📈 A wonderful month for The Open Network: the biggest names in the venture capital industry have invested over 400 million USD in TON and publicly supported it. Among them are the legends of Silicon Valley: Sequoia, Benchmark, Ribbit, Draper, VY, and other world-renowned funds 💸

🪙 Over the past year, TON has become the backbone of the creator economy on Telegram. It is the only withdrawal method for millions of content creators and mini app developers, as well as the only way to pay for Telegram ads in most countries. All Telegram-related assets — from usernames to digital gifts — can only be traded as TON-based NFTs, and Telegram's mini apps only use TON as their blockchain. The in-app economy of Telegram is booming in volume, driven by constant innovation — such as the Star Messages feature we launched earlier this month, a rapid success only comparable to the tokenized gifts introduced in January 🎁

⛏️ Furthermore, The Open Network remains the only blockchain technology built to scale — with sharding and transaction processing capabilities for billions of users. It is one of the few blockchain networks with true, fundamental value. I am not surprised that the smartest people on the planet are supporting TON 🚀