$TON
Is there anyone still thinking Toncoin is a meme? Ladies and gentlemen, the Ton Foundation has just recruited Nikola Plecas – the former CEO of Visa for the CEE region – as the Global Payments Strategy Director.
😮 What does that mean? It means TON is seriously aiming to make a significant impact on the global crypto payment market!
Who is Nikola Plecas?
• Previously led the cryptocurrency sector of Visa in Central and Eastern Europe
• Has experience building traditional payment networks linked with crypto
• Is well-versed in the relationship between banking – technology – decentralized finance
So what does TON need him for?
🧠 Very clearly:
• TON wants to use Telegram as the infrastructure to integrate crypto payments that are fast, cheap, and widely accessible, just like WeChat Pay does in China.
• They need someone who understands how to 'talk to the big traditional players' to systematically expand the payment ecosystem.
$TON is no longer a blockchain for 'developers coding for fun', but is aiming for the position of 'new financial infrastructure' in the ecosystem of over 900 million Telegram users.
📌 I am extremely focused on TON for 3 reasons:
1. The dev team has a 'strategic mindset' rather than being about hype coins
2. Integrate crypto wallets directly within the Telegram app – a better UX than current Web3 wallets
3. Continuously making moves to build infrastructure (TON DNS, TON Storage, etc.)
⏳ It is still early to confirm everything, but the move to invite Nikola Plecas is a strong statement that TON wants to 'play big'. And they are doing it very systematically.
👇 What do you think about the future of TON? Could this be a major twist in the Web3 payment market?