Recap - Telegram Night by The Open Network at Korea Blockchain Week

On Aug 8, TON Foundation Head of Incubation, Justin Hyun (@tonkongz), presented to a group of TON curious crypto natives, investors, and developers about The Open Network. Below are the highlights from the event:

🏋️‍♀️ Onboarded 78 new TON curious crypto natives to @wallet features on Telegram. Two lucky winners from a raffle won prizes of 200 and 800 TON. After the presentation, several teams with products on competing Layer-1s asked about the possibilities of building and deploying on TON.

😊 TON Alphanonce-VistaLabs Fund (2nd Ecosystem Fund on TON) announced a TON adoption entity, TON Ecosystem Builders (TEB). TEB aims to be what ConsenSys was for the early days of Ethereum. TEB announced the near-term (Sep-Oct) release of a differentiated wallet experience, in-wallet DEX, and more.

🤓 TEB announced a partnership with Ozys, a leading DeFi infrastructure provider in Korea with 40+ in-house developers. Ozys has a track record of building bridges and DEXs with combined TVL of $600M+ on competing Layer-1s. Ozys announced the near-term (Sep-Oct) release of a 3rd-party cross-chain bridge and AMM-based DEX.

😎 FS Labs, one of the core TON adoption entity, also had a great presence at the event. It was evident that blockchain knows no borders, and collaboration is crucial for a flourishing ecosystem like TON.

TON Society will have further presence in upcoming conferences and events, and we can't wait to share more exciting news with the TON community!

📣 Announcement - GetBlock hosts TON blockchain nodes

https://getblock.io/blog/ton-nodes-now-added-to-getblock-blockchain-network-stack/

GetBlock clients can leverage web3-driven technology with the help of TON while receiving 24/7 online support and constantly saving their time and money on unnecessary stress and fees.

Shared nodes are the perfect beginner solution for first-entry projects. Developers can experiment with their products under realistic conditions and provide the best-suited conditions for a successful dApp launch.

Dedicated nodes for TON are privately designed nodes backed up with an unlimited number of requests, a variety of server locations, and last but not least, unique node architecture tailored to meet each client’s individual requirements.

Get buidling 👨‍💻

😓 Updated TON Society GitHub Discussions Section

In response to the community's request for transparent grant recipient reporting, TON Society created a new Discussions section in GitHub.

- We will utilize Discussion section to further engage with grant recipients, applicants, and other interested parties
- June 2022 grant recipients and their details (project GitHub repo, milestones, project owner info, etc.) have been retrospectively updated
- July/August 2022 grant results will be published by Sep 2 (we will do our best to individually reach out to all projects re: decisions)

Additionally, TON Society will start holding regular Twitter Live sessions with featured guests/topics and AMA slot at the end. The first Twitter Live is scheduled for Aug 30 - we will provide more details in the coming days.

Stay tuned for a chance to win some TON!

📣 TON Society's First Twitter Spaces on Aug 30 & TON raffle

We are excited to announce a bi-weekly* TON Society Twitter Spaces, with guest speakers and an open platform to ask any TON Society related questions. See below for more details:

Date: August 30, 2022
Time: 4PM GMT
Where: Twitter Spaces
Hosts: Lara V @Lara_DXB (TF Head of Comm), Justin Hyun @tonkongz (TF Head of Incubation)
Guest Speakers: Tal Kol @talkol (TON key dev contributor and founder of Orbs), Shlomi Gibly @dieenabler (marketing manager at Fanzee)
Topics: Big vision of TON, importance of decentralization, best security practice for when joining a project, and why Fanzee chose to accelerate on TON for these reasons

So how do you enter into the raffle for two 50 TON prizes?

😎 It's simple:
1. Make sure to follow @ton_society on Twitter prior to the start of Twitter Spaces on Aug 30
2. Re-tweet this post 🫡
2. Make sure you are present in the Twitter Spaces session when we open the floor up for live community questions

You will have a chance to be picked during each bi-weekly session, if you met the criteria but did not previously win.

@talkol will also generously award two other luck winners TON Punks (worth ~280 TON) if they follow the steps above. So tell your friends and networks to join us!

We can't wait to vibe with you all on Twitter!

*subject to change

Hey, Society!

We received lots of applications for grants (amazing) and now we are overwhelmed with the number of requests 😅 So, if you have not heard from us, please keep tight — we are getting to your request.

In the meantime, we received lots inquires for clarification and help in drafting a meaningful application. We developed a new form to submit a request for such help via GitHub.

It is available at: https://github.com/ton-society/grants-program/issues/new?template=support_request.yaml

Please feel free to utilize if you have any doubts figuring out any component(s) of your grant request. We are all ears for applications that benefit the community and ecosystem. However, please do note that these applications are open and transparent, so the community will be able to see your concerns (and hopefully address them and help you by answering some questions as well). 🏋️‍♀️

TON Foundation is announcing a reward program to incentivize community activity and engagement on StackOverflow. We want to help the community build a TON knowledge library on StackOverflow so that any developer can ask and answer questions about TON. We want to build this on StackOverflow for several reasons:

Strong search engine optimization, which translates to better search engine results

StackOverflow dominates web search results. When any developer (from TON-curious to TON-native) uses Google to search, we want them to find an answer efficiently on the first page. We cannot expect TON to become a leading layer-1 blockchain without such a knowledge-base optimization.

Reuse old answers to help new people

Developers are usually struggling with similar issues and problems. We want to avoid a scenario where developers get stuck and ask a previously answered question if they can find an archived answer easily.

Questions asked on developer chats get washed down the drain

Most of the TON dev community is asking questions in the various Telegram chat groups. Questions asked there get buried in the chat stream. It becomes difficult to search for old answers and all the valuable knowledge does not get archived for later efficient search.

Here is the concept:

1. Every first working day of the month, we will reward with Toncoin and special NFTs the top 10 most active people who answer questions and the top 3 questions* for the trailing 30-days with the TON tag from the dashboard.
*Please note that the top winners will be subject to post-moderation in order to prevent cheating.

2. Use only the [TON] tag — please, do not add any sub-tags. Avoid creating sub-tags that will branch out the taxonomy. For example, do not add [func], [fift], [toncli], etc. We want to concentrate all efforts in the same place to reach the critical mass faster. We will encourage the use of [TON] tag + specific word search in the title. Thus, questions should have a comprehensive title that covers the respective topic(s).

3. To participate and get rewarded in the program, you need to log in to a special bot through your StackOverflow account. The bot will let the TON Foundation team know the wallet addresses of the top authors to reward them. It will be available in the second half of September. Starting now, you may answer and ask questions, and log in to the bot later.

The Toncoin amount will be determined by the position. 1,020 TON will be awarded among the top 10 answers:

1. 300 TON
2. 200 TON
3. 100 TON
4. 90 TON
5. 80 TON
6. 70 TON
7. 60 TON
8. 50 TON
9. 40 TON
10. 30 TON

And 120 TON for the top 3 questions:

1. 60 TON
2. 40 TON
3. 20 TON

Let’s grow the TON database of knowledge together 🤗