In the past year, the TON ecosystem has achieved unprecedented breakthrough growth, with the number of users surging to 13.37W, the number of monthly active wallets reaching 12.40W, and the total locked value (TVL) jumping to US$773 million... The booming development has attracted the attention of industry professionals and also made us see the infinite potential of the emerging ecosystem. Against this background, the [Four Cities Tour Salon: TON Ecosystem Growth Practice] series of offline activities hosted by TON and TinTinLand and co-organized by TONX and Tonsquare has received attention and support from Web3 enthusiasts at home and abroad since its launch in October 2024.
In order to further gather Web3 enthusiasts who are concerned about the TON ecosystem to join the ecological exploration, the TON Four-City Tour Salon Shenzhen Station was successfully held on January 12! The guests of this station invited Kenny, the head of growth in the Asia-Pacific region of the TON ecosystem, Flames, the head of DeFi and infrastructure, Dr. Awesome Doge, co-founder of TONX, Andrew, the head of developer relations in the Asia-Pacific region of TON, Jason, co-founder of Televerse, Amy, the head of KaBoom and KaTon marketing, Joanna, the head of TonGifts marketing, Timi, the head of Web3Labs investment, Maruo, the head of Tradoor BD , and Allen, the co-founder of StarAI, to discuss the innovative advantages and market application potential of the TON ecosystem. Let us review the highlights of the Shenzhen station event together!
📨 Rapid growth, TON Mini Program releases strong application potential
Kenny, the head of growth in the Asia-Pacific region of TON Ecosystem, vividly demonstrated the vibrant ecosystem of TON Mini Programs. From the end of 2023 to the end of 2024, in just one year, the number of mini programs in the TON ecosystem has exploded, from 100+ to 1000+, covering multiple tracks such as mini games, short videos, social networking, and cloud storage . In addition, organic wine reservations, shared power banks, taxi services and other projects have been settled in, fully releasing the application expansion potential of the TON ecosystem and helping the large-scale market growth of the ecosystem.
📊 The technical path for the rapid linkage of "blockchain-wallet-applet"
When talking about the rapidly developing application ecosystem, Kenny pointed out that the efficient interaction between "blockchain-wallet-applet" has pushed TON to a faster development track. In the future, the TON ecosystem will continue to look for new growth points , including game audio, social and entertainment products, MeMe, the next generation of DeFi products, simplified DeFi solutions and BTCFi, etc.
📊 “Narrative, Capital, Users, Developers”
Leading the trend of ecological iteration
In addition, "TON will further improve SDK integration when optimizing applications in the future, use pre-built tools and libraries to improve development efficiency, and officially support and update functions and security patches; the one-click deployment framework uses Cocos's exclusive customization process to ensure the underlying compatibility between different platforms and improve the stability of game operation; provide a high-performance adaptation operating environment when the mini-game is running, suitable for relatively complex scenes and animations, and extend the user experience time through low power consumption, and optimize the interface and mechanism ," Kenny shared. With the goal of "narrative, capital, users, and developers" as the theme, let us look forward to the new surprises of the TON mini-program ecosystem in 2025.
📨 Uncovering the advantages of TON DeFi ecosystem: user-friendliness of convenient interaction
In addition to the booming development of the mini-program ecosystem, another rapidly developing area of the TON ecosystem in 2024 is DeFi . Flames, head of DeFi and infrastructure, shared with us how to use TON DeFi to unlock the technical path of liquidity for billion- user applications. When we start the technical exploration of the Web3 industry, we first need to clarify the current rapid growth of infrastructure. The technical hotspots of wallets, bridges, oracles, interoperability and other sectors guide us to find market gaps to activate user liquidity.
📊 Basic DeFi protocol optimization, digital asset application quality upgrade
At present, the DeFi protocols of TON ecosystem include DEX, LSD, derivatives, launchpad, etc. Compared with other public chains, TON's TVL value and TPS processing speed are in a relatively advanced position . Talking about the development strategy of DeFi, Flames pointed out: "TON continues to strengthen the basic DeFi protocol. CFMM, CLMM, CDP, etc. will make up for the lack of basic protocols; expand the EXtended protocol to increase the use scenarios of Tokens, and further increase capital efficiency by superimposing DeFi Lego; launch a simple DeFi gameplay for Telegram users to achieve more significant conversion effect goals, and bring more tgBTC using the official cross-chain bridge solution. "
📊 Share team operation secrets and explore innovative project development plans
At the same time, Flames also shared the team operation secrets behind the rapid development of the project, forming partners with outstanding product capabilities, market capabilities, and operational capabilities to jointly develop innovative projects from the perspective of user acquisition, and through the TOL Development League and TF DeFi long-term incentive plan, he is committed to opening up a new project landscape . Just as an application he shared on the spot embodies the characteristics of user-friendliness and simple interaction, it greatly improves playability while also having the application attributes of middleware integration.
In addition, tgBTC will become the core asset of TON BCTFi, supporting BTC asset types that are cross-chain or swapped by other protocols (such as FBTC, LBTC, SolvBTC, etc.) . After a long-term income incentive development plan, it will provide additional incentives for more use cases, support high-quality early products, build protocols to obtain higher APY, and reach longer-term development goals. In the first quarter of 2025, the TON Global BTCFi Hackathon will be launched . All interested developers are welcome to actively participate and join the team that deeply cultivates the TON ecosystem!
📨 Easy to get started with the TON ecosystem, a review of the development guide
In order to guide more developers interested in the TON ecosystem to master the paths and skills of practical development, Andrew, head of TON developer relations in Asia Pacific, shared the TON ecosystem development guide with us.
📊 Explore TON contract asynchronous calls and parallel processing technology paths
Andrew started with the difficulties of getting started with TON ecosystem development, and analyzed technical concepts such as asynchronous message mode, native account abstraction, stable gas quotation, Cells and TL-B. Among them, TON contract asynchronously calls and parallel processing of user public and private key status, running consensus, etc. have become important advantages for ecosystem development, and have technical advantages that Ethereum contract synchronously calls serial transactions that do not have.
📊 Welcome the opportunities and challenges of 2025, TON ecosystem is ready to go
Compared with other smart contract programming languages, the Fact language that TON can choose to rely on has rich documentation and is easy to get started with, which allows many developers to fully experience the entry-level friendliness of the TON ecosystem. Looking to 2025, Andrew believes that TON will continue to develop infrastructure, developer relations, TVL, oracles, and seize opportunities in the DeFi track (PayFi, GameFi, StarFi, PointFi, SocialFi) .
📨 Redefining the TON Ecosystem: TONX Rapid Market Expansion Guide
From a more core ecological technology forward-looking standpoint, TONX co-founder Dr. Awesome Doge vividly explained the technical route and blockchain design of TON Core in 2024. The current TONX API is redefining the TON ecosystem with simple speed and scale. With a huge scale covering 30+ countries and regions in the world, 383+ validators, and a total share of 648,071,475 TON , TON's growth rate in the past 6 months has been very gratifying.
📊 Audit and bug bounty programs completed, dozens of hardware upgrades
So far, TON has completed dozens of technical hardware and project development actions, including audit and bug bounty programs, site and browser design, ledger hardware wallet integration, FunC new version development, TVM ZK mainnet update, new sharding guide tool, etc., and technical updates such as wallet voting interface optimization, network voting and abstention, new signature standards, smart contract interface standards, TL-B user-friendly format and generator are in progress.
📊 Covering a wider Web3 market and creating integrated development tools
"In the face of a number of innovative advantages, data is the most persuasive. TON has now surpassed Near and Sui, and has become the ninth largest blockchain in terms of USDT circulation, with a score close to Solana's 770 million USDT ," said Dr. Awesome Doge. In this process, TONX has never stopped moving forward, and is committed to developing into a platform layer suitable for the 950M user ecosystem. Led by the TON core development team and founding members, it supports 20 leading projects with 25 million users, adapts to 99.99% of the super APP running time, develops Layer2, games, emojis, transmission, DeFi, wallets, data analysis and other multi-sector projects, and will promote BoC verification technology in the future. Through detection, conversion and other segmented technical content, TONX's market application capabilities will be enhanced, and more integrated development tools will be supported and created . Let us wait and see!
📨 Conclusion
After the theme sharing session, a roundtable discussion on the theme of "Future Outlook of TON Ecosystem" was launched. Televerse co-founder Jason, KaBoom and KaTon marketing director Amy, TonGifts marketing director Joanna, Web3Labs investment director Timi, Tradoor BD director Maruo and StarAI co-founder Allen discussed the technological evolution, ecological layout and future trends of the TON ecosystem.
At the Shenzhen stop, the [TON Ecosystem Growth Practice] four-city tour salon also came to an end. Starting from October 2024, the TON ecosystem will travel through Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Shenzhen with new highlights of technological upgrades, providing developers, partners, and industry enthusiasts with opportunities for in-depth communication and cooperation. Nearly a thousand people talked about the opportunities and difficulties of technology development at the event site, looking for new opportunities for the development of the Web3 industry. Looking forward to the new year of 2025, TON will continue to promote technological breakthroughs including the TON Teleport BTC mainnet and Society DAO with the goals of decentralization, practicality, and large-scale applications , while accelerating development in the fields of GameFi, payment, and DeFi to fully unleash the potential of blockchain.
