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Telegram may integrate The Open Network Services
The Open Network group is aimed to keep development of the original TON blockchain going. It invests a lot of resources into advertising its Toncoin cryptocurrency through the official Telegram promotion platform and by signing contracts with Russian influencers.
Developers are working on launching the originally planned infrastructure, the idea of which was put into the core of the blockchain by Pavel Durov's team before they left the development. These are decentralized services based on TON's technology like "TON Payments" payment system, TON Proxy, TON Storage, TON Sites and other projects. It's assumed that the infrastructure can be used in games for in-app purchases, content access, etc. The official website of The Open Network states the payment system is going to be launched in Q2 2022, while TON Sites and TON Storage — in Q3 and Q4 accordingly.
Andrey Rogozov, vice president of the VK holding company (this company owns the VKontakte social network, founded and formerly owned by Pavel Durov), gave an interview to CoinDeck where he announces he is joining the TON Foundation team. Besides that, Telegram Info's source that is closely related to the team confirmed Telegram is "believing it's possible" to integrate the mentioned services if they will be launched in future.
After the TON team lost in court settlement against an American regulator, Pavel Durov and his team left the blockchain development. The Open Network team mostly consists of Telegram Contest winners and, according to some rumors, of some Telegram's core team developers. This group is fighting to be recognized as the leading successors of the original Telegram Open Network project. At some point Pavel Durov transferred the ton․org domain to the group and promoted the group in his channel. The Open Network blockchain used the original TON network intended for testing called «testnet2» by turning it into the upstream one.
