Weekly Digest | 25.3.-31.3.2024

We're here to provide you with the weekly updates from all around the world.

Welcome to our fourth weekly digest on the Substack blog! We're delighted to have you here. In this edition, we're excited to bring you the latest updates on both global and regional initiatives. Stay tuned as we dive into the details of ongoing efforts from around the world.

Global

• The Open League Season 1 started. Over the next 3 months, 30M Toncoin will be distributed to active TON Community members. Seize the moment!

• The TON Society international team hosted meetups in Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Helsinki, Dubai, Tbilisi, and Lisbon. Next week, join us in Hong Kong. The full schedule is available here.

• The Open League Hackathon is underway. Build on TON and compete for a 2M prize pool. Read more here.

• Get free access to TON’s mainstage event at the upcoming Web3 Festival in Hong Kong. RSVP.

Europe

• Lisbon was abuzz at the @toncoin & @telegram meetup — a pivotal gathering for the Web3 community. With @wallet, Telegram's 800M users now tap into payments and blockchain effortlessly.

• Mark your calendars for TON Society's upcoming in-person events:

  • TON Boat in Paris: Explore TON & Telegram Mini Apps in Paris, France.

  • TON Prague | Open League Hackathon: Engage in Building Apps for Mass Adoption at Paralelní Polis, Prague, with a community ready to revolutionize Web3.

Korea

• TON Foundation participated in the global Web3 roadshow "IXO2024" conference as a Platinum sponsor, and Harvey Kim, Head of Korea at TON Foundation, gave a presentation on "Building a Web3 Ecosystem on Telegram".

• On April 3rd, an AMA was held with Evaa Protocol. You can listen to the replay via the link.

• On March 26, we had a successful TON Seoul Night. Over 300 people from VCs, founders, builders, and exchanges attended the event on the eve of BiddleAsia. You can watch the sketch video here.

India

• We wrapped up our Community Call last week with over 347 participants wherein we talked about our previous and upcoming meetups, Wagmi 11's Notcoin launch, upcoming SBT campaigns of India-based projects, The Open League, some recent developments on TON and answered their questions live in the Twitter space.

CIS

• We had a cool and exciting IdeaTON in St. Petersburg. Incredible enthusiasm and competitive spirit united our community even more.

• We Held an AMA session now at @tonsocietycishub with Denis Lee - CIS community manager at Bitget.com.

Hong Kong

• On March 25, we hosted our first-ever in-person meet-up! We had 45 attendees with Howard Peng, Dev Rel Asia as a speaker

UAE

• We had an incredible Monthly Call this week. The conversation was engaging, and our guest speaker, Aleksandr Sudeikin, Protocol Core Contributor at EVAA, shared some insightful knowledge. We will host calls monthly; please follow the announcements.

• On the 29th of March, we successfully unlocked the new location at Bybit HQ for our offline meetups and hosted Marko Okhman, founder of XTON, the first launchpad that unites the liquidity of EVM chains and users of Telegram.

• Anton Trunov, Tact Lead at TON Smart Contract Language, will be presenting at the next meetup on April 12th at Bybit HQ in Dubai. Register now! (https://lu.ma/tonsociety_april12)

TON Syndicate Event in Taiwan - March 2024