The Open Network — Telegram Channel

The channel's own profile carries a notice that this review has to lead with: it has been archived, and the description points readers instead to ton.org/community for current TON coverage. What's preserved here is a run of official-style bulletins from roughly the end of February through the start of June 2024, covering an early wave of TON's public growth rather than anything ongoing.

The posts read like foundation press releases, not chat. There are numbered updates on Tether's USDt launching natively on TON and outgrowing its bridged jUSDT predecessor (200 million in circulation within a month, 316 million shortly after), a rewrite of how Toncoin's circulating supply is calculated to exclude tokens locked in the TON Believers Fund and held by Telegram itself, and a validator vote that cut network fees by 2.5x — the first use of TON's on-chain fee-reduction mechanism on mainnet. Institutional plumbing gets its own posts too: Fireblocks and Bitgo adding custody support, Binance Futures listing a TON perpetual contract, and a linked Pantera Capital letter describing TON as its largest investment to date.

The most consequential thread is Telegram's own monetization tied to TON: channel owners were told they'd start keeping 50% of ad revenue paid out in Toncoin, with tipping revenue share and paid digital goods to follow, alongside a separate post where Telegram committed to selling its own TON surplus to long-term investors under multi-year lockups specifically to keep its own holding near 10% of supply — a direct response to decentralization concerns raised after the ad-revenue announcement. The Notcoin miniapp gets a triumphant recap: 35 million users converting tap-to-earn points into a token that hit a top-10 market cap almost overnight.

As a source, this suits someone researching how TON's stablecoin liquidity, fee governance, and Telegram-native monetization took shape in that first half of 2024 — it's dense with dates, dollar figures, and links to the original blog posts rather than vague summary. It does not suit anyone wanting current TON news: the channel says plainly it stopped, and nothing here reflects anything after June 2024.