ANON runs as a recurring project-discovery arena rather than a typical news or trading channel: every few days it stages an "ANON START" battle between two early-stage Telegram or TON mini-apps, lets the community vote on which one they would actually keep using, and closes the round with a written "ANON Score" out of 100 built from criteria like relevance, UX, stability, clarity of the idea, and how well the team responded to feedback. Between May 19 and June 14, 2026 alone it ran five such episodes, each with a launch post and a results post — DEKI (a streaming layer inside Telegram) versus Catallaxy (an on-chain TON marketplace for digital goods), TON Gate (NFT-gated access for Discord) versus TeleGifts (a market-data tool for the Telegram Gifts market), Serious Face (an AI headshot generator) versus Ferey Channel App (an AI/Web3 tool for channel owners), and so on. Before that run the channel was largely dormant — a handful of posts across December 2025 and February 2026, one of them a security notice reassuring subscribers that a bot notification about their private-chat access was legitimate rather than a phishing attempt.
What the format does well: the scoring write-ups are specific rather than generic. Each project gets named strengths and named weaknesses — a voting split of 8.5 out of 20, or "stability and speed lag behind the competitor" — and the strongest feedback-givers in the comments are named and rewarded with NFT gifts, which gives the community a reason to actually engage instead of just tapping a vote button. A recurring safety warning ("don't use your main wallet for tests, never enter your seed phrase, DYOR") runs with every battle, which is more disclosure than most project-adjacent channels bother with.
What is missing: there is no explanation of who runs ANON, no follow-up on how the featured projects performed after their battle ended, and the closing line "We are ANON. We are DAO," paired with links to Ston.fi and DeDust — both TON decentralized exchanges — hints at an underlying token or treasury that the posts sampled here never name or link to directly.
This suits someone who wants early, hands-on exposure to unreleased TON and Telegram mini-apps and is comfortable treating each one as an unaudited experiment rather than a vetted product. It is not a place for market analysis, price calls, or investment advice — the channel is explicit that its votes measure product usability, not financial merit.
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