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The president of the TON Foundation has millions tapping their phones to gain crypto.
Dec 10, 2024, 3:16 p.m. UTC
What bash hamsters, crypto and Iran’s subject person successful common? At 1 constituent successful the summertime of 2024, the Telegram “mini-game” Hamster Kombat was truthful fashionable — reportedly attracting 300 cardinal users — that Iran Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari accused the West of trying to disrupt elections by distracting Iranian voters with the game, as portion of the “soft war” connected Iran’s government.
Hamster Kombat, Catizen, Notcoin and different elemental tap-tap-tap games are played connected Telegram’s blockchain-powered TON, aka The Open Network. As the president of the TON Foundation, Steve Yun is liable for overseeing wide TON adoption. He’s disconnected to a beardown start, arsenic TON has exploded successful maturation and present has a marketplace headdress of implicit $17 cardinal (as of this writing), making it the 13th largest task successful each of crypto.
Many Web3-enthusiasts successful the U.S. haven’t afloat engaged with TON, arsenic the level has withheld definite features specified arsenic a Telegram autochthonal crypto wallet owed to regulatory issues. But that volition apt soon change. After SEC Chair Gary Gensler announced helium planned to resign aboriginal adjacent year, Yun, tweeted “TON is going to the U.S.”
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