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TON Enters the Telegram Era: The On-Chain Experiment of Super Apps is Unfolding

The TON token recently surged nearly 120% in 4 days, approaching $3. This rally is primarily driven by Telegram founder Pavel Durov's announcement that Telegram will become the core driver of the TON network, replacing the TON Foundation and serving as its largest validator. This move signals a fundamental shift: Telegram is no longer just supporting TON from a distance but is formally taking over its governance and operations. This changes TON's valuation narrative from being a crypto project with Telegram's user base to becoming the foundational blockchain infrastructure for Telegram's future commercial ecosystem—transitioning from a crypto narrative to an internet-platform-level story. TON's recent technical upgrades focus on 10x faster speeds, 6x lower fees, and near-instant confirmations. These optimizations target Telegram's internal high-frequency, micro-transaction scenarios like tipping, bot services, and Mini App purchases. The goal is to enable seamless, near-zero-cost transactions for its nearly 1 billion users, making blockchain usage almost invisible—akin to platforms like WeChat Pay. TON's path is unique: it already has a massive user base and is building the blockchain system to serve it, aiming to onboard users into Web3 without them realizing it. The vision is to integrate wallet, payment, bot, and Mini App functionalities into a closed loop within Telegram, positioning TON as the value-exchange infrastructure for a super-app. In essence, this surge reflects a market reassessment: TON is emerging as the first blockchain ecosystem with a genuine super-app gateway. Its true competitors may not be other Layer 1 blockchains but global internet payment systems. With Telegram now fully committed, the experiment of on-chaining a super-app is underway.

marsbit05/08 09:37

TON Enters the Telegram Era: The On-Chain Experiment of Super Apps is Unfolding

marsbit05/08 09:37

Stuck Polymarket: The Real Test After Riding the Traffic Boom Has Arrived

Polymarket, a leading prediction market platform, is facing significant technical challenges as its growth outpaces its current infrastructure on Polygon. Users are experiencing laggy transactions, unresponsive orders, and delayed confirmations, severely impacting the trading experience. In response, DeFi Engineering VP Josh Stevens outlined a comprehensive engineering overhaul. The plan includes reducing on-chain data delays, fixing order cancellation issues, rebuilding the central limit order book (CLOB), improving website performance, and developing a unified SDK and API. A major revelation was the ongoing "chain migration," indicating a potential move away from Polygon. The core issue is that Polymarket has evolved from a simple prediction market into a high-frequency trading platform, making Polygon's limitations—such as block space, gas fees, and block time—a ceiling for further growth. The migration is not just a simple chain switch but a fundamental rebuild of its trading system to support more complex products like perpetual contracts (Perps). This announcement has sparked competition among chains like Solana, Sui, and Algorand, all vying to host Polymarket. For Polygon, losing this key application, which contributes significantly to its gas fee revenue, would be a major setback. The real test for Polymarket is no longer attracting users but proving it can provide a stable, reliable trading environment that retains them.

Odaily星球日报04/27 03:19

Stuck Polymarket: The Real Test After Riding the Traffic Boom Has Arrived

Odaily星球日报04/27 03:19

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