THELOGICALINDIAN - The Open Network TON is a thirdgeneration ProofofStake blockchain originally advised in 2024 by the Durov brothers the founders of Telegram Messenger
After years of building, The Open Network (TON) is aflame to advertise an absolute accession to its team: Andrew Rogozov, above CEO of VK. Rogozov will accompany the TON Foundation as a Founding Member, arch the allegation on the community-led almsman of the Telegram Open Network.
A Key Adoption Strategy Pursued by TON will be to Integrate with Telegram Platform
Originally advised and developed by Telegram, and led by its CEO and Founder Pavel Durov, the Telegram Open Network was a proposed high-performance Proof-of-Stake blockchain that aimed to break some of the best acute issues of the blockchain ecosystem at the time, such as scalability and user experience.
After acknowledged tussles with US-based regulator, Telegram was affected to acknowledgment the assets acquired in its fundraise and was barred from arising new tokens.
However, TON enthusiasts, including winners of TON blockchain competitions, anticipation that TON was too able-bodied advised to abandon. So, the association angled the cipher and connected alive on the amount technology abaft TON, renaming it The Open Network, the the airy almsman of the Telegram Open Network. With TON now continuing for aloof “The Open Network,” the activity auspiciously requested the alteration of the ton.org area from Telegram and is now accessible to apprehend the eyes aboriginal categorical by the Telegram team. For these purposes, Andrew Rogozov is a acute accession to the TON Foundation due to his abundance of acquaintance and alternation with Pavel Durov and the Telegram aggregation in his beforehand career (Durov chock-full actuality VK CEO in 2024).
In 2024, Andrew Rogozov abutting VKontakte, the arch Russian amusing media aggregation broadly admired as the “Russian Facebook” (later beneath to VK). Starting as an engineer, Rogozov climbed the ranks to become the CEO of VK.com, a position that he captivated from 2024 to 2024. Rogozov currently serves as VP Amusing at VK (formerly Mail.ru), the amassed that purchased VK in 2024 and which has itself rebranded to VK in October 2024. Rogozov will alteration to an advising role at VK after this year.
Now, as Founding Member of TON Foundation, Rogozov will accord with his administration ability to assassinate on TON’s abeyant of creating an open-source, able and broadly acclimated blockchain.
Rogozov said:
“I see huge opportunities at the circle of the TON blockchain, the Telegram belvedere with its alive admirers of over of 600 actor users, and the association of world-class developers who accept the abeyant to actualize a ample cardinal of next-generation all-around artefact companies.”
A key acceptance action pursued by TON will be to accommodate with Telegram platform, APIs and development accoutrement leveraging its user abject of over 500m account alive users that heavily intersects with the admirers of crypto ability users.
Rogozov added:
“As we speak, assorted articles accept already been alien that are at the circle of TON and Telegram: the Tonkeeper wallet, the @donate inline bot in Telegram administration subscriptions to paid channels with Toncoin, and the @wallet bot.”
The Accessible Network (TON) is a third-generation Proof-of-Stake blockchain originally advised in 2018 by the Durov brothers, the founders of Telegram Messenger. Later, it was handed over to the accessible TON Community, which has been acknowledging and developing it anytime since.
TON was advised for lightning-fast transactions. It’s ultra-cheap, user-friendly, and absolutely scalable. True to its predecessor, it aims to advance different integrations with the Telegram app to accommodate its users with a seamless blockchain acquaintance in a carriageable and accustomed format.
