TON

A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

## Overview TON is a layer-1 blockchain network originally developed by Telegram and now maintained and evolved by its community. The network was designed with a specific mandate: to create the technical and economic infrastructure needed to bring 500 million users onto blockchain infrastructure. Unlike many blockchain projects that optimize for maximum decentralization or fastest transaction speeds in isolation, TON was architected around the practical constraints of onboarding mainstream users—people who expect reliability, low fees, simple interfaces, and the ability to use blockchain tools