🚀 Breaking News: TON Foundation Names Maximilian Crown as CEO!

Maximilian Crown, the co-founder of fintech powerhouse MoonPay, is stepping in as CEO of TON Foundation, a major move as TON hits new heights.

With a track record of scaling MoonPay into a global crypto giant, Crown joins just as TON celebrates: 41M active accounts, 121M Toncoin holders, deeper integration with Telegram.

A new chapter begins. Welcome aboard, Max! 🙌
Check out the full press release for more details.

Qooverse: Web3 Game Studio
@PlayQoomon /
Qooverse is building their Ecosystem of Games inside the Telegram Mini-App.
Games are designed to be finished in seconds and enhance your social experience.
Stay tuned for some exciting collectibles. 🎮

Qooverse: Web3 Game Studio
@PlayQoomon /
Qooverse is building their Ecosystem of Games inside the Telegram Mini-App.
Games are designed to be finished in seconds and enhance your social experience.
Stay tuned for some exciting collectibles. 🎮

FanIO: Sports Arcade
@fan_io /
Fan.io is the next evolution of play-to-earn in Telegram. A set of prediction games specifically designed for enhancing customers experience of watching @NBA, @ICC_TODAY or any other sport. 🏀

Vooi: Derivatives Marketplace
@vooi_io /
Vooi allows users to trade any derivative powered by chain abstraction. With @OrderlyNetwork coming to TON in Q2, Vooi will provide a groundbreaking perp DEX experience inside the mini-app in Telegram. 🔢

Vooi: Derivatives Marketplace
@vooi_io /
Vooi allows users to trade any derivative powered by chain abstraction. With @OrderlyNetwork coming to TON in Q2, Vooi will provide a groundbreaking perp DEX experience inside the mini-app in Telegram. 🔢

As we are about to unveil Cohort_0.3, it's time to announce the projects selected for Cohort_0.2.

After 350+ high quality applications, hours of interviews and product deep dives, we are ready to show the 3 selected projects for the Cohort.

Cross Chain Synergy Cohort was announced back in November 2024, but took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to unveil.

We would like to thank our partners from Mantle Ecosystem Fund, TON Ventures, GSR and Bybit for all of the support!

Grably — Transform the future of AI with collective effort

Grably allows you to benefit from the AI boom without any specialized skills while helping top AI companies refine their models and enhance their products. The platform is easy to use—just upload your photos and videos to start monetizing your content.

💸 By completing simple tasks on Grably—whether it's taking a photo of your hand or recording a short happy video—you earn tokens that can later be exchanged for USDT.

The platform also ensures complete control and privacy over your data, using it only as training material for neural networks.

👩‍💻 It would be a mistake to think that Grably is only for regular users. At a time when many AI models are hungry for data, it gives AI teams access to zettabytes of high-quality, diverse, and previously inaccessible training data.

Take on your first task in Grably today and see how easily you can contribute to the growth of neural networks. 🤖

#web3 #web_apps

TON Accelerator X AdsGram

Launching an app on TON comes with unique challenges, and the cold start problem is one of the biggest. How do you attract the first wave of users and create momentum for growth? This is where AdsGram comes to the rescue.

With innovative ad formats and precise targeting, AdsGram has already helped projects overcome the most difficult initial hurdles. For example, Memetics has partnered with AdsGram to successfully launch their app allowing entities to create their mini economies, achieving 100k monthly users in a short period of time.

Here’s how AdsGram provides solutions:

▪️ Using formats like Task-Based Ads to drive user engagement through incentivized actions, ensuring that users interact with apps meaningfully by completing specific tasks such as installs, registrations, or in-app activities.

▪️ Using formats like Interstitial Ads to engage users without disrupting their experience, increasing visibility and interaction seamlessly within the app ecosystem.

▪️ Reaching key audiences, including wallet owners and VPN users, to directly target the most relevant users for Memetics’ Mini Economies and other Web3 applications.

▪️ Using a second-price auction model to optimise advertiser spend, making campaigns more effective, affordable, and performance-driven.

Together with AdsGram, we will be helping cohort projects every step of the way, ensuring they have a confident and successful user engagement journey.

From first click to sustained engagement, AdsGram provides the tools and expertise you need to succeed.

TON x LayerZero: Be Open with Cross-Chain Connectivity

TON has integrated LayerZero, a leading interoperability protocol, to connect with 100+ blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, and Tron. This integration merges LayerZero’s trusted messaging infrastructure with TON, enabling seamless cross-chain asset transfers. With LayerZero, TON gains enhanced liquidity and access to major crypto assets, driving broader adoption.

Several key partners are leveraging LayerZero’s infrastructure on TON including: 

▪️ USDT0: A new USDT that uses LayerZero’s OFT Standard for seamless cross-chain transfers between TON, Tron, Ethereum, and Arbitrum.
▪️ Ethena: Its flagship $5B asset USDe will be its first asset to go live on TON. 
▪️ Stargate: The largest cross-chain bridge enabling seamless conversion of USDT from Ethereum and Tron into USDt-TON.

Developers also benefit from OFT Standard for token deployment, smart contract interoperability, and FunC++ for efficient development. Learn more in our latest blog article!

💎Cohort_0.1 Deep Dive: Cabal Town (@CabalTown_bot)

Cabal Town is building the Social Monetization Layer for On-Chain Markets, enabling crypto influencers to monetize their edge while helping alpha seekers discover high-quality opportunities early!

Token Discovery Bottleneck
Paid platforms like Dexscreener create noise and not signal
No product suite that measures alpha quality provided by influencers
Influencers largely monetize by promoting tokens after their entry, often resulting misaligned incentives

Current Problems
Influencers: Current monetization heavily relies on exiting into trade calls
Traders: No reliable way to assess signal quality, resulting in blind following
Platforms: Existing discovery platforms focus on noise, and not quality

Cabal Town: Aligning Incentives with Social Trading
Influencers create Cabals where they can share alpha with members
Members can buy access to Cabals and Trade in the same interface
Reputation system ranks Cabals on alpha quality

Value Flow: Influencers
Choose a pricing mechanism for your Cabal Tokens
Earn Trading Fees on Cabal Token volume
Provide Trading alpha
Earn Trading Fees on volume generated of alpha
Maintain high quality alpha to build your Cabals reputation

Value Flow: Cabal Members
Transparently analyze Cabal performance
Join Cabals with the highest quality alpha
Trade on alpha in 2 clicks

Why Now?
Telegram is the biggest hub for trading discussions
Trading bots lack friendly UX and Social features
@friendtech proved the demand for social trading, but failed on UX

If you would like to try out Cabal Town:
Follow @cabaltown on X (https://x.com/cabaltown)
DM @cabaltown for an Invite Code
Try the app @CabalTown_bot