TON ecosystem becomes the biggest dark horse, interactive tutorial of ecosystem projects
Although the overall market is weak and major altcoins have fallen back, the price of TON is very strong and is still above $7. With the recent outbreak of the TON chain game NOT, the TON ecosystem has attracted more and more attention, and TON has become the biggest dark horse. As of the time of writing, TON's market value has surpassed Dogecoin to rank eighth, and it is also the sixth largest public chain token by market value.

 
TON (The Open Network) is a fully decentralized Layer 1 blockchain designed by Telegram. It is known for its ultra-fast transaction speed, low fees, easy-to-use applications, and environmental protection. TON aims to become a Web3.0 network that includes decentralized storage, I2P network, instant payments, and highly usable decentralized applications. Telegram launched the project in 2019 but terminated it in June 2020. Since then, the network has continued to be supported by TON's open source community. Although it has been separated from Telegram, Telegram's billions of users are still the foundation of TON's success.

Looking at the market situation in the past two years, the overall feeling is that although Bitcoin has experienced a bull market, most people who play in the secondary market are basically losing money, and only a few currencies have seen a significant increase. The overall feeling of most players is that there are fewer and fewer people who play in the secondary market, and most people have begun to enter the primary market to bet on airdrops from project parties.
But in recent months, the airdrop industry has entered an unprecedented involution. Let’s talk about the project side first. The second-layer public chain that has been in use for 4 years is still doing PUA. It seems that they want to squeeze the last gas fees of players and don’t want to take responsibility. The large-scale witch hunting scene of the cross-chain project L0 also made a large number of hair-pulling studios lose all their money. Regardless of whether the studio is wronged or not, their gas fees are not less. The scene of low-income airdrops after one interaction is rare now. Now the project side has played a point system, using various points to attract players’ funds. There are more and more projects that are open to airdrops, and more and more projects that are anti-slip.

The performance of Solana public chain this year can be said to be remarkable. It has been rising from around US$12 at the beginning of the year to a maximum of US$75, a six-fold increase, which can be said to have surpassed the king of public chains, ETH. The recent airdrop launched by Jito, an ecological project on Solana, has pushed the Solana ecosystem to a new height.

On December 5, Jito Labs, a Solana ecosystem infrastructure project, introduced the airdrop qualifications and distribution rules for its token airdrop. Of the 100 million JTOs (10% of the total supply), 15% will be allocated to Jito-Solana validators; 5% to Jito MEV searchers; and 80% to JitoSOL users (who hold at least 100 points before November 25, 2023). The minimum for a single account is about 5,000, and the current price on BN is maintained at more than $3, which means that the income of a single account exceeds $15,000, breaking the single account record of this year's ARB airdrop.