Invest 100 thousand dollars in TON cryptocurrency and get a golden residency in the UAE for 10 years. This news is widespread on many platforms and social media. Let me tell you the story from start to finish.
🛂 Staking for residency
In early July 2025, the TON Foundation, in partnership with a company called Peravel, announced a service saying that if you put 100 thousand dollars of TON currency in staking for 3 years, you pay 35 thousand dollars in fees, and within 7 weeks, you will receive a golden UAE visa for you and your whole family.
This announcement was published on sites like U.Today and Coin Desk, making many people think that the UAE has started to recognize cryptocurrency as an official path for residency. But the truth is that UAE government entities have not announced any official law stating this, meaning it is just a marketing service from a broker, not an approved government program.
This means there might actually be companies facilitating the procedures and providing you with a visa if you invest money in crypto.
❌ But there is no UAE law saying give me TON tokens and get residency, and this is a very important point.
💸 Let's focus a bit on the currency's performance:
✅ In January 2025, the price was around 5.50 dollars for the token, and at that time everyone was optimistic about the integration with Telegram and its wallets.
✅ March 2025 dropped to around 4.20 dollars after the market decline in general, despite the increase in decentralized projects on the network.
✅ May and June: The decline continued, and the price reached around 2.85 dollars, and here the market began to doubt whether TON could withstand the pressures.
✅ This July, as soon as the visa story was published, the price quickly rose above 3 dollars because people wanted to buy, but it calmed down again around 2.89 dollars.
In short, the currency has dropped nearly half its value in 6 months, but the network is still active and has strong projects, especially the integration with Telegram which has given it a large audience.
🔥 Latest news and developments
Lightchain AI is a new project starting mid-July to accelerate transactions on the TON Network.
New DEXs, decentralized trading platforms like STON.fi and Tonstakers are gaining more popularity, which raises the level of activity.
Notcoin and Ton Games are games and point networks within Telegram that increase interaction and encourage users to hold the currency.
The market cap is currently around 7.2 billion dollars, still less than the FDV above 15 billion, meaning there are still risks if the remaining supply unlocks.
🎯 My honest opinion is if you intend to invest to get residency ✔ you must know that there is no federal UAE law guaranteeing this.
✔ You must check the intermediary and read the contract carefully.
✔ Don’t expect that the 4% annual return will cover the fees and the price drop.
And if you intend to invest as a long-term asset in TON.
❌ You must be able to withstand violent price fluctuations.
TON is a project worth following but not worth investing your money in just because of an announcement. Remember in crypto, everything could be a trap.
🌟 And this is just an analysis and opinion, not financial advice 😊👻
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