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28 Apr 2024

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IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for FunC language gets major update

With the new update, the plugin has overtaken the Solidity plugin in terms of functionality and convenience:

— Syntax highlighting;

— Code completion;

— File templates;

— Goto declaration;

— Code formatting;

— Support not only FunC but also Fift and TL-B;

— Support for the latest FunC language updates;

The source code is open. We thank the author andreypfau for the excellent work.

Install FunC Plugin from IntelliJ catalog »

Happy coding ❤️

Hack-a-TON

Online Hack-a-TON with a prize fund of 40,000 TON will start on July 1 and will run for only 48 hours.

Unite in teams of up to 4 people and get ready for a brainstorm and the implementation of MVP in JavaScript.

More on @toncontests.

Today’s Cloudflare outage brought down a large portion of the internet

Luckily, a company that provides network services to millions of sites quickly fixed the problem.

The current internet has become quite fragile due to centralization and excessive corporate dominance. We wrote about this earlier, predicting that the number of such incidents will only increase.

We see the future of the global network in decentralization and blockchain technologies. TON has a chance to play a decisive role in this because TON is a decentralized metacloud.

Our vision is described in more detail in this article: https://telegra.ph/TON--The-metacloud-06-15

Introducing TON DNS

TON DNS is a service that allows users to assign a human-readable name to crypto wallets, smart contracts, and websites.

With TON DNS, access to decentralized services is analogous to access to websites on the internet.

Read all about this new TON component: https://telegra.ph/TON-DNS-06-30

Introducing TON Payments

TON Payments is a technology for micropayments and a micropayment channel network. It can be used for many instant off-chain value transfers between parties without network fees. Safeguards built into the system ensure that these transfers are as secure as on-chain transactions.

Read more: https://telegra.ph/TON-Payments-07-01

Mytonctrl update

TON has a very convenient tool for installing and maintaining a node or a validator.

Just take a server with the recommended hardware requirements and run one script.

The mytonctrl tool received a big update c83a3a:

New functionality
— Quick installation mode using dump download.
— Nominator pool support is now in the master branch with new improvements.
— Validators can now issue certificates for liteservers.

Improved work with wallets
— Added support for different wallet versions (v1, v2, v3) and wallet version detecting.
— Import & export wallet by address and private key.
— Now no restart is required to apply changes to wallets.

Stats improvement
— More info in the status command and more accurate calculation of indicators — e.g., TPS.
— Display of past elections, validators, and complaints.
— Improved telemetry (disks iops, network pps, uname, memory, swap).

Misc
— Refactoring.
— Miner removed.

Thank you to igroman787, the permanent maintainer of mytonctrl.
Over the last few months, we’ve received suggestions from prospective partners and TON miners to create a larger reserve of Toncoin to secure resources for chasing new and exciting top-tier partnerships and integrations.

We understand that further development of the TON ecosystem will require significant funding, and it’s great to see that large holders are ready to back it up.

Considering the above, we are announcing a formation of a new Toncoin reserve that will be focused on supporting new product integrations, community growth campaigns, and partnerships with the world’s best companies in the blockchain sphere and beyond.

Due to the increasing demand for security and to represent the specialized nature of that new reserve, we’ve created an address with a multi-sig wallet smart contract:

EQAhE3sLxHZpsyZ_HecMuwzvXHKLjYx4kEUehhOy2JmCcHCT

It’s empty now, but we expect that community members who have offered their assistance will participate in forming that reserve and help the TON ecosystem grow and prosper.

We invite all TON enthusiasts and large holders to make donations to the new reserve and support the further growth of the ecosystem.

Brilliant week for TON

The governments of Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) have all announced intentions to adopt cryptocurrency and blockchain-based solutions to drive economic progress. The three countries recently published separate press releases in which they outlined their initial thoughts on cryptocurrency and how they plan to integrate it into their respective economies. The countries mentioned that they are in discussions with The Open Network (TON) to help lunch their first crypto initiatives.

Press releases:

Republic of Cameroon - Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Democratic Republic of Congo - Ministry of Digital.

Republic of Congo - Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Huobi Incubator, Kucoin Ventures, MEXC Pioneer Fund, Others Lead $250M Toncoin Ecosystem Fund

toncoin.fund »

Technical comparison of TON with some other networks

As of 2022, TON Blockchain remains one of the few truly scalable blockchain projects. As such, it still is the most advanced blockchain project, capable of performing millions and, if becomes necessary in the future, tens of millions of true Turing-complete smart contract transactions per second, requiring only minor internal changes. TON still remaining at the cutting edge of general-purpose blockchain technology.

https://ton.org/comparison_of_blockchains.pdf

We welcome independent developers who are working on the implementation of the TON ADNL transport protocol in different programming languages, in addition to the original C++ implementation:

TypeScript - adnl-js

Rust - adnl-rs

Golang - tonutils-go

Kotlin - ton-kotlin/ton-adnl

We recommend to keep eye on them and join the development if you are interested.

The ADNL protocol and the built-in support for Merkle Proofs in TON - these technological solutions bring us closer to a full-fledged decentralized Internet. We will talk about this in more detail in the future articles.

We remind you that the recommended RAM size for the validator is 64 GB, the minimum is 32 GB.

If you are validating on hardware with less then 32 GB RAM - immediately stop sending new election requests (type command

set stake 0

in mytonctrl), you should not participate in subsequent elections until you improve the hardware.

This is a mandatory requirement for network stability.

The token data standard TIP-64 has been expanded, it is suitable not only for NFT but also for Jettons.

Please use the recommended token metadata fields.

Please note that the development of TON is fully migrated to the original https://github.com/ton-blockchain.

Use sources and submit PR's to this repository.

FunC programming language update

Useful update of the FunC programming language for writing smart contracts for TON.

List of new features »

TON Core Update 2022.05

Node

— Improved persistent state serialization - optimized memory usage; nodes start the serialization process now not at the same time.

— Improved peer-to-peer network stability and DDoS resistance.

— Improved lite-server DoS resistance for running get-methods.

— Initial node synchronization improved - nodes with low network speed and/or bad connectivity will synchronize faster and consistently.

— Fixed some theoretical edge cases in TVM arithmetic operations related to big numbers (2**63+).

— RocksDB updated to a newer version.

TonLib

— Support smart contract libraries.

— Get-methods completely fill

c7

Slice

arguments.

— Improved messages listing for transactions.

— Added extended block header params.

— Added

getConfig

method.

Misc

— Fixed rarely manifested bugs in

Asm.fif

.

— Lite-client supports base64 remote public key as CLI argument.

Thanks to all the contributors who participated in this update!

Mainnet validators please update your software to new version:

— in mytonctrl run

update

then

upgrade https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton

.

— if you don't use mytonctrl please manually rebuild code from master branch of https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton.

Update your validators one by one, don't update all at the same time.

New testnet

Developers usually test their products on a testnet (a separate network where coins have no value) before launching them on the mainnet.

This week TON testnet was completely relaunched on powerful hardware to increase its stability and responsiveness. Testnet API, explorers, wallets and other testnet infrastructure have been updated.

We launched the previous testnet exactly a year ago, when there were not so many developers. We are glad to see that now the number of TON developers has increased greatly, so that the previous testnet, launched on rather weak hardware, has ceased to cope with the load.

We remind you that you should follow the @tonstatus channel if you:

— TON network validator;
— developer of TON service;
— Toncoin is integrated into your product;

The @tonstatus channel posts important technical announcements and network updates.

Nominator pools

In the Q1 of this year, the first TON staking pools (nominator pools) were launched by the TonWhales team on their own smart contract. At the moment, users have staked more than 7.5M Toncoins in these pools!

Today we present an alternative version of the pool smart contract. This smart contract is natively integrated into the mytonctrl tool used by validators.

This means that now any validator can easily run their own pools and users can stake Toncoins into these pools.

The tonvalidators.org catalog has been created where validators can publish their pools, and users can find the most suitable pool for a stake.

tonvalidators.org »