“I don’t think NFT stickers are MTONGA’s fourth step”; “Perhaps they (Telegram) will focus on gifts first, and only then on stickers” — Lukáš Benda, Product Owner at Goodies
An enthusiast conducted an on-chain investigation and discovered that the Tonnel Market team has earned around $4 million, whilst a total of $96 million has passed through the trading platform.
He also published an investigation into Portals — $168 million in total, with $5 million withdrawn to an exchange.
TON News Roundup: • tsTON staking is now available on TONCO with an annual yield of 92% • The owner of Tonnel Market has not renewed their TON domain, and an auction for it has now begun. The Webdom service offers an automatic domain renewal feature • Getgems and TAC have issued statements regarding the recent hacks • Tonstakers and Goodies discussed during a livestream whether stickers are the next step for MTONGA
Anatoly Makosov, co-founder of $TON Core, on his channel:
“Telegram recently became the largest TON validator, with a share of around 17%.
Today, there are around 400 validators on the network, and the total stake exceeds 1.15 billion TON. Among those who have made public announcements about launching validators are Blockchain(.)com, Pantera Capital, Kiln, Animoca Brands, P2P(.)org, Bastion Digital and others.”
There has been a spate of hacks on TON: • Offers containing fake USDT were sent out on Getgems. The fraudulent offers have now been removed and the ability to accept any remaining offers has been disabled. • The TAC protocol was likely hacked, with $3 million worth of USDT, BLUM and tsTON stolen.
$TON Strategy Company has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2026, reporting that it holds 4.29% of all Toncoins (worth approximately $272 million), has generated $3 million in staking revenue, and has appointed a new CEO.
Vladimir Smerkis, co-founder of Blum, former head of Binance in the CIS, and a player in other projects, just got hit with a five-year sentence over a case of ad fraud in the crypto space.
TonTech has launched an open Q&A forum for developers — anyone can ask a question and receive an answer, and more complex issues may be addressed in separate posts.
🦄 $TON over the past two weeks: restructuring of the TON Foundation, new TON integration in Telegram (Emoji Stake), three trading competitions on Binance and MEXC, on-chain trading volumes exceeding $50 million per day, a price increase of almost 100%, and a resurgence in community activity.
💻 Telegram has increased the prize fund for the design competition from $50,000 to $75,500 and announced a second round for the winners, offering them the chance to join the Telegram team.
Key $TON news: ✈️ Telegram has added a gambling game on TON based on a dice emoji. ✈️ Pavel Durov advertised his channel directly within the Telegram interface and gained over 1 million subscribers in just a few hours. 💎 Notcoin is now trading on Aster DEX. 🎁 MRKT has announced a competition for animators offering 500 TON.
💎 What’s happening on $TON • The TON price has risen by 25% over the past 24 hours • DEX trading volume on TON stands at $36 million over the past 24 hours. Eight out of the top 10 tokens on Geckoterminal (a data aggregator) are TON tokens • $TAC is now trading on KuCoin • Pavel Durov has declared that TON’s days of glory are inevitable
A group of individuals calling themselves MTONGA has taken control of the official $TON website!
Previously, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced the MTONGA movement and TON Foundation employees lost their verification mark on Telegram and Telegram spent 90M on validating TON!