Pavel Durov
@durov
Founder, CEO at @telegram (2013), founder, ex-CEO of @vkontakte (2006), part-time troll.
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🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy. Most importantly, fully AI-ready.
It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one dev flow. Start building!
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TON is #1# in annual staking rewards among the 50 largest cryptocurrencies.
That’s on top of the coin’s price growth, which doubled this week.
Telegram becoming TON’s largest validator strengthens decentralization.
It lets other major players join the validator pool without centralizing the network — with Telegram as the counterbalance.
📈 More and more TON gets locked in validation as everyone competes for 20%+ APR.
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Fees in TON have dropped 6× — to nearly zero.
Next step — Telegram replaces the TON Foundation as the driving force behind TON and becomes its largest validator.
The focus shifts to tech superiority.
New new dev tools, new performance upgrades.
Timeline: 2-3 weeks.
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41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.
Why?
🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.
Now the state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.
More data = More victims.
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⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load.
🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. MTONGA!
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WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will 🤝
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The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster.
Block rate increased 6×.
Transactions are now instant, subsecond.
This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA).
Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×.
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