwent a complete update. (6) toncenter: Simplifying Blockchain Data Access With toncenter, developers no longer need to set up full nodes, research lite clients or liteservers, or worry about serialized data formats. toncenter provides a public API that greatly simplifies on-chain data access for various wallets and block explorers. Although TON's infrastructure has evolved to have more API provider options, such as today's tonxapi.com, toncenter continues to serve developers, proving the strength of its design. (7) explorer.toncoin.org: The First TON Block Explorer The first TON blockchain explorer was embedded in the core codebase of explorer.toncoin.org. While incredibly fast, its data representation was too technical for most users. (8) ton.sh: Next-Generation Explorer To address the complexity of explorer.toncoin.org, we created ton.sh. After solving the challenges of deserializing blockchain data, we published it using a public API. ton.sh focuses on basic functions: wallet balance, transactions, and especially memos. Memos are crucial for early TON users, as they were the command operation, especially for deposit operations in exchanges, before TON Connect or complex DeFi contracts emerged. Although new explorers like TONScan and TONViewer appeared later, ton.sh remains a historic milestone in TON development. (9) TonWeb: Basic JavaScript SDK Since TON smart contracts use the 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 it was my first wallet, which I still use today. 2. Historic Recognition: NEWT...