• The Ton Blockchain has exploded over the past few months, thanks to the team’s involvement in the trend of play-to-earn clicker games.
  • The team, in collaboration with Tonkeeper, has developed a new Smart Wallet standard to improve several ecosystem features.
  • Users can now send and receive USDT on the network without owning Notcoin, improving the onboarding process for new participants. 
  • The Wallet Standard will support improved security features such as 2FA and new password recovery mechanisms.

The TON blockchain has witnessed an influx of people joining the ecosystem thanks to the network’s success in hosting several powerhouse GameFi titles. Apps like Hamster Kombat and Notcoin have secured millions of daily users within mere months, as users capitalise on the play-to-earn mechanic of such games. 

The development team continues to be hard at work, leveraging this success to create an open and interoperable Web3 ecosystem for all. The latest feature, a W5 Smart Wallet Standard, is set to improve scalability while supporting gasless transactions on the blockchain.

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Notcoin No Longer Required to Participate in TON’s Ecosystem

Tonkeeper, one of the most popular self-custody wallets on the TON blockchain, teamed up with the Ton Core team to release the new W5 standard. In essence, the update will allow the community to pay transaction fees using USDT (when sending USDT), and USDT or Notcoin when sending Notcoin. 

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The improvement means that TON users won’t need to use Toncoin to engage with the blockchain’s growing list of popular decentralised applications. This makes it easier to onboard new participants who may hold plenty of Tether’s stablecoin, but don’t necessarily want to jump through the hoops of buying a new crypto asset.

The new wallet standard will also come with a range of security enhancements to ensure a safe blockchain environment for all.

The new W5 Smart Wallet is all about helping make TON transactions even more social, helping to bring about mass adoption…The Smart Wallet will bring 2-factor-authorisation, password recovery and gasless fees, paid in USDT, making getting started on TON easy for anyone.

TON Technical Lead Anatoliy Makosov

Toncoin Ranked as the Ninth Biggest Coin on Crypto Market

Toncoin has come from the clouds to now sit in the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap, overtaking heavyweights like Cardano and Avalanche. Within the past year, TON has climbed a whopping 370% and is now valued at over AU $10. 

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The announcement of the new Smart Wallet saw a minor uptick in price over the past 12 hours – however, the token is still enduring a rough week, down 8.5% over the past seven days.  

TON, weekly chart, source: CoinMarketCap

This slowdown in performance appears to be a small roadblock on TON’s journey to becoming a top DeFi ecosystem.