📢 KTON targets $6.12B liquid staking opportunity on TON, tapping Telegram’s 950M users💧

KTON, an institutional-grade liquid staking protocol incubated by TONX, the leading TON-focused venture studio backed by top VC firms from the Asia-Pacific region, is gearing up for its V1 launch in February 2025. 🚀

🟣 @TONX, which recently unveiled a $5M accelerator program to foster innovation within the TON and Telegram ecosystem, is behind @TONXAPI, the leading developer platform trusted by Blum, Catizen, Google Cloud, and over 20 leading projects. TONX is also the force behind Tonkey, a multisig solution managing $400M in assets and adopted by the TON Foundation.

KTON is set to enter the United States and global markets, bringing its enterprise-grade liquid staking solution to institutional and retail users.

Details: https://x.com/TONX_Studio/status/1882850637173657934

🔗 Press release on Cointelegraph

🔗 Read more on our blog

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#KTON #PoweredbyTONX

💎 Bitcoin Meets 💎TON: The tgBTC Minting Journey

What happens when Bitcoin collides with the TON blockchain? With the recent tgBTC relaunch on TON testnet, I explored the minting process firsthand—diving into cross-chain transactions, UTXO mechanics, and large-scale Bitcoin transactions.

From acquiring Signet BTC to executing a 1449 UTXO mega transaction, this journey was filled with technical challenges, unexpected experiments, and valuable insights.

Here’s what I learned. 👇

https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1885234393184428366

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Cypherpunks Taiwan Relaunched: A New Era for Privacy, Freedom, and Decentralization

⚡️Cypherpunks Taiwan relaunched on March 31st at Tempo House, Taipei, hosted by @drawesomedoge , aiming to spark dialogue on privacy, decentralization, and digital autonomy.

⚡️The event drew over 60 participants, including developers, academics, and government reps, highlighting a growing community focused on digital freedom.

⚡️Key speakers included Dr. Awesome Doge, Max Wu of @hackmdio, Richard Lin of @kaiyuanshe, and Neil Lee of EchoX, discussing encryption, censorship-free collaboration, and balancing privacy with regulation.

⚡️A notable dialogue between Legislator @dAAAb and Peter of @planb_network covered policy, cybersecurity, and innovation, energizing the crowd.

⚡️Plan B Network gifted @Blockstream hardware wallets, offering attendees a practical tool to secure digital assets.

⚡️Cypherpunks Taiwan, active since 2019, has a history of impactful projects like building one of Asia’s only Bitcoin satellite receivers in Taipei.

⚡️The group has previously hosted figures like Samson Mow of @Blockstream and Charlie Lee of @litecoin, reinforcing its role in Asia’s cypherpunk movement.

Read More : https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1908535979763523733

✈️ Excited to return to the stage at Web3 Festival Hong Kong 2025!

Last year (April 8, 2024), I presented the TON blockchain roadmap on behalf of the TON Core dev team and introduced @TONXAPI, powering innovation across the entire ecosystem.

This year, I'm thrilled to unveil @TONX's latest innovation KTON —our Institutional-Grade TON Liquid Staking Protocol (LST V2)—the essential infrastructure set to unlock massive liquidity and fuel the next wave of DeFi on TON. 🌊🔥

Join me from 16:05-16:20, and let's build the future of decentralized finance together!

#TON #TONX #LiquidStaking #Web3FestivalHK

https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1909109668464763164

🕵️‍♂️ Spotted something curious on-chain. P2P.org's new $TON staking pool seems to be struggling—despite a massive 1.8M $TON deposit from a whale, it failed to deliver optimal staking returns. 👀

Let’s walk through what happened, and unpack a few key lessons about staking on TON. 🔺

Read more: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1915276045974200343

⛏💎 TON Staking’s Forgotten Stories: Memories of an Early Miner

I started mining $TON back in 2021—built my own rig and everything.

That journey led me to join NEWTON, now known as the TonCore Team.

People often ask me: "Wasn’t TON a PoS chain? Where did the 5B $TON early supply come from? Who mined them—and how?"

Here’s the untold story from the early days 👇
https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1918263365107106204

From 💎 Bitcoin to 💎 TON— A 17-Year Blockchain Odyssey

Just wrapped up National Chengchi University’s FinTech Summit — 200+ students, amazing energy & sharp questions.

Here’s my 17-year journey — from “What’s Bitcoin?” to building TON blockchain & TONX.

🧵 Read more: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1920436906569183723

Many people ask me:

Why am I building institutional-grade liquid staking for TON?

My answer is simple.

From solo mining Bitcoin in 2013 to running TON nodes over the past 4 years, I’ve always believed validators carry a sacred mission — they are the silent guardians of our networks.

Now, as TON enters its next phase, it needs something essential.

Someone has to do it.

💎 Read the full story: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1943242607574028306

TON Core June 2025 Technical Update, Explained

— by Dr. Awesome Doge, Scientist at TON Core 💎

The June 2025 upgrade marks one of the most pivotal moments in TON’s evolution. With the long-anticipated Accelerator branch now merged into mainnet, TON gets faster, smarter, and more powerful at its very core.

In this post, I’ll break down what’s actually changed — no code, no hype — just why this matters for users, developers, and the network as a whole.

🐶 Read more: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1947311994757173624

💎 5 Major Breakthroughs from TON Core's 2025 H1 Progress

TON blockchain finally achieved the architecture from the original Telegram whitepaper.

These upgrades are game-changers for validators, developers, and builders.

As an early TON Core member, here are my key takeaways: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1953796336786321479

Happy 1⃣2⃣ Birthday, ✉Telegram! 🎂🎉

From 2013 to 2024, Telegram has reshaped how the world connects. Here’s a crisp year-by-year salute to the milestones that brought us here:

2013 — Launch. A new messenger built on speed, privacy, and an open API ethos.
2014 — Secret Chats and stronger privacy controls set a new bar for secure messaging.

2015 — Channels arrive for one-to-many broadcasting; Bot API and Stickers unleash a creator economy.
2016 — Supergroups and advanced moderation scale communities into the thousands.
2017 — End-to-end encrypted voice calls make private calling mainstream.
2018 — Telegram Passport debuts for seamless, reusable identity verification.
2019 — Animated stickers (.tgs) deliver crisp, lightweight expression.

2020 — 2GB file sharing, Voice Chats, and one-to-one video calls keep people close at a distance.
2021 — Group video, screen sharing, and live streams to massive audiences push real-time collaboration forward.
2022 — Telegram Premium launches; Topics organize giant groups; collectible usernames arrive via TON/Fragment.
2023 — Stories land, giving creators and communities a fresh, daily format.
2024 — Stars power in-app digital goods; channel ad revenue sharing rolls out (settled in TON); USDT launches on TON with seamless Wallet transfers inside chats.

🤑TON × 🤑USDT × ✉Telegram Mini Apps — making crypto feel as simple as sending a message

- Peer-to-peer payments: Send and receive USDT on TON right inside Telegram Wallet—no addresses or friction.

- Creator & community income: Channel owners earn ad revenue settled in TON, turning audiences into sustainable businesses.

- Developer monetization: Mini Apps can sell digital goods with Stars and settle in Toncoin or use USDT via Wallet—instant checkout, global reach.

- Everyday utility: From shopping and games to tickets and services, Mini Apps + TON rails bring Web3 to everyday life.

To Telegram:
Happy 1⃣2⃣ Thank you for making private, fast, and open communication the default—while bridging messaging, payments, and commerce. Here’s to the next 12 years of building the internet’s most useful social + economic network. 🚀

💎🏦 In 2025, institutions finally see TON's true potential.

No longer just a blockchain —
It's Telegram's economic layer, powering the billion-user digital economy.

Since 2021, TONX has built trusted institutional infra.
Now, with KTON, we’re onboarding them.

✉️ Read my full letter — why 2025 is TON's institutional moment, our 4-year story, and what's next: https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1956259763790176469

Let's #MakeTONGreatAgain 🚀

💎 $TON DAT + Staking = The Ultimate Dual Flywheel 🚀

“With staking yields of 4–5%, @tonstrat can generate ~$30M in annual cash flow,” revealed Manuel Stotz of the first and only $TON treasury company.

📈 Predictable yields → better P&L → higher stock valuation

How it works? New thread 🧵
https://x.com/drawesomedoge/status/1958875432029495676

#TON #DAT #Treasury #Staking